Storms leave 19 dead in the USA, Kentucky declares a state of emergency

Kentucky GovernorDemocrat Andy Beshear, declared a state of emergency this Monday amid a storm storm and tornadoes that is hitting the south-central United States and has already caused, at least, 19 dead in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky itself.

US storm casualties may continue to rise

Beshear assured that “at least 4 people” have dead throughout the state due to bad weather:

“Sadly we can confirm that we have lost at least four Kentuckians due to last night’s storm,” he explained today in a press conference from the Emergency Operations Center of Kentucky.

The fatalities ranged in age from 34 to 67 years old.

“We have many roads blocked by trees. Some are flooded. Power lines are down in many parts of Kentucky (…) More than 210,000 homes in the state were without electricity,” the governor had revealed shortly before in a video published on his X profile where he asked people to maintain precautions.

For its part, the office of National Metereological Service The City of Paducah, Kentucky, issued tornado and flash flood warnings for several counties late Sunday.

The strong storms recorded in the south-central USA During the night of Saturday and until Monday, they have caused the death of at least 19 people, but the number is expected to continue increasing.

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, stated in a statement this Sunday that tornadoes in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma They had devastated “entire communities, leaving a trail of destruction.”

The emergency in Texas and Arkansas

The most affected state on Sunday was Texaswhere Governor Greg Abbott also ordered a state of emergency for more than a third of the counties.

“We are experiencing a heartbreaking loss of life, including the anguish of a family who lost their 2- and 5-year-old children,” he said Sunday. the governor of Texas, He added that authorities are searching through the rubble to ensure that no one is missing.

He also reported that dozens of homes were destroyed and thousands of citizens are without electricity due to adverse weather conditions.

In Arkansas Authorities reported the deaths of seven more people, including a 26-year-old woman who was found dead outside a destroyed home in Olvey, a small community in Boone County.

On the federal holiday commemorating Memorial Day in the US, where millions of Americans travel by land and air, storms remain in southern Illinois, southwest Indiana and southeast Missouri, as well as parts from Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee.

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