Four Children Under 8 Killed In Kentucky Floods -- Death Toll On The Rise
30.07.2022 - 01:13
/ perezhilton.com
A family in Hindman, Kentucky has tragically lost four young children while trying to get to safety during a flood.
The bluegrass state has been hit with the harshest rainfall and flooding it’s ever seen this past week. A river gauge along the North Fork Kentucky River in Whitesburg measured a 20 foot water level increase in only 10 hours on Thursday. A weather station recorded the water levels at 21 feet the same day — the previous record was only 14.7 feet all the way back in 1957!
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Governor Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency and President Joe Biden promptly approved the request. The State National Guard was deployed to help with rescue and recovery efforts across affected areas — it’s a very scary situation! And as time goes on, only more tragedy is uncovered…
It’s been reported the family of Amber Smith and Riley Noble are among the affected residents. They were in their Knotts County home on Thursday with their four children — Maddison, 8, Riley Jr, 6, Nevaeh, 4, and Chance, 18 months — when waters began rising into their home. The family made an effort to get to safety by climbing onto a neighbor’s roof.
Brittany Trejo, a cousin of the family of six, told The Lexington Herald the roof was only a temporary safe area — horrifically, it was “washed out” from under them:
Amber and Riley attempted to hold onto their children for “a few hours”, but they were swept away with a “big tide”:
Devastating…
The mom and dad survived by staying in the tree and were finally rescued “eight hours” later:
Heartbreakingly, though, the children didn’t survive the harsh weather. As of 12:30 p.m. Friday all four bodies have been recovered from the water. Trejo created a