 Thursday's flooding event across the region caused numerous issues but flood waters in some areas are finally beginning to recede. In Pikeville, the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River crested just below 37 and a half feet shortly before 4 a.m. Friday morning. With flood stage at 35 feet for the river, the Pikeville Fire Department had already begun making plans to deploy the city's flood gate near Pikeville High School. Well the flood gates we did not have to put them up last night. The water levels did rise and they rose to above flood stage and whenever we talk about the flood stage in the in the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy is flood stage is 35 feet. The last time they put the wall up actually in 2015 during flood stage it was at 40 feet and it still hadn't even reached the the yards of the residents within the Bulls edition. At that time at 38 feet that's whenever we we go to the the city administration and say hey this is what we have we can continue to monitor it and whenever you make the call we'll we'll go ahead and put it up and that wall literally is is built with with I-beams. We carry 100 pound I-beams to people carrying it at the same time and erect that wall and it usually takes around 35 35 minutes so that's it's something that we can get it done within well within that amount of time to get it taken care of and make sure that the city is protected. The main thing that I can reiterate to people is stay away from from covered roadways with water. Well with the with the amount of rain that we've had in the past past month or so is the ground saturated it is so it's it's catching all that water and the ground can only hold so much so if the ground is not going to be able to soak it in and it has to find a pathway whether the hillsides coming down in the roadway which we've had had that issue the river levels rising creeks up is staying away from those those creeks or those waterways because you can get close to see it but is that ground underneath you you actually erode it away and can possibly catch you and take you away as well and we don't we don't want to see that if you have how high water levels or possibly slides look like they're coming down by all means call us and let us know that way we can come out and assess if it's public safety in mind we're going to do the best we possibly can to get get our citizens taken care of