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Death toll in W. Virginia flooding hits 26, Obama declares state of disaster

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<div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-top" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div><br/><div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="http://kickerdaily.com/posts/2016/06/death-toll-in-w-virginia-flooding-hits-26-obama-declares-state-of-disaster/screen-shot-2016-06-26-at-3-25-43-pm/"><img alt="" src="http://kickerdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-26-at-3.25.43-PM-559x264.png" title="West Virginia flooding"/></a> <span class="wp-caption-text">Image from Gazette Mail’s Twitter page </span> </div><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside><ul><li><strong>President Barack Obama declares state of disaster in West Virginia </strong></li><br/><li><strong>26 people were recorded dead in the worst flooding incident to hit the state </strong></li><br/><li><strong>100 homes were left devastated and thousands of households are experiencing power outage </strong></li><br/></ul><p>At least 26 people were declared dead due to the worst flooding incident West Virginia faced; leaving the United States (US) President Barack Obama to declare a state of disaster in the region.</p><br/><p>The death toll over the flooding rose to 26 on Saturday, June 25, from the original 24 count. The deadly incident was caused by a torrential rain that ran for days.</p><br/><p><a href="http://www.rappler.com/world/regions/us-canada/137663-obama-declares-disaster-west-virginia-flood">Rappler</a> quoted a White House statement saying the President has “ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides.”</p><br/><p>These areas were identified to be the counties of Greenbrier, Kanawha and Nicholas.</p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-middle"><br/><br/></div><br/></div><br/><p>The powerful rains caused the destruction of over 100 homes and the closure of roads and bridges.</p><br/><p>According to the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security, there are over 21,300 people affected with power outage.</p><br/><p>The National Weather Service has described the amount of rain that poured in such short a time was a “one-in-a-thousand-year” likelihood.</p><br/><p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/24/2-dead-floods-sweep-west-virginia/86329316/">USA Today</a> cited state climatologist Kevin Law as saying that the recent flooding was the third deadliest recorded in the state in recent history.</p><br/><p>“Only the Buffalo Creek flood in 1972 (when 125 died after a dam break) and a November 1985 flood (when 38 died from a combination of Hurricane Juan’s remnants and another storm) killed more in the state,” Law said in the story.</p><br/><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><br/><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing"><br/><h3 class="sd-title">Share this:</h3><br/></div><br/></div><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside> <center> </center><br/><p><strong><a href="https://blockads.fivefilters.org">Let’s block ads!</a></strong> <a href="https://github.com/fivefilters/block-ads/wiki/There-are-no-acceptable-ads">(Why?)</a></p><br/><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://kickerdaily.com/posts/2016/06/death-toll-in-w-virginia-flooding-hits-26-obama-declares-state-of-disaster/">Kicker Daily News</a></p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-bottom" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div>

Image from Gazette Mail’s Twitter page President Barack Obama declares state of disaster in West Virginia 26 people were recorded dead in...