(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. Tight on debris stuck to bridge in rushing waters
3. Wide of a man looking at waters on his street
4. SOUNDBITE (English) James Cornish, Frankfort, Ky 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, I was like, ‘We gotta go. Can’t wait anymore.’ Because you know, he wanted to wait to the last minute basically. But him got out and we just went to family’s houses and you know and just got him out. He went to his son’s house and so it was, uh, 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."
5. Tight of a submerged traffic sign
6. SOUNDBITE (English) James Cornish, Frankfort, Ky resident, on quickly evacuating his father from his flooded home:
"Oh , well, at the time you don’t really think about the emotions. You’re just in that mindset of we got to get this done, hurry up and get out of here. You know, and it’s just uh the emotions hit the day after."
7. Wide of a house and car underwater
8. 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. I don’t know how long it take you to drop out of here when we get in there."
9. Wide of houses on a block flooded
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Quammen, Frankfort resident:
"And we were fine , until , uh Saturday morning about 1 a.m. Checked and there was no water in the basement and at 1:30 there was two ft. So in 30 minutes it rose two ft in the basement and then it was too late to move anything in the basement that we had moved up. And so yesterday we started moving everything on the 1st floor up to the 2nd floor."
11. Wide of bridge closed with standing water
12. Close-up on water coming through a barrier
13. 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."
14. Tight to wide of debris stuck under bridges in Frankfort due to high water
15. Wide of a barbershop sign under water
16. Wide of a sign for Catfish Alley near downtown Frankfort and flooded businesses
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.
James Cornish, a Frankfort resident, helped his father and his two uncles evacuate their neighborhood close to the Kentucky River, which is now underwater.
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