Feb 1 (Mon)

• an absolute quarantine is established for the West End; police and National Guardsmen line perimeter of West End, west of 18th St. and north of Algonquin Parkway; permit from Director of Health needed to cross line; admission granted at seven points along line for essential business only

• WHAS takes a break after 187.5 hours of continuous programming

• bus lines running every ten minutes on Jefferson St. and Walnut St. out to 18th St.

• stores and businesses advertise in the flood edition of The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times, asking their employees to contact them; offer funds and assistance to the employees

• banks reopen with limited hours; stores reopen except for liquor stores

• U.S. Congress will advance cash to flood sufferers, in particular homeowners and small business owners

• Police court held at the jail; continued to Feb. 5th

• Circuit court postponed to Mar. 1st

• Mayor Miller urges faith in God and selves as citizens go forward in rebuilding

• 9pm, river at 51.51, down six feet from crest

• temperature drops to 17 degrees, coldest night of the winter

Feb 2 (Tue)

• two square miles of West End opened

• water rationing increased two additional hours, 8am-11am and 4pm-5pm

• Red Cross has 20 stations in various businesses, churches, and schools to give out food and clothing

• 600 telephone lines in Shawnee exchange restored; trunk lines between Shawnee and other exchanges expected by to be open by weekend

• Union Station reopened; twelve trains running on four lines

• Kentucky Derby will run as scheduled; closing date for entries moved back two weeks

• special passes no longer needed to travel from East End to downtown

• criteria set for lifting of restrictions in quarantined areas, e.g., re-establishment of ample supply of safe water, safe disposal of human waste, repair of broken gas supply lines, thorough drying of walls, floors, and furnishings

• sound trucks with public address systems drive through West End, announcing rules to residents

• Ohio River down 7.3 feet from crest

 Feb 3 (Wed)

• second area of West End opened; new boundary at 26th St.

• West End south of Broadway is a region of lakes

• street cleaning crews busy at work

• scores of dogs roam streets, but none seem hungry

• Western Union encounters twelfth day of long lines; 200,000 telegrams have been sent and received by Louisvillians

• 6pm, river at 47.4, having dropped two feet in 24 hours

 Feb 4 (Thu)

• ten bus lines in operation, Louisville Railway Co.'s limit for providing transportation without electricity for their streetcars

• dark floodwater disappearing as it is sucked down into drains

• nearly every home in the West End has a greasy black line showing a high water mark

• most residents return to clean up, not move back into, their homes

• L&N Railroad resumes the majority of its schedules

• river at 43.4, fell four feet in 24 hours

 Feb 5 (Fri)

• 8am, all restrictions lifted on West End; thousands return home on mud-caked streets; advised to thoroughly clean and dry homes by opening windows, starting fires, exposing furnishings to sunlight, stripping wallpaper, scrubbing floors

• 9am, Louisville Railway resumes streetcar service on Fourth St.

• 10am, electric power restored to The Courier-Journal newspaper office

• twenty breaks in water mains hamper operations, but Louisville Water Co. pumps 24 hours; boil water advisory still in effect

• telephone co. gradually restoring service with help of outside linemen

• structural damage to flooded homes determined to be slight

• sanitary conditions quickly becoming normal

• except for hardest hit sections, garbage collection nearly normal

• Court and Spring Sts. in Jeffersonville, Ind. still under eight ft. of water

• gas explosion and fire at three-story building at Floyd and Market in Louisville kills seven, injures twelve; rescuers work with the help of emergency lights