Editor’s note: In this series, published in partnership with NKyTribune and Kentucky Student Voice Team’s The New Edu, Eastern Kentucky students reflect on devastating flooding that impacted the region during the summer of 2022, documenting what they remember — and the long recovery. In this essay, student writer Lynn Howard recalls the resilience of her community she witnessed. This series was made possible by funding from the Adam R. Scripps Foundation.

By Lynn La’Shae Howard

Kentucky Student Voice Team

There are still days when the rain seems endless and the creeks rise a little higher. The words ‘flash flood warning’ induce a panic uncounterable by comfort. There are survivors who never sleep through storms for fear of being taken again by the water. When it rains in eastern Kentuc

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