Six days after record setting rain caused flooding in western Kentucky, some areas still have problems and the number of people affected appears to be bigger than first thought.

Our Christy Dutton has an update.

Now that the floodwaters are going down.

Many in Maysville, Kentucky, are dealing with flooded homes in washed out roads.

Ryan Drane from the Mayfield Graves Long term Recovery Group joins us.

Ryan, what is the biggest task at hand?

What is the biggest thing you all are dealing with now in this recovery?

Well, I think that one of the biggest things that we're learning now is the damage is a little more widespread than some of the initial reports.

For example, our number of people that were need assistance yesterday was at about 40 to 45.

Well, overnight, that number is doubled to more than 80.

And so our immediate needs is we're needing folks who can come and help clean out the houses, tear out the drywall, the sheetrock, the insulation, get rid of some of the big furniture pieces and stuff like that.

That's just been contaminated in the floodwaters because, as you know, floodwaters also include bacteria, sewage, stuff like that.

So if it's floodwaters, it's best to be thrown away, unfortunately.

Yeah.

And this is the same community that had to deal with the devastating EF four tornado a year and a half ago.

And now historic flooding.

We've got two natural disasters in less than two years.

How are people coping with that?

Where's is there any help for them?

Emotional mental support.

Yeah, well, actually, the long term recovery group, we provide spiritual, emotional, mental support to all of our survivors at no cost.

We have licensed therapists and pastors that are part of our group that, you know, talk with survivors because, you know, the thing is, you have the emotional duress of the initial disaster, but then you have the grueling long term recovery piece of it that weighs heavily on all families.

And our hearts just go out for those of us.

You know, according to our numbers right now, almost 40% of the people that we've spoken to directly are also impacted by the tornado.

Wow.

So if somebody wants to reach out and help, what where can they go?

What can they do?

Who do they contact?

So if they want to reach out and help, they could go to our Web site, recover Mayfield Graves dot com.

We're trying to keep our main telephone lines and everything open.

And our obviously our main website pieces for those survivors of the flood.

Okay.

All right.

Ryan Drain from the Mayfield Graves long term recovery Group, thank you so much.

Thank you.