There's no electricity or running water in the camper. Jared Hamilton for WMMT/OVR Mary Baker, Dino McBee, Gina Tryee, and Melissa McBee rest outside of the camper where some of them are staying due to damage to their homes in recent flooding.įields draws disability and needs oxygen, but says she's been having trouble getting it refilled. "Me and the baby has breathing problems."
"It gets really hot in there," Fields said. Around her, two teenagers and a young child sought shade under a blue tarp that stretched across the campsite. The only flat space they'd had to set up camp was a gravel strip by the roadside, without much in the way of trees or shade. Temperatures in the 90s and humidity levels of 70% or more have come in waves after the flood.Īround high noon in the heat of the sun, Fields settled in a lawn chair in front of her camper.
She applied for aid, but says she was rejected. "One of the men from FEMA said, 'You guys are tough,' because they said they couldn't live like this," said Fields. She'd just paid the trailer off a year ago. Fields and her family barely escaped before the force of the water shattered the trailer across the creek, where half of it still sits, its contents spilling out.
More than six feet of water swept her trailer from its foundation. In late July, a week of intense storms turned the quiet mountain stream behind her mobile home into a raging river. Laverne Fields and her family have been living in a camper by the side of the road in Millstone, Ky., for more than a month.
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