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MHHS 1962

Received on:

July 31, 2001

Thought it might be a good idea to put the address for the relief fund being sponsored by the Beckley Register-Herald on your Web site. For us folks who are living so far away it seems that a check and a prayer are the best ways to help. This is the only disaster fund that I can find. If someone would want to target their donation to Mount Hope, the only suggestion I have at this time is to simply send a check to the Mayor and have him use it as he sees fit, I know a few have done this. Address for the fund is;

Disaster Relief
c/o Bank One
500 Neville St.
Beckley, WV 25801

Flooding E-mail

From Cora Sue Crumb-Barret Dated 7/8/01 ~~~ Forwarded by Fred Sweeney

Flooding E-mail

From Jennifer (Huffman) Cole Dated 7/8/01

Flooding E-mail

From James D. Morgan Dated 7/9/01 ~~~ Forwarded by Bob and Joy Baker

News Paper

From The Register-Herald July 10, 2001 ~~ Link from Vicky Bolen O'Hara

White Oak Hollow

Link to White Oak Hollow Flooding which include pictures of the High Waters and Links to related stories. ~~ Link sent from Dee Phillips of Las Vegas.

Mullens

Link to Mullens Flooding which include pictures of the High Waters and pictures of the Aftermath. ~~ Link sent from Homer Sweeney.

More Rain - This is an e-mail received from Jennifer (Huffman) Cole on July 26, 2001.

Well, we got it again. It rained about 4 inches today and it stopped about an hour and has started again. They (the news) are saying we may get another couple inches of rain. Beaver was flooded again, big rocks washed all over the road and when I came home from work, only one lane traffic part of the way. It took a long time to get here.

Of course, that's nothing. I just wonder what the folks in the Pineville/Mullens area are doing. They probably could stand a nice rain just to wash things off, but not this again. This is the third time in about thee months.

Pax, Fayetteville, Mount Hope, Sophia, Kilsyth - all got a beating again. I understand that they were rescuing folks from Kilsyth.

Fred Renie Sweeney-1

Fred Renie Sweeney

Received 7/30/2001

It's so great that some of us just can't let the LOVE of WEST VIRGINIA and MOUNT HOPE die in our minds. If you click on the links you will find it's obvious Fred has e-mailed some respectful folks in the news media. The 1^st link is his e-mail and the 2^nd are responses. Thanks, Fred, for your dedication and LOVE for a great STATE and TOWN and for having the b---- to do something about it. Please click on both links. Jim Huffman

At Scrabble Creek, West Virginia

Flood waters caused Wyoming residents Greg & Susan Sluss' double wide trailer to float 300 feet to where it settled on Route 10 in Jesse.

Nearly 700 people homeless, Mullens "Totally Wiped Out".

Ernie Browning of Oceana looks over what is left of his home. Browning was stuck in the house when it was floating down Laurel Creek Sunday. He had to climb out of a window to safety.

A Prowler camper floated in front of the Matheny United Methodist Church.

Ocena resident Ernie Browning's Ford Ranger floated away down Laurel Creek.

Houses sit surrounded by water in Oceana Sunday. Much of Wyoming County suffered flood damage from weekend rain, as did several other southern West Virginia counties. A thunderstorm early Sunday turned tiny creeks into raging rivers and sent rivers out of their banks in record floods, killing one woman and damaging up to 3000 homes.

THIS IS HIGH !! David Goode of Beckley, points to a water mark on the hedge of a relative's home in Weirwood. Water stood chest-high in Violet Maynor's home.

Vickie Kelly Toney, owner of Kelly's Korner in Pax, was relieved to learn Monday her gas tanks were tightly sealed. The pumps may, however, have to be replaced.

Vickie is on the right and her Dad on the left of the fallen pole.

 The way Kelly's Korner normally looks.

TOTALED: An overturned police vehicle lies along Scrabble Creek Hollow near Gauley Bridge where numerous vehicles and homes were damaged in Sunday's Disaster.

From the Register Herald, July 9, 2001. Robert Bowen, closest to house, Mike Siemiacko, back from left, an unidentified man and Grant Ramsey attempt to divert flood water away from Bowen's home Sunday in Charlton Heights. Heavy rains caused flooding throughout the region.

From the Register Herald, July 9, 2001. Flood waters and debris severely damaged roads and railroad tracks along U.S. 60 near Kanawha Falls.

From the Register Herald, July 9, 2001. Matt Day, left, and Eddie Murray make their way up flooded Whitestick Street in Mabscott on Sunday.

From the Register Herald, July 9, 2001. DON'T ROCK THE BOAT: Theatre West Virginia crew member Jessica Green, left, and Mabscott firefighters help remove equipment from the theatre's flooded van in Mabscott.

From the Register Herald, July 9, 2001. TOUGH RIDE: Justin Collins, 12, tries riding his bike through the flooded streets of Mabscott.

From the Register Herald, July 9, 2001. Theatre West Virginia crew members Stephen Wade and Sarah Halstead unload equipment from their flooded van.

From the Register Herald, July 9 2001. Robert Bailey of Oceana shovels mud left by flood waters in front of his home on Mason Street. Lightning and flood damage left a peak of 14,000 people without power Sunday. About 4,400 remain without power late Monday afternoon.

From the Register Herald, July 9, 2001. Debris and mud left by flood waters sits on a downtown Mullens street and sidewalk Sunday.

From the Register Herald, July 10, 2001

From the Register Herald, July 10, 2001. Sharian Sangid removes water from the family store in Matoaka, Mercer County.

From the Register Herald, July 12, 2001. TATTERED BUT NOT SHATTERED. The pages of Jackie Vanoy's mud covered BIBLE blows in the wind on Wednesday in Dorothy in Raleigh County. Vanoy's home along with thousands of others throughout southern West Virginia was ravaged during flooding that swept the region Sunday.