Flood victims searched through ruins of their homes in western Virginia hoping to salvage anything not damaged in Tuesday’s flooding.
Jewelry boxes, photo albums, and documents were just some of the items Buchanan County residents told FOX Weather’s Will Nunley they hope to find. Others hold no hope of recovering valuables or mementos because there homes were completely washed away.
“I didn’t realize it until this conversation with my family that we don’t have any flood insurance either. I just assumed we did,” Alison Rife, a third generation local resident, said. “So just thinking about rebuilding, thinking about the loss of all these people I care deeply about.” “This happened within a 30-minute window Tuesday night. Water came rushing into this town and it was waist high. Neighbors had to seek higher ground,” Nunley reported, recounting a survivor’s experience. “Neighbors were pulling one another to safety trying to get out of the floodwaters.”
More than 100 homes were damaged, during the heavy rainstorm. Shell-shocked residents said they just finished cleaning up after the remnants of Hurricane Ida flooded the area in August.“It’s like you dropped a bomb on it. It looks like a war zone out here,” said Robert Minton, another third generation resident. “I would imagine this is what this looks like. It’s an environmental catastrophe.”
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