BOSTON, Ky. — Flooding was so severe in Nelson County a disaster-response organization said some homeowners are still cut off by high water.
Everything Melissa Frazier owns is in her front yard, while water is being pumped out the back.
“Our heart is in there,” Frazier told Spectrum News.
Frazier’s home is on Shady Lane near Boston and said this is the worst flood she’s experienced and water was even higher than the 1997 flood.
“I can’t do nothing but cry. I don’t know how I’m going to get it back together. I don’t have flood insurance. I don’t have flood insurance. It got too high when they started building up everything. I couldn’t afford it no more,” Frazier said.
The damage is widespread. Jill Ashlock is the incident commander for Reach Out Worldwide, a nonprofit disaster-relief organization that’s been on the ground in Boston for days.
“You have to hope that whatever is on the other side of this is better than what you had,” Ashlock told Frazier. Volunteers for Reach Out Worldwide are working as fast as they can to muck out Frazier’s home and over 90 others damaged in the Boston area.
“We have so many that my biggest concern is we won’t be able to put them back in their homes. The possibility of them being condemned is a very real reality,” Ashlock explained.
Days after the Rolling Fork started to recede, there are still homes they can’t reach or enter.
“And that may be the river’s fault, but the homes are holding the water, so they are told not to enter the homes until we can get a sump pump,” Ashlock said.
With each passing day, the loss suffered becomes more clear and shock settles in.
“I know God will make a way. I have strong faith in God and I know God is going to pull us through. Right now, it’s just devastating watching it all come apart,”Frazier said.
A resident’s meeting will be held on Sunday, April 13, at 1 p.m.
