It's been almost a year since eastern Kentucky was hit with rain described as unprecedented, catastrophic, unimaginable and devastating.

For five straight days, rain fell on the region more than a foot and a half by the time it stopped.

More than ten inches fell in a 24 hour period beginning the night of July 27th, triggering flash floods and mudslides and overwhelming rivers and creeks.

45 lives were lost.

More than 1400 people had to be rescued by air or by boat after becoming trapped by the floodwaters.

26 counties received a major disaster declaration and as flood damages totaled more than $1 billion.

Here's a look at what Eastern Kentucky has experienced in the year following the flood.

It's hard to plan for anything of this size and magnitude.

70% of our community has been flooded in one way or another.

If it wasn't the water that came rushing in, it's the mudslides off the mountains and the water coming out of the hollers that have just washed people out.

We didn't think this was going to happen to us.

You go to bed one night and you you're fine.

You have everything that you've worked your whole life for.

And then the rain comes in.

It's just wiped away.

Your craft and your own victory.

We had a little baby, a month old, rescued by helicopter, had a lady here, 94 years old, rescued by helicopter.

She came in here barefooted for no songs.

When this water goes down, we ain't none of us ain't going to have a place to go.

All their belongings, their homes, everything they owned got washed away in these floods.

People had nothing.

We need help.

We need boots on the ground.

We need people to help them come in and help these people dig out.

Of the 12 to 18 inches of mud that took their homes.

The back half of my house, which is standing there in like 30 feet up in the air.

People are living in all sorts of different situations.

We know people who are staying in houses that are not completely repaired.

We had one wooden bridge, one way in, one way out.

And when the bridge was completely gone, the only way across was the creek sale, straight back with two armfuls of groceries, which is probably $300 worth of groceries.

And I just sit there the creek and cried.

Yeah, it was bad.

That was the turning point.

And more than anything, right now, our people need help.

And we owe.

The people the state of Kentucky.

When things aren't going right to help lift them up.

And here we are.

This is for the kids.

Hopefully, we continue to help.

That's the characteristic of Appalachian people like you help your neighbor.

If my house is messed up, I'm still going to come over and help with your work because that's just what we do.

Everything was gone.

And to be able to actually have something, have a roof over our head, you know, and have something to cook on, have a place like my head and sleep at night, it's a blessing.

It really is.

We had a housing crisis before the flood.

We knew took a bad situation and made it a lot worse.

When we talked about long term recovery and talking about building thousands of houses, that's not something that can happen overnight.

It's going to take a big miracle and a lot of money to go there and get people to where they used to be, you know, to where they're actually comfortable, to where they're actually feel like they're at home again.

To make them feel human again, you know?