BREAKS, Va. (WJHL) – Flooding throughout southwest Virginia and southeast Kentucky displaced hundreds of residents, but one motel is reaching out to those affected and saying, “We’ve got you.”
As waters began to rise as storms entered the region on February 15, many found themselves unable to stay in their homes.
“It just came so fast,” Elkhorn, Kentucky resident Stephen Woolwine said. “It was just unbelievable.”
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“Within the time I seen it come from the creek to the main road up to where we lived there in a park to the mailbox,” Pikeville, Kentucky resident Jonathan Holstein said. “[In] the time I got in and got my dog and woke my brother up and got an outfit or two, it was already knee-deep in my home.”…