Appalachian Floods Kill at Least 16 as Rescue Teams Deploy

Appalachian Floods Kill at Least 16 as Rescue Teams Deploy
Buildings and roads are flooded near Lost Creek, Ky., on July 28, 2022. Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP
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JACKSON, Ky.—Search and rescue teams backed by the National Guard searched Friday for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in America. Kentucky’s governor said 16 people have died, a toll he expected to grow as the rain keeps falling.

“We’ve still got a lot of searching to do,” said Jerry Stacy, the emergency management director in Kentucky ’s hard-hit Perry County. “We still have missing people.”