This week in Kentucky, a flood tore apart homes, ripped trees from their roots, and damaged the lives of many civilians. The death toll still might rise, considering how many piles of rubble were left unsearched.
“I wish I could tell you why we keep getting hit here in Kentucky,” Gov. Andy Beshear said during a briefing in which he updated residents on the increasing death toll. He displayed a sense of weariness and grief that many in the state have experienced after recurring disasters, such as massive tornadoes that tore a 200-mile gash through it, a powerful ice storm that cut off power to hundreds and thousands of people, and a flash flood that left people stranded in their homes.
These disasters would be staggering setbacks for any community, but this disaster was especially catastrophic because some people had just started getting their lives back on track from the last disaster, only to have everything they owned swept away again.
The last disaster was a group of rare December tornadoes. They killed 80 people and destroyed 15,000 houses and trailer homes according to The Guardian.
“I wish I could tell you why areas where people may not have much continue to get hit and lose everything,” the governor went on. “I can’t give you the why, but I know what we do in response to it. And the answer is everything we can.”
It seems that everyone is doing everything they can: firefighters and National Guard crews have saved hundreds of people from the perilous waters, and the mayor of Bremen, Ky. planned to send trucks bursting with supplies across the state to a town called Hindman. Hindman was among the hardest hit in the flood.
In the past several days, Dan Mosely, the judge-executive for Harlan County, accompanied workers from the county Transportation Department to clear out roads blocked by debris and grime. “The pure catastrophic loss is hard to put into words,” he said. “I’ve just never seen anything like this in my career or even my life.”
Sources: https://nytimes.com/2022/07/30/us/kentucky-flooding-natural-disasters.html
https://nytimes.com/2021/12/13/us/kentucky-tornado-disaster-governor.html
“I wish I could tell you why we keep getting hit here in Kentucky,” Gov. Andy Beshear said during a briefing in which he updated residents on the increasing death toll. He displayed a sense of weariness and grief that many in the state have experienced after recurring disasters, such as massive tornadoes that tore a 200-mile gash through it, a powerful ice storm that cut off power to hundreds and thousands of people, and a flash flood that left people stranded in their homes.
These disasters would be staggering setbacks for any community, but this disaster was especially catastrophic because some people had just started getting their lives back on track from the last disaster, only to have everything they owned swept away again.
The last disaster was a group of rare December tornadoes. They killed 80 people and destroyed 15,000 houses and trailer homes according to The Guardian.
“I wish I could tell you why areas where people may not have much continue to get hit and lose everything,” the governor went on. “I can’t give you the why, but I know what we do in response to it. And the answer is everything we can.”
It seems that everyone is doing everything they can: firefighters and National Guard crews have saved hundreds of people from the perilous waters, and the mayor of Bremen, Ky. planned to send trucks bursting with supplies across the state to a town called Hindman. Hindman was among the hardest hit in the flood.
In the past several days, Dan Mosely, the judge-executive for Harlan County, accompanied workers from the county Transportation Department to clear out roads blocked by debris and grime. “The pure catastrophic loss is hard to put into words,” he said. “I’ve just never seen anything like this in my career or even my life.”
Sources: https://nytimes.com/2022/07/30/us/kentucky-flooding-natural-disasters.html
https://nytimes.com/2021/12/13/us/kentucky-tornado-disaster-governor.html
