Historic Kentucky Flooding Has ‘Annihilated’ Infrastructure, Sheriff Says



Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has declared a state of emergency after “worst, most devastating flooding events” in the state’s history left at least eight people dead. Perry County Sheriff Joe Engle joins News NOW to explain the scope of the damage and where things stand in the county this morning. 

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42 comments

  1. A job will not end homelessness;

  2. Jesus Christ told Me that He wants all the RepubliKKKgun, catastrophic-runaway-anthropogenic-global-warming [CRAGW] denying, anti-abortion even though that word does NOT appear in the KKKible, insurrectionist, Satan-worshiping-EVILgelicals; to drown, lose everything, and have their homes washed away by the flood waters. Amen.

  3. Mr. Physics says that the hotter the air temperature of the Earth's finite g@s volume, closed atmospheric system that was in homeostasis until RepubliKKKguns filled Earth's 24,000 foot finite g@s volume closed atmosphere; with greenhouse gases. Holds more and produces more of the most abundant greenhouse g@s; water vapor.
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  4. Mr. Physics says that today's floods are mere trickles and the temperature in Portugal is 117 degrees. In the year 2048 the oceans are filled with plastic and not fish, when the temperature in Portugal is 133 degrees in the shade; just before the electrical grid failed again.

  5. Mr. Physics says in the year 2048 it will long for the day when its floods were at these levels and frequency. The word abortion is NOT in the KKKible and it does NOT have the moral authority to tell Me what is or is not; an embryo, a baby, or murd*r.

  6. There are climate-refugees at the southern border. RepubliKKKguns are the criminals. Who have caused the conditions, the illegal-war-crimes wars, that the political-refugees at the southern-border are fleeing. Just like the people within the US are climate refugees. Houston gone. Mexico Beach gone. South Florida, the East Coast, South Carolina, gone, gone, gone forever; like the Midwest. Can you digest plastic? How about some yummy bacteria or jellyfish? Because that is all the life the oceans will be able to support, due to acidification; in the year 2048!!!

  7. This is the cause of homelessnes; not drugs. Hurricane Katrina August 29, 2005: With maximum sustained winds of 175 mph, the storm killed a total of 1,833 people and left millions HOMELESS in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Catastrophic-runaway-anthropogenic-global-warming [CRAGW] destroys homes, which causes rent increases, which creates more homeless people making only $11 an hour with no healthcare or dental benefits.

  8. Jesus Christ orders all RepubliKKKguns to vote for all of legally-elected president Joe B!den's Build Back Better bill's programs that address catastrophic-runaway-anthropogenic-global-warming [CRAGW]; by voting like the sane, Christian, science-based Democrats.

  9. Extinction levels of catastrophic-runaway-anthropogenic-global-warming [CRAGW] is REAL and all around it right now!!! The word abortion is NOT in the KKKible!

  10. This is what these anti-abortion, a word NOT in the KKKible, catastrophic-runaway-anthropogenic-global-warming-denying, Statan-worshiping-EVILgelicals deserve for voting for Massacre Mitch McConnell. I hope they loose everything and never recover! These w h i t e skinned, Republican RepubliKKKgun things deny science, facts, and truth that it finds inconvenient.

  11. Both the oceans and forests are saturated and no longer sequestering CO2; the forests are actually giving off CO2! That is why these homelessness creating, rent raising, extreme weather events are increasing in strength and frequency. It was 117 degrees in Portugal in July 2022. In the year 2032 the air temperature in Portugal will be 133 with the associated massive increase in flooding levels, fires, hurricanes, tornadoes and other homelessness creating, extreme weather events.

  12. What is sad about all the deaths is that it was caused by the hands of the very people America calls heros cops and fire department because without these issues they don't have jobs. So in order for the government to pay out money to the money laundering operations behind the police departments and fire departments they have to see that there is a reason for why they need to sign checks. For people to understand that the storms and flash floods that people are killed in and murdered are actually conjured up by the one of the strongest witchcrafts in existence. When man say that a cop and afire department worker protects them then you are literally taking the Lord God out of your life. So to see the lack of understanding in this country on which is which it is sad. Everyone says they believe in the Lord God yet they say man that the tax payer's pay for protects them? Wow…. You are all being fooled by witches in this country, why do you think there are more superhero movies in mainstream media than they do with Jesus Christ? It is is because the devil wants you to believe in fairy tales.
    Make The Lord God The Father and His Son Jesus Christ my Saviour and Holy Spirit your one and only God or you will suffer at the hands of man. Exodus 20:3 Thou shalt have no other god's before me;"saith the Lord."
    Wake up America.
    Jesus Christ is Lord.
    From The Everlasting to Everlasting,Amen and Amen.

  13. yep- all the homes where built in the flood plain.

  14. And now they will come begging for the federal government that west Virginia hates

  15. Divine plagues for AmeriKKKa's mistreatment of Blacks! "I shot that N-word 219 times!" Farrakhan says, "Double the cup!" I say, Quadruple it!

  16. Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:"The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others.
    But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted".

    YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELF AN IMAGE in the form of anything, in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath, or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them, or worship them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents, up to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me, and keep my commandments.

    If my people who are called by my name, humble themselves and pray, AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, I will hear from Heaven, will forgive their sins, and will heal their land.

    AND WHEN YOU PRAY DO NOT BE LIKE THE HYPOCRITES, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
    BUT WHEN YOU PRAY, GO INTO YOUR ROOM, close the door, and pray to your Father who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
    And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need, before you ask him.

    This, then, is how you should pray:

    Our Father in heaven,
    hallowed be your name,
    your kingdom come,
    your will be done,
    on earth as it is in heaven.
    Give us today our daily bread.
    And forgive us our debts,
    as we also have forgiven our debtors.
    And lead us not into temptation,
    but deliver us from the evil one.

    For if you forgive other people when they sin against you,
    your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
    But if you do not forgive others their sins,
    your Father will not forgive your sins.

    "Matthew 5-7 NIV Bible Gateway", we can use google search.
    These are the teachings,
    The Righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ our God.
    REPENT, and start doing what is right.
    If you abide my teachings, you are really my disciples;
    then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

    Yet a time is coming and has now come
    when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in Truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
    GOD IS SPIRIT, so his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in Truth.

    In the New Heaven and the New Earth,
    only Righteousness dwells.
    May the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ our God be with you all.

  17. And these poor, suffering Kentuckians will go right on voting for the people ruining their lives, like Mitch McConnell. It's hard for me to feel sorry for them.

  18. Who are some people here praying to ? The same God that allowed this flood and deaths to occur and did nothing about it ? Are you people ok in the head ?

  19. Judgements for the heathen and Esau

  20. God… Got some more of this treatment reserved for other municipalities throughout the United States as punishment for the continued mistreatment of his people… The World is going to learn God is a living god🙊🙉🙈🦁👁️

  21. My family guitar shop and family car was destroyed in this .
    please donate 🙁
    The Appalachian luthier School and artisan center of Hindman Kentucky needs help .
    So many people had their lives upended.
    I love my dad and Im trying to help him but I'm far away
    This is the fundraiser link .
    save-the-appalachian-luthier-workshop

  22. I know I may sound unsympathetic, but we are in the last days, all these natural disaster, pestilence, rumors of wars is happening now. Get your life and home in order, there is more to come.

  23. My heart goes out to those effected by the flooding. Hang in there and take it a day at a time. Much love and respect from southeast Louisiana

  24. I feel sorry for the Democrats in Kentucky that have to deal with this crisis, along with neighbors that only because of their religion, vote for Republicans that have cancelled all Climate Change legislation because they say they don't think humans can affect the climate. It must be so sad for them that they, along with scientists, saw this coming three decades ago when we still had time to act.

  25. Why didn't everyone just pile into Ken Ham's ark?

  26. Im surprised mitch McConnell didnt decide to take a vacation

  27. God: I created the Heavens and the Earth in 7 days
    GOP: hold my beer

  28. St. Louis and Kentucky flooding. Gone be an interesting hurricane season.

  29. Good thing Trump and McConnell worked on rolling back environmental regulations in favour of the oil companies and economic gains while the Republicans were in office.
    Climate change is no longer a far off threat, it's an ongoing disaster that is already endangering humans and natural environments around the world.
    It’s time for political bipartisanship on the issue and for the public to wake up and start listening to the scientists who have been warned the public for decades and start acting responsibly on a individual level.

  30. Record profits for ExxonMobil and Shell this quarter, so its a win/win

  31. Hollywood hoax with crisis actors hired by Nancy Pelosi! Nothing to see here, go get gas!

  32. Record profits for ExxonMobil and Shell this quarter. Who is motivated to lie about climate, hmmm?

  33. The worst flooding since the last flooding….

  34. Ever wonder why "American" Indians were nomadic people?
    This is it…

  35. Moscow Mitch will make SURE no money gets to those folks. Just like the service women and men yesterday. What am I talking about? Burn Pits. The GOP are a bunch of COWARDS

  36. Reap what you sow is real for sure . America will collapse like Ancient Egypt and Rome for the many sins committed against Africans and descendants of slaves.Elohim will repay!🔥🇺🇸

  37. Weather changes every year you can't predict mother Nature.

  38. Each state that requests assistance for catastrophes caused by global warming must first acknowledge global warming is largely man-made and commit to making all necessary changes to mitigate it.

  39. This is the result of climate change but Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell better don't beg for federal aid since they oppose any senate bill that would help fight climate change