Friday, May 07, 2010
Historical Flooding Expected
KENTUCKY...
The U.S. Coast Guard is warning that some rural parts of Kentucky are about to be inundated by the worst flooding in 200 years while officials continued to search swift-moving, debris-filled rivers for two missing kayakers. Coast Guard Lt. Jennifer Jessee, chief of waterways management with the marine safety unit in Paducah, said the rising waters would reach their highest levels by the weekend to become a 200-year flood. Seventy-three counties have declared states of emergency due to the flooding, and teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency arrived Thursday to begin the task of assessing the damage. Jessee said the Coast Guard's ban on recreational boating on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers as well as Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley is one of the reasons there have been no reports of injuries on those waterways despite extremely hazardous conditions.
The U.S. Coast Guard is warning that some rural parts of Kentucky are about to be inundated by the worst flooding in 200 years while officials continued to search swift-moving, debris-filled rivers for two missing kayakers. Coast Guard Lt. Jennifer Jessee, chief of waterways management with the marine safety unit in Paducah, said the rising waters would reach their highest levels by the weekend to become a 200-year flood. Seventy-three counties have declared states of emergency due to the flooding, and teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency arrived Thursday to begin the task of assessing the damage. Jessee said the Coast Guard's ban on recreational boating on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers as well as Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley is one of the reasons there have been no reports of injuries on those waterways despite extremely hazardous conditions.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 9:03 AM 
