HENDERSON, Ky. — Nearly five months after historic floods devastated Henderson County, Jessalyn Collins and her family are still piecing their lives back together.

The April 2025 storms pushed the Ohio River and Green River to record crests, submerging homes in Reed, Kentucky, among other communities, and displacing families. For the Collins family, the disaster gutted their home of 11 years, leaving them in an RV at John James Audubon State Park, clinging to hope amid heartbreak.

“It was scary. The thought of losing everything is hard. Well, everything we worked for,” Collins said, reflecting on the floods that forced her family to gut their home down to the floor joists. “We bought our house. We totally gutted it and then replaced everything in it for it to be totally gutted again.”

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