Red Cross Helping with Flood Relief in Booneville

Nancy Brown-McKinney of Concord, NH is stationed at a welcome center in Booneville, Kentucky, an area she said sits on the outskirts of where the severe flooding is taking place. Since landing in Kentucky this week, Brown-McKinney said she's working 12-hour days to help provide supplies and emotional support for those in need.

"Depending on what their circumstances are, I will give them cleanup kits, shovels, rakes, gloves, hand sanitizers, blankets. It depends specifically on what they want. It's really need-based, not what they want, but what they need," she said.

Brown-McKinney said she's spoken to dozens of people who have stopped into the welcome center to share their stories.

"[Kentuckians] are very humble. They say other people need it much more than I do," she said. "There are number of people who come in whose neighbors know people who've been lost in the flooding. It's very sad when you hear something like this, but with the Red Cross, it gives us the opportunity to listen to their story. What we want to do more than anything is to lift them up."

According to the Red Cross, more than 300 volunteers from across the country are helping with the relief efforts. The Red Cross also said volunteers have given out more than 42,000 meals and 15,000 relief items to those in need.

Brown-McKinney said she is proud to be the only Red Cross volunteer from New Hampshire who's helping people in Kentucky recover from the devastating floods.

"I really felt honored that I was able to go and work with other agencies. The Red Cross prepared me well. I enjoy taking the classes and I enjoy using the skills that I have for getting people to be a part of the Red Cross and lifting people up," she said. "I'm the one who's representing New Hampshire. I need to do a good job, and I'm proud of my state."

For more information on the relief efforts and how to help, visit the redcross.org.