BOSTON, Ky. (WAVE) – For decades, Eddie Baker has counted the rising Lick Creek inch by inch. With PVC pipes in his yard, he’s watched the water rise from the heavy rains that slammed Kentucky this week.

“It’s pretty stressful,” he said. “Not even the good Lord knows where the stopping point of rising water will be.”

Baker’s been through too many floods to count; 1997, 2010, and even in February. It’s enough experience to have handling it down to a science. He had a friend helping him raise his belongings above the 2010 water line.

“I didn’t mind it so much back then,” Baker said. “But now it’s just a headache.”

Rivers and streams have already seen water rise well beyond their normal banks.

In neighboring Nelson County, the Chaplin River meets Cartwright Creek creating the perfect storm for flooding.

“This one’s just different,” resident Derek McIntire said.

McIntire has to use a kayak to reach his home of 12 years. Friends and family have helped him and his wife prepare for flooding before the first raindrop even fell.

It’s an exhausting process that’s only going to continue as more rain rolls through.

“Honestly I ain’t had time to think about it,” McIntire said. “Got two kids at homes, we’re staying with my dad so it’s take care of them, make sure they’re all good, come back here, do what we got to do, check on them. It is what it is.”

After flooding time and time again, Baker says this one might be the last time.

“If it gets like it did in 2010, if it does I don’t think I’m going to stay,” he said.

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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – During his Team Kentucky update Thursday, Governor Andy Beshear addressed the recent storms seen across the commonwealth.

Beshear confirmed as of now there are no reported deaths due to the weather, and only a few injuries, including a family in Ballard County hurt by flying debris.

However, with the flooding risk still there, the governor says that while everyone is currently safe, the goal now is to STAY safe.

“The February flooding that we really just got through showed us that especially when we have this much rain, it’s the decisions about when to get out, about what to drive through, when to go stay with someone else. That can be the difference between life and death, so over these next couple of days, make good decisions about turning around that car and not driving through water,” Beshear says.

Beshear also thanked the state of Vermont for their assistance in helping clean up, as well as Kentucky Emergency Management.