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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he expected the death toll to continue to rise and warned officials still could not reach certain areas. At least 33,000 people now have no electricity and mudslides have made roads impassable. The Kentucky flooding came days after rainfall in the St Louis region of Missouri was hit with a foot of rain.
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Beshear also said that it would probably take years for communities affected by the flooding to rebuild again, with the deluge coming less than a year since the southern part of the state was strafed by late-season tornados that killed 70. Joe Biden on Friday approved a disaster declaration to allow federal assistance to be channeled to the state.
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While the global climate crisis cannot be held directly responsible for most individual weather events, it does make the likelihood and frequency of catastrophic events much more common. Bill Haneberg, a climate expert and the state’s geologist, said this rainfall event is “extraordinary” for Kentucky.