The floods sweep the age of 9 while Storms central Slam US

On Friday, a 9-year-old boy from Kentucky was swept away by flood waters, one of the 16 people to die in a series of dramatic storms that continue to beat the United States.

The strong winds and the heavy rains continued to beat the states, notably Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky on Saturday, delaying recovery efforts.

National Weather Service forecasters said they expected “potentially historic” precipitation and large temperature oscillations from the United States to the East Coast until Sunday.

Friday morning, the boy would occur until his school bus stop when he was exceeded by floods. The Frankfort police service in Frankfort, Kentucky, confirmed that he had recovered his body about two hours later.

“We are deeply saddened by this horrible tragedy that won the life of one of our students,” the superintendent of Franklin County schools, Mark Kopp on Friday at a press conference.

The governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, described the death of the boy as “unimaginable loss”. He also confirmed another death – that of an adult – in Kentucky on Saturday.

“We need everyone to understand that all the water is at risk at the moment. Let’s do everything possible to ensure the safety of our loved ones,” he said in a statement.

The forecasters of the National Weather Service declared that violent thunderstorms and sudden floods were expected in a large strip of American centrals which extended from Arkansas and Louisiana to the west of Pennsylvania on Sunday before the system weakens and moves towards the east coast.

On Saturday afternoon, more than 162,000 people were already without power at Arkansas, Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma. The Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky had already declared states of emergency earlier in the week.

The forecasters said that storms on Saturday had “the integration of a catastrophic and potentially historical event of sudden precipitation and floods, with certain places that have potentially seen quantities of precipitation as high as 10-20 (inch) when everything is said and done”.

Even when the rain stops, the swollen rivers will continue to put a danger, the forecasters said. Changes in pressure and violent winds also put the area in eastern Texas west of Tennessee at an improved risk of tornado.

It was a Puninging weekend for the region. Dozens of tornadoes have been reported and hundreds of counties have spent days under storm warnings since Wednesday.

Tennessee experienced 10 dead, according to CBS, the American partner of the BBC. Other deaths included a man and his teenage girl in Tennessee and a 68 -year -old man in Missouri who would have stopped to help a blocked driver.

The same region was affected by tornadoes, forest fires and dust storms that killed 40 and left “narcotic” damage in March.