At least 25 victims including six children is the toll of the devastating floods that have hit Kentucky in these hours , submerging entire inhabited areas, sweeping away road networks, blocking bridges.
State governor Andy Beshear told CNN: "There are still many missing," he added.
Among the tragic stories that begin to emerge 24 hours after the disaster is that of a couple who lost all their four children. They were eight, six, four and two years old and lived in a trailer that was flooded with water and swept away .
US President Joe Biden has declared a state of emergency .
Dozens died also because the heavy rains fell mainly at night, between Wednesday and Thursday, taking the population by surprise and making it difficult for the emergency teams to intervene.
Hundreds of rescues were carried out by boat, 50 by air. The National Guard is fully mobilized, with the help of units from other states, but there is still no electricity with 23,000 users in the dark.
The alert remains high even in neighboring states , up to Las Vegas where there is flooding right into the casinos. Then Missouri and Arizona, hit by floods already in the past few hours and tested by extreme weather phenomena that some are tracing back to the climate crisis.
(Unioneonline / D)
