18 Dead So Far In Flooding & Storms; Utilities Shutting Down Gas & Power From TX To OH; Frankfort KY "Inundated"

[hatrack]

After days of intense rain and wind killed at least 18 people in the US south and midwest, rivers rose and flooding worsened on Sunday in those regions, threatening waterlogged and badly damaged communities. Utility companies scrambled to shut off power and gas from Texas to Ohio while cities closed roads and deployed sandbags to protect homes and businesses.

In Kentucky, downtown Frankfort, the state’s capital, was inundated. “As long as I’ve been alive – and I’m 52 – this is the worst I’ve ever seen it,” said Wendy Quire, the general manager at the Brown Barrel restaurant. As the swollen Kentucky river kept rising on Sunday, officials closed roads and turned off power and gas to businesses in the city built around it, Quire said. “The rain just won’t stop,” she said. “It’s been nonstop for days and days.”

The ongoing, global climate crisis is bringing heavier rainfall and related flood risks to most parts of the US, with the upper midwest and Ohio River valley among the regions most affected, according to Climate Central, an independent non-profit that researches weather patterns. Forecasters warned that flooding could persist for days, as torrential rains lingered over many states, including Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Tornadoes are possible in Alabama, Georgia and Florida, forecasters said.

The 18 reported deaths since the start of the storms on Wednesday included 10 in Tennessee. A nine-year-old boy in Kentucky was caught up in floodwaters while walking to catch his school bus. A five-year-old boy in Arkansas died after a tree fell on his family’s home and trapped him, police said. A 16-year-old volunteer firefighter in Missouri died in a crash while seeking to rescue people caught in the storm.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/deadly-severe-storms-rising-rivers-flooding-south-midwest

[Lovie777]

1. And where is shithole on this?...............

[BoRaGard]

2. Republican leader announces he had a great time gourmet golfing

at taxpayer expense

[70sEraVet]

3. The preachers are busy telling their flocks that these weather-disasters....

are a sign of the End Times. It's not the fossil-fuel companies, or their climate-denialist politicians who are at fault -- it is God's plan for the destruction of the godless (Democrats), and the reward for the godfearing (Republicans).
It is self-fulfilling prophesy on a grand scale (except for the 'reward' part).

[mountain grammy]

4. He won the senior golf tournament

or something like that