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Remembering the Flood
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‘What Could I Have Saved?’: Eastern KY Floods Took Our Present, But Also Our Past
When people are asked what they’d grab first if their house caught fire, they often give practical answers…
While Rebuilding, Rainelle Residents Hear ‘The Song and the Sound of the Nails, and it’s Like Music to Your Ears’
Part 4 of 4: Remembering the Flood On Friday morning, June 24, 2016, people woke up to heartbreaking news…
‘I Kept Thinking, Surely Somebody Will Come’
Part 3 of 4: Remembering the Flood On June 23, 2016 flood tore through southern West Virginia killing…
‘Everything’s Getting Flooded Downstairs, But You Just Go Upstairs and Wait’
Part 2 of 4: Remembering the Flood One of the deadliest and most destructive floods recorded in West…
If There’s Another Flood, ‘I Certainly Won’t Wait for Anybody to Call Me. I’ll Just Come Down, Start Paddling’
Part 1 of 4: Remembering the Flood The town of Rainelle woke up Thursday morning of June 23,…