Swollen rivers flood towns in US South after dayslong deluge of rain

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By BRUCE SCHREINER and KRISTIN M. HALL
Updated 9:18 AM CDT, April 7, 2025

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Days of unrelenting heavy rain and storms that killed at least 18 people worsened flooding as some rivers rose to near-record levels and inundated towns across an already saturated U.S. South and parts of the Midwest.

Cities ordered evacuations and rescue crews in inflatable boats checked on residents in Kentucky and Tennessee, while utilities shut off power and gas in a region stretching from Texas to Ohio.

“I think everybody was shocked at how quick (the river) actually did come up,” said salon owner Jessica Tuggle, who was watching Monday as murky brown water approached her business in Frankfort, Kentucky, the state capital along the swollen Kentucky River.

She said that as each new wave of rain arrived over the weekend, anxious residents hoped for a reprieve so they could just figure out how bad things would get and how to prepare. She and friends packed up everything she could haul out of her salon, including styling chairs, hair products and electronics, and they took it all to a nearby tap house up the hill.

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[mpcamb]

1. Sorry Kentucky, but FEMA got shredded.

[mwb970]

2. Again, why is God doing this to red states?

[Bayard]

3. It looked like we had a lake out in front of the house,

And two farm ponds overflowing already. There's a ditch along one side that looked like Niagra Falls. Pastures and goat barns flooded. Its the most water we've seen in 10 years of living here. Crossing our fingers it never gets up to the house.

[riversedge]

4. I hope you and your house are safe.

[Happy Hoosier]

5. Drove up from the Gulf Coast to Indiana on Saturday

Northern Kentucky and Southern Indiana had a TON of flooding.

[Javaman]

6. thoughts and prayers is all you're going to get KY.

on the thoughts of KY, they are going to need a lot of it, because they screwed themselves.

[ananda]

7. Yes, they voted for thoughts and prayers.

I think it was supposed to be for others, though,
and not for them.