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HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Another round of torrential rain and flash flooding was expected to hit Saturday in parts of the South and Midwest already heavily waterlogged by days of severe storms that in some cases spawned deadly tornadoes.

Round after round of heavy rains have pounded the central U.S., leading to rapidly rising waterways and prompting a series of flash flood emergencies Friday night in Missouri, Texas and Arkansas. Meanwhile, many communities were still reeling from tornadoes that destroyed entire neighborhoods and killed at least seven people earlier this week.

In Frankfort, Kentucky, floodwaters swept a 9-year-old boy away while he was walking to a school bus stop Friday morning, Gov. Andy Beshear said on social media. Officials said Gabriel Andrews’ body was found about a half-mile from where he went missing.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Should be fun when no one can predict the incoming storms since the turnip gutted NOAA. I wonder if the trumpets will complain or even notice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Luckily the NWS offices in Paducah and Nashville have been crushing it because we're in day 3 of severe weather.

Shout out to Paducah, who had to stop updating warnings and stuff on Thursday because they were in shelter while a tornado went over their office!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Good luck getting help from FEMA.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Does that even exist in this DOGE era we've been blessed with?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Waterlogged Midwest? Looks at all our dry creeks and river... News to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Zero help for you good luck.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Good. Fuckem. The south deserves to drown. Lincoln should've burned everything south of the line to ash.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I agree that the Reformation was a mistake, but this is a little tasteless under an article talking about a drowned child.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

A child that never would have suffered if Lincoln did what he needed to do.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

a lot of it is not the fault of weather but poor infrastructure without proper road drainages for water

water table in the US is low in most places and megacorps drain water resources astronomically

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

In this particular case you are wrong. It is the weather. It has been raining hard for three days straight in some of these places. It is climate change and the weather. Infrastructure is definitely an issue but not the reason.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

obviously climate change and weather play a ginormous part in all this but if there were proper drainages shit like kids washing out due to floods would at least be minimized

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't think that your reasoning fully grasps how flash floods work. Even with "proper drainage" situations can materialize in the millions of differing landscapes. With ground saturation at 100% and creeks and river systems at max capacity, the water has no where else to go in many places, like flood plains, watersheds, dips in the road, etc. We can and should learn from this horrific tragedy, but a few more drainage ponds is the equivalent of Trump's "just rake the woods" comment.