The Christmas Flood, Part 2 · 6:03pm Dec 26th, 2015
So, decided to go out and see how much damage was caused by those high waters. I went out about three hours after those first pictures were taken, after the water had started to recede. First, here's the water near it's high point, abut an hour after the first pictures.
If you compare it to the older set, you'll notice that the grass on the left of the house is covered. By that point, the water was a foot or two short of the road. We live near the highest part of the road.
So again, here's two hours or so past that, with receding water.
A closer look at the creek to one side of that house. Again, it's normally grass all the way to the trees in the background.
That's the main road out of my neighborhood, and the ice machine from our gas station. At the high mark, about a mile of that road was completely underwater. The other ice machine is down at the other end of the road.
The gas station. Earlier, the pumps were all completely submerged. Between this and a mechanic's garage down the road, the whole area smells like gas and oil.
A condemned house nearby. The water had been high enough to flow through the basement and force the door off.
There's a garden under the water there somewhere.
This bridge was briefly underwater, and the fire department had blocked it off.
Here's video of a shed being pulled under the bridge, taken and shared by our fire department.
All of Kanawha Two-Mile, the lower end of the neighborhood, was underwater. I was told 12 people had to be rescued.
The garage I mentioned. Nobody I talked to was sad to see it go. Supposedly the owners use it to deal drugs more than fix cars.
I don't know if the flood pushed the chair there, or if it was normally left there. This is West Virginia, after all.
Outbuilding foundations, now lacking their buildings. I think the shed from that video used to be on one of them.
What's left of the shed.
Get some nice scenic backdrops out of this weather. Not sure it's worth the property damage, though.
I'll do a third post once I can get some pictures of the water back down to normal levels.
Jeesh.
What a wonderful holiday...