KENTUCKY’S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION HAS SENT A LETTER TO PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN EXPRESSING THEIR SUPPORT FOR GOVERNOR ANDY BESHER’S
REQUEST FOR A MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION FOR THE COMMONWEALTH AS A RESULT OF SEVERE STORMS THAT BEGAN MAY 21ST AND CONTINUED UNTIL
MAY 27TH……
16 TORNADOES SWEPT THROUGH KENTUCKY……IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING WINDS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS…..THE STORMS INFLICTED WIDESPREAD
POWER OUTAGES FFECTING OVER 213-THOUSAND HOUSEHOLDS AND LASTING SEVERAL WEEKS IN SOME AREAS…….
NEARLY HALF OF KENTUCKY’S 120 COUNTIES SUFFERED SEVERE DAMAGE TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY……..SOME OF WHICH ARE STILL RECOVERING FROM
THE HISTORIC DECEMBER 20-21 TORNADOES…….
SEVERAL KENTUCKIANS PERISHED DO TO THE STORMS ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS SUSTAINING INJURIES…..
ALSO MULTIPLE HOSPITALS AND LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES WERE LEFT WITHOUT POWER FOR DAYS…..AND TWO COUNTIES EXPERIENCED HAZADORUS
CHEMICAL SPILLS
