While nonprofits, businesses, neighbors and strangers have stepped up in sometimes extraordinary ways, federal, state and even local government have left some Buchanan County flood survivors feeling forgotten.
at the moment, wrapping the last fiscal year on June 30 with revenue that exceeded estimates by $5 billion.At the urging of Del. James W. “Will” Morefield , the General Assembly slipped $11.4 million into its budget early last year for homeowners rebuilding from the first flood. Youngkin put about the same amount in his proposed budget this year for victims of the second flood, and the sum could swell to $18 million if Morefield and Hackworth get their way.has held that help hostage in Richmond.
A friend let the Flemings move into his vacant double-wide in Grundy under a rent-to-own deal for $300 a month — cheaper than the $500 they were paying in Pilgrim’s Knob. But the place was in rough shape, withWith no running water for the first month, they had to shower at the firehouse where Columbus volunteers. To flush the toilet, they relied on a pump and hose they hooked up in a nearby creek.
“Fella I grew up with, no kin to me, he came by, gave me a Food City gift card for $200,” said Joe Ward, 81. “I didn’t even know he remembered me hardly.” The nonprofit raised about $1 million for Hurley relief, with $850,000 of that “already out the door” to residents, he said. It raised $928,000 for Whitewood and Pilgrim’s Knob, with close to $500,000 of that already distributed.
“I’m one of the few lucky ones,” said Robert Rife, 69, a retired teacher and auto body repairman who’s lived on the spot with his wife for 46 years. Rita Wolford said she had to pester county officials to start removing the splintered shells of trailers, small wood-frame houses and larger split-levels littering the banks of Guesses Fork — eyesores she feared posed a health risk, given the mold festering on the ruined contents still strewn inside.Trey Adkins, a county supervisor, was on the scene that day as an excavator tore into the first house, the site of the lone fatality.
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