Posted on 07/29/2022 6:46:10 AM PDT by texas booster
Search and rescue teams backed by the National Guard searched Friday for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in America.
Kentucky’s governor said 15 people have died, a toll he expected to grow as the rain keeps falling.
“We’ve still got a lot of searching to do,” said Jerry Stacy, the emergency management director in Kentucky’s hard-hit Perry County. “We still have missing people.”
Powerful floodwaters swallowed towns that hug creeks and streams in Appalachian valleys and hollows, leaving vehicles in useless piles, crunching runaway equipment and piles of debris against bridges and swamping homes and businesses. Mudslides on steep slopes left many people marooned and without power and made rescues more difficult.
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In general, building along rivers carries risk. Out thisaway in CaCaLand there is a very scenic river, the Russian river — up north of Frisco. Every few years or so a lot of rain gets dumped in the area and the limited white water river goes bananas. Basically foam laced with tree trunks.
But, the locals still rebuild. Talk to them and they say ~”it is part of river life”.
Nonetheless, I am certain some blue city pinhead will claim it is all because of global warming.
IIRC, some areas of SE KY received 9 inches of rain overnight the day before yesterday .
The creeks and hollows in that rugged mountainous areas, make it especially prone to destruction, in case of heavy rains.
Any idea who keeps the Kentucky ping list?
And if you have seen another thread please post the link here, so we can try to keep abreast of the weather and flooding threads.
How in the hell can we have poor people in Kentucky and send $60,000,000,000 to Ukraine?
Floods happen. Personal responsibility.
They send OxyContin to Kentucky instead. They mine Kendrick’s for money for big pharma. But don’t worry, Mitch is cool with it. He must be, they say the senate majority leader is rather powerful.
That’s they mine Kentucky…
I grew up there. I went through three incredible floods before I joined the military and got out. Now I see friends houses that are ruined and they will clean it out and start over, just like a couple of years ago. Yes much of the flood damage is self inflicted because they will not move out of the flood plain. I wish I knew why.
On the other hand there are so many other outside forces arrayed against them. I had a good friend drink himself to death by 40 and he’d never left the small town of Martin. I’ve lost many others to various drugs, oxy, meth. Then the economic situation is the worst with the entire region being economically depressed for decades. They don’t stand a chance.
100 Years ago it would have been hundreds dead.
We are adapting and getting better at mitigating effects of “extreme” climate events.
That’s a shame.
It is such a beautiful state.
We need aid for Kentucky, not the Ukraine.
Charity begins at home.
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