There was mud everywhere in the Kentucky Mist Distillery in Whitesburg, Ky., and Colin Fultz, the owner, said it was “pretty devastating” to walk in and see mud everywhere. It will probably be another week before all the mud is out of the first floor, and then Fultz will turn to the basement.
Fultz says the basement looks pretty devastating. “There’s probably two inches of mud in the top part of the distillery and eight inches in the basement,” he says. Right now, residents of Whiteburg are drinking bottled water, but the distillery has a well that is providing water to help get the mud out. There’s no internet access, he says.
What about government assistance? “We haven’t seen FEMA at all,” he told NPR’s “All Things Considered.” The Commonwealth of Kentucky, on the other hand, has sent a catastrophic response team.
Fultz hopes to be able to reopen the distillery within two weeks.