Island River Park, in Ronceverte, is largely submerged Wednesday morning by the rising Greenbrier River. The river crested slightly above flood stage in the afternoon.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Daniel Todd was keeping close tabs on the water level in the Greenbrier River on Wednesday.
Todd, who owns a house overlooking the river at the end of Second Avenue in Marlinton, was worried about flooding from Tuesday’s rains. The river crested around 2 p.m. at 11 feet, or about a foot above flood stage.
“It looks fairly high, but I think we’ll be OK,” said Todd, who lives and works in Charleston but owns the Marlinton house as a vacation camp. Todd had been on the computer and telephone much of the day, looking at river levels and checking with Pocahontas County emergency officials about the state of the river.
Forecasters with the National Weather Service in Charleston expected the Greenbrier River at Marlinton and West Fork River at Clarksburg to crest above flood stage Wednesday, and the threat of flooding closed or delayed schools in 11 of West Virginia’s 55 counties…
