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Author Topic: Mud and rain hampering search for Kentucky flood victims  (Read 282 times)
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« on: July 15, 2015, 03:19:19 PM »

http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2015/07/15/mud-and-rain-hampering-search-for-kentucky-flood-victims/?intcmp=latestnews

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FLAT GAP, Ky. ?  Kevin Johnson last saw his son Scott wading through rushing floodwater with his 74-year-old grandmother on his back.

Scott Johnson had already saved his father, his uncle and sister as a flash flood ravaged the rural town of Flat Gap, and he returned to their cluster of trailers to carry his grandmother and teenage nephew to higher ground. He managed to wedge his nephew safely into a high tree as the flood raged out of control, but then the water washed Johnson and the grandmother away.

The grandmother, Willa Mae Pennington, was found dead Tuesday among debris from the family's shattered mobile homes, Johnson County Coroner J.R. Frisby confirmed. Scott Johnson, 34, is one of two men who remain missing after the Monday afternoon flood. The fate of another four people also remains uncertain.

Rescue teams are going door-to-door to try to find them as desperate families wait for word.

Crews combing the wooded, mountainous terrain were hampered by swarming
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