Catastrophic Kentucky Flooding Leaves At Least 15 Dead; 9" Of Rain In 12 Hours In Hazard, KY

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A new round of catastrophic flooding struck the central United States on Thursday, swamping communities in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky, leaving more than a dozen people dead and several others missing or trapped. On Friday morning, Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said that at least 15 people - including children - had died in the flooding, according to the Associated Press. Beshear called the event “one of the worst, most devastating flooding events in Kentucky’s history,” saying officials expect “double-digit deaths” and describing how rescuers were finding people stranded on rooftops.

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The flooding comes seven months after dozens were killed in Kentucky when tornadoes tore through a swath of the South and the Midwest. The heavy rainfall was spawned by the same stalled weather front that caused historic flooding in St. Louis on Tuesday. The deluges in St. Louis and eastern Kentucky are both considered events with less than a 1 in 1,000 chance of occurring in a given year. Flash flooding began Wednesday night after afternoon storms that evolved into a raging deluge. Like train cars along a track, storms passed over the same areas repeatedly. The storm front developed along the northern periphery of a tropical heat dome that sprawled over much of the southern United States.

The extreme rainfall triggered three flash flood emergencies, each issued by the Weather Service office in Jackson, about 155 miles southeast of Louisville. Reserved for the worst flooding situations, these emergencies are sparingly issued and indicate that life-threatening flash flooding is occurring.

The city of Hazard was among the hardest-hit, with at least 9 inches of rain falling in 12 hours Wednesday night into Thursday morning. Similar amounts fell around Jackson. Flooding also was widespread in Southwest Virginia, where water entered homes and roads, forcing evacuations and rescues. The extreme weather hit just two weeks after devastating flooding in Buchanan County in southwest Virginia.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/28/kentucky-flooding-jackson-hazard/

[Botany]

1. I feel for those people and communities

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[sanatanadharma]

2. The Bible-belt God is angry

And for good reason since the Bible-believers have elevated the words above the message.
The message itself is not understood, is misstated, is ignored and is perverted for the purpose of personal aggrandizement.

The maga-mind is full of itself, leaving no room for their God. Plagues and floods thus are the 'Original-ist's own editorial comment about the total failure of God's own perfect plan.

Or something like that.