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Hundreds trapped in shopping plaza in Elkview (West Virginia) after bridge collapses
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| June 24, 2016
| Kelsey Hoak
Posted on 06/24/2016 2:26:39 AM PDT by Morgana
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First they were trapped there because they could not go home, then the only bridge to that shopping center is washed out.
Only in West Virginia do they build a shopping center that has one way in and out and it's by way of a bridge.
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posted on
06/24/2016 2:26:39 AM PDT
by
Morgana
To: Morgana
It looks really bad there.
I think the big Wal-Mart in Asheville has only one way in and out over a bridge. I don’t think it’s that unusual.
To: Morgana
I guess it could be worse. At least a mall shelters you from the elements, and food is available. And a kind-hearted store just might hand out pillows and such.
Imagine instead being trapped at an outdoor Hillary Clinton rally.
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posted on
06/24/2016 2:43:28 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: Leaning Right
Imagine instead being trapped at an outdoor Hillary Clinton rally. At least at the Hillary Rally there would be few enough people to be manageable.
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posted on
06/24/2016 2:50:28 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
To: Morgana
I had worked on a real estate deal in West Virginia and was stunned at how the developers had ignored the obvious flood risk and had no credible evacuation plans.
Much of the population of the state is in valleys adjacent to rivers and creeks surrounded by hills and mountains.
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posted on
06/24/2016 2:52:37 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Epistemology is not a spectator sport.)
To: Pollster1
At least at the Hillary Rally there would be few enough people to be manageable. LOL! Good point.
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posted on
06/24/2016 2:55:10 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: Morgana
They are considering a temporary bridge. Back in Scouts, each of my boys helped to build one. My girls all built rope bridges at home after seeing what the boys had done.
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posted on
06/24/2016 2:55:13 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
To: Morgana
Went to Logan High. They called it on “the Island”, manmade on the confluence of the Kanawha River and another one whose name I forget. Flat land in Logan County was virtually non-existent and it was more cost effective to build LHS on a manmade island than on a steep hillside with no parking to boot. It was a super school in early ‘60s, with spacious athletic fields, gym, electronics lab and auditorium and one way onto and one way off of the Island. In all the flooding that those mountains produced every now and again there was never anyone stranded. If there had been there were plenty of landings for emergency Choppers. One of the few times I’ve seen when government did it better than private enterprise.
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posted on
06/24/2016 3:17:25 AM PDT
by
Radtechtravel
(May God bless America, keeping her home to the Brave, land of the Free. Long live the Republic.)
To: Morgana
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posted on
06/24/2016 3:30:00 AM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: Morgana
Just checked a satellite map.
Looks like two bridges go to that mall.
There’s a hill behind the mall, wondering why people couldn’t be sent up the hill to a road on the top of it.
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posted on
06/24/2016 3:34:55 AM PDT
by
libertarian27
(FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
To: libertarian27
It also looks like people could walk around the flooded creek and get to the highway. Someone with a chainsaw could probably clear a path in half an hour. I used google earth and measure the distance from the parking lot to 79...300 yards.
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posted on
06/24/2016 4:30:22 AM PDT
by
Malsua
To: Morgana
What a great time to loot!
Well, at least until it’s time to get in the rescue boat.
“Sir, you can’t bring that 55” TV in the boat.”
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:03:10 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: Malsua
Walk? They brawl over the motorized buggies.
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:06:16 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
To: Morgana
Good thing the bridge didn’t take the electric and water with it. I guess they could watch the elk until help arrives.
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:39:48 AM PDT
by
pa_dweller
(Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.)
To: moovova
“What a great time to loot!”
Bite your tongue sir! We shoot looter here!
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posted on
06/24/2016 7:37:16 AM PDT
by
Morgana
( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: pa_dweller
Not sure about electric, but just heard on radio that water is out.
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posted on
06/24/2016 7:46:09 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(POLITICIAN....JOURNALIST..............." four letter words" spelled with ten letters.)
To: cgbg
stunned at how the developers had ignored the obvious flood risk and had no credible evacuation plans.It IS WV...something about not the sharpest tool in the shed?
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posted on
06/24/2016 7:48:38 AM PDT
by
dware
("You called down the thunder, well now you got it")
To: Leaning Right
Imagine instead being trapped at an outdoor Hillary Clinton rally.
But at least there would be plenty of luuuv to go round.
To: Morgana
We have family in Poca...they’ll help ya!
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posted on
06/24/2016 8:01:20 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: Leaning Right
At least a mall shelters you from the elements, and food is available. So at least they won't be resorting to cannibalism too soon.
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