Some Roane County residents have their own cleanup to do

COTTON TREE, W.Va. — Terry Timmerman calls Pennsylvania home but he lost a lot in last week’s flash flooding in Roane County.

Timmerman and several other natural gas pipeline workers have been on a job in Kanawha County for more than two months. They’ve parked their RVs in White’s Trailer Park between Clendenin and Amma on U.S. Route 119. The flooding of Little Sandy Creek destroyed the entire park, both the RVs and permanent mobile homes.

Timmerman told MetroNews Tuesday the crew got rained out last Thursday. He said it really never stopped raining and by evening the creek was coming across the highway headed right for the trailer park.

“Within an hour it was up to the top of the doors on the RVs. That’s about six-feet high,” Timmerman said.

He and the others, temporary and permanent residents, grabbed a few things and ran to higher ground. From there they watched the disaster unfold.

“Everybody was quiet–knowing that everything you got in that trailer or RV is gone–you’ve lost it. It’s a sad feeling,” he said.

Just up the lane is where Junior Parker’s 77-year-old mother lived. He told MetroNews she barely got out alive.

“She waded up to her neck to get to that house up there,” he said pointing to a residence on the hill above. “She had some friends and they took her up there because she’s scared plum to death of water.”

There’s nothing left of the woman’s mobile home. It’s still on its foundation but filled with dried mud.

A drive further north on U.S. Route 119 and a right turn on Amma Road shows additional damage to homes on flat ground along a few small creeks. That damage includes destroyed mobile homes and private bridges.

Roane County was approved for federal disaster assistance Tuesday evening.





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