By Tony McVeigh, Kentucky Public Radio
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FRANKFORT, Ky. – Storm clouds over Kentucky are finally lifting, but rivers and creeks are still rising from more than a week of soaking rains. Gov. Steve Beshear is preparing to make aerial and ground surveys of flood damage in far western Kentucky.
He says the statewide damage threshold for federal disaster relief has already been met, but he's still awaiting mandatory county assessments.
"We are hopeful that we will have some fairly solid figures from one or more counties in the next couple of days that will tell us whether we can move ahead expeditiously to ask for a presidential disaster declaration."
Beshear says local disasters have already been declared in at least 38 counties and 17 cities but fortunately, the storms claimed no lives in Kentucky.