Eastern KY flooding

Was thinking the same a bit ago when I came in and was weeding through the BS news feeds. I hope they are holding rhetoric own and safe. Commented to the wife that this past week a lot of flood events east of the Mississippi have occurred yet the west is still sucking for rain….
 
I saw something about Eastern KY floods. I didn’t recognize the town. Is it near Harlan?
 
It has missed most of Harlan we got the worst of it in Cumberland. We had to rescue an elderly male who was trapped in his trailer above Cumberland. We have around 50 + homes affected. Most of the major rain went north of us to neighboring counties Harlan City and Bell County sent their swift water team to Whitesburg to help out and they almost lost their team when the swift water flipped their boat and they washed under a bridge and got beat up pretty good but hey all made it out ok. Haven't talked to any of them today will see them tomorrow to see what went on. The Judge and EM director didn't want our team to leave Harlan today we only did the one rescue today. Thay have called for us several times today to go help other counties, but they kept us here. We are supposed to get around 3 more inches of rain tonight. I figure we will get called out around 3 or 4 am to rescue someone that wouldn't leave their home when they could. If the rain misses us tonight, we probably will be called up in the morning to go help other counties. I really hate doing swift water rescues, but somebody has to try and do it. I have been a volunteering on the Rescue Squad for 31 years now and been Captain over it for about 20 years now.
Those who pray say a few prayers for us and the other rescue teams and people who need help.
 
LT1JEEP said:
It has missed most of Harlan we got the worst of it in Cumberland. We had to rescue an elderly male who was trapped in his trailer above Cumberland. We have around 50 + homes affected. Most of the major rain went north of us to neighboring counties Harlan City and Bell County sent their swift water team to Whitesburg to help out and they almost lost their team when the swift water flipped their boat and they washed under a bridge and got beat up pretty good but hey all made it out ok. Haven't talked to any of them today will see them tomorrow to see what went on. The Judge and EM director didn't want our team to leave Harlan today we only did the one rescue today. Thay have called for us several times today to go help other counties, but they kept us here. We are supposed to get around 3 more inches of rain tonight. I figure we will get called out around 3 or 4 am to rescue someone that wouldn't leave their home when they could. If the rain misses us tonight, we probably will be called up in the morning to go help other counties. I really hate doing swift water rescues, but somebody has to try and do it. I have been a volunteering on the Rescue Squad for 31 years now and been Captain over it for about 20 years now.
Those who pray say a few prayers for us and the other rescue teams and people who need help.
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We only had 2 water rescues here in Harlan nothing bad we were blessed here compared to the other counties. I am sending 3 search and mountain search rescue teams to Jackson at 6am to start searching flooded home and surrounding area for the missing people. We got called up by the region search coordinator for our ability to do search and rescue in bad terrain. I would send a couple more teams but i have to keep enough to cover Harlan to. I probably will have to send 3 teams back Sunday.
Everyone please keep my members and other emergency rescue personnel and the people that has lost so much in your prayers.
 
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