Flooding in Paducah Worse Than Here

While we have plenty of flood water in the Owensboro-Daviess County area there are some areas of Kentucky that are much worse off. Smithland, Calvert City and Paducah all have flooding challenges.

This morning AP is reporting the following. "Commercial barge traffic on the Ohio River and tributaries has been halted because of flooding and closed locks.

Jerry Knapper, assistant vice president of Ingram Barge, told The Paducah Sun his company's operations are halted in western Kentucky because locks are closed on the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.

Knapper says the Smithland Lock on the Ohio, the Kentucky Lake Lock on the Tennessee and the Lake Barkley Lock on the Cumberland are all closed to help control flooding downstream on the Mississippi River.

Flooding is so bad a friend of mine, Ed Dunning has lost his office/shop and home. His father bought the family farm in 1963 and they have NEVER had this much water in the fields or near their home.

Ed is also the voice of Paducah Internationl Raceway. He sent this photo of the flooding around the usually dry track and the fields surrounding it.