Hundreds of Kentuckians have had to leave their homes due to flooding, staying with family members or even at shelters.

But many are staying behind, even as their homes are surrounded by water.

Our Jim Lefler has more from a Riverside neighborhood and West Point, Kentucky.

The Osservato backyard is usually a riverside Paradise.

Now the water is up to their driveway like a almost like a roller coaster right now.

We're right here.

You get down there, it drops.

It's flat for, you know, for some feet, and then it drops again.

And that's where the river actually settles.

And it's normally never this high.

Ever.

Except for, like, in 2018.

So yeah, that was that was when it was pretty high.

But it wasn't this high.

The flagpole peeks from the water, but the Acevedo say it goes down another dozen feet.

To be honest with you, we've had peace through all of it.

The Lord is good.

The Lord is good because everything rose up.

And as it was rising, it didn't come to our in our house.

We've had a lot of neighbors that's been impacted, but they surprisingly have been very helpful with the small needs we have.

Considering how devastating it is for them because they're on a lower level.

The local fire department checked in on the neighborhood and offered emergency shelter.

Some left, but many didn't.

They're making do, driving their trucks through knee deep water to their driveways.

Tommy Stucker rides a skiff from his home to the nearby highway.

This is my property right here as well.

And then I got one down the street.

And this all the way under water.

I got a house on this end of the street.

That was a property in the middle.

And then a house at the other end of the street.

And we're all currently staying at that end.

My mother in law, my wife and five of my kids at the moment.

I'm definitely going to need some help building.

Back when hers went all the way under hers to the top cabinets.

So she's down there with us and the other kids and all the animals, and we can't really leave because we got all of our animals to take care of.

A lot of cats, chickens, roosters, rabbits, dogs.

It's cramped quarters for now, in one home surrounded by water.

The utilities are out too.

He keeps his car on the side of the highway and stocks up for the family.

It's hard for me to work when if the generator goes out, all the power's out.

Cell phone chargers is out.

Frigerator ain't working.

And then, like, our generator went out on us yesterday, so I had to carry it out on a kayak and carry it back on a kayak.

Gasoline every day.

Propane every day.

It could be days before water levels sink.

That's when he can assess and fix the damages.

He works on houses for a living to afford to rebuild.

He started a GoFundMe page.

Well, flood insurance isn't an option because you live in the floodplain and homeowner's insurance doesn't cover flood damage.

So it's it's all me.

And we can start up.

A lot of people have reached out to us.

We've been blessed with a lot of good people.

Wants to help and can't wait to start.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm June Leffler.