Pike County has endured multiple disasters over the last few decades.  Fall of 2019, the Pike County Extension Service and the Pike County Emergency Management completed a 2 year state wide project on planning for disasters, with Pike County being the host/Pilot Test group. Floods, wind storms, train wrecks, tucking wrecks, and many others.  Pike Extension and the Pike County Emergency Management, along with a University team, decided to host and take part in all the planning, implementing, fine tuning, and hosting stages of disaster management decisions in practical use for Pike County.  Taking part was Extension, Emergency Managment, Appalachian Electric Power, C & O Railroad, Pikeville College, Pike Senior Citizens, Pikeville Hospital, Pike County Health Dept., Pike County Animal Shelter, State Transportation services, all Pike County Ambulance Services, Dept of Highways, Pike County Airport, Food Banks, Pike County Schools, and many others took part.  Groups were split up to accomodate groups to handle different scenarious and allow for getting to know each other and expression of different ideas of how their particular group would handle their situation.  The main idea gleaned from from the groups was that they thought they were pretty much an island unto themsleves.  The group activity taught them they can be much more efficient and supply many more serices, if everyone works together.  It was an eye opener for everyone to know exactly what was out there and how they could interact/help each other in an emergency.