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Nearly 60 eastern Kentuckians say the historic flooding in late July was made worse when silt ponds associated with the strip mines failed.
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School is on hold in eastern Ky. as educators, students and families pick up the pieces of their lives.
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After heavy flooding in eastern Kentucky, locals and officials are frustrated with the federal government’s system for disaster aid. People say the process is confusing, sending some of the most vulnerable through a bureaucratic maze, and sometimes requiring documentation lost during the catastrophe.
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Ky. transportation secretary gives update on flood recovery, points to lessons from tornado outbreakKentucky Transportation Secretary Jim Gray spoke to state lawmakers Wednesday to provide an update on the cabinet’s efforts to aid flood recovery eastern Kentucky.
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FEMA has opened seven disaster recovery centers in the flood-ravaged areas of eastern Kentucky.
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The Mountain Eagle publisher and editor Ben Gish says it's been “exhausting and emotional” reporting on the devastating eastern Ky. floods.
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Gov. Beshear said more than 6,000 people remain without water service, and thousands more are under a boil-water advisory.
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Biden praised the emergency response, including FEMA, which currently has more than 700 federal emergency officials on the ground in the region trying to help people displaced by the flood.
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Luke Glaser, city commissioner in Hazard, says eastern Kentucky is frontpage news right now and that’s attracting volunteers. When that attention moves on, he worries the help will too.
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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.