LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Clean-up efforts are underway in Jeffersontown following Storms overnight on Wednesday, April 2. Volunteers are helping the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) survey the damage left behind.

What You Need To Know

  • Volunteers are surveying storm damage in Jeffersontown

  • An app allows them to quantify damages in the areas they were assigned

  • The consistent rain limited what volunteers could get done, but the community continues to help pick up the pieces

Jeffersontown mayor, Carol Pike, asked the community to help where they can. Several volunteers answered the call to action.

“This was spring break week. This was the perfect storm week because everybody was gone. All directors were gone and employees were gone because of spring break. So I didn’t have enough employees. And I’m thinking ‘what am I going to do?’ So that’s how we ended up putting it out and this is what’s happened today.” Mayor Pike said. 

Volunteers downloaded an app that allows them to quantify the damages for the areas they were assigned.

Hunter Ware is one volunteer who was sent to survey damage on Ampere Drive.

Though the rain dampened her work, Ware said she’s more than happy to give back to her community. 

“This is our home. We grew up here, born and raised. And this tornado hit close to home. We’re about ten minutes, five-to-ten minutes away from here and we’ve grown up around here, so we’re very familiar with the area,” Ware said. 

The consistent rain limited what volunteers could get done, but the community continues to help pick up the pieces.

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