(16 Jun 2025)
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Triadelphia, West Virginia – 16 June 2025
1. Various of Rich Templin
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rich Templin, West Virginia resident:
“My wife called me, actually sent me a text because I didn’t answer the phone and I was working and told me that we were being flooded and the trailer washed away and cars were floating by with people in them and they were bouncing off the garage.”
3. Various of debris in Little Wheeling Creek
4. Tight inside damaged garage
5. Medium of Templin dumping mud
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rich Templin, West Virginia resident:
“I’ve talked to numerous people and they said it was like a tsunami. They saw water coming down the road, like two or three feet high. That fast.”
7. Various of damaged car
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rich Templin, West Virginia resident:
“My dad built this probably 40 plus years ago when we had our trucking company. This is where we serviced all our equipment and all our tools for heavy equipment and electrical power, everything you could imagine to supply for a trucking company. We’re all in this, in this garage, probably close to a million dollars worth of tools.”
9. Various of Templin cleaning out garage
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rich Templin, West Virginia resident:
“Right now, it’s just basic cleanup. We’re just trying to see what’s salvageable and what’s not and just start the rebuilding process.”
11. Medium of Templin moving mud
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Valley Grove, West Virginia – 16 June 2025
12. Various of Teena Libe sitting on her porch
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Teena Libe, West Virginia resident:
“It’s just a really surreal feeling and shocking how just within minutes it was just complete disaster.”
14. Medium of damaged vehicle
15. Various of truck stuck under bridge at the end of Libe’s driveway
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Teena Libe, West Virginia resident:
“My truck that was parked right here, the water was already up to the middle of my tires and I got it backed up and up the hill and literally stood out of my car and the whole entire area within 30 seconds was just underwater.”
17. Various of Libe
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Teena Libe, West Virginia resident:
“It just really solidifies the power of nature and how quick your life can just be turned upside down.”
19. Wide of cleanup crews
STORYLINE:
The death toll from weekend flooding in West Virginia has risen to six.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey says at least two people remain missing in the state’s northern panhandle.
As much as 4 inches of rain fell in parts of Wheeling and Ohio County within 40 minutes.
Among the six dead was a 3-year-old child.
Rich Templin, his wife, Michelle, and a family friend, Chuck Ullom, were cleaning out two storage garages Monday across the street from their Triadelphia home. The garages on lower ground along Little Wheeling Creek were nearly destroyed by flash floods. Templin’s home is on elevated ground and was not damaged.
Templin was at work when his wife called him. When he did not answer, she texted him to say their street was flooded, a trailer they owned had washed away and that “cars were floating by with people in them.”
Templin said he received the text messages within 15 minutes after it started to rain.
“I’ve talked to numerous people, they said it was like a tsunami. They saw water coming down the road like two or three feet high,” he said.
To the southeast, heavy rains tore through the community of Fairmont on Sunday, ripping off the outer wall of an apartment building.
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