Mercer County, Kentucky, is still picking up the pieces from April's flooding.

The county was one of several to receive support from FEMA following emergency declarations, with the small town of Bergen suffering intense damage.

And tonight's Weather News Kentucky edition returned to Mercer County to see what comes next for flood survivors.

We are definitely in full blown recovery mode right now.

We've had a lot of FEMA inspectors and we've had a lot of insurance people in.

Everybody's been in and kind of surveyed.

The damage had gone over what what the needs are.

And, we're in the the part now to where we're able to, allow the folks are able to start getting in and do some cleanup and, construction work at their houses.

The Kentucky River peaked at, 49ft.

And that was the number three flood for us.

It even beat out floods from the 1800s.

So this was definitely, you know, one for the record books.

It's crazy.

No one that in almost got up here to this road right beside City Hall.

But I know a lot of people, when they go out there, they just look at it like there's no way there that could have been that much water.

But it was in a lot of people's homes, got damaged because of it.

We had a couple of different areas of displacement.

Our main one was down on the Kentucky River.

By the US 68 bridge crosses over into Jesmond County.

We call that area the Palisades or Palisades Road.

About 25, 30 houses there and all those folks were displaced.

And then in, our little city of Bergen, Kentucky, we had mainly runoff water issues there, but we had several houses with our 30 or 35 of them that got displaced there because of the water.

I don't think anybody's went home yet.

A lot of them were still in hotel rooms.

I think emergency management has put them up for 30 days.

Some of them have started rebuilding, but right now they're fighting the mold.

They're trying to get the most out of the house.

It's nasty.

It stinks.

Just tearing up all of your floors and your walls and lighting the tree, the mold.

And that's that's like I said, that's the biggest thing right now is holding people up, is trying to get the mold under control.

It was just a waiting game for FEMA for us to get declared as a disaster area, a disaster county in Kentucky.

And once that happened, we were very fortunate.

We were one of the first counties to get declared.

We just got to start looking at plans for long term care, making sure that we don't forget about these folks that got flooded out.

You know, be it a year ago, and make sure that they're still on the right track and they don't have any needs.

So, making sure we got the door open for everybody who had flooding, you know, even months down the road.

So we know we can help them.

And if they have anything, we can address it.

A lot of people still panic.

I do, and I'm not even in the flood.

But I used to be.

But when I hear rain, I just a panic.

It stays with you.

And it's.

It's scary because you don't know what it's going to do.

You don't get used to it.

You just sit on your porch and pray that it doesn't get higher than the steps.

It stays right there.

22 Bergen citizens were initially displaced following the floods last month.