Governor Steve Beshear Tuesday formally requested federal disaster assistance for four counties in Eastern Kentucky.
Flash flooding during the latter part of August caused significant damage to communities in Floyd, Johnson, Pike, and Knott counties. R.D. "Doc" Marshall is judge executive in Floyd County. "The overall was just a large amount of water quick and then it ran down, but it did cause some damage to some bridges, to some culverts, and especially to the asphalt or the blacktop on the roadways," said Marshall.
Marshall says three houses in his county were destroyed during the August storms. He says individual homeowners will submit their own applications for federal aid. Marshall says county resources won't stretch far enough to make the needed infrastructure repairs. "It always helps to have the money because when you start doing a lot of blacktopping and stuff, it becomes very expensive. So we don't have the funding to take care of this at this time," added Marshall.
Kentucky has had 11 federal disaster declarations since 2008.
