Well.

While the entire state is dealing with flooding, the western region of the state bore the brunt of several days of continuous rainfall.

Justin Gibbs, lead forecaster at the National Weather Service in Paducah, says.

Several areas of western Kentucky broke rainfall records, among them the city of Dawson Springs, still recovering after being hit by a tornado outbreak in 2021.

It's, very serious historic type flooding going on in western Kentucky.

We had 10 to 15in occur over the course of four days, which was the most that we've ever had in our area, recorded going back, you know, as far back as records go.

Flooding was significant, even at street level.

Neighborhood level.

And now that water has collected into places like Detroit water River and the green River and all of the different tributaries, that it goes to, and that's creating maybe near record flood, on the green River, especially a Paradise.

And then even significant flooding on the Ohio River, at Newberg and Evansville, which is right across, you know, including, like Henderson and Davis County in Kentucky.

And then significant flooding upstream on the Ohio River as well.

So it's been something that's really impacted a lot of Kentuckians and a lot of folks in the western part of the state, and then even further south into Paducah.

And in western Kentucky, the Clarks River and Mayfield Creek all well exceeded their banks.

And we've had some, folks have to evacuate their homes, even in McCracken County, due to water getting into them or threatening to cut them off from the outside world.

Come on knowledge.

At this moment we have eight businesses that were impacted and, maybe 2 to 3 residences that were impacted.

The the actual flooding did occur in what we called our 100 year flood plain area.

And the thing that made it devastating in this particular case, not only did the flooding come up, but it came up past our 100 year flood level.

Our 100 year flood level was what we call 402ft.

And this flood, again, I'm not an engineer, but I'm telling you this, this flood came up three feet over that.

So it, it impacted it came inside businesses that were not expecting it came certainly came inside residences that were not expecting it.

And it has devastated one of our parks.

We had built that park.

All of the electrical panels, all of the concession stand areas above the 100 year flood plain, and it came up three feet over that up to from 402 to 405.

It has just a very big impact and a lot for a small town and small family businesses to sustain.

I don't know that any community is equipped to deal with 10 or 15in of rain.

You know, everybody's got their flood mitigation systems in place.

We have our warning systems in place.

Everybody did what they were supposed to do, but there's just limit to what you can prepare for.

And I think this system, sort of eclipsed that in some places.

Fortunately, the human loss seems to have been fairly mitigated by the warning system about people taking action and being in the right place and then moving quickly.

When it became clear that, it wasn't going to be safe to remain where they were at.

And we hope that that stays that way, that we don't learn of any more by email or, loss of life in that part of the state.

They're not totally down, but pretty much all of the floodwaters are out of the buildings at present.

And there was, I mean, almost everybody's basement.

And then our community was impacted.

But whether you were in the floodplain or not, it was just an enormous amount of rain.

It was something that, you know, which is going to be hard to cope with and hard to recover from.

And, you know, really can't begin until everything drains out, which may still take several more days.

There's so much water.

You know, it's just take several days, probably 4 or 5 days before everything really starts to get cleared out.

And some of these rivers return to not necessarily even normal, but below this current, level, which is so problematic.

We're still horribly struck, and we're going to try to help these businesses and these residences come back.

But we're resilient.

We're resilient.