Kentucky flooding

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🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Historic levels of flooding in eastern Kentucky in August caused 37 deaths. The State’s governor described it as the worst natural crisis Kentucky has seen. River levels on the North Fork Kentucky River in Whitesburg reached 21ft (6.4m) compared with the previous record of 14ft (4.2m). The floods have tested the resilience of the people in the former coal-mining region of Appalachia. In towns like Whitesburg, where 56-year-old Val Horn runs a community kitchen - huge numbers of people have lost their homes and Val’s kitchen has been preparing 1500 meals a day.

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0:00.0	What's up y'all, I'm Renee Montgomery,
0:02.0	and my podcast Untold Legends,
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0:06.6	I'm looking back on the life
0:08.1	of one of the most extraordinary
0:09.8	black female sport stars of the 20th century,
0:13.2	whose name has been all but forgotten.
0:16.0	Aura Washington.
0:17.9	Stay listening at the end of this podcast to find out more.
0:30.9	I'm Katie Myers, and this is Kentucky Floods
0:33.2	on the BBC World Service.
0:37.4	On July 28, record flooding killed almost 40 people
0:41.0	throughout Eastern Kentucky and left many more homeless.
0:44.0	Now to flood ravaged Kentucky,
0:46.4	the death toll rose again today.
0:49.2	I work for WMNT 88.7 FM,
0:52.4	a little community radio station here in the mountains.
0:55.3	As rescue crews struggle to get to the hardest hit areas
0:58.8	swamped by what's described as the worst flooding
1:01.6	to hit the region in decades.
1:04.0	And earth out was, oh Lord,
1:06.0	the clars is going to move,
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