By: Eric Halperin | Posted: July 14, 2016 | Source: WOWKTV
Clendenin was one of the hardest hit areas by the storm. Buildings overturned, businesses destroyed, a church nearly falling into the river and roads caved in. It’s all just some of the damage left behind by deadly floods as people continued the cleanup.
“It’s like your in a state of shock,” said Kathy Boggs.
She’s lived in her Clendenin home for more than 30 years and said she’s never seen flooding this bad.
“This side of the house is destroyed, the full size basement of the house is all destroyed, my son, everything he owned, he has nothing, not a pair of shoes, nothing,” she said.
Matt Paxton doesn’t live in the area anymore but grew up around Clendenin. He knows how devastating the floods can be and wanted to help out in any way he could so he came from Ohio to help.
“The house I grew up in got clear up to the second floor of it today, I’ve got a lot of parents of kids I went to school with, I’ve seen what the floods can do down here,” he said. “I started looking at the flood gauges and started seeing how bad it was going to be, and I just had to get down here, make sure that everybody was taken care of.”
At one point during the flooding along Elk River Road in Clendenin the water was several feet above the road, much higher than the height of any car.
“Our hollow has three hollows come in so I mean it was just when it started raising up, I knew it was devastation after that because you couldn’t even see our road going out, it was just water, nothing but water,” he said as he got cleaning supplies at a location several community groups organized by the Food Fair and Rite Aid in Clendenin.
For Boggs, as much as she has lost she knows there are others dealing with much more and hopes for the best for them as well.
“God bless everybody that has to go through this, I just hope they get through it, got family and friends that’ll help em come in and take care of them,” she said.
Road Cave In Near Clendenin After Flood
