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08-29-23 | The Aftermath of Yesterday's Flooding · The Dave Allen Show

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things that they have going on. Of course, the big story news wise
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is the ongoing situation with the flooding. Now we have a flash flood watch.
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It's that's been issued for this area. We're still trying to clean up
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from some rain over the weekend. But more importantly, there's something like sixty
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eight inches of rain that fell over certain areas of eastern Kanah County yesterday morning.
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We want to bring in Kannak County Comission President Kik Carper. Mister Commissioner,
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Good morning, how are you having me on? I want to emphasize
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something I want to talk about today before I talk about yesterday. Yes,
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sir, we are under a life flood watch. Now, there's a big
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difference between a warning and a watch. Yesterday was a warning and it was
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about as accurate as it could get. So we're underall watch. We've probably
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got about a sixty percent chance of some impact with rain. It's going to
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depend upon two things. Number one will be slow moving like yesterday. I
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want to come and sit on the watersheds. If it does, then we
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will have some type of a problem in the areas they've were already affected.
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If it misses the areas that were affected, goes on the other side of
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the river, or doesn't hang around very long, then we could get lucky.
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Now let me say this, thank God above that we didn't have any
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loss of life yesterday. We came close. Yeah, And I mean anytime
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you see a weather event like that, and I just certain you've been around
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Kanau County for some time. You've seen floods and high water issues. But
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to have that much rain that we had in that amount of time over park,
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basically over one area, that's almost unheard of. It is pretty much
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unheard of. A good example of that was the clenden And flood of seven
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years ago. It does happen, and when it happens, it can have
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devastating consequences. Dave, you're from southern West Virginia, Logan County. We
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just can't handle rain like that. But in my career, and I often
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when I have about fifty years experience. I've never seen nine inches of rain.
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Yeah, it was incredible. I mean again, it's just part training
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as they called it, basically just parked over one area. Let's move to
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today. So where are we now in the recovery project. Well, this
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morning at about seven thirty, Knauk County officials met with the BEAUAD that's volunteers
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of Active Disasters, met with our state counterparts and cannot think State of West
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Virginia Governor Justice enough. He had his people there one time and ready to
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work with us, also federal officials. So what's the plan. Well,
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as we sit here right now, we have some people that are still in
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very serious situation. I'll give you an example, the Midland Drive area,
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which is which is the access to Fields Creek and Winterford Holler. That road
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is just wiped out. So this morning I directed staff to begin the process
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as determining, you know what resources can the state give us. Will make
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a specific request, but we've got to do something in that area. And
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it's just emblematical of certain areas throughout the eastern part of the county. Now,
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what did we do yesterday? First of all, unlike other people,
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we used our siren system. I still can't quite get over why you would
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have a perfectly good outdoor warning system and not set at all when we certainly
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blew ours off. We used the cable interrupt we used all of our tools
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trying to get the word out as quickly as we had. Now, we
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had very little pre notice of this, practically none. I'm not blaming the
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Weather Service. I'm not blaming anyone. It was an odd weather pattern according
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to the National Weather Service, so once we were made aware of it,
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we began reacting. Before we heard from the Weather Service, we did an
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unusual thing. We declared a county emergency. I've never ordered that before that
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quick in an emergency, and we did it before anyone else. I mean,
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you could see the handwriting on the wall. When a National Weather Service
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talks about loss of life, it's a warning, not a watch. It's
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flash flood. Flash flood warning by itself is about as high as you can
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get. Flight floods mean just what it means that people are subject to losing
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their property and losing their life. So it was a serious event, and
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we took it serious. And I cannot thank our volunteer of firefighters. I
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cannot thank the City of Charleston, the mayor a good one. Thank you
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for allowing your firefighters to help. We had South Charleston, we had Fayette
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County. We had every single fire depart in Cable County. We had them
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all, had about twenty plus water rescues. We could have had a hundred
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water rescues. Now let me tell you why we didn't have a hundred.
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We have learned over the years and with a steady hand of C. W.
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Sigmund in Chief David Armstrong and our other crew is out there. We
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don't just go around and get someone out for convenience. A water rescue is
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treacherous. It can result in injury or loss of life by itself. So
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if you're above ground, above the water, you're not in imminent danger.
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We tend not to just let people out for convenience. We do it only
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as a necessity. When I say we, I'm not taking credit for what
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the volunteer fire folks do and our fire departments. They are the ones that
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risk our lives to save us. Again, we're talking with the Cana County
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Commission President KNT. Carper here on five eighty Live another governor yesterday issued and
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you kind of referenced it. There can't that state of emergency which will open
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the disaster recovery and the process of getting funds in here is that right?
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Absolutely? Governor Justice acted swiftly. He initiated a state of emergency in about
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six counties, can all included. Now what happens now, Well, we'll
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be doing what we call a windshield survey. We believe right now we've got
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at least one hundred homes significantly damaged, not destroyed, but significantly damaged.
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But let me tell you about this business. When people refer to that as
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nuisance flooding. If your house is full of mud up to your ankles and
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your air conditioner doesn't work when it's eighty five degrees, your heat pump is
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ruined, and you don't have a couple of thirteen, fourteen, fifteen thousand
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dollars sitting around to pay for it, that's big trouble for the average West
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Virginia. And we're going to try to get a disaster declaration. Frankly,
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I was disgusted with the federal government the last time they did not give a
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disaster decoration in the eastern part of the county. But we will go into
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this with our eyes wide open and try again. Commissioner H. Kent Carper.
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I'm joined here in the studio by Jeff Jenkins from the newsroom. Jeff
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was one of the ones that was out there early yesterday morning, six six
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thirty or so. And I was talking Jeff to Commissioner Carper and he said
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this, and I'm sure you'll back him up. We've never really seen anything
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like this in one specific area. Jeff, Well, we just keep having
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these. You know. That's a commissioner that's uh, that's kind of the
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thought that I keep thinking of. I mean, last year, it was
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it was small communities along along the creeks in eastern Kanak County. Uh,
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basically different communities. You know, you had Campbell's Creek and us this Creek,
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and I know Kelly's Creek did get some stuff yesterday, but it was
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it was it was more Witcher Creek and I was up Winford and Slaughter's Creek
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and Little Creek and these places, and just I know, it was like
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ten inches in less than forty eight hours, and it was just I mean,
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there was I thought, Commissioner from what I saw, and I know
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last year is bad, but I just thought. I just I think there
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appears to me that this yesterday was more damaging than last year's. It is
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more damaging, except when you lost your heat pump and your house is full
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of mud from last year, you're pretty damaged. Sure. I just,
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I just reject nuisance flooding. It's more than a nuisance. It's basically I
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mean, just when you look a flood victim in the face, and that's
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something that I have to do a lot of. And they're telling you about
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they've lost all of their positions, and Governor Justice speaks about this on a
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routine basis. They've lost their family photos, they've lost positions, things that
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are irreplaceable. They're a victim. And I just I don't know what to
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say other than at this time what we will now work with Boa, We
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will work Commissioner a Slango. Commissioner Wheeler is committed to do what we can
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for the eastern part of the county. Again, this was a serious event
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and we're not out of the woods yet. I mean, we've got the
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creeks are full, the ground is absolutely saturated. And if we have five
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six inches two three inches and it sits for a long period of time,
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we can have a reoccurrence. So we are in a state of emergency in
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Kanall County declared by Governor Justice. We're taking this about it serious and we
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know how to take it. Our people work last night till dark and even
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past that. Nine one one is on full alert, Our emergency services are
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on full alert, and we are prepared to do what is necessary to protect
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the citizens of our county. Mister Carber, I got a text here and
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I want to read this see if maybe it's something that you're aware of.
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You can put some information out there about this if you have it. The
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texts my wife's niece and nephew and their families at the bottom of Winterfred Hollowed
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lost both their houses and cars yesterday. They their spouses and children lost everything
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but their lives, thank God. And they were just waiting for the school
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bus when the flash flood started. Is there any way to improve stormwater runoff
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out of these hollows? And Texture goes on to say, my parents are
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cut off further up there because the flood took out their road. Cooper hollow
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Who do people contact to get help? Today? We contact us? Who
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else are they going to talk to? We will coordinate with Department A Transportation.
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We're doing that around the clock. But you know, the idea that
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there's some magic and I hate to say this when someone's a flood victim,
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but there's some magic solution that somehow you can just put a storm calvert in.
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I mean, this was an incredible millions of gallons of water on top
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of these mountains. Some of these mountains have had a terrible problems in the
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past with runoffs, the cause of mining activity and whatever. So you've got
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all of that. But you know, God made West Virginia beautiful state,
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but we're not good at handling a rain. And this was unprecedented. This
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is like a thousand year deals. What they're saying, thousand year flood.
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Yes, and problem with a thousand year flood. You know what a problem
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a thousand year flood is? What's that they don't wait another thousand years to
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have another. We got a five hundred year flood, they said last year.
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So I think we're I think we've had enough. Commissioner Carber, I
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appreciate you take a time out your schedule and go ahead. Let me say
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this, Yes, sir, we are. We are organizing cleaning supplies it's
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an all kind of commission will pay for that. We're not going to wait
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for FEMA. We're not going to wait for anybody else. We're in contact
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with the Governor's office. I spoke twice yesterday with the Chief Abraham, the
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governor chief of staff. We are doing everything we know to do to help
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those people. We're aware of their flight, we know their trapped. I
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was on the phone this morning with a chief segment. We are going to
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do whatever we can do to help the mister Carpet. It's a good way
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to leave it. I appreciate you taking time with the schedule beating this morning.
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Thank you, sir, H Jeff, be safe, all right,
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thank you, thank you, Commissioner. I appreciate it. Come on,
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KANDIC Commission President Ken Carpert Jeff, as I said, U, and I
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know you're real busy. We'll let you go after this, but wow,
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I mean I started hearing your reports yesterday as I was driving in and you
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came back in and you went back out there. I think one of the
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videos that that you did that I saw that was most riveting was emergency crews
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pushing some an elderly lady. I guess through the mud in a wheelchair.
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Yeah, yeah, so they had to do. They organized. There was
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about five teams there and they just did basically they were doing search and rescue
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right for people that couldn't get out. And after the water had gone down,
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so there were still you know, I walked end up walking in there
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and winter for just because the road was still closed after a few hours,
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and so walked in there and I was just basically at the very out a
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quarter of a mile up at the very first little community there, I think
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it's called Haven Drive, And you know, talked to some flood victims there
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and just people that lived there all their lives, and they just don't understand.
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They're having a difficult time understanding. They said it's rained before one one
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young guy said, you know it's rained. Uh you know official readings and
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some part of that area, uh you know, over maybe more towards Slaughter's
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Creek. But also it did impact Winterford. They had like three point seven
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inches on Saturday night, right, okay, which a lot of areas didn't
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get right exactly exactly. And then yesterday they had about six inches six point
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three inches in three hours, so that's ten inches of rain in less than
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forty eight hours. And so it was I mean, the creek came up,
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the creek got out of its banks, a little field creek there,
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but it was the runoff. It was the runoff. And now you know
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you run off at the turnpikes right up there, you know, running it
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was and off the turnpike. Even yesterday afternoon, I went back, came
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back to Charleston. I'm part of the turnpike, and it was still running
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off the turnpike. I never seen anything like that. I mean I wasn't
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driving on like you were, but I saw the pictures. I just I
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had never seen anything like that. So, you know, no loss of
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life. Very thankful that it came at like six o'clock in the morning instead
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of two o'clock in the morning, you know, when that's people are in
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bed. Yeah, typically you have problems with with the exception of the June
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twenty sixteen flood, when it was just it was in the you know,
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evening, afternoon evening, and there was a lot of deaths associated with episode.
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You know, no deaths here, but but yeah, there's property damage.
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Just it'll just and the commissioner touched on that. See if it meets
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the threshold. You know, last year, the county did not get did
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not meet the threshold for federal disaster assistance because under FEMAL rules, they weren't
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allowed they weren't allowed to count the damage to roads because those those roads get
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federal fundings. So FEMA would not let them count that, even though the
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roads were damaged on Campbell's Creek. So then there's just weren't enough homes on
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Campbell's Creek and other places in kind of get the declaration. Fat County got
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the declaration, they got public declaration, and got the infrastructure declaration because of
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the infrastructure damages in Fat County last year in the Smither's area, counton Hollow.
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So we'll see, we'll see what the numbers are. But they the
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numbers are at least around a hundred, it appears, with some significant damage
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into homes. And there's so many people, so many groups that are out
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doing things trying to you know, he talked about what the County Commission is
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doing. I also I was made aware and this is just one of many
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that I think. It's the City Hall in Chesapeake is taking donations of mops
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and buckets. This in fact, it's cleaning supplies, non perishable food,
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and I think that's going to be going on and we'll be telling you all
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about those two out that. Jeff, I appreciate you taking time to be
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here morning. And he did mention and you mentioned Cooper Hollow which is off
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of Winterford and so there, and I've sent seen some photos of there,
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and yeah, the road is basically totally gone there. I mean it's just
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a little road and it was pretty much eaten away, washed out. But
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most of those homes are kind of on a hillside, so I don't know
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how much the damage the homes got. I think some obviously in the basements
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and things, but but you can't it's hard to get there, Jeff,
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I appreciate it. Okay, thanks a lot, Jeff Jenkins. And again
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we'll have continuing coverage because we're not completely out of the woods yet. There
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is a flash slood watching effect, as Commissier Carper alluded to, and we'll
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Chris, good morning, How are you? Good morning? How are you
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Dave? I am doing fine. Apologize for running a little bit behind this
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morning with Commissioner Carper and Jeff Jenkins. We've got to get that information out
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there. And I know I speak from all of us, all of us
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like yourself, that are residents of Putnam County. Our thoughts and prayers go
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with all those folks in eastern Kanah County this morning. Absolutely. So let's
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talk about disappointment. How did disappointment to be a prosecuting attorney of Putnam County
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come about? What's the whole process for that, and how and why were
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you picked? Well, So, I've been in Putnam County and I've worked
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for the Prosecutor's office for over fifteen years. I am at Putnam County native.
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I grew up here. I went to Marshall University. I went to
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law school out of the state for a while and started out in a large
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prosecutor's office in Akron, Ohio. But then in two thousand six I moved
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back home and did a short grant funded position with the US Attorney's Office.
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And then in two thousand and eight, Mark Sorsa gave me an opportunity to
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work in my home county and it's been the best thing that ever happened to
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me. So Mark has been appointed or was appointed by the governor to be
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the Secretary of Homeland Security, and that was something that he could not pass
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up. So I had already filed pre candidacy paperwork to run in twenty twenty
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four, so the County Commission gave me the opportunity to send in a resume
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and the interview interview process happened a couple of weeks ago, and I was
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honored to be selected. It's nine thirty. We're talking with Chris Rains again,
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who is a new prosecuted attorney in Budnham County. Give us what you
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hope to bring to the office. So my passion for child victims is the
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utmost passion for me in this office. I have worked and tried to specialize
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in the last few years. I took a lot of training and I've done
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some training with the National District Attorneys Association in helping child victims, also teach
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and help with Child First, which is a statewide organization that trains forensic interviewing
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for child abuse. So that's where my vision has turned in the last few
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years. But obviously opioids and drugs are a huge problem, not in justin
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Putnam County, but in every county. So it's going to be a delicate
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balance between trying to help these people survive their addiction and recover, and also
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to protect people and their property. A lot of times we see people come
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in where they are victims of their own children, stealing from them, pawning
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things, you know, taking things just to survive their addictions. And so
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obviously we want to help these people, but we also wanted to protect things
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that people work hard for. And there's really nothing more sad than that.
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And Chris and I think we've all seen it sometimes with it even within our
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own families, when we've seen, as you said, somebody's stealing from from
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grandma and it's not just taking their the pills out of the medicine cabin as
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it was maybe twenty years ago. There's a whole lot more to it and
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what we're seeing now, and I know you see it on a daily basis.
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This drugs scourge that we've got Chris and West Virginia is really unlike anything
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we've ever seen, because we've all you know, drugs are an issue,
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and we all realize that, I don't want to state the obvious here,
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but when you start talking about thinnel and things like that, this is a
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totally totally different ball game than drugs and years past talk about that. I
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mean, and not only is it a more powerful opiu than than just what
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we're even even in heroin, which we thought that that was the worst,
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But fentnyl is deliberately being placed in and mixed in with heroin, with mess
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with even with marijuana these days, just to get people hooked. And for
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they need. Well, Chris, I've known you for a long time,
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and I'll tell you what, in my humble opinion, they could not depict
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a better person for the job. I think that's praise coming from you and
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will be a decent test for old Jimmy Justice and his bid for Senator.
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I don't not spend too much time hobnobbing with the Saudi You so about their
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golf league bad optics if the response is like the June twenty sixteen flood.
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I bet Mooney is closely watching Nick the Texture and I appreciate that text.
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I think they're kind of putting two stories together. The one is there is
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a story and Brad reported on it. It's on the website about Jim Justice.
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I think he even mentioned during his briefing yesterday that Jim Justice hobnobbing.
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I don't know. Nobody did say he had a brief meeting with the people
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that with the prosecutor. Nicole Christian Aaron Nude, Charleston Area Alliance. How
31:03
are you doing great? Then go We'll start with you. And who's this
31:07
when you brought in here with you? Member of the team. Absolutely,
31:11
Aaron Nunn. She's our communications and events coordinator and we're excited to have her
31:17
on board. And if the name Aaron noun sounds familiar to you, it
31:19
should. She's got an arrest record very now, I'm kidding, I'm a
31:25
kidding. She was a television journalist with WWK TV thirteam before joining the Alliance
31:30
team. Now where you originally? I'm originally from like northeastern Pennsylvania, so
31:36
like Scranton area, kind of near Philly and Hershey, yeah, that deal,
31:40
Sonny, When you mentioned Scranton. How many Michael Scott jokes do you
31:42
hear? Oh my gosh, that's the first thing. Everybody always says.
31:45
It's crazy. So so what exactly a you're gonna be doing for the team.
31:49
So I am the communications and events coordinator like Nicole had mentioned, and
31:53
I'm just going to be basically running a lot of our press releases, social
31:57
media, organizing a lot of events, and just helping the alliance run things
32:01
smoothly over there. I'm really excited. We have a great team over there,
32:05
so really happy to be on board. They do a lot of great
32:07
things whether there. Nicole, you did good now here into the team,
32:09
so you're already great team. It's like adding another all star, you know,
32:14
to the team over there. And I know I can in on serious
32:15
note, I know I can speak for you guys when I say our thoughts
32:19
and prayers this morning are with the people in eastern Kandala County following yesterday's flooding.
32:23
You know, it just happens so fast, and I think that's what
32:29
happens with a lot of these natural disasters. Yeah. I mean, just
32:34
again, not a weather guy, but I am kind of a weather geek,
32:37
and when you put that much rain over one area for that amount of
32:40
time, I mean just absolutely insane. You guys got some big events coming
32:45
up, so we've got a lot of happening, Dave, a lot of
32:49
things we're excited about. You know, programming for us is not only about
32:54
providing value to our members or presenting interesting topics and events. It's also an
33:00
opportunity for us to nurture innovation, foster community engagement, and really to further
33:06
economic growth for our community. And so coming up here in the next few
33:12
weeks, we have some great up next Charlie West that's our Young Professionals program,
33:16
but some great professional development West. Yes, it's our Young Professionals group.
33:24
Uh. And we we've also have a couple of elevations professional women's events
33:32
coming up to our our network lunches and and those. You know, all
33:37
of these programs, they're they're really designed. Everything that the Alliance does is
33:44
to further our mission to create, you know, as far as creating a
33:47
more prosperous Kanaw Valley and Kanawa County. So these programs help to make that
33:54
happen. I want to talk about the Young Professionals because we hear it.
33:59
I mean, we just came off the big event, which one we'll talk
34:00
about a little bit in Valley Park last week. But one of the one
34:04
of the things that you've heard for several several years. Is West Virginia's inability
34:08
to keep to get our young people either to want to a move here from
34:14
other areas such as what both of you did to move here, but also
34:19
getting our home grown folks here in the Canal Valley to all over West Virginia
34:22
for that matter, to want to stay here. And these events like this
34:27
when you can kind of, as we used to say in the church growing
34:29
up, fellowship one with the other, and you know, and that's a
34:31
big part of it, guess it is a huge part of it. It's
34:37
also making sure that our young professionals are young people know first of all,
34:42
that they have opportunities and jobs available to them, which there are in abundance
34:47
here, and that they're able to engage in their own communities, become active
34:54
participants in and active members. And through the up Next Charlie West Pro program,
35:00
we can help provide those opportunities to them, connect them with other leaders
35:07
in the community, and you know, help them enjoy their own community.
35:12
We have great assets here. You know, I've lived here two years now
35:16
and I still haven't had a chance to experience everything that that there is available
35:22
because there's so much Yeah, Yeah, indeed there is let's talk about this
35:25
the elevations with the with the women's group talking about them. So you know,
35:30
communities that have a lot of strong women leaders are thriving communities. And
35:39
we're not short and strong women leaders here in the Canal Valley either either,
35:46
And so these luncheons are are really about having an opportunity to showcase those uh,
35:54
those women who are doing an incredible job of being leaders in our community
36:00
and also to help you know, nurture and cultivate that among other female other
36:09
women professionals here in the Knaw Valley, right, I mean, and that's
36:15
so important again we talk about with the women, and we talk about with
36:19
the with the young people. Is getting people together. Because I've been I've
36:22
lived in different places and there are events that you go to and you look
36:25
around and you think, well, there's nobody here like me. And and
36:29
I don't say they're young because I'm not young anymore. But there was no
36:31
time, Aaron, that I was young and I would go in to some
36:36
of these different chamber events are different areas, not in this area, and
36:37
I would walk in I think I'm the youngest person here. Yeah, there's
36:40
there's nobody here and those those leaders of tomorrow have to come from somewhere,
36:46
and you know, and when you started, when they're in their twenties,
36:50
and it kind of puts forth, not to sound too much like a cliche,
36:53
but it kind of puts forth, you know, that service over self
36:57
that they talk about other rotaries being on that thing, you know, service
36:59
over on that sort of thing. Absolutely. Yeah, And I think with
37:02
up next Charlie West and a bunch of these other programs that we're doing,
37:07
we're trying to change the narrative of West Virginia and just get people to stay
37:10
here. And when you, like you mentioned can see a familiar face or
37:15
somebody that looks like you at these various events, it kind of inspires you
37:19
and lets you know that you could be a part of your community and you
37:22
could be just as involved as some of our prominent leaders here in West Virginia.
37:27
So exciting. I want to talk about this event we had last week
37:30
and you kind of referenced it there in Valley Park. I was there last
37:32
week. It was called the State of the Valley and it was a collaborative
37:36
event with the with the Putnam County Chamber. You guys with the Charleston Area
37:39
Alliance and also the Huntington Area Chamber as well. Sold out room at eleven
37:45
thirty on a what day was on a Wednesday? Last week? I was
37:49
there. I mean to get that many people in Valley Park holds about six
37:52
seven hundred people. To get that many people in one place in the middle
37:55
of the day on a Wednesday, sold out luncheon for some great speakers and
38:00
and some great information. That was a That was a pretty darn good event.
38:05
Well thanks, I'm glad you were able to join us. We were
38:07
very, very pleased with the outcome. And you know, we when we
38:14
went into it, Tricia, Ashley and I were putting it together and planning
38:17
it, and we all thought, you know, this is a great event.
38:22
It is so much more. You know, when we talk about economic
38:27
growth and economic development, borders or there are no you know, borders.
38:32
People don't see county lines or city boundaries. It is this whole region and
38:40
the collaboration that we were able to demonstrate by planning the event was then I
38:47
felt like really uh was demonstrated and came out through the panelist, you know,
38:54
between the county commissioners and the mayors so much talk about out more opportunities
39:01
to collaborate and working together. And for those that may have missed it,
39:06
you had the Charleston's mayor, Amy Goodwin, had Huntington's mayor Steve Williams.
39:10
You had Putnam County one of the three Putnam County commissioners, Andy Skidmore,
39:15
and you also had Kelly Sabonia who's a CAVL County commissioner. And of course
39:19
you had Ashley from the Chamber, and we had Trish from Huntington, and
39:23
you folks were there too, and Tony Stroud, my good buddy, did
39:27
a great job of kind of facilitating, serving as a moderator, a lot
39:30
of a lot of good information there. Where can people learn more about any
39:34
of the events we talked about with the Charleston Ay Alliance. Somebody you said,
39:37
we had somebody over here this handling some of the social media stuff.
39:39
Now any of these events we're talking about were can you learn more? The
39:43
easiest thing to do is always go to our website at Charleston Area Alliance dot
39:47
org. But check out our social media also. We have a weekly electronic
39:53
newsletter we send out, but or just call our office three zero four three
39:59
fours zero four two five three. One thing I'll mention two day. You
40:04
know that the joint event that we had with Putnam County and Huntington last week,
40:13
we actually had one in June where we brought all the young professional organizations
40:17
together and it was called meet Up sixty four. Must have been why I
40:21
wasn't invited because it was professionals. That's why. Well, I just say
40:25
we're laying the groundwork to do more things together, and I think there's a
40:31
lot of great stuff happening here. You know, you mentioned Mayor Gobin was
40:36
our panelists last week. She was one of our speakers in the last several
40:40
years. With the Elevations luncheon and our speakers coming up, we have Secretary
40:46
Ruby in October, we have Justice Hailey Bunn just in a couple of weeks
40:52
here in September, and those are going to be great programs. So they
40:57
anybody can register online. They can. I'm just shure online for the upcoming
41:01
professional development programs we have for up next Charlie West. This week we have
41:07
won on professional Etiquette with Emily Love and in a few weeks we have a
41:15
program about Marketing Savvy with Joe Justice, all that information, all the registration
41:22
online. We have Facebook events so and and we have our first Tuesday that'll
41:28
be coming up actually next Tuesday, Yeah, right off DT Prime. So
41:32
we're looking forward to that. Lots of exciting stuff going on the alliance.
41:37
I've got a text for you, Aaron, from a mutual friend of ours.
41:43
It says, ask Aaron who she has for Penn State and WV State
41:49
grad. I am a Penn State grad. And that is the something that
41:52
everybody's been bringing up these coast couple of weeks. And you know what my
41:57
answer is, I just hope both teams have fun. Go Team, Go
42:00
Team. Guys love them, they really do, so go team. All
42:05
right, Aaron Nicole, It's been pleasure to have you guys on the show.
42:07
We'll talk again soon. Sounds great. Thanks today, have a good
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Well as normally is the case when Greg Thomas is on the show, as
46:08
I had him on yesterday, I don't get to all the text I never
46:14
get to all the texts when either Greg Thomas or Mike Pushkin or on the
46:19
show. I did have someone tell me yesterday, a loyal listener to the
46:23
show that the next time that I want to have a debate or discussion of
46:29
sorts like I did a couple of weeks ago with State Democratic Party Chair and
46:31
delegate Mike Pushkin and State GOP co chair Tony Hodge that and it was very
46:38
entertaining. Go back and listen to it two weeks from it was two weeks
46:42
ago. Today, you can go back and listen to it your favorite podcast
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provider if you didn't get a chance to hear it, and it was it
46:47
was very good. Tony did a great job, Mike did a great job,
46:51
great little discussion, Tony brought in fudge, everybody smiled for a picture
46:54
and everything. But the next time, maybe I should have Greg Thomas basing
47:00
off against Mike Pushkin. Now I'm not so sure either would agree to it.
47:04
To be honest with you, and and hear me out on this one,
47:06
guys, because I know what they're probably both listening to the show they
47:08
normally are. Maybe they would agree to it. I don't know. I
47:12
think it would be hard for either one of them to kind of keep their
47:15
cool when challenged. With all due respect to Michael Ari Pushkin and I don't
47:21
know what Greg's middle name is, With all due respect to them, they're
47:24
both kind of hot heads, and I mean that they're just passionate. So
47:30
there's probably in their line of work, probably not anything wrong with that,
47:31
but I don't know that I would necessarily be able to maintain order there.
47:37
So for those who didn't get text in yesterday, I am going to read
47:39
some of the texts that are left over from yesterday. This is what Weekly
47:42
I think calls a leftover file? Is that right? Is that what he
47:44
calls it? To Texas? So, Dave, when you say something about
47:46
the racial attack in Jacksonville that killed three black people, I don't know what
47:52
you can say. It was a tragedy, racist suck. I mean,
47:58
it was a tragedy. I mean, I don't I don't know what else
48:00
I can I can I can say about that. Okay, I guess I
48:06
did a better job entering text Shaester day than I thought I did. Okay,
48:08
Texas Day, that storm was one hundred percent of manipulated by cloud seating.
48:14
According to a texture, uh Tex says, the Chamber better be doing
48:21
ideological tests for people it's recruiting. The West Virginia GOP and all of the
48:24
Republican politicians have made clear they only want right wing reactionary freaks. Those only
48:31
need apply and to live, work and play in West Virginia. According to
48:37
a texture, texture says, how about Gret Thomas versus Mike Plan. Yeah,
48:43
Plants, I have a plan on the show, and I need to
48:45
Michael Plant, if you're listening to the show, get with me. I
48:47
need to get you on the show. Mike Plan's a good dude and a
48:52
little bit more, you know than what pushkin is so forper Delegate and Special
48:59
Assistant to the Governor Larry Pack announcing yesterday on talk line with Dave Wilson,
49:02
who continues to substitute those for hoppy, then he Larry Pack, not Dave,
49:08
will be running for state treasurer next year. Now. The seat is
49:15
currently held by Riley Moore, who will not be seeking re election. Out
49:21
didn't instead and run for Congress. Larry Pack made that announcement on the show
49:25
yesterday. I've been rumored for some time and a little kind of teasers were
49:30
out there about it. But you know, Larry Pack was in the House
49:32
and a very very successful business person. I think he sold off most of
49:37
his business interests and then he went to work after his time in the House,
49:39
actually ended up leaving the House to go to work for the governor as
49:45
a special assistant when now he is going to be running for State treasurer.
49:49
So we're going to talk to Larry Pack. So I said, he was
49:51
on Dave Wilsons Show yesterday. He's actually gonna be on the show tomorrow to
49:55
talk about why he is running for State treasure Also on the show tomorrow,
50:00
Secretary of State and Google to Our Canada, Mac Warner will be here as
50:05
well Tim Brady from the Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau on some big events going
50:09
on in the city. Former Chapmanville police officer Mark is deadly story posted wv
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Metro and Who's dot Com about him pled not guilty in court yesterday to the
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disappearance of police dog Chase, and I saw something somebody posted somebody posted a
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comment over the weekend on one of the stories that one of our news team
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had put up about this, and they said, all this over a dog,
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and it just made me want to literally throw my phone or my device
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like across the room. It's not just a dog, it's a police officer.
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So yeah, it's a big damn deal over this dog. It is
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because he's a police officer. Thanks says, Yeah, keep insulting conservatives Democrats,
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that will guarantee you more supported, more votes. I mean, you
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see how well that has worked so far. I think that was probably aimed
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at push. I think all right, gotta go. Thank you so much
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my producer to day. Be sure and check out Cooper weekly on Hotline.
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Coping up this afternoon to get on the show tomorrow, Mac Warner.
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We'll be stopping by Tim Brady from the Charleston Convention Visital Bureau on the show
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tomorrow as well, and now candidate for Saint Treasure Larry Pack on the show
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tomorrow as well. Dave Wilson and for Hobby coming up on talk line.
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