The resort where the Saints have held training camp the last few years has closed its doors indefinitely after record flooding devastated the region. Although it’s not open for business, the Greenbrier is making some of its rooms available to those who have lost their homes as a result of 8-10 inches of rain that fell in only 6-8 hours.
The result has been described as “complete chaos,” with at least 24 dead.
“Roads destroyed, bridges out, homes burned down, washed off foundations,” Greenbrier County Sheriff Jan Cahill said, via Weather.com. “Multiple sections of highway just missing. Pavement just peeled off like a banana. I’ve never seen anything like that.”
With so many hills and mountains in West Virginia, the combination of water and gravity floods the valleys with water and mud (a lot of mud), where the houses and the people are.
“We pretty much live in a bowl, and the bowl filled with water, certainly,” Richwood, West Virginia Mayor Robert Johnson told the Associated Press.
People throughout West Virginia need help right now. Donations can be made to the United Way of Greenbrier County, the Red Cross, where an immediate $10 donation came be made by texting REDCROSS to 90999, and through an initiative launched by the Greenbrier to assist flood victims.
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