(4 Apr 2025)
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Hopkinsville, Kentucky – 04 April 2025
1. Various of car submerged on the water
2. A man taking photos of a flooded area
3. Front door of a business flooded
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Kirves, Southern Exposure owner:
“This is my photography studio and I’ve been here since. Right now we’re kind of going under a flood, which I had been through this once before in 1997. The water had came up and came into the business.”
5. Wide of a man walking in the water
6. Various of men placing sandbags at the base of a door
8. Wide a of a man cleaning the floor with a pump
9. Wide of sandbags at the base of a door
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Kirves, Southern Exposure owner:
“We’ve been trying to maintain this water by sandbagging and using shop vacs and some pumps, but it’s just too massive of an amount to kind of control.”
11. Wide of two men talking and looking outside through a glass door
12. Close-up of photos on the wall covered with large plastic sheets
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Kirves, Southern Exposure owner:
“We’re keeping a close eye on it and we definitely are very concerned that it could get a lot higher and if that’s the case I could have a greater loss than I have right now. We’re just trying to do the best we can with maintaining this but if we get more coming on it’s definitely going to be a challenge to deal with it.”
14. Wide of a man talking on the phone
15. Close-up of awards hanging on the wall
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Kirves, Southern Exposure owner
“I know it’s going to take a lot of rebuilding. We actually had been, we had a pipe break earlier in the year and we’ve been going through some construction. So we were actually in the process of doing that and then this happened. It’s a little setback, but hopefully we’ll be able to dry it out and kind of start over again and get the rebuilding process going.”
17. Close-up of a glass door
18. Wide of two men looking at the flooding water outside through a glass window
STORYLINE:
Tony Kirves woke up this Friday morning to find his photography business, Southern Exposure, in downtown Hopkinsville, KY, nearly flooded. With his rain boots on and the help of friends and family, he has placed sandbags at the base of the glass doors to prevent more water from entering, while using a pump to dry out the water already on the floor.
Large plastic sheets cover the photos on the wall.
“We’re keeping a close eye on it and we definitely are very concerned that it could get a lot higher [the water] and if that’s the case I could have a greater loss than I have right now. We’re just trying to do the best we can with maintaining this but if we get more [rain] coming on it’s definitely going to be a challenge to deal with it.”
For now, Kirves says he doesn’t know how much the damage will cost, but it’s going to take a lot of rebuilding, adding that he’s already been in some construction due to a pipe that broke earlier this year.
Kirves says Southern Exposure has been in business since 1989, and was flooded in 1997.
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