It is now 15 dead in Kentucky from the cold and the recent Kentucky floods.

The floods in eastern Kentucky have left hundreds seeking shelter at Kentucky state parks.

Jenny Wylie State Resort Park in Preston's burg is currently housing the most survivors.

But as Kentucky's Parks commissioner, Russ Meyer tells us, getting people to shelter has been a big challenge.

We have six state parks that are involved in this flood event, and that's where Jenny Wiley, Buckhorn Natural Bridge and Mountain, Cumberland Falls.

And Carter Caves is just come online.

Currently, we have 218 people, 39 pets.

Jenny Wiley has most of those.

And of course, with Pike County getting hit as hard as they've been hit.

That's where a lot of the displaced families are coming from.

I was at Jenny Wiley on Monday and I was within less than an hour of my car being stuck and not being able to get out.

We had pontoons running from the parking lot at our conference center to the park itself, to the lodge and a bus, getting people up the hill to Jenny Wiley Lodge.

And that was the only way in.

Everyone was safe at the lodge.

And, you know, we're giving them three meals a day, a nice, warm place to stay clean place to stay.

You know, it's needed.

It's needed.

And these people needed a place to go.

And I think we're blessed to have that opportunity and our commonwealth.

Yeah, we've gotten good at this over the last two or three years, you know, with the tornado events that we had in West Kentucky.

And then following that up six months later with the floods in 22 and even before that with COVID, we were housing families and they became our parks, became shelters.

And, you know, our people at our state parks, our team, our staff, they gotten to be pros at this, at serving our communities, because serving our state becomes second nature.

And that's what we're there for.

That's what we love to do.

Commissioner Meyer says state Parks will offer shelter