Danielle Leonhart and her son Xander Leonhardt, 13 months, (left) play with Adam Feury and his son Braxton Feury, 18 months, after eating their lunch at their temporary home in The Greenbrier resort.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Alisha and Adam Feury remember hoisting their 4-year-old daughter and 18-month-old son above their heads and wading through feet of water — wondering what they were going to do next.
The family was trapped inside their home on Big Draft Road in White Sulphur Springs last Thursday after a fishing boat washed down the street and blocked their front door. They had to pry open the back door and wade through nearly 5 feet of water to get to safety.
“The water was pushing against the door. It was really hard,” Adam Feury said. “We had to carry the kids above our heads to get out of the house.
“We really didn’t have time to be scared.”
The Feurys and their sister-in-law Danielle Leonhardt, who lives in the Rocky Gap trailer park, spent five hours in a laundromat with no diapers for their children, no food and nowhere to go.
The Feurys, along with Leonhardt and her 13-month-old son, Xander, are among nearly 200 people who are staying in rooms at The Greenbrier resort free of charge after losing their homes in the recent floods…
