
Flooding Damage Surpasses $1 Billion
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Gov. Beshear says more than 18,000 homes and businesses were damaged by flooding.
Kentuckians are bundling up, cleaning up, and digging out as the Commonwealth deals with cold, snow, and flooding all at once. Gov. Beshear says the weather caused damage to more than 18,000 structures worth more than $1 billion, and that doesn't include damage to roads and other infrastructure.
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Flooding Damage Surpasses $1 Billion
Clip: Season 3 Episode 190 | 1m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Kentuckians are bundling up, cleaning up, and digging out as the Commonwealth deals with cold, snow, and flooding all at once. Gov. Beshear says the weather caused damage to more than 18,000 structures worth more than $1 billion, and that doesn't include damage to roads and other infrastructure.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipKentuckians are bundling up, cleaning up and digging out as the Commonwealth deals with cold snow and flooding all at once.
The official death toll is still 14 from the floods and the cold.
Governor Andy Beshear says the snow in eastern Kentucky has prevented crews from working on some roads that closed due to flooding.
The governor says the weather has caused damage to more than 18,000 structures worth more than $1 billion.
And that doesn't include damage to roads and other infrastructure.
And today, he warned Kentuckians about the bitter cold that will stick around a couple of more days.
If the snow wasn't tough enough.
It's cold right now.
It's going to get dangerously cold tonight and into tomorrow.
So if we can show tonight's minimum temperature again, getting down in the teens or the single digits in a number of parts of Kentucky, a little bit warmer.
Thankfully, in the east, it looks like.
But the wind chills across much of Kentucky is going to be in the single digits or the negative.
The governor urged people to check online, go K-Y, dot, K-Y, dot gov to check out information about closed roads.
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