flash flooding

This year’s General Election falls three months after catastrophic flooding destroyed lives and homes in eastern Kentucky. Elected officials and local political groups are worried people won’t turn out to vote.

Two deadlines are looming for eastern Kentuckians this week, three months after devastating flooding.

Extreme rainfall events, and the dangerous floods that follow them, are happening more often in Tennessee. This risk grows as the climate warms. Climate scientists, engineers and emergency managers rely on environmental data — data that is scarce in Tennessee. For instance, the state largely lacks, outside of rivers near urban centers, flood sensors.

The Bureau of Prisons has filed a new notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement for a new federal prison in Letcher County, Ky.

Keith Rose didn't want debris contractors cutting trees on his property in Neon, KY. Police say he threatened workers, so they tased and arrested him. Rose has black lung. His wife says it would have been impossible for him to flee.

Students in Knott and Letcher Counties have been out of school for more than a month due to July’s deadly flooding. This week, they returned.

Brian and Lesa Marcum pointed out sandy plots where homes used to be on Right Fork Buffalo Road a month after historic flooding hit eastern Kentucky. Water washed away cars, and clothing is still in tree branches sometimes 8 to 10 feet high.

Education officials from the state and federal government were in eastern Kentucky last week to survey flood damage and find out what support schools need going forward.

Over 400 travel trailers are heading for eastern Kentucky, where they will serve as temporary housing for flood survivors awaiting FEMA assistance to rebuild their homes.

It’s a cloudy summer morning in the mountains, and Lois Thompson has just started heading home from the Letcher County Farmers Market in Whitesburg.