Covington work crews battle rain during road repairs
In hard-hit Covington, Kentucky, work crews are out tackling the problem street by street.
For three days, Gene Koehl has been trying to make headway after torrential rain flooded the streets.
"The past two days, we've just been picking up, going around cleaning up the mess that it created," Koehl said.
Public works crews are scattered across the city, tackling the broken roadways with a measured response.
This trio is tearing up asphalt.
"The whole top layer is taken off. So we gotta put that miller on. It's got little teeth on it that just grinds it all up. And then it's got a broom attachment so it sweeps everything up and then we come in with blacktop and do a thin layer," Brandon Voris said.
The situation is the same from one call to the next.
"Everything's on a hill over here so there's just so much more water that it just couldn't take the volume of water that came down," Voris said.
It's hard to make progress when the rain continues to fall.
Rain does not mean rest.
"It's just there's so much work to be done after something like this happens," Voris said.