Photos show that Kentucky’s capital Frankfort has dipped in water after the flooding of records

Mighty storms repeated beat parts of the south and the middle west At the end of last week and on weekends, the dozens of people killed in several states and dodge catastrophic floods in a number of regions. Some cities and cities in Kentucky have a flood because strong rainfall led to the fact that large rivers swelled and exceeded the country.

In Frankfort, the capital of the state, the Kentucky River flooded wide areas. Photos show the extent of the damage and record vehicles, highways, houses and buildings either or completely under water.

The worst floods of Frankfurt seemed to be too limited until Tuesday, said Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear during a press conference in the capital and added that the River CREMED means, which means that the water level reached its highest point and from then on slowly decreased.

“We hope that most people can return to their homes by the end of tomorrow,” said Beshear. According to the governor, the emergency crews in Frankfort only saved two people by boat this week, since storm temporarily broke off the access of the residents to water. Water in the city was restored until Tuesday, he said, but driving in the area was not certain.

While the flood of Kentucky River has begun to avoid, the water level along the Ohio River, which runs through Louisville, does not yet reach its peak, and forecasting warned that dangerous floods for residents in and around Kentucky’s largest city could still be ahead.

The National Water Prediction Service, an office in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has shown that part of the Ohio River in McAlpine Upper near downtown Louisville can be around 37 feet crest on Wednesday. In this case, this would be one of the worst flood events in the history of the region, reported CBS News partner Wlky.

Almost 150 people have been saved in all of Kentucky since the beginning of these storms, while the boat with 272 was evacuated from Tuesday, Beshear said. At least five people in the state have died of weather -related incidents since last week, CBS News confirmed. The dead include a 9-year-old boy on Friday on the way to school, and a 74-year-old, whose body was discovered in a submerged vehicle on Saturday, said the authorities.

Other have died outside of Just Kentucky, and additional photos show that damage to damages in the middle west are flooded elsewhere. Uncurable storms let off rain and in several cases showed Tornados in a broad group of the United States, leaving them in neighboring countries such as Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Georgia and more destruction.

According to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, which was also killed in Tennessee alone in Tennessee, which also made the resources for catastrophic floods this week. Three were confirmed dead during the storms in Missouri, two were killed in Arkansas and two in Georgia. Mississippi and Indiana have so far confirmed a death due to the storms.