PIKEVILLE — A grim-faced Jerry Hopkins continued the search for his missing wife on Sunday, a quest that began with a frantic late-night call from his sister, who saw her swept away by a flash flood on Friday.

        Using a small johnboat, Mr. Hopkins and five relatives paddled 15 miles along eastern Kentucky streams on Sunday, scanning the banks for any sign of his 24-year-old wife.

        Andrea Hopkins of Virgie was swept away after she stepped from her stranded car in a flooded roadway, said Sgt. Steve Slone at the Kentucky State Police post in Pikeville.

        Sgt. Slone said she is presumed dead.

        Leslie Howell Jr., 31, of the Hurricane Creek area in Pike County, died Friday when his four-wheel all-terrain vehicle stalled and turned over, and he was swept down Hurricane Creek in Boldman about seven miles north of Pikeville around 9:30 p.m., police said.

        One road was completely erased, said Lon May, emergency operations director in Floyd County.

        “The best way to describe it is to say it's not there, no asphalt, no gravel, nothing. It's gone,” he said.

        Authorities say more than 1,000 homes were damaged, and about 700 homes were without electricity on Sunday.

        Officials at the Kentucky Department of Highways estimated damage to be about $1.8 million to state-maintained roads and bridges.

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