Frankfort, Ky. – After days of Implacable downpours swollen rivers for Nearby record levels In Kentucky, residents closely monitored river tracks in search of signs that had grown, but freezing temperatures predict for Tuesday could complicate any cleaning effort.
Freezing warnings were in force until early for west of Kentucky, along with parts of Illinois, Indiana and Missouri, with potentially low temperatures such as 28 degrees (minus 2.2 Celsius), according to the National Meteorological Service.
“This will be a dangerous night in which temperatures fall, where it is potentially puts below the freezing, so if it is somewhere very humid, if you are trying to ride this in a house that has had water, tonight could generate hypothermia concerns,” said Kentucky governor Andy Beshear, during a press conference on Monday, urging the residents to find a safe place to find a safe place to find a safe place to find a safe place to
The flooded rivers are the last threat of persistent storms that have killed at least 23 people since last week, since they sprayed the region with heavy rains and generated destructive tornadoes. At least 157 tornadoes attacked in the seven days as of March 30, according to a preliminary report of the weather service.
Although the storms have finally advanced, the danger of flood is still high in several other states, including parts of Tennessee, Arkansas and Indiana.
The cities ordered evacuations, and rescue equipment in inflatable ships verified residents in Kentucky and Tennessee, while public service companies closed energy and gas in a region that extends from Texas to Ohio. The waters of the floods forced the Closure of the historic distillery buffalo traceNear the banks of the Kentucky swollen river near the center of Frankfort.
The authorities diverted traffic, disconnected public services to companies and instituted a touch of Frankfort left while the river approached just below a record on Monday. More than 500 state roads through Kentucky were still closed on Monday night, Beshear said.
Several miles north of Frankfort, recreational vehicles were parked in an improvised camp on Monday after rapid growth flood waters pursued a community of 90 recreational vehicles from a park along the Kentucky river on Saturday. They all did it safe, although a few recreational vehicles had to be left behind and submerged quickly.
“It was a great test simply waking up, getting to the ground and starting to run, make sure everyone was out of the property, not only people but the team and RVs,” said Traci Yoder, RV Park manager and a resident.
The 23 deaths informed since storms began on Wednesday, include 10 in Tennessee. Among the four confirmed dead in Kentucky, a 9 -year -old was Trapped in floods While walking to take your school bus.
The deaths also included a 5 -year -old boy in Arkansas who, according to the police, died after a tree fell into his family’s house, and a 16 -year -old volunteer firefighter from Missouri who died in an accident while sought to rescue the people trapped in the storm.
The Kentucky river spread in Frankfort Lock at 48.27 feet (14.71 meters) on Monday, just before the 48.5 feet record (14.8 meters) on December 10, 1978, said CJ Padgett, a meteorologist with the Louisville office, Kentucky, Kentucky, Kentucky.
Beshear said that more than 1,000 people did not have access to water and almost 3,000 were under warnings to boil in the water.
Russell Harrod, 78, stayed on Monday morning looking at the waters of the floods surrounding the brick house in Frankfort, where he has lived for 40 years. He said the water quickly got up on Sunday afternoon.
“That is the worst I have seen, and I’ve been around a long time,” he said.
In the Northeast of Arkansas, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders described the “absolutely heartbreaking” scene around the city of Hardy, who received damage to her town hall and other buildings.
West Memphis, Arkansas, Fire Chief Barry Ely He told Wreg-TV That the teams in the city prone to floods have rescued more than 100 people.
Although the significant rains have ended in the southern plains and the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio valleys, floods in most rivers will persist this week, with some smaller river paths, backing in the next few days, according to the weather service.
The forecast attributed the violent climate to warm temperatures, an unstable atmosphere, strong winds and abundant humidity of the Gulf.
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The writers of Associated Press Anthony Izaguirre in New York contributed to this report; Kimberlee Kruesi and Jonathan Mattise, in Nashville, Tennessee; Andrew Deillo in Little Rock, Arkansas; Sarah Brumfield in Cockeysville, Maryland; Rebecca Reynolds in Louisville, Kentucky; Jeff Amy in Atlanta; Adrian Sainz in Memphis; Tennessee; He obeyed Lamy in Rives, Tennessee; and Hallie Golden in Seattle.
