HARDIN COUNTY, Ky. — At least 2,400 Kentuckians have received individual assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for historic floods that began April 2.
“The eighth-largest flood in our city’s history,” Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said. In response to a major disaster declaration for individual assistance declared April 24, then expanded May 14, $18.5 million in payments have gone out across the state so far.
“Once we start getting out into the community, we start finding more and more,” FEMA Coordinating Officer Jeremy Slinker said, adding that FEMA crews are going door-to-door seeking flood survivors to help with their assistance applications ahead of the June 25 deadline…