The Subaru SVX World Network

Just had an email from svxphile down in WV as well, he is fine

"Some localized flooding in our county and interruptions of power due to trees and branches, but we are a bit west of the areas hardest hit.

Greenbrier County... the next county to the east... was hit terribly hard.

Today Jean and I made another trip to Lewisburg.

On the way over, we used Route 12, that until today had been under flood water in several places. In fact at Fort Springs it was STILL under water so we diverted to the Interstate.

Areas of the road were a cloud of dust from the drying mud... wet mud was still bulldozed against the guardrails with tree trunks until state road trucks can move it.

It is unbelievable to drive and look up 6 to 8 feet above the car and see debris from the flood stuck in trees when the road is 20 feet above the river!

Uprooted trees cut out of the road by the road crews were everywhere and others grounded in the middle of the Greenbrier River as the water level goes down.

Summer vacation homes and fishing houses along the river either survived by being wisely built on stilts....or were destroyed or jammed with debris.

We spotted two good-sized travel trailers jammed together and 90% submerged in the river near the opposite bank.

Sheets of metal wrapped around a bridge abutment like aluminum foil....might have been the remains of another trailer.

National Guard tucks, every kind of disaster relief vehicle you can imagine, tractor trailers with supplies, and every gas station and wide spot in the road was a staging area for electric power trucks, tree removal trucks, and cable and phone company trucks.

Houses in Alderson with the front doors open and everything that had been on the ground flood was in the yard drying out, since the Greenbrier River goes right through town.

Hard to know that under that mud we were driving over was a nice paved highway.

Lowe's was crammed with stacks of paper towels, Pine-Sol, bleach, mops and every other kind of clean-up materials someone might need.

People were checking out of stores with buggies stacked with such items, as well as cheap grills and charcoal so they could cook something to eat."

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