Frankfort’s mayor asks some residents to evacuate while Kentucky River is building to take into account

Frankfurt – “Tony! Say Dylan, he should grab Granny’s laptop in the office from the ground!” Jeanna Fint called her father over the flood over the flood when he paddled a neighbor’s canoe over part of the Travis Circle in Frankfort.

The residents of the area gathered on Sunday afternoon on the river of the water, the raging Kentucky River visible a quarter mile away.

Fint was not prepared to make the water so high. Her home is located over a garage on the first floor, but on Sunday on Sunday the water had reached its deck on the second floor, with its cat CJ still being inside.

Frankfurt has been preparing for the floods since Thursday. Forecast of the National Water Prediction Service forecast the river with a 49.5 foot, higher than the city’s record of 48.4, at 8 a.m.

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“It would be one of the five best storms ever,” said Michael Mueller, Executive by Franklin County, on Sunday. “And now you wake up this morning and it is number one ever. So it was nerve -wracking.”

The city’s locks are only 51.5 feet high, which prompted the city officials, the sheriff department and the members of the national guard to tap into doors in South Frankfort and ask people. Mayor Lane Wilkerson said that there was no mandatory evacuation on Sunday afternoon, but asked the residents to go if possible.

“If you have the opportunity to pull on a higher floor and have the means to do so, please do so,” said Wilkerson. “Don’t take any risk. Stay sure, life security is the top priority here.”

Wilkerson and Mueller said many residents go, but it is difficult to convince everyone.

“I think everyone has this attitude that it will not happen to me because it never happened on this property,” said Müller. “It’s a generation. It’s different.”

But the community contracts and helps each other to move cars or trailers and to move things from houses that are already impassable due to the floods.

Kelly Sparrow parked his U-Haul in the driveway of a neighbor when water climbed to the roof on his one-story house. Hours later, floods covered the same driveway as the residents of Travis Circle cars overtook on the street to higher soil.

“It is a shame that something like this is needed so that people actually come together because we have been split here lately,” said Sparrow. “This type of catastrophe is needed.”

Not far away, Gerry James jumped up from his SUV, an orange kayak.

He and his wife were on the way to the Frankforts Cemetery to look down from above by Daniel Bones Grab.

The James’ left her home yesterday when the Kentucky River moved over his banks and in her house near Street Second and Murray.

James, the founder of Explore Kentucky, is no stranger to Kentucky’s waterways. In the past eight years, the initiative has organized the Bluegrass River Run, a paddle, to celebrate the Kentucky River “The Waterway, which defines the Commonwealth”.

“Thank God for Noaa (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration),” said James about the federal authority behind the National Weather Service and National Water Prediction Service. “You are just attacked, but without predictive modeling …”

His voice followed when he looked down the second street in his neighbor’s house, where water already rose over the veranda and the first floor.

“It was very helpful to have this information,” he said about the river levels. “We are really grateful.”

This article originally appeared in the Louisville Courier Journal: Flooding Kentucky River in Frankfort Building to record Crest