
Family Flees Home as Floodwaters Rise
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Flooding forces Breathitt County family from their home again.
Breathitt County has set up an emergency shelter at the campus of the Hazard Community and Technical College in Jackson. That's where we met one family who sought shelter after flooding forced them from their home. Like many in Breathitt County, it's a trauma they have lived through before.
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Family Flees Home as Floodwaters Rise
Clip: Season 3 Episode 188 | 3m 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Breathitt County has set up an emergency shelter at the campus of the Hazard Community and Technical College in Jackson. That's where we met one family who sought shelter after flooding forced them from their home. Like many in Breathitt County, it's a trauma they have lived through before.
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The county set up an emergency shelter on the campus of the hazard community and Technical College in Jackson.
That's where Kentucky Edition met one family who sought shelter after flood waters forced them from their home.
Like many impressive county.
It's a trauma that they have lived through before.
>> The North Fork part of the river is right behind our house and the water is normally at its regular time.
It's a Cold day.
We noticed that the water was extremely high as far as closer to the House.
And it was at the point that if we didn't lane shortly after we would be able to get in or out.
So we kind of sort of grab what we could grab and loaded up and left.
This makes the second flood that we actually have.
Had to pack up.
And now for some people.
>> This is the 3rd time I've started over some of them in the same place.
And unfortunately, some of them have moved every time.
It is a huge impact on the mental health of our survivors.
The first one that we experienced it didn't really get us as bad.
But now this one here, it just I watched it.
>> Hour by hour, the water coming into the the bank in into the yard and my kids watching them pack up their stuff out of their bedrooms that they work so hard to get everything just straighten up in organized and put together and a little girl.
She she started crying when we told her, hey, we got to pack up and we've got to have things ready.
And they had their little backpacks sitting by the front door ready to go as soon as we walked out, you know, and just thinking about all the the things that they have and that they've lost from before and that they managed to accumulate.
It's all right.
They are and run around trying to get pa hoping that it won't get so far that their stuff gets destroyed.
Bet there's always that chance and I do now I don't worry about my things because they're just.
Material things.
But to look at the stuff that they have already lost and that they have gathered back up and have been.
Things like that and now and that they have to walk away and leave it.
Come back and it possibly not even be there.
And it just.
It's truly.
It just it.
It's it's it's truly just.
They're my world, my everything.
And just seeing them heartbroken it just it.
Heres me apart.
>> They're not victims.
They are survivors and his heart is it ia is for the unfair them to think that they have to start over.
We want them to know that we want to be here to support them.
We do not want night will them to just survive.
We want to empower them to thrive that way.
They are might they're building There have been protective factors.
They're reducing risk factors and we are building a stronger community along the way.
We've kind of made the hashtag grant that strong because this is our 3rd time and we will come back from the U.S. and we hope to come back stronger, better prepared.
And we've kind of said it from day one.
We want to build breath it back.
Better.
>> I just feel like it's this community has bill so much as far as being together and strength and compassion and everything toward everybody.
I mean, it's it's amazing.
It really is right that strong.
I guess they call a spread that
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Kentucky Hit by Deadly Flooding
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Clip: S3 Ep188 | 1m 51s | Governor Beshear announces at least 11 dead after Kentucky is hit by devastating flooding. (1m 51s)
Mother, Child Die in Floodwaters.
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