Louisiana donating up to 300 travel trailers used for Hurricane Ida survivors to Kentucky flood victims

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday announced that Louisiana was donating up to 300 journey trailers the condition at first acquired for survivors of Hurricane Ida past calendar year to assist people of jap Kentucky who shed their households in the new flooding. 

Beshear stated for the duration of a briefing that Kentucky has previously sheltered 289 individuals displaced by the historic flooding in July into 219 vacation trailers, but that 349 Kentuckians were even now sheltering in lodges. 

He said that Kentucky was working to get far more vacation trailers, asserting that Louisiana was donating up to 300 trailers to assist victims of the flooding, which killed at the very least 39 people today, like 4 small children.

“However, people in Louisiana know a good deal about what we’re going by way of,” Beshear claimed. “They’ve noticed the agony and the devastation that water pushed by hurricanes can result in. But despite all that they’ve been by means of themselves, they’re serving to us now.”

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced declared that Louisiana was donating up to 300 vacation trailers the point out at first acquired for survivors of Hurricane Ida final 12 months to support folks of japanese Kentucky who misplaced their households in modern flooding. 
(AP Picture/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Beshear thanked Louisiana and Gov. John Bel Edwards, declaring that the initial 65 trailers have been staying transported from Louisiana to Floyd and Letcher counties this weekend, even though additional journey trailers would be moved to other impacted spots in phases.

In the meantime, Beshear reported the search was continuing for two women of all ages missing from the Dropped Creek group in Breathitt County.

“There is not a ton of hope, but we hope to provide closure to those families,” he reported.

Residences in Jackson, Kentucky, on July 28 were being flooded with h2o from the North Fork of the Kentucky River.
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The governor also claimed that much less than 70 ability outages remained from the a lot more than 27,000 outages all through the disaster and that 5,000 Kentuckians were being however under a boiled h2o advisory, down from the 46,000 at the top of the restoration.