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Over the past week, Havanna Thacker has transformed a historic high school in Carr Creek, Kentucky into a supply depot. While her mother whips up trays of food in a tiny cafeteria, she stocks the gym with supplies that people bring by the carload.
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Beshear said just the school cleanup costs in Knott County, one of the areas hardest hit by flooding, was estimated at over $1 million.
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In the Parlor Room, a longtime tattoo shop and music venue in downtown Whitesburg, the art-covered walls meet a bare floor, covered in mud.
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Districts reported multiple school buildings flooded, some beyond repair. They’re also mourning the deaths of staff and at least one student.
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Breathitt, Clay, Knott, Letcher and Perry counties have all reported deaths from the flooding.
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As the water receded, it left a mix of stinking mud and tossed-up furniture, and a slowly rising grief.
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Eastern Kentuckians are living through one of the most devastating flood events in state history.
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A massive rain event has struck portions of southeastern Kentucky. Some areas have reportedly seen up close to ten inches of rain over the last 24 hours.
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Though the former coal camp town still has an active community, politically, it was defunct. No one had been running the town for years. With no one to oversee the dispensation of municipal road funds and coal severance, the city’s services fell into disrepair.
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Kentuckians in the eastern part of the state are paying the most for electricity, according to new data from the state Energy and Environment Cabinet.