MIME--
Had the weathercasters been on the dime, today's
storm should have been a real disaster. Instead much of the
damage went around us leaving us with a few limbs down and
utilities lacking.
10:30 am had the sun shining thru as the National Weather
Service sent out alerts on a strong damaging storm heading our
way from the West. By 11am all after school activities had been
cancelled. 11:15am brought a big change in humidity with the
wind picking up.
Still it was a beauty of a day.
Then things changed quickly. Those radio and cell phone
alerts, they started coming at a faster pace, every couple
minutes or so. All said to batten down the hatches, get to
sturdy shelter post haste and, if you live in a mobile home,
that ain't good enough. The storm was to come and go by 11:45
am.
And that's exactly what it did. 50 mile an hour
winds ripped around the mountains along with heavy rainfall.
The rotten weather left about as quick as it came.
Leaving behind were a few downed power lines and some creeks
running muddy and almost out of their banks here in County Clay.
Much of the damage occurred in Kanawha County with
emphasis on the downtown Charleston section hardest hit.
Here's some links:
MetroNews has nice
gallery section.
TV-3 provided updates on utility
outages.
Gov Justice issued a state
of emergency status for four W Va counties.
By 1pm, life was getting back to normal minus having
power. Here in the outback we can expected outages to take some
time to correct from the fallen tree limbs.
But wait there might be more!
At 8pm today there's a little rain dribble in the
air and the sound of generators roaring. Predicamentated to
start around 2am, the next band of storm weather is suppose to
hit us. By Wed evening and into Thursday morning, temps are
suppose drop with a skiff of snow as the final slam dunk.
Sorry we don't have any local pics to display but
truth is, we don't see much damage
Clayonians dodged the bullet ... so far.
AW