From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Jersey
>Enough of us surely know about the flooding in West Virginia... > >Brad, I know you're in one of the counties hardest-hit... can you talk about >the sitch there? Thanks for your interest. Imagine a kite; that’s roughly the shape of Kanawha County. Clendenin, in the northeast, is where you’re seeing all the damage on the news. I’m in the (extended) southeastern quadrant, where those in the rural hollows experienced outages due to branches clipping power lines. And since I’m in a suburban neighborhood, I came out pretty much unscathed. Over a 48-hour period ending last Friday morning, rain totals ranged from 7.13” in Clendenin to 9.65” in Lewisburg (Greenbrier). By comparison, the Charleston airport – 20 miles SW of Clendenin – received only 2”. Several people I know have lost their cars and/or homes and others have suffered water damage, but otherwise, they’re okay. Of course, others aren’t: The death toll was revised downward to 23 after two campers were found alive earlier today. Greenbrier County took the worst hit with 15 fatalities (12 confirmed); Kanawha lost six, and two children were swept away by high water in the western part of the state along the Ohio Valley. The PGA’s Greenbrier Classic, scheduled for July 7-10, has been cancelled for the year, though some of the pro-am participants may still show up for photo-ops with trash bags next week. As expected, the local media are pairing up with different agencies for food-clothing-household good drives. On the reality angle: Teen Mom 2’s Leah – who graduated from Herbert Hoover (the Clendenin district’s HS), but now by my reckoning lives in town – has apparently finished her Red Cross volunteering application, and will soon be helping somewhere out in the field. (FYI: If you’re regular TM2 viewers – and who isn’t? – the girls’ dropoffs take place at the Foodfair parking lot in Clendenin, which is now a staging area of a different sort.) And it stormed again today…. _ _ |_>|_> Brad Beam- Belle WV |_>|_> http://www.facebook.com/74bmw -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
