There is severe flooding in Las Vegas, too. No deaths reported.
Hoover Dam received monsoon rains.
The people in the Kentucky facing the flooding may need airlift if there is no escape from the flooding. My concern is that with the rapid rainfall, people are trying to escape rising creeks that probably have never risen like this before. They will run into flash floods of all available roads. They need to stay in one place and helicopters will have to airlift them out. Local authorities won't be available to help with direction of the people if communities are in disarray.
By Caleb Stultz, Lucas Aulbach and Thomas Birmingham
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (click here) said Friday morning that the death toll has risen to 15 after torrential rains flooded Eastern Kentucky, destroying hundreds of homes and wiping out entire communities.
Search and rescue teams, with the help of the National Guard, were searching for missing people Friday after record floods washed through the region. The governor declared a state of emergency.
Beshear told the Associated Press before touring the disaster area that the 15 dead in Kentucky includes children, “but I expect that number to more than double, probably even throughout today.”
More rain was expected Friday and into the weekend after more than 6 inches of rain fell in some counties Wednesday night into Thursday. Meteorologist Brandon Bonds with the National Weather Service in Jackson said it won't take much more rain to "cause even more damage." A flood watch or warning was expected to stay in effect for many of the areas that saw the worst of the flooding....
