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The Documentary: Kentucky flooding

Kentucky flooding

13/09/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Kentucky flooding

How Kentucky has responded to the recent challenge of unprecedented flooding.

Historic levels of flooding in eastern Kentucky in August caused 37 deaths. The State’s governor described it as the worst natural crisis Kentucky has seen.   River levels on the North Fork Kentucky River in Whitesburg reached 21ft (6.4m) compared with the previous record of 14ft (4.2m). The floods have tested the resilience of the people in the former coal-mining region of Appalachia. In towns like Whitesburg, where 56-year-old Val Horn runs a community kitchen,  huge numbers of people have lost their homes and Val’s kitchen has been preparing 1500 meals a day.  Appalachian history has been captured over the last 50 years by Appalshop, but the cultural centre in Whitesburg have been inundated by the floods.  

Producer: Philip Reevell

(Photo: A car is submerged in flood waters along Right Beaver Creek, in Garrett, Kentucky, USA, 28 July, 2022. Credit: Pat McDonogh/USA Today Network/ Reuters)

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