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West Virginia Hit Hard By Heavy Rain And Flooding

Last updated: 2023/08/29 at 5:47 PM
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Thunderstorms dumped heavy rains that brought on vital flooding in elements of West Virginia on Monday, authorities mentioned.

Gov. Jim Justice issued a state of emergency in at the least 5 counties, enabling the Nationwide Guard to activate swift-water rescue groups and use helicopters in areas hit by floodwaters.

“That is an ongoing, life-threatening emergency,” the Kanawha County Fee mentioned on social media. “Please search increased floor.”

The fee mentioned that primarily based on radar estimates, as much as 6 inches (15.2 centimeters) of rain fell in a brief period of time Monday in areas east of Charleston, sending a number of creeks out of their banks. Courses at a number of colleges had been canceled. Mudslides closed U.S. Route 60 within the Kanawha County group of Cedar Grove, and flooding led to lane closures on elements of Interstate 77.

First responders carried out at the least 22 water rescues within the county Monday morning, the fee mentioned.

The communities that had been hit the toughest had been alongside hillsides the place runoff flowed into slender valleys.

“The mountains we’ve make it actually, actually robust,” Justice mentioned throughout his weekly media briefing. “We’ve acquired increasingly more hardship on folks, and it’s a crying disgrace. It’s very very, very troublesome it doesn’t matter what is finished to have the ability to get away from that.”

The rains fell on prime of floor saturated by earlier extreme storms over the weekend. A bridge within the Chelyan space whose timber deck was lifted off its metal beams by particles and floodwaters was repaired on Sunday, solely to be underwater once more on Monday, the state Division of Transportation mentioned.

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“It was only a downpour,” Pond Hole resident Terry Keenan mentioned. “I acquired up at 6 o’clock, and it was raining actual laborious.”

It marked the third time in a yr that extreme flooding hit southern West Virginia. In February, the body of an infant was found in a submerged car within the Fayette County city of Pax. In August 2022, flooding in Fayette and Kanawha counties broken greater than 100 houses, bridges and roads, disrupted consuming water methods and washed out part of a public service district’s sewage collection system serving a jail.

In June 2016, 23 folks died in flooding statewide.

“It simply echoes the haunting emotions of June 23, 2016, when it ripped via in every single place and it was devastation past perception,” the governor mentioned.

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