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![A Perry County school bus lies destroyed after being caught up in the floodwaters of Lost Creek in Ned, Ky., on Friday.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ap22210631164139-f7e6d23bdf0715592048ee59e1ea21e1b51401c8-scaled-e1659200466978-900x422.jpg)
Legal advocates applaud FEMA changes in Kentucky, but they say transparency is needed
By: Justin Hicks | Ohio Valley ReSource
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WHITESBURG, Ky. (OVR) — 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… Read More
![Havanna Thacker’s mother and an older couple who live near the former high school make hot food to deliver to people up in remote mountain communities still without power and water.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/KY-flooding-feature-e1659897371191-900x422.jpg)
In remote eastern Kentucky, neighbors help where no one else will
By: Justin Hicks | Ohio Valley ReSource
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CARR CREEK, Ky. (OVR) — 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… Read More
![Nelsonville residents' house where the group is collecting donations to being to Eastern Kentucky.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screenshot-2022-08-05-153759-e1659728588148-900x422.jpg)
Nelsonville residents collect donations for Eastern Kentucky flood victims
By: Claire Schiopota
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – A group of Nelsonville residents are collecting donations for relief as they travel to Eastern Kentucky this weekend. For the past several weeks, Kentucky has been… Read More
![The gym in the old Carr Creek High School, now an impromptu mutual aid center.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Knott-Gym-2048x1367-1-e1659639344140-900x422.jpg)
In the epicenter of Kentucky’s flooding, communities help each other and wait for assistance
By: Katie Myers | Ohio Valley ReSource
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KNOTT COUNTY, Ky. (OVR) — Runnels Branch is a long, winding holler that travels deep into a mountain from the Carr Fork Lake area in Knott County, Kentucky. Usually, the creek… Read More