Almost all of the city of Bergen remains submerged in floodwaters.

Close to two dozen families in the small Mercer County community are currently displaced.

We spoke to some of them and they tell us they are not sure they'll get the help they need once the water recedes.

We're looking at a historical flood here that's it hasn't been this bad in a long, long time.

We're almost at the point of the 1978 flood.

It's getting.

It's getting awful close.

Thank goodness the rain has stopped and we are able to get start getting some of the water out of the area.

We're not in a flood plain.

We don't have flood insurance because there's no creek.

There's no runoff.

There's no river.

There's just nothing is coming up from the ground.

This is a different type of flooding.

Most people are getting flooded and the water is going to come in and then it'll go out real fast.

This water comes in and it just sits there for days, possibly weeks.

We don't know.

We've never seen this type of flooding over here, so we don't know how long this will last.

Lot just loss.

That's all you can say, you know, because we don't know what we're going to do.

We don't know if we're going to get any help.

We don't know none.

We've had some people around here that's really blessed us, you know, with few nights in the motel.

Really not.

That gives us time to look for a place, but I don't know.

We need move forward one.

You know, I mean, I don't how much on Social Security myself.

That's pretty rough.

We prepped as much as we could in the week.

Coming up to this, when we heard all this was coming.

There's only so much that can help us even stack and everything in the high house.

Knee high up.

It wasn't good enough because it's waist high.

We were throwing the chickens out and a dog kennel in a boat.

Me and my best friend in the storm that came through again Sunday night.

It only lasted like 30 45 minutes, but that was while we were in the middle of doing chickens.

So at least we only we lost three of them.

But our dogs and our cats and us and our children were all safe.

So that's the silver lining.

You know, material things can all be replaced, but lives cannot be.

I looked on the FEMA thing.

It said it help you get replies, help rebuild you.

How are you to help all this?

Well, I said, show me that.

Help.

I need it now.

If I ever needed help, I'm flooded out and no insurance.

I have, contents insurance won't pay me because a flood would leave.

A tornado hit my house.

Dana paid me.

Now, what's up with that?

That's not rod at all down there.

From my home.

That's it.

I ain't got nowhere else to go.

I haven't had too many breakdowns.

I have posted on my Facebook page and TikTok everywhere.

There's a GoFundMe link one of my realtor friends at work has set up for us.

It's devastating.

My house will be paid off in October, so it's hard to just walk away cause, you know, it's almost five acres back there and 20 200 square foot home.

The barn and the garage.

They're not the best thing in the world, but, you know, it was ours, and it's almost paid for.

There's been more people here in City Hall over this past weekend, and there has in the last two weeks over this flooding that has gone out of their way to do things to help the citizens of Bergen.

What can we do to help?

Can we make donations?

Can we come and help?

Do we need to take people to the store?

What can we do?

And it's it's we're not called a friendly little city for nothing.

It's out to the world.

If we can share it with the world, maybe.

You know, it's not just us.

There going to be all kinds of flood victims that need help.

Our thoughts are with them.

Bergen Mayor Joseph Monroe is asking tourists to avoid the city as visitors coming in to see damage from the flood has hindered cleanup efforts.