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Students in Knott and Letcher Counties have been out of school for more than a month due to July’s deadly flooding. This week, they returned.
CORBIN — A local organization is hoping to brighten the day for some kids who lost everything in the Eastern Kentucky flooding last month.
More than 1,200 families lost their homes in Letcher County alone, where the school year is on hold indefinitely. Six of the district’s buildings flooded, including the central office and three schools that got eight feet of water. Two school employees died.
School is on hold in eastern Ky. as educators, students and families pick up the pieces of their lives.
Along Highway 550 in Knott County is the Emmalena community, where the creek separates the road from homes and what is left of homes.