louisville flooding

The University of Louisville campus has been hard hit with high water and is closed. The university has posted the following message on its website announcing immediate closing and urging the departments to allow employees to leave due to today's bad weather flooding Louisville.University of Louisville message about the flooding.Effective immediately, the University of Louisville is closing for the day. Departments should begin allowing employees to leave.Many roads around Belknap Campus still are closed. As of 12:30, there are only a few routes off campus. Employees may travel Eastern Parkway east and 3rd Street north from the Natural Sciences parking lot.

Employees leaving from College of Business, Davidson, and University Club lots should take Cardinal west and turn south on Third Street to Eastern Parkway.Once off campus, most eastern routes should be passable. Employees heading south or west should be aware that some routes will be closed. I-264 (Watterson Expressway) is closed between Taylor Boulevard and Third Street Road. I-65 North is closed north of campus.HSC employees should avoid I-65 North, but other roads are passable.Many employees have suffered damage to their cars. Some are still under water. Employees whose cars are water damaged should not try to start them.Each unit has been asked to develop a carpooling system to ensure your employees are able to get home this afternoon.If employees are unable to participate in a carpool but still need a ride home, please call 852-6153.

We will arrange for alternate transportation for these employees. Also, we are asking employees who have access to their cars to volunteer to take fellow employees home. If you are able to volunteer, please call 852-6153.City of Louisville has provided the following safety tips on what to do during flooding and high waters.Louisville flooding has caused many streets to become impassable. Buildings in the city are flooded and major damage has been reported. Many subdivisions and neighborhood streets are also flooded and impassable.Severe storms led to flash flooding in both Kentucky and Indiana on Tuesday, closing down a college campus in Louisville, closing highways and severing power to thousands.

The flooding closed down the University of Louisville, where more than 10 buildings had no power and about 12 more had some flooding, according to university spokesperson Mark Hebert. In addition, several university employees had been evacuated.The flood waters encroached upon and breached guardrails along I-65, bringing traffic to a grinding halt in Clark County, Indiana.The National Weather Service has said that the Rubbertown area in western Louisville got dumped on by more than 6 inches of rain in just three hours.