 I'm right outside Virtue, Kentucky, where many areas just like this have been affected by overnight flooding here in Pike County. After severe flooding swept through Pike and surrounded counties Thursday morning, search teams and road crews have been working tirelessly to remove debris and rescue families unable to leave their homes. Our road crews have been out since about 3.30 this morning. We have activated air emergency operations system. We have mobilized all the resources we can. We've got significant flooding in the Shelby Valley area, the Elkhorn Creek area. We've had a lot of costs coming in with people who are trapped. Some of those folks we simply can't get to because of the water. We've got a lot of first responders here who have experienced a swift water rescue. For instance, the Coal Run Volunteer Fire Department, the Pikeville Fire Department, the Elfrey and Pike County technical rescue, the Millard Fire and Rescue Department. We've got a lot of resources here. With many families trapped by high water, crews are doing what they can to retrieve those affected. However, conditions are hindering efforts. As of Thursday morning, it's unsure how many homes have been affected. Affected areas include Shelby Creek, Dorton, Jenkins Highway, Joe Nancy, and Long Fork. But right now we're still in the rescue operation. We just had the Coal Run Swift Water Rescue Team. As you guys were setting up, they were heading toward the Joe Nancy community. They don't know if they can even get there at this point. The one thing we can't do is we can't put our first responders in danger. If you don't need to be on the road, don't be on the road. Don't try to leave a flooded structure again unless you're in fear of the structure collapsing or being swept off the foundation. Because first, there's no guarantee we can even get rescuers to you. And we also don't want to put our first responders in danger. Experienced heart specialists and subspecialists collaborating for the benefit of your care. About 10% national hospital rankings for patient safety and heart attack and heart failure treatment. The technology is skilled to perform extraordinary complex, minimally invasive cardiac, electrophysiology, interventional and structural heart surgeries. This is a heart and vascular institute at Pikeville Medical Center. When it comes to your heart, place your care in our hands. The biggest thing and it's a frustrating thing for first responders is the fact that we had people that were calling in for needs and we couldn't get to them. Roadways were flooded and it was a matter of where a roadway would be flooded then you would go a quarter of a mile and then it's four miles of dry pavement and then you come to another flooded area and you can't get boats through those areas. We were talking five, six foot of water, some more in some of those roadways. So it made it impossible for us to get into some areas. We had some power lines down that were live laying across the road in the water. So of course you can't put first responders in harm's way to get to folks. And folks don't understand that we're trying our best to get to those areas where these folks are calling from. But when roadways are flooded in every way, the way this storm hit, it flooded every way in to different, all these different areas. You know, people here in the Verge area, you can't get to Joe Nancy. You can't get to the head of Longfork. You can go through Robinson Creek and come to this point at Longfork, but you can't go any further. So it's frustrating for the residents and for people that don't, that have loved ones that haven't been able to make contact with. But you know, there are some power outages like I said with power lines being down. Mountain water also has some issues that they're going to have to have water off for a while due to the flooding. So it's really hampered first responders being able to get into those areas. And right now we've got three crews out or four crews out right now trying to get into some of those areas that as the water's receded out of the roadway, the state road department's working with us, trying to get the roads opened up so that we can get in and the county road department so that we can get into some of these places where we've received calls of people being displaced or trapped. To donate food or cleaning supplies, you can drop items off at the Shelby Valley High School, Ginny Wiley State Resort Park or Appalachian Wireless Arena. For temporary housing, you can visit Shelby Valley High School or Ginny Wiley State Resort Park. Reporting from Pike County, Kentucky, for Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Korjol.