CHICAGO, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of severe weather-induced flooding in the U.S. midwestern state of Kentucky over the weekend rose to 11, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said at a press conference Monday.
Over 14,000 customers remained without power as of Monday morning, according to PowerOutage.us. More than 17,000 were without water, and over 28,000 under a boil water advisory.
"All of Kentucky still has standing water in different areas," Beshear said. State officials and local police have warned people to stay off the roads, as Kentucky is expecting more snow later this week, which is going to complicate things.
Winter alerts were in place for 34 million people from the central Plains to West Virginia on Monday morning, as the National Weather Service warned that another winter storm would hit the United States this week and bring snow to Kentucky late Tuesday, move to Tennessee and into Virginia and North Carolina on Wednesday, and goes off the coast by Thursday.
Beshear has preemptively declared a state of emergency in Kentucky ahead of the storms, saying Sunday that President Donald Trump had approved his request for disaster relief funding.
