One dead, at least 10 missing in Kentucky floods

PIKEVILLE, Kentucky (CNN) -- One person was killed and at least 10 others were missing after heavy rains in eastern Kentucky swelled creeks over their banks.

Sgt. Lynn Cross of the Kentucky State Police said the man who was killed got swept away in his car near Hurricane Creek in northern Pike County Friday night. He was trying to recover a four-wheeler all-terrain vehicle that his friends had driven into a flooded area. His friends were not hurt.

Cross said authorities are searching for a woman near Robinson Creek. Cross said the woman and a friend were driving through a flooded area when their car stalled. Both women got out of the car, and one was swept away by the current.

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Teams are also searching for a man swept away in his car by floodwaters in Floyd County, Cross said.

The storm has also caused serious physical and financial damage in the region. Some homes had flooded basements, said Terri Osborne of the Pike County Emergency Management Office, and some trees were down.

Cross said about 5 inches of rain fell Friday night on already-soaked ground, swelling creeks over their banks. He said most of the roads that were closed in the area had reopened by Saturday afternoon and much of the water has receded back into the creeks.

"We're in a mountainous area, you get two or three inches of rain, you get flooding," Cross said.

Pikeville is about 115 miles southeast of Lexington, near Kentucky's border with Virginia and West Virginia.