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Vehicles are piled up along the side of the road after being carried down street by flooding in Perry County, Ky., Friday, July 29, 2022. Volunteers and city workers try to reconnect the water ...
Elkhorn City, Ky. Volunteers and city workers try to reconnect the water supply to a nursing home in Elkhorn City, Ky., on Friday, July 29, 2022. The pipe, along with some of KY-197, washed away ...
Pam Boling surveys the damage to her home from flood waters in Wayland, Kentucky, following a day of heavy rain. Boling, who has live din the house since 1975, has no insurance to cover the ...
Downtown Huntington, West Virginia, during the Great Flood of 1937. The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February 1937. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, 385 people died, one million people were left homeless and property losses reached $500 million ($10.2 billion when adjusted for inflation as of September 2022).
A significant flood struck the region. At Cincinnati, the flood peaked twice within three months, first on January 14. The river stage nearly reached 21 m (69 ft). Cincinnati experienced a double disaster as 10 or more gas tanks exploded on "Black Sunday", January 24, which led to oil fires on the Ohio and in Mill Creek Valley.
The effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America, in September 2008, were unusually intense and included widespread damage across all or parts of eleven states – Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, [1] Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia, (not including Louisiana and Texas where the storm made landfall) and into parts of Ontario as Ike, which ...
As of 9 am Friday, there were 34 weather incidents in eastern Kentucky, according to the dashboard. These included: Water over the road on No. 1 Bottom, Route CS-2002, in Letcher County. Water ...
Major flooding inundated Southeast Kentucky from February 6–7, 2020, as the result of an extremely heavy rain event. [1]Twenty one counties in Eastern Kentucky sustained flood damage, and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency on February 8, for Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher, Perry and Whitley Counties.