Kentucky flooding evacuees hoping to return home watch for surging rivers to recede

MGN

After days of deluges overfilled rivers to near-record levels across Kentucky, residents were anxious to return to their flooded homes and assess what was salvageable, even as stubbornly high waters kept some of them waiting even longer.

Floodwaters inundated a number of Kentucky cities and towns as powerful storms repeatedly struck parts of the South and Midwest, killing dozens of people in different states. In Kentucky, CBS News confirmed that at least six people are dead, while relentless rainfall caused the Ohio and Kentucky Rivers to swell and spill over around major metropolitan areas like Frankfort, the state capital, and Louisville, its largest city.

Images of the storm damage in Lockport, Kentucky, show cars and buildings either partially or, in some cases, completely submerged in water. Lockport is just over 50 miles east of Louisville.

Susan Williams returned to her rural Franklin County home with her four dogs and three cats. She left Sunday while the waters kept rising. Now, her house and a neighbor’s looked like they were on an island in brown waters.

Williams and some friends loaded her animals onto a small boat and paddled back and forth, dropping them off at the house built by her parents.

“It’s my world. It’s my little paradise,” Williams said about her home.