FLAT GAP, Ky. — Kevin Johnson stood weeping among the rubble of this devastated town, weighing an impossible decision.
A wake is scheduled Thursday afternoon for his 74-year-old mother, killed when a flash flood destroyed her trailer three days ago and swept her away. But his son, who tried to save her, remains missing.
“What do I do?” Kevin Johnson pleaded. “Do I go down there or do I stay here? Mom would want me to stay here.”
Scott Johnson, a 34-year-old musician, was last seen Monday, wading through rushing floodwater with his grandmother on his back.
The flood killed at least three. Police continue to check on others whose families fear they might be lost or stranded.
You talk to them and they say, 'Right there is where my house used to be.'
