Kentucky
Kentucky crews helping repair damaged roads in North Carolina after Helene
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – The recovery process in North Carolina is lengthy. Many roads are having to be completely rebuilt.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet crew members have been down there helping all they can.
“We went down there, and there are just pockets of complete devastation. You might be driving down a road that looks perfectly fine, and then you come across a community where the road is gone, houses had 3 to 4 feet of water in them at times,” said Logan Murphy of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 7.
Murphy said the scenes in North Carolina remind him of some of the natural disasters that have recently happened in Kentucky.
“We knew what it’s like. We’ve had disasters in western Kentucky with the tornadoes and eastern Kentucky with the flooding, so we knew what they needed. We knew how hard it is to rebuild after situations like this,” said Murphy.
Murphy was involved with a crew that was down there for two weeks.
“We were able to work on five or six roads. A couple of them were impassable. There was one section of roadway where all it took was one pipe to be clogged up and the river rechanneled, took out the road,” Murphy said.
The joy of helping others is what fuels people like Murphy to do things like this.
“It’s very fulfilling work because I know we are doing a good job. I know we are helping speed up the process of recovering because it’s going to take them a long time to recover in some of these areas. Just anything our crew could do to help speed it up just a little bit,” Murphy said.
Murphy said he would be headed back down to North Carolina to relieve some of their crews on Friday.
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A tornado was confirmed to have ripped through the Florence area during the overnight storms June 18.
The National Weather Service in Wilmington released a statement June 20 saying a tornado traveled eastward 6.2 miles across the Northern Kentucky city, 10 miles south of Cincinnati. It had estimated peak winds of 100 mph, which classifies it as an EF1 “moderate” tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
The tornado’s path goes mostly through residential areas, and the first evidence was found on Landings Way where several trees were snapped at their trunks, the weather service reported.
The tornado progressed east, crossing Interstate 71/75 and then seemingly dissipating on Tallwood Circle where multiple large branches were downed, the final known instance of damage.
Along the way, the tornado uprooted multiple trees and snapped branches, damaged several buildings and businesses, and snapped a large power pole near the intersection of U.S. 42 and Dream Street, according to the weather service.
How many tornadoes have been confirmed in Greater Cincinnati, beyond?
As of 1 p.m. June 20, the weather service has confirmed that apart from the one in Florence, two other tornadoes touched down in Greater Cincinnati on June 18:
- An EF2 “significant” tornado that traveled about 9 miles from Dearborn County, Indiana, to Boone County, Kentucky.
- An EF2 “significant” tornado that traveled just over 5 miles from Franklin County, Indiana, to Butler County, Ohio.
A few other tornadoes have been confirmed outside the Greater Cincinnati region, including an EF2 that traveled 23.6 miles from Scott County, Indiana, to Trimble County, Kentucky; an EF2 that traveled 9 miles across Pike County, Ohio; and one in Grant County, Kentucky, just north of Williamstown.
The weather service said details on the Grant County tornado will be released later on June 20.
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