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Flash Floods Devastate Franklin County, Kentucky

Aired August 23, 2003 - 12:07   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: Near Frankford, Kentucky, the search is on for a mother and one child who disappeared in a flashflood. Rescuers were attempting to get to the family when flood waters smashed their home and washed it into a creek. The body of the woman's son turned up along the bank. We get more from Molly Grantham of CNN affiliate WLEX.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ELIS (PH) JONES, FLOOD VICTIM: That's some of my patio furniture.

MOLLY GRANTHAM, WLEX: Elis (PH) Jones is trying to get into his house. The wicker furniture has floated around the room landing directly in front of the door.

Once inside, the image is grim. A mud soaked kitchen table, a refrigerator on its side, a line just a foot from the ceiling indicating how high floodwater stood. Elis claims it was eight foot.

JONES: My wife and grandchild was here. Grandson. And wasn't here when it was eight foot, but was here -- got here about when it was about down to about four. And we went across and got them out.

GRANTHAM: He got them out by trudging through waist-high flashfloods. He saved his family, lost everything else. Even his minivan traveled 50 yards down the road.

(on camera): What are you going to do now?

JONES: I can't answer that. I don't know. We lost everything.

GRANTHAM (voice-over): Many others on Elis' street can relate. Just take a look around Baldnog (PH) Road, muddy guardrails, lights of people trying to fix power. A shelter has been set up closer to downtown Frankfort, but it's not very populated. Most flood victims are staying with other family and friends.

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MIGUEL: That was Molly Grantham of affiliate station WLEX. The National Weather Service reports the damage in Franklin County was caused by about six inches of rain falling in just a 90-minute period.

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Aired August 23, 2003 - 12:07   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: Near Frankford, Kentucky, the search is on for a mother and one child who disappeared in a flashflood. Rescuers were attempting to get to the family when flood waters smashed their home and washed it into a creek. The body of the woman's son turned up along the bank. We get more from Molly Grantham of CNN affiliate WLEX.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ELIS (PH) JONES, FLOOD VICTIM: That's some of my patio furniture.

MOLLY GRANTHAM, WLEX: Elis (PH) Jones is trying to get into his house. The wicker furniture has floated around the room landing directly in front of the door.

Once inside, the image is grim. A mud soaked kitchen table, a refrigerator on its side, a line just a foot from the ceiling indicating how high floodwater stood. Elis claims it was eight foot.

JONES: My wife and grandchild was here. Grandson. And wasn't here when it was eight foot, but was here -- got here about when it was about down to about four. And we went across and got them out.

GRANTHAM: He got them out by trudging through waist-high flashfloods. He saved his family, lost everything else. Even his minivan traveled 50 yards down the road.

(on camera): What are you going to do now?

JONES: I can't answer that. I don't know. We lost everything.

GRANTHAM (voice-over): Many others on Elis' street can relate. Just take a look around Baldnog (PH) Road, muddy guardrails, lights of people trying to fix power. A shelter has been set up closer to downtown Frankfort, but it's not very populated. Most flood victims are staying with other family and friends.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

MIGUEL: That was Molly Grantham of affiliate station WLEX. The National Weather Service reports the damage in Franklin County was caused by about six inches of rain falling in just a 90-minute period.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com