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The flooding was the result of 8 to 10 inches (200 to 250 mm) of rain falling over a period of 12 hours, resulting in a flood that was among the deadliest in West Virginia history. [3] It is also the deadliest flash flood event in the United States since the 2010 Tennessee floods .
This, combined with additional rainfall and flooding on July 28, led to a state of emergency being declared by Governor Jim Justice for six counties: Mingo, McDowell, Fayette, Greenbrier, Logan, and Wyoming. [9] Partly as a result of the flooding, Huntington, West Virginia recorded their wettest July on record with 9.41 in (23.9 cm) of rain. [10]
The 1985 Election Day floods – also known as the Killer Floods of 1985 in West Virginia [1] – produced the costliest floods in both West Virginia and Virginia in November 1985. The event occurred after Hurricane Juan , a tropical cyclone in the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season , meandered near the coast of Louisiana before striking just west ...
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Rainelle is a town on the western edge of Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. It sits at the base of Sewell Mountain and Sims Mountain, and is bisected by the Meadow River . The only means of transportation to and from Rainelle are roads; primarily US 60 and WV 20 , which merge on the western end of the town, and the James River ...
Jennifer Dupree, Southern Basin Coordinator, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (304)465.1919; West Virginia Chapter of the Nature Conservancy; McKinney, Tim. "The Civil War in Greenbrier County, West Virginia" ISBN 978-1-891852-36-7 Quarrier Press, 2004
Transportation in Greenbrier County, West Virginia (17 P) Pages in category "Greenbrier County, West Virginia" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Around 2:45 p.m., the St. Louis County police responded to a different fatal incident along the same creek in the 1600 block of Avenue H. Police found a man in the creek who was unresponsive. He ...