, said that while reliable measurements were not available, it estimated based on descriptions by residents that rainfall exceeded 12 inches and may have approached 20 inches at the center of the storm.
In Breathitt County, the flood destroyed the Kentucky Mountain Bible Institute, 44 houses and 60 barns, and 200 structures were reported damaged or destroyed in Morehead, the weather service said. A graph in a report from the U.S. Geological Survery shows how quickly the water rose in the Big Sandy River in a 1957 flood.
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