“We continue to pray for the families that have suffered an unfathomable loss," Gov. It’s just going to be a long process.”Īt least 25 have people died - including four children - in the flooding, Kentucky’s governor said Saturday.
“And like I said it’s not going to be tomorrow, probably not next month, but I think everybody’s going to be okay. “It was coming inside and it just kept getting worse,” he said, “like there was, at one point, we looked at the front door and mine and his cars was playing bumper cars, like bumper boats in the middle of our front yard.”Īs for what’s next, Harvey Thomas said he doesn’t know, but he’s thankful to be alive. Harvey Thomas, an EMT, said he fell asleep to the sound of light rain, and it wasn’t long until his uncle woke him up warning him that water was getting dangerously close to the house. Hubert Thomas, a retired coal miner, said his entire life savings was invested in his home. The two were able to rescue their dog, CJ, but fear the damages to the home are beyond repair. Hubert Thomas, 60, and his nephew Harvey, 37, fled to Jenny Wiley State Resort Park in Prestonburg after floodwaters destroyed their home in Pine Top late Wednesday night. In Garrett on Saturday, couches, tables and pillows soaked by flooding were stacked in yards along the foothills of the mountainous region as people worked to clear out debris and shovel mud from driveways and roads under now-blue skies. He could barely shut the door of his SUV as they were leaving. The water was up to his knees when he arrived home and he had to wade across the yard and carry two of his kids out to the car. And I couldn’t help,” because he was tending to his own family. “Here I am, sitting there, watching my house become immersed in water and you got people begging for help.
“That’s what made it so tough for me,” he said. so he could go home, where waters were rapidly rising. Thursday but had to ask to leave around 3 a.m.
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“We’re just hoping we can get some help,” said Caudill, who is staying with his family at Jenny Wiley State Park in a free room, for now.Ĭaudill, a firefighter in the nearby Garrett community, went out on rescues around 1 a.m.
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