Now to southern Kentucky's Barren County, one of the hardest hit areas of the state.

Farmers Racc says more than 6000 members lost power, and that number is now down to 1700.

Our Laura Rogers spent time with one of those impacted a farmer.

Now on day three with no electricity.

The first time I've seen eyes like this around here definitely makes everything a lot more difficult.

Especially when you lose electricity.

Of course, we don't have power right now, and generally we have power in this barn.

Austin Burch, his wife and children live in the Lam community of Barron County, about a mile from the Monroe County line.

I know Monroe County and the southern part of Barron and Allen County all got hit really hard.

A lot of people in this area are still still battling all this.

That includes his neighbor, Tyler Hamer, who prepared days ahead of the storm for safe use of his generator.

We lose power a lot down this road.

There's a lot of trees around here that fall on power lines.

They say the last time Barron County saw ice like this, the year Tyler was born was in 1994.

I would say it's probably the second worst one.

It does pose challenges for farmers taking care of their livestock in frigid, cold temperatures.

You know, everything freezes up so quick that, you know, he got to kind of get a check in pretty regularly every several hours to make sure all your animals stay, stay hydrated because they may drink as much or more right now than they do in the summertime.

The Burgess lost electricity early Sunday morning.

It got pretty cold in the house pretty quick.

We rely on electric heat pumps, so we haven't had any heat in our house for the last couple of days, so.

They've been staying with his sister's family in nearby Glasgow.

Makes it tough having to travel so much to do things that you'd usually walk out your back door and start doing.

There's lots to do between breaking up frozen water and feeding grain and hay.

I try to feed hay, obviously a little bit heavier right now for the horses.

I get them a little bit heavier.

Just give them a little more energy to give their bodies a chance to battle the cold a little bit easier.

He's battling the cold too, but says it comes with the territory.

I try to take an optimistic view of it that, you know, I chose to do this and pretty much every other person who has livestock, they're they're making the choice to own and care for the livestock.

So, you know what comes with it.

And it's just part of it.

And he's just happy warmer days are ahead.

I like the days in April and May a lot more than I hate what's going on right now.

So that's that's that's kind of my incentive is just keep pushing through.

We're 50 days till spring and everything will be better for Kentucky Edition.

I'm Laura Rogers.

Thank you.

Laura and Austin, we are with you.

We're counting down to Austin.

Says his next concern will be once thawing begins.

They could have frozen pipes and lakes that need to be repaired.

Residents hope to have their power restored by sometime tomorrow, and we hope for them to.