Historic flooding in Louisville will not stop the Kentucky Derby or all the festivities leading up to the big race.

Flooding did, though, forced the city to cancel the fireworks show that kicks off derby season.

But Louisville's mayor says the Kentucky Derby festival is now back on track.

We have some major events coming up with the Kentucky Derby Festival at Waterfront Park starting this weekend with the PNC tour De Lu, which is an amazing bike race, and I'm thrilled to report that that event, along with all of the other Kentucky Derby festival events, will be going on as planned as scheduled, thanks to this amazing recovery effort.

On Friday, I committed to the city that we are going to make sure Louisville is as clean and beautiful as ever in time for the Kentucky Derby, and I'm proud to report that we are making progress towards that goal, that our city is going to be as clean and beautiful as ever.

For the Kentucky Derby Festival events and the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby.

Last time our city experienced a flood of this magnitude, it took about six weeks for the cleanup to happen.

We are going to break that time by a significant margin thanks to the incredible work by so many people.

We are well ahead of schedule.

Over the past three days, our crews have worked along River road from downtown, east of downtown and in the far southwest corner of our city.

I'm proud to report that River road is now reopened from Witherspoon downtown, all the way east to Zorn Avenue.

We've also reopened all of the ramps for Zorn Avenue from I-70 one, and I'm just here to thank the mayor and his whole team and all the volunteers that have been showing up.

They gave me a good briefing before coming out here.

It's been a remarkable team effort to get Kentucky ready for the Derby.

Thank you for all the volunteers and all the outstanding work that's been done.

We also want to give an update on impacted residents.

This flood did more than just damage property and roads and parks that we're cleaning up from.

It also impacted people's lives, businesses and homes.

We believe that there are about 1200 homes and businesses across the city that have been damaged by this combination of storms that we suffered.

We're very focused right now on homes along Herod's Creek that have been impacted by erosion along Herod's Creek in the prospect area.

Our thoughts are with the residents and businesses who have been negatively impacted by the storms and the flood.

We're thankful that no one has suffered a serious injury or worse as a result of this severe weather, and we are doing everything we can to support the residents and businesses in their recovery.

Mayor Greenberg says deploying city crews and funds even before flooding started will help lead to a speedy recovery.

He expects FEMA to come through to reimburse much of that city spending.