Franklin, Virginia - Revisited

United States Fire Academy

Franklin, Virginia - Revisited

Air Date: October 19, 2005.

The first part of this two part program originally aired November 29, 2000 and focuses on how the community of Franklin, VA rebounded back both economically and personally after experiencing catastrophic flood damage. This second part of the program addresses Hazard Mitigation Plans (322 plans); the importance of flood insurance; HMGP buyouts, and the recovery from similar disasters.

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[Dex23851]

Another major problem was the detoured traffic into Franklin from the 58 bypass due to flooded highways, the traffic got so bad it would take me two hours to get from the command center @ the Hunterdale Fire Department back to my office on Pretlow Street a distance of maybe 3 miles. This problem was presented at a meeting we had a few years later with a committee appointed by the Governor, it needs to be addressed again, it has happened again twice since Hurricane Floyd.

[Dex23851]

Some of the biggest issues we had in the area other than the flood waters, lost of phone service for weeks, a very few of us still had our personal cell phones that had phone numbers not local to this area and for some reason they would still work. The Electric Department was still able to monitor our electrical grid system because of the fiber optic loop we had installed at all our substations.

[Dex23851]

The water actually was higher than what the video showed. I worked for the City of Franklin for 33 years in the Electric Department and took many pictures of the downtown area and surrounding areas during the peak of the flood.

It was nice to see and old friend of mine in the video, Nanci Drake who has since pass on. Nanci was a big help during the flood crisis and very instrumental in getting things done and bringing lots of new ideas to Franklin.

[Anbukakashi897]

i live here......i live about 5 miles from down town and i was still traped from the 5 roads around me being flooded

[WhatsTheTTV]

I HAD NO IDEA VA Beach had such a major roll in the disaster and recovery of the Franklin flood! Great video and work by all!!! I live in Atlanta now, so I was very surprised to see my small hometown with a 59 minute video about the Hurricane Floyd flood! Thanks!

[meatloaf7593]

my name is timmothy ryan scalf (meatloaf) and i live here.

[paramedic70002]

Chief Carr neglected to mention that Sentara Medical Transport Medic 25 was reasigned to cover Franklin's EMS response for about 3 months. I know, I was on it..

[Lynn6785]

I lived in Franklin for 11 years and this flood, which affected my parents and anyone living in the pathway of the flood was devastating. It is still hard to believe it happened.

[ydezarraga]

i will move to frankiln va and i'm so scare that can happen again

[dalejr82010]

Hey... I live here :) the flood was really bad... pretty much killed downtown