"Everything is gone, it's terrible"
Author:Global Times Time:2022.08.01
According to British Reuters, the floods caused by the heavy rain in eastern Kentucky in the United States have caused at least 28 people to die in the local area, and there are thousands of people displaced. Some people's houses were even washed away by floods.
According to Reuters, Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, has announced that the eastern part of the state has entered an emergency state and mobilized the Kentucky National Guard to help cope with the most serious in this local history One of the floods.
The victims of the floods still told the media that she saw that the entire office was devoured by floods, and people had to swim out to escape. "Everything is gone." She said.
However, local officials stated that with the continuation of heavy rainfall, rescue work is likely to be affected, and the number of deaths will continue to rise.
US President Biden also paid attention to the serious local disaster. It announced on Friday that Kentucky had entered a state of "major disaster" and put the funds of the US federal government in local disaster relief work.
In addition, Reuters said that this is the second natural disaster that Kentucky has encountered in the past 7 months. The disaster together was a tornado disaster in the western part of the state in December last year, causing nearly 80 people to die.
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