Pike County was one of the hardest hit areas during last month's flooding.

Within a day of the storm, Pike County Emergency Management began organizing meetings with local, state and national agencies to coordinate the response.

As the region once again rebuilds, volunteers on the ground say volunteers are needed to help get survivors back into their homes.

The weekly briefings.

We actually started these the Monday after the flooding.

The flooding happened on the 15th and 16th of February.

We started on the 17th.

We have representatives from state and county road departments, the Red cross, FEMA, Department of Transportation.

We have someone from logistics, the Health Department, Appalachian Regional Hospital, Pikeville Medical Center.

We're able to, maximize our resources with where they're strategically throughout the county.

We are mobilizing volunteers from all over the U.S. they come in to help these homeowners.

The homeowners are our number one priority, trying to help them get back into their homes as fast as we can.

As of right now, we've had 683 individual assessments.

We've had 1027, public assessments and 122 businesses affected.

So, you know, our initial was, estimate on businesses was 100, and we're up to 122 now, those, individual assessments, we're going back to make sure that some of them were, possibly estimated low and there may be we're we're pretty confident there's going to be more destroyed than, than the 20 to 25 that we're looking at right now.

The greatest need here in Pike County is for us to have volunteers come help.

The homeowners are still in the middle of not being able to get back into their homes.

They have wet contents in their homes, sheetrock that needs to come out.

Personal belongings that have been damaged.

We need to get all that to the street before the homeowner can move to the next step of rebuild.

We still had people that were, getting assistance and not back on their feet from the 2022 flood, and some of those folks got affected again with this flood in 25 that weren't rebuilt, or back into their, facilities or homes after that flooding.

These homeowners have gone through this devastating flood a few years back and now going through it again.

And so it's an emotional, part in their life that they're they're remembering back from a few years ago.

So we also bring along chaplains that are trained professionals to help these homeowners with an emotional and spiritual support.

We are working with, state of Kentucky.

We have a, travel trailer program that we initiated in 2022 after that flooding.

We have 18 sites there, and today they'll start licensing folks and moving folks in.

Starting today, throughout this, this coming week.

And then, as more sites are needed, it will populate more sites, different locations.

It's going to be years before we can actually get people back to some sort of normalcy.

As far as their housing is concerned.

State Senator Phillip Wheeler of Pikeville has said he estimated that the floods caused at least $50 million worth of infrastructure damage in Pike County.