(7 Apr 2025)
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Frankfort, Kentucky – 7 April 2025
1. Wide of a bridge in downtown Frankfort with the Kentucky River running high underneath it
2. Wide of a man looking at waters on his street
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) James Cornish, Frankfort resident, on quickly evacuating his father from his flooded home:
"Well, it was about 3-3:30 or something like that’s when we got the mandatory evacuation and I was told from a friend. And I came down here and told him (his father), I was like, ‘We gotta go. Can’t wait anymore.’ Because you know, he wanted to wait to the last minute basically."
4. Tight of a submerged traffic sign
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) James Cornish, Frankfort resident, on quickly evacuating his father from his flooded home:
"It was pretty hectic day at that day. You know, it just seemed like like within the 30 minutes I was down there trying to get him dressed and trying to get him clothes and stuff like that, it rose like maybe 6 inches within 30 minutes and that’s how quick the water was rising."
6. Wide of a flooded neighborhood
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Russell Harrod, Frankfort resident:
"I was a nervous wreck. I still am. I don’t know what it’s done in there. I can’t get over there. I’d like to see. But somebody said the water is starting to drop. I hope so."
8. Zoom out on a bridge closed sign underwater
9. Close-up on water coming through a barrier
10. Wide of a barbershop sign under water
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Quammen, Frankfort resident:
"You’re used to seeing storms last a couple of days. If it’s a bad storm a day or two. But this was six straight days of heavy torrential downpour and again with already saturated ground there’s just nowhere for it to go. And so it’s got to go up and it did, and it did."
12. Wide of a car and house underwater
STORYLINE:
Days of unrelenting heavy rain and storms filled up rivers to near record levels across Kentucky on Monday, submerging neighborhoods and threatening a famed bourbon distillery in the state capital of Frankfort.
Swollen rivers posed the latest threat from a series of persistent storms that have killed at least 20 people since last week — 10 of them in Tennessee — as they doused the region with heavy rains and spawned destructive tornadoes. Teeming waterways kept the flood threat high in other states, as well, including in Tennessee, Arkansas and Indiana.
Cities ordered evacuations and rescue crews in inflatable boats checked on residents in Kentucky and Tennessee, while utilities shut off power and gas in a region stretching from Texas to Ohio.
James Cornish, a Frankfort resident, helped his father and his two uncles evacuate their neighborhood close to the Kentucky River, which is now underwater.
"It just seemed like like within the 30 minutes I was down there trying to get him dressed and trying to get him clothes and stuff like that, it rose like maybe 6 inches within 30 minutes and that’s how quick the water was rising," said Cornish.
His uncle, Russell Harrod, said he was anxious to see what damage the water had done to his home once the waters receded.
"I was a nervous wreck," said Harrod. "I still am. I don’t know what it’s done in there. I can’t get over there. I’d like to see. But somebody said the water is starting to drop. I hope so. I don’t know how long it take you to drop out of here when we get in there."
He said that days and days of unrelenting rain made this one of the worst flooding he’s seen in the city.
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