White River Backs Up After Heavy Rains
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Updated: April 17, 2007
The driftwood floats past Bill Price`s back door at a pretty good clip. His home is right on the banks of the White River. They built the foundation up to make sure the home stays dry.
Bill Price says, "We came in and built it up with about ten feet of gravel. We used that instead if dirt so it wouldn`t wash away. It cost quite a bit more to do it that way."
Down the road at the sod farm in Elkins, firefighters and police were involved in a rescue of sorts as floodwaters surrounded the sod farm equipment. Sgt. Josh Bowen of the Elkins Police Department said, "The farm owner is out of town so we came over to get the bulldozer out of the field."
Those fields and others filled with water because by noon, Sequoyah Lake was past full. Thousands of gallon a second poured over and around the dam. But the floodwaters continued to pour in and back up. The docks at Sequoyah are already close to underwater.
Jackie Smith, Manager of the Sequoyah Boat Docks says, "I hope it doesn`t get much higher. It`s been rising about an inch an hour since 10 this morning. If it quits raining, we`re okay."
