The clean-up continues, but long rebuild lies ahead in Lee County
and last updated 2021-03-08 18:17:54-05
BEATTYVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18) â One week ago, shops on Main Street in Beattyville closed up for the day as everyone went home.
Nobody imagined what the next 24 hours would bring as historic levels of flooding destroyed most of downtown. The first round of damage assessment is wrapping up in Lee County. Our count right now is 81 businesses and 64 homes, said Emergency Management Director Jon Allen.
The homes are scattered throughout the county, but most of those businesses are in downtown Beattyville. To see Main Street in the condition that it is now, versus how it was prior to the flood is almost heartbreaking, said Allen.