Now, we caught up with the mayor of Florence to get an update on an iconic Kentucky structure.

The Florence Y'all water tower.

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You know, I think we're doing as best we can on the situation.

Our residents are impacted, our business very impacted.

Our city operations are impacted.

But we do have emergency plans that have been put into place, and we're working through those plans.

Were there any at this time that we know of at this time going speaking this afternoon, any confirmed tornadoes or any injuries there in Florence?

So the National Weather Service is on the ground.

They haven't confirmed a tornado yet.

We do know is very strong.

Straight line winds, lots of damage, lots of property damage.

But fortunately no personal injury.

So that's that's really good news.

Gotcha.

Yeah, I know there were some rumors about, you know, damage to the iconic Florence Yellow water tower.

Can you tell us what's you know, what's gotten what's fiction?

What's actually happened to the water tower there?

You know, our beloved water tower is okay.

I reassure people that it is okay.

We had a loss of power, and at that time, there was a filling of the water tower.

We get our water from Greater Cincinnati Waterworks.

And so they were routinely filling that water tower.

And when the electric went off, the pumps weren't able to work and pump it.

And there's, you know, built in safety features and one of which is to have a discharge of water.

So it operated and functioned as it was supposed to in case of emergency.

We will continue to have water service because we have redundancy in our water system.

So there's no danger for the public that we wouldn't have any water system service.

But the water tower is fine.

Got it.

We're happy to hear that it's unharmed.

It's still standing.

Finally.

Mayor.

What?

What are the things look like going forward?

What kind of even power outages are you are dealing with now?

And kind of.

What's the next, plans for you all?

So our government center is having some issues, with internet and phones.

So some of our services may not be available.

We have cruisers who are working to supply the power to our intersections with the stop lights and so we still have cruisers doing that at our major thoroughfares, such as, 1842 Moore Road, those kinds of things.

And then we still have a lot of power out.

A lot of our businesses out.

I did have an opportunity to meet with business owners this morning.

They're assessing their losses and their damage to their building.

So the residents are affected.

The businesses are affected.

Our city operations are affected.

When something like this happens, the best thing is to have a good communication.

So we're happy and fortunate and good partnerships.

Absolutely.

But we'll keep our eyes out for any updates.

Mayor Julie Metzger, although, Sean, thank you for taking the time to share this with us and we wish you all a very speedy recovery that everything can get back up and going soon.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.