It's been almost a year since flooding devastated several eastern Kentucky counties.

One of the biggest challenges in the aftermath of the disaster, getting people into homes and out of harm's way.

That's been the mission of the Housing Development Alliance, a nonprofit that has been building homes for flood survivors.

The organization has moved one of those survivors into the first of seven new homes it's building in Bertha County.

More on that as Kentucky edition goes on the road.

One of the really significant pieces of this event was somewhere around 70% of the homes.

70 to 80% of the homes that were impacted were not actually in a flood zone.

They said that my home was not in a plane.

Just the weather has changed.

So water's getting bigger and bigger and more rain.

A lot of times people say, well, why would anybody live in a flood area?

Well, they didn't.

You know, this creek is never flood.

But now that we know they can flood.

You know, do we want to put people back along the creeks or do we want to figure out how to get them higher up?

We're trying really hard to get folks away from water.

We were trying to do what we're calling some place based stuff out of play space development where we're building houses on non flood prone land in the actual community.

So if somebody spent their whole lives in rowdy Kentucky, they may not want to move close to Hazard and live on a subdivision.

So can we find three or four lots that don't flood and do a little bit?

We've got one of those going on right now.

Seven lot development, just 30 east in Jackson.

HDR supplied outlook, appliances, refrigerators, stove and dishwasher here behind me.

The first person who moved in was actually flooded in 2021 and was planning to rebuild a new home on that property when it got flooded in 2022.

But I didn't live in my home because the 21 had already ran me out of my home because it got like two foot into my living quarters of my home and had to just completely moved out and lived with my daughter for two years.

But the 22 flood took my house, knocked the porch and everything down, took the roof back part of the roof, tore it off and just knocked it out of foundation stuff where I could never live in that home again.

And she was able to move just a mile down the road.

And so she's still in the her home community.

I've lived here for 25 years.

I have a sisters and a daughter that lives here and a couple of grandkids.

We're trying to be culturally appropriate for Appalachia.

You know, there are things about living in East Kentucky.

You know, if we all wanted to live in a subdivision, we'd probably move closer to the big city as opposed to living in rural areas.

And so you know, we like open spaces, we like outdoor activities, We like being close to family.

And so how do we create, recreate and preserve those things in these new developments?

The HDR is building seven homes up through here.

Mom was the first.

My sister's.

This going to be the second home and they're going to be about five more on up this line here.

So I see.

I see progress.

I know it's bouncing back now.

The Housing Development Alliance estimates it will cost more than a half billion dollars to rebuild in just the four counties it serves.

Breath it not Leslie and Perry.

There were 13 counties impacted by the flood.