Still, in a part of the state that includes seven of the 100 poorest counties in the nation, according to the U.S. “There is widespread damage with many families displaced and more rain expected throughout the next day,” Beshear said via Twitter.įor many people who lost their homes, connections with family and neighbors will only grow in importance in the aftermath of the floods, which wiped out homes and businesses and engulfed small towns. Andy Beshear said Sunday that the death toll had risen to 26 and was expected to rise. The devastation is expected to mount in the state. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor “I’ve cried until I really can’t cry no more,” she said. Smith, who didn’t have insurance, doesn’t know what her next move will be.
At age 50 she is disabled, suffering from a chronic breathing disorder, and knows she won’t be going back to where she lived her landlord told her he won’t put trailers back in the same spot. They’ve built connections with people that have sustained them, even as an area long mired in poverty has hemorrhaged more jobs with the collapse of the coal industry.Īfter fast-rising floodwaters from nearby Troublesome Creek swamped her rental trailer, Smith moved in with her mother. Her family has lived in Knott County for five generations. Like many families in this dense, forested region of hills, deep valleys and meandering streams, Smith’s roots run deep. But she’s not planning to leave the mountains that have been her home for 50 years. Evelyn Smith lost everything in the deadly floods that devastated eastern Kentucky, saving only her grandson’s muddy tricycle.
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