Four decade previous relatives owned company ruined by flooding in Letcher County

WHITESBURG, Ky. (WYMT) – There is lots of devastation to go all-around subsequent a report crest of the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Letcher County.

For one woman, the h2o not only washed away her business, it took a treasured memory from her.

“That Cooper was in entrance of the tow truck. So the automobiles, the drinking water was so higher it was just floating the automobiles all over,” Debi Sexton from Sexton’s Applied Vehicles explained.

The Mini-Cooper Debi is referring to was a reward from her husband two many years back right in advance of he died. It celebrated all of the yrs of creating their business enterprise alongside one another. Now it is loaded with mud.

“The final auto that my spouse acquired me in advance of he handed absent. I experienced it in this article,” Sexton said.

Sextons Used Automobiles has been a location for individuals in Whitesburg to invest in autos for forty decades. Individuals autos have been displaced and ruined by flood h2o.

Debi states all of the cars and trucks have been submerged for hrs. A person black Impala was moved a lot more than fifty ft even though underwater.

“We didn’t know in which it was. And then when the drinking water commenced receding we could see the best of it. And then it eventually went down ample for us to get it pushed out of the road.”

Debi said they however are hunting for cars and trucks that washed away and worry that they may possibly in no way be capable to recover.

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