Roy “Tommy” Stucker navigated the floodwaters by boat to his West Point home in far southwest Louisville, greeted by his wife who stood on the front patio holding his 5-year-old son Tommy — or “Little,” as they call him.
Nearby, crews from the Pleasure Ridge Park Fire District deployed their own boat to check on the few residents who haven’t already left Dixie Beach Road. Mother Nature has not been kind to Stucker and his neighbors the past week. The waters — waist-high in some places — will only get higher with the Ohio River set to crest in the area Wednesday , but some residents have chosen to stay and brave whatever else happens overnight.
All of them will have to contend with several more days of disruptive flooding induced by a days-long rain event that started last Wednesday…