Posted on 06/25/2016 7:32:51 PM PDT by Morgana
According to a news release from the WV Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management 24 people are now dead as a result of these deadly storms. Gov. Early Tomblin announced the request for a Federal Disaster Declaration has been granted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist West Virginians after extreme flooding on Thursday and Friday.
The news release adds the declaration will provide individual assistance which includes emergency medical support, housing and addresses a number of immediate needs to residents in Greenbrier, Kanawha and Nicholas Counties.
16 people have been found dead in Greenbrier County, six in Kanawha County, one in Ohio County and one in Jackson County.
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My dad grew up in this area. Floodings with loss of life were a regular occurance. Guess too much rain this time around overwhelmed the improvements put into a lot of places over the years.
I’ve got family in Greenbrier. They told me it was unreal.
It was! In my county and in Clay it was really bad too! I took these pictures myself.
I saw video from WV of a burning house being swept down a river. The mind boggles at how the two could occur simultaneously. Here’s a link:
Oh yea we saw that! Our joke in West Virginia is “will they file that under flood or fire insurance?”.
Flood insurance is sort of peculiar, and given that this is being regarded as a 100 year flood, they may not have had it.
Most I have spoken to did not have it. To be honest with you if I lived by a river or creek it would be a good idea. Have lived by a creek in West Virginia and the first time it rains cats and dogs that creek becomes a river. One is a fool not to have flood insurance. Or just not live near a creek or river.
If I lived in a mountain valley anywhere in the Appalachians, I’d be very wary of going without flood insurance if I lived on the valley floor by the creek or river. It’s much better than it once was as far as flooding, but that water is going to go somewhere and that somewhere is down into the valleys. I think I would rather have a nice, high view of town from up the mountain but then you have winter challenges as far as getting in and out.
and all of WV is one mountain valley or another
That’s true of the vast majority of the state, but in the panhandles, it’s not.
I admit it was a generalization but true in it’s intent to illustrate what kind of state it is topologically speaking.
Logan County born.
Given the economic reality in many of these small towns devastated by flooding, I’d imagine there’s going to be an exodus rather than rebuilding. An old family house was the only thing keeping them there.
A lot of unemployed miners out that way.
Morgana, has there been any mention of foreigners coming in or of sending money to help out in this American disaster?
I have not heard of this. Just waiting for the water to go down. Wondering what the total cost in damage will be in lives and property.
Given the event, not that many houses were destroyed, estimates about a hundred.
It was bad for two reasons, loss of life 26 perhaps, third deadliest in WV, and infrastructure destruction. The severity of the storm was not predicted. A derecho followed by training storms, inches of water pouring from the sky nonstop for hours. This accounted for loss of life, especially for those unaware of immediately pending weather conditions.
If you have priced flood insurance lately, you will see it is not an option for many. After New Orleans and the many beach front floods of recent years, premiums have skyrocketed. More than most mortgage payments for alot of WV.
RIP.
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