 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reid Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reid at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. With thunderstorms raging over the last 24 hours, many people in the surrounding area have suffered immense property damage and some have even found themselves stuck inside of their vehicles and homes. Some roads have also been completely blocked off due to fall in trees and power lines. Police, firefighters and other first responders have been on the scene since early this morning in an attempt to direct traffic, clean up damage and assist those in need. It's basically just been a waiting game all morning that we've been here, just trying to keep everyone safe and not knowing really what the situation was. I think waiting for AAP to show up, but... They're eight to ten hours away, so... I think everywhere's flooded for them and maybe we thought that we could just test and see if the lines were safe and we could maybe help us and everyone else get out of here. This whole situation is on the more extreme side for me personally. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this. How fast the flood happened, the damage, the power line snapping. Relief efforts are currently underway by volunteers and local officials. The police and fire departments in Jenkins are helping their community as much as possible during the citywide flooding and power outages by encouraging everyone to stay home while water levels continue to decrease. It's been a busy morning. About two o'clock this morning was when we got the first calls of flooding in our city. We came out and we've been making several runs as far as checking on flooding, people that are calling in saying that they're caught in their houses. A lot of it we couldn't get to right away because we do have several downed trees. We've got some downed power lines. Power is out in the city. No idea when it's going to be back up and running, but for right now the power is out throughout the city. We have no reports of anybody missing. We've got no reports of any injuries. We do have a ton of property damage. The state has been made aware of that. Our state government in Frankfurt has been made aware. Our mayor right now is out running around checking on things himself. He's made a lot of calls and contacts as well. So we've got a whole bunch of guys that are working really hard. There's just not a whole lot we can do right now. Other nature is in charge, not us. The biggest piece of advice I can get is please just stay home. I understand that water is coming up into your house, but at this time, unless it's life-threatening, we can't get to too many people. So the biggest thing is everybody just stay home, watch it on the news, don't come out and see it for yourself because then you're going to be a casualty as well. So just stay home, stay off the roads. Red Cross can be contacted if you have lost stuff in your house. Contact your insurance companies about things like that. After this is all over with, our mayor has already started doing things as far as getting up with people that can do funds to help people out with their relief and stuff. So he will have things on our city website or at City Hall that they can contact him there. But we have to have at least a couple of days before we can get things going. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.