CLENDENIN, W.Va. — The flood cleanup effort continues in Clendenin, and a volunteer said Friday the town could still use volunteers to help.
“They come here, I look up a name, send them out with a name and a number and they go out to the job,” said Pam Roush, who’s coordinating a cleanup effort in the northern Kanawha County city that was ravaged by the June 23 flood.
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“Some things we need: we need shovels, we need rakes, we need crowbars, hammers; boxcutters; things to take out floors,” she said.
Roush said some had come to help dressed in nice clothing, which she didn’t recommend.
“When you come in here, we need you to be dressed ready to work. Boots, jeans; we have people that need you to go under their homes. Do insulation; things like that. Gloves, cover your eyes; we have mouth pieces so you don’t have to worry about that.”
Volunteers could be working in Clendenin for another three or four weeks, Roush estimated.
“Because even after they get all the debris took out, they got to start putting back,” she explained. “Because there’s a lot of people still in shelters that haven’t even got help yet. So we got to help them too.”
Three weeks after the flood, Kanawha County remains under a state of emergency.