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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: pete roper on June 24, 2016, 06:42:44 PM

Title: Hearing reports of severe flooding in WV......
Post by: pete roper on June 24, 2016, 06:42:44 PM: Hope any board members down there are OK?
Title: Re: Hearing reports of severe flooding in WV......
Post by: Mark Dasher on June 24, 2016, 07:19:28 PM: Where I live it was not too bad. However the eastern and southern areas of the state were particularly hard hit. 20 lives lost on latest count...
Title: Re: Hearing reports of severe flooding in WV......
Post by: ohiorider on June 24, 2016, 07:23:31 PM: My son lives in Charleston WV, and they've had severe flooding. So many small communities in the state are located on small streams that can become raging torrents when hit with the amount of rain that blanketed them recently. One of his in-laws lost a 62 year old cousin.

Bob
Title: Re: Hearing reports of severe flooding in WV......
Post by: Nic in Western NYS on June 25, 2016, 06:47:37 AM: Thanks for your concern for our mountain people over here Pete. 23 dead and massive destruction (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/us/west-virginia-floods.html). In the link there is a video of a house fully on fire floating down a flooding river. WV is an often forgotten part of the country and it now needs attention.
Title: Re: Hearing reports of severe flooding in WV......
Post by: john fish on June 25, 2016, 07:00:13 AM: Sad times. Absolutely beautiful country and some of the friendliest people I've ever met.
Title: Re: Hearing reports of severe flooding in WV......
Post by: Muzz on June 25, 2016, 05:44:03 PM: Quote from: Nic in Western NC on June 25, 2016, 06:47:37 AM
In the link there is a video of a house fully on fire floating down a flooding river. WV is an often forgotten part of the country and it now needs attention.

That appeared on our news last night. It does not look good. Hope all who live in the areas concerned stay safe. The map they showed of the possible storm path would indicate that ultimately a fair percentage of the mid-north are in the firing line.
Title: Re: Hearing reports of severe flooding in WV......
Post by: Mark Dasher on June 26, 2016, 10:23:13 AM: https://www.facebook.com/midlotom/videos/10209954661202970/ (https://www.facebook.com/midlotom/videos/10209954661202970/)

I64 in West Virginia. Looked like a river!
Title: Re: Hearing reports of severe flooding in WV......
Post by: Mark Dasher on June 26, 2016, 10:46:54 AM: Several photos of the devastation in West Virginia:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1295422473804581&set=a.1295422130471282.1073741855.100000105213759&type=3 (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1295422473804581&set=a.1295422130471282.1073741855.100000105213759&type=3)

Amazing display of the power of water...
Title: Re: Hearing reports of severe flooding in WV......
Post by: handyandy on June 27, 2016, 09:27:53 AM: Some parts of WVA are like 3rd world countries. A lot of those folks did not have very much material things. Now the don't have anything at all.