A Good Samaritan saves a 98-year-old woman and her family from floodwaters in Kentucky.

Here are two elderly women’s traumatic rescues from the “devastating and catastrophic” flooding that has killed at least 30 people in Kentucky.

In one rescue, a Good Samaritan was seen floating alongside a 98-year-old woman and her family through the rushing floodwaters to save them from being trapped inside their home.

An 83-year-old grandmother was airlifted from a flooded home by search and rescue personnel after four other family members had already been rescued by helicopter.

If rescue services in the state continue to look for victims of the extraordinary flooding, which Governor Andy Beshear has warned is expected to persist as heavy rains return to the area, the shocking clips have been released.

We’ll be there for you today, tomorrow, the following week, and the following year. We won’t be travelling anywhere.

In a video statement released yesterday, Beshear assured the nation’s indigent residents that assistance was on the way while advising them to exercise caution in light of the persisting dangers.

The residence in Whitesburg, Kentucky, entirely flooded, according to Missy Crovetti from Green Oaks, Illinois, who also claimed that her grandmother Mae Amburgey, 98, her uncle Larry Amburgey, and her brother Gregory Amburgey were inside.

Mae was seen in images sitting on her nearly submerged bed.

Local resident Randy Polly was left stranded on a piece of dry land close to Mae’s house on Thursday morning as he travelled to obtain gas.

He photographed the scene as he witnessed a “hero” save Mae and her family from the advancing floods.

Around 9 am, while filming from a close distance, the man swam over to the house, began pounding on the window and door, then went inside and assisted in getting the family members out of the house.

The three relatives were rescued along with the unnamed man after around 30 minutes, according to Missy Crovetti of CNN.

Mr. Polly informed the news organisation that while he was seeing this incident play out, he could hear people screaming, “Get me help, get help.

“He also claimed that despite his repeated calls to 911, nothing happened since the emergency services were “overwhelmed” and “unresponsive to his calls.”

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After learning that her 98-year-old grandmother, uncle, and brother had to swim out of their house, Missy Crovetti started a campaign for those in need of assistance with floods.

The Wolfe County Search & Rescue team published video of the helicopter rescue of a family of five who were stranded in their flooded home’s attic on Sunday.

In order to reach the family and bring them up to the roof of the house one by one, a rescue team on a raft approached the residence from the water and broke a window to get to them.

A helicopter standing by then hoisted the family out of harm’s way.

The power of the rotator wash and its impact on the team’s ability to maintain position can still be seen, despite the fact that team members had moved to a safe distance throughout the hoist, the rescue team noted in the post, highlighting the complexity of the operation.

The 83-year-old family member’s rescue was documented on camera.

As she was lifted into the safety of the chopper far above, she could be seen hanging to the pulley.

Teams cooperating to save lives. We would also like to thank the other countless agencies from across the state and beyond that came in to assist,’ Wolfe County Search & Rescue wrote.

As the death toll from disastrous floods rose to 28 on Sunday, Kentucky’s governor Andy Beshear warned bodies may continue to be found “for weeks.

“Rescuers are continuing their arduous search for victims.

Following the flooding in the state’s east that turned highways into rivers, washed down bridges, and swept away homes, certain places in the hilly terrain are still unreachable.

Rescue efforts are also made more difficult by the intermittent rain and bad cell phone reception.

Rescuers in Kentucky are going door to door in increasingly bad weather as they prepare for a protracted and exhausting search for those affected by flooding that destroyed the eastern part of the state.

“This is one of the worst, most damaging floods in our history,”… And it’s raining as we try to get out,” Governor Andy Beshear said to NBC’s Meet the Press.

We’re going to try to knock on as many doors as we can to find as many folks as we can.

Even the rain won’t stop us from working. But the weather makes things more difficult.

It’s anticipated that more people will perish in the flooding that was brought on by the severe rain that started on Wednesday.

Beshear continued, “We’re going to be finding bodies for weeks, many of them swept hundreds of yards, perhaps even more than a quarter mile from where they were lost.”

On Sunday, the governor visited three counties while touring areas that had been inundated.

More than 350 individuals are staying in shelters on a temporary basis throughout the state’s sodden regions, he claimed.

As dark skies indicated that more rain was on the way, receding floodwaters had left a heavy layer of dust on the streets.

Around 700 to 800 individuals visited a distribution centre run by volunteers in the small town of Buckhorn, about 35 miles (55 kilometres) south, on Sunday alone to collect donated goods including food, paper towels, and toiletries.

The floods struck a region of Kentucky where poverty was already severe due to the collapse of the coal industry, which was the backbone of the local economy, stealing everything from those who could least afford it.

Beshear continued, “It wiped out communities where people didn’t have that much to begin with.”

Within 24 hours, some eastern Kentucky locations reported getting more than eight inches (20 cm) of rain.

The water level of the North Fork of the Kentucky River at Whitesburg rose to a staggering 20 feet (6.09m) within hours, well above its previous record of 14.7 feet (4.4m).

The hazard of flash floods will persist into the afternoon and early evening hours due to showers and thunderstorms with very strong rainfall rates, according to the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center.

The flooding in Kentucky has been declared a disaster by President Joe Biden, authorising federal assistance to support regional and local relief operations.

The recent flooding in eastern Kentucky is the most recent in a string of catastrophic weather occurrences that experts say are a clear indicator of climate change.

In December 2021, a tornado killed over 60 people in western Kentucky; Beshear claimed that event provided lessons for current efforts on the other end of the state.