In Frankfort, people are keeping a watchful eye on the Kentucky River, which runs through the center of downtown and has approached almost record heights.

Drone footage taken over Frankfort this morning show much of the city buried after several days of heavy rainfall.

The river crested at a near record level overnight, forcing people from their homes and the closure of several roads and businesses.

Even as the water start to go down, officials say conditions remain dangerous.

Frankfort is a river town, so people know what the river does, at what levels.

So the things we usually deal with are the Elkhorn Creek that gets flooded.

This time it was not because the rain did not come from eastern Kentucky.

That's typically where the Elkhorn Creek gets in trouble.

You know, I think when they change the prediction from 47 to 49.5.

A lot of people out in the county got in trouble.

You know, they went to bed that night and they had taken the time because they lived along the river.

They know what the river does.

So they had taken the time to move everything from their first levels to their second levels.

But it wasn't until 530 the next morning that we got the notification that they bumped it up, and the river came up so fast and the roads were closed very quickly that, a lot of people lost a lot of things.

This is a continuing and a dangerous situation, particularly on the water's edges.

And it's impacting a lot of our residents, their homes, businesses.

And we're making sure that everybody has the resources they need to get through these next few days, because the hard work is really about to begin.

First thing is to get, well, get people back into their homes.

We're today we're studying the flood wall that we have, which protects most of Frankfort.

And that was built since it was built in the early 90s.

And that's really helped us out here in the city where we're testing that, making sure there's nothing we need to be concerned about there.

We don't have any, reason to think that there's going to be any issues with the flood wall, but once we know and feel confident that that's okay, we can move people back into their homes.

Utilities were turned off in parts of the city on Sunday in anticipation of the flooding.

The city of Frankfort also issued a curfew Sunday night that was lifted early this morning.