The American Red cross has begun sending out damage assessment teams through flood affected areas throughout the Commonwealth.

The volunteers travel from home to home to see who was affected by the floods, and just how the water and debris impacted their homes.

We have about just under a dozen volunteers going out today in this community and surrounding areas.

Their focus is going to be the Franklin County area today.

They'll go out and basically just travel that area.

Observe the residences and some of the damage and just get an idea of what kind of damage was caused by this, this weather, these weather impacts.

This one's a little bit more drastic.

I think, because it's a prolonged flood.

Went to bed Saturday night and got up Sunday morning and looked out the window.

And I thought I was going to be physically ill.

It was probably 4 or 5ft away from the crawlspace.

We made the decision to go ahead and start moving all our furniture that we could up to a higher level lot on tables and whatnot.

I cut the power, shortly before it got in the crawl space, because we have a lot of electrical lines that are in the crawl space.

The first night it wasn't too bad.

I think it got down to 55 degree, something like that.

But, Monday night it got into the 30s.

And when we woke up Tuesday morning, with no power, was 52 degrees in the house.

And, we made quick work of getting out and going somewhere.

The damage assessment enables the rear cross to know where to send our resources.

You know, like, RDF, which is the distribution of emergency supplies.

It gives them an area where all the pockets are damaged.

Is that and so on like that.

It helps them get their, resources quicker.

What we'll do is get into these areas and try to do the assessment on the homes that were flooded by the flood.

We've got different criteria as we've to, provide assistance that is needed for the families.

All of our work is done on the outside.

What we do is we go and look for water lines, and then we got, FEMA park that we go by to determine the classifications.

After, we will work with these local communities.

Identify their needs and do our best to support them, as they work on the road to recovery.

And that can differ depending on the person, depending on the community.

People are just anxious to get back into their homes to see what they have to do to get on the road to recovery.

Tuesday morning, around 11:00, we made the decision after the water receded to go ahead and turn the electricity back on.

And to our amazement, everything came back on without a hitch.

No, breakers trip, anything like that.

And like I said in the beginning, we were just so thankful to be dry.

The water did not, damage any interior portions of the house.

And more importantly, we had heat again.

It's widespread.

Not only do you have to contend with the river and Kentucky River, you've got to contend with all the little streams going into that.

So, you know, this is a widespread operation is covering just about the whole city.

Quite a few, you know, homes that, waters six, seven feet inside the homes and, you know, a lot of areas are still in assessable because of the high water across the road.

So, you know, the damage is out there.

We just got to go outside as well.

The Red cross currently has nearly 400 volunteers on the ground for flood relief efforts in the state.