days Heavy rains are not softening And the storms that killed at least 18 people Floods deteriorated When some rivers rose to levels close to the record and the arrogant towns across the southern United States already saturated and parts of the Middle West.
Cities ordered the evacuation and rescue crew in the inflatable boats on the population in Kentucky and Tennessee, while the facilities close energy and gas in an area extending from Texas to Ohio.
“As long as I am alive – and I am 52 – this is the worst that I have seen at all,” said Windy Koir, Director General of Brown barrel in downtown Frankfurt, Kentucky, the state capital that was built around the swollen Kentucky River.
“The rain will not stop,” said Quire on Sunday. “It was not stopping for several days and days.”
The mayor of Frankfurt Lin Wilcrson said that the officials have transferred traffic and stopped the facilities to companies in the city, where the river was expected to exceed 49 feet on Monday to the level of setting the record. The city’s flood wall system is designed to carry 51 feet of water.
For many, there was a feeling of awe that the worst was still coming.
“These floods are the work of God,” said Kevin Gordon, writer of the reception office at the Ashbruck Hotel in downtown Frankfurt. The hotel was providing reduced residences for the affected local population.
Storms leave a devastating effect
The 18 deaths that were reported since the start of storms on Wednesday 10 in Tennessee. A 9 -year -old boy was in KentuckyIt caught in the flood waterWhile walking to arrest the school bus. Police said a 5 -year -old boy in Arkansas died after a tree fell on his family’s house. A 16 -year -old firefighter died in a plane crash while seeking to save the people who fell in the storm.
On Sunday, the National Weather Service warned that dozens of sites are expected to arrive in multiple states to a“The main flood stage,”With wide floods of structures, roads, bridges and other critical infrastructure as possible.
In the north of Kentucky, emergency officials ordered an mandatory evacuation of Valmouth and Betler, the cities near the licking river curve. Thirty years ago, the river reached a record number 50 feet (15 meters), which led to five deaths and destroyed 1,000 homes.
Storms come after the Trump administrationCutIn NWS prediction offices, leave half of them withVacanciesFrom about 20 %, or twice the level of a decade.
Why is the weather very bad?
The fans of violent weather are attributed to warm temperatures, unstable atmosphere, strong winds, abundant humidity from the Gulf.
NWS said 5.06 inches (nearly 13 cm) of rain fell on Saturday in Gonsburo, Arkansas – which makes it a more moisture day in April in the city. NWS said Memphis, Tennessee, received 14 inches (35 cm) of rain from Wednesday to Sunday.
The city of Rivies, a city in the northwest of Tennessee, which numbered about 200 people, was almost underwater after it exceeded the Ubion River.
Domanic Scott went to check his father in RIVES after he was not heard in a house where the water reached the doorstep.
“It is the first house we have ever. Insurance companies will not give here to the floods to anyone who lives in RIVES because we are very close to the river and dams. So if we lose it, we are without a house.”
In Dersburg, Tennessee, dozens of people arrived during the weekend at a storm shelter near a public school that holds blankets, pillows and other necessities. Just a few days ago, the city suffered a hurricane that caused millions of dollars damage.
Among them was George Man, 77, who said he was in his apartment when he heard a warning from the hurricane and decided to go to the shelter. Just a few days ago, the city suffered a hurricane that caused millions of dollars damage.
Man, who brought a foldable chair, said two bags of cleaning tools, laptops, iPad and medicines.
For others, seizing the basics also means a closer look at the wine cabinet.
In Frankfurt, with the water rising until his wandering, Bill Jones residing to his home fled in a boat, loading him with several Bourbon bottles boxes.
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
