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Frankfurt was another city devastated by last week's flooding as the Kentucky River crested to near historic heights covering homes and businesses and water, mud and debris.

Some homeowners are beginning the cleanup process with help from a group of volunteers who are rolling up their sleeves to clear out the mess that flood left behind.

The Glow project was set up to honor my daughter Elena, who was shot and killed in Lexington in December of 2022.

And our whole, goal is to, like, bring communities together, especially when it involves our youth.

And a lot of the neighborhood homes around here have children in them.

And our whole goal is to help, solidify and put a community around our youth in particular.

So is, a family owned, organization or removal company.

So they're partnering with the Glow project in this situation to reach the community.

As soon as, we got word of the flooding and all of the damage, we, made it a point to partner with the glow project and start doing volunteer services and clean out and take donations, at our Main Street office location.

Basically as soon as we could.

We're, bringing in volunteers and then glow and Gro is donating some of our hours to help the community, with cleanup efforts.

It's just been all hands on deck.

We all basically just called everyone we knew, and we're like, okay, guys, we got this going on.

Can you please stop all your other jobs and help us down here?

So and thankfully, wonderful, wonderful group of guys and gals are giving their time and energy to come down here and put everything else on hold.

So many people on this road are experiencing much worse than than I am.

I recognize that immediately.

And I can't imagine what some of my neighbors are going through.

You know, I was ten feet under as well.

Carol and I have been friends for years.

And this is going to be our second major flood that we've helped her with cleaning up, getting everything done.

And I'm going to tell you, this has been the most catastrophic one that I have seen since I've lived here.

I have never seen the houses go this far under water.

I mean, almost everyone's homes along here, their meters were condemned, so there's no power.

We're working really hard to get power back.

We got tons of different electrical companies working with us to get tent poles put up so everybody can run their fans, dehumidifiers, all that kind of good jazz.

We've also got these great guys from the Hvac companies come in bleeding down the system so we can get them out.

We've helped a bunch of people in our neighborhood here directly, like four other places besides our home here.

And we are we have, two crews out already today, one in the different area of town and then one right up the street.

We saw it coming because of weather forecast and, and river, level forecast.

So we were able to move out as much as we could.

And then when it kept getting higher and higher, we decided to evacuate.

Most I think everyone did evacuate.

There are some who tried not to and realized that they had to get out.

So, again, the neighbors got together.

The ones who were here with some boats made numerous rescues, as did the, fire department.

When the water got even higher than was predicted, we were as well-prepared as we could have been.

But like I said, many of my neighbors have a much worse.

And I just, I can't I can't imagine what they're experiencing.

Most people are been extremely grateful.

I mean, in this situation, the whole community does have to come together in order for us to be able to help each other.

I think everybody's so devastated right now that any, you know, giving someone a bottle of water when they're hot is, is enough to to show how much you care.

So, I mean, I think the community is coming together great on that.

We built together and we we've gone through a number of floods together.

Most most people are planning to continue to rebuild.

The cleanup process is expected to go on for more than a month.

To find out more about volunteer opportunities, you can go to Go Light Our World project Dory.