Eastern Kentucky Flood with Lori Houghton - July 27, 2022

10/19/23 • 51 min

When 600 times the normal amount of rain fell on Eastern Kentucky in late July 2022, there was nowhere for its residents to run, and no time: a devastating flash flood came in the middle of the night and washed homes and lives away in mere minutes. Disaster Queen Jenny Rapson talks with lifelong friend Lori Houghton about this tragic natural disaster that occurred in a beautiful yet hard place to live, where they both have familial roots. 45 people and 9,000 homes were lost in this devastating modern-day disaster.

Here are the resources I used to research this episode:

https://dailyyonder.com/east-kentucky-flood/

https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2023/07/27/surviving-the-floods-rebuilding-eastern-kentucky#:~:text=Between%20July%2026%2DJuly%2030,their%20lives%20in%20the%20storm.

https://www.weather.gov/jkl/July2022Flooding

https://dailyyonder.com/isom-iga-the-grocery-store-that-love-rebuilt/2023/04/14/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/22/kentucky-flooding-disasters-housing/

https://dailyyonder.com/rural-kentucky-floods-lack-of-forecasting-broadband/2023/03/23/

https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article263953661.html

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/06/us/kentucky-flooding-survivor-stories/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/30/kentucky-rescue-victims-flooding

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/us/kentucky-floods-teenager-roof-rescue/index.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-flood-survivors-say-was-no-time-escape-deluge-rcna41152