BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY
More than eight people are dead after flooding in Frankfort, Kentucky, as reported by multiple news agencies. Governor Andy Beshear described it as "the most severe weather in the past decade" as FEMA arrives to help.
3 are dead in Hart County, including a man as a result of an accident. A woman and child were swept away into the flood waters.
Most of the fatalities were due to people driving in flooded waters, and then drowning. Governor Beschear urged people to never enter flooded roadways, using the phrase "turn around, don't drown."
Greater than 1,000 rescues happened and continue through the next day, mostly in Eastern Kentucky.
The hardest hit area - Pike County - continues to have rescues of people stranded by high water. There are 19 active water rescue teams working 24 hours a day, in Eastern Kentucky. Crews from Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and FEMA have arrived onsite to help.
About 142 people are staying in state parks facility currently. 86 adults and 55 children are temporarily using Jenny Wiley State Park their home.
Over 100,000 people are without power in Georgia, 75,000 in Alabama, and 61,000 in West Virginia and almost 30,000 in Kentucky.
The Barren River floods at the entrance to Weldon Peete Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Sunday.
“The frigid water temperatures that can result in rapid hypothermia for anyone caught in the flooding,” the National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, Virginia, warned.
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