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The flooding was concentrated in the area of Dismal River Road, which includes Dismal River, Patterson, Hale Creek, Pilgrim’s Knob, Whitewood and Jewell Valley, the sheriff’s office said.
As cleanup efforts continue and floodwaters recede in flood-ravaged southwestern Virginia, the Buchanan County Sheriff's Office said Thursday morning that it had made contact with all 44 people ...
A federal flood control project was also recommended, but the plan was scrapped due to land boundary issues between Fairfax County and Alexandria. The issue was resolved with a land transfer to Alexandria, in January 1973. Alexandria then used its own resources to channelize Cameron Run upstream of the Capital Beltway, not as a federal program ...
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. [45] Partly as a result of the flooding, Huntington, West Virginia recorded their wettest July on record with 9.41 in (239 mm) of rain. [46]
The Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office said early Thursday that 25 people were located overnight as nearly 20 search and rescue crews were working to locate and reunite 17 residents in the flooded ...
The 2024 Virginia wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of Virginia.During the 2024 Spring wildfire season between February 15 to April 30, at least 411 wildfires burnt "nearly 20,000 acres", the largest area burned in the last 30 years in that time period, and nearly ten times as much as the 2023 Spring season with 2,174 acres.
The next day, flash flooding produced a path of destruction in rural Buchanon County in southwestern Virginia for miles along Dismal Creek. There were no fatalities in either of the two events.
The June 23, 2016 flooding in West Virginia was one of the deadliest floods in state history, and deadliest flash flood in U.S. history since the 2010 Tennessee Floods. The flooding was caused by 8 to 10 inches of rainfall over a 12-hour period. 23 people perished from the floods, and hardest hit counties included Greenbrier, Kanawha, Jackson ...