A Flash Flood destroys a car wash and washed out a road in Kanawha County, WV on Elk Two Mile Creek and Mill Creek along Greenbrier Street in
Charleston, WV.
B-Roll video of people walking in flash flooding and being rescued from the flood. Footage as the force of the water smashes a car wash and breaks down the concrete walls.
Video also shows rushing water through a parking lot of an apartment complex as debris and even a dumpster floats away.
1.) 00:15 Overflowing small stream along Greenbrier Street
2.) 00:11 Cars driving across Elk Twomile Creek overflowing its banks at the FedEx center
3.) 01:13 Cars and overflowing drainage ditch on Airport road
4.) 01:18 Scenes along Keystone Drive as Elk Twomile begins to rise out of its banks
5.) 00:15 Elk Twomile Creek surrounds a house on Keystone Drive.
6.) 00:15 Elk Twomile still rising at the FedEx center.
7.) 00:17 Landslides along Greenbrier Street.
8.) 01:11 Mill Creek overflowing Greenbrier Street at Meadowbrook at the start of the flood. This section of roadway, including the bridge, was destroyed during the flood and had to be demolished and completely rebuilt.
9.) 01:02 Chaos at Mill Creek as residents flee.
10.) 00:05 Mill Creek keeps rising.
11.) 00:49 Debris floats on flooding Mill Creek, now a river covering about 1/4 mile of Greenbrier Street.
12.) 00:48 The Meadowbrook Buggy Bath car wash is engulfed by floodwaters.
13.) 01:22 Rushing water and floating debris over the roadway.
14.) 00:58 A young couple gets dangerously close to the center of the raging creek. The Mill Creek Landing apartments parking lot is now completely submerged.
15.) 00:25 A man takes a dangerous stroll through the water as more debris floats by.
16.) 00:25 Water keeps rising at the car wash.
17.) 00:14 Muddy, rushing water beats hard on the walls of the car wash as the water continues to rise.
18.) 00:44 A dumpster is swept away and hits the bridge. It gets hung up on the bridge briefly before breaking loose and continuing downstream.
19.) 00:43 A teenager takes an extremely risky walk across the road. Cars in the parking lot have already been moved by the water.
20.) 01:07 A doghouse/small shed floats through the apartment parking lot and across the road. It strikes the car wash, weakening the structure. One of the walls of the car wash crumbles, followed by another wall and part of the roof. The rest of the car wash collapses into the water.
21.) 00:28 The car wash roof drifts sideways.
22.) 00:17 The flood is at its highest level yet.
23.) 00:15 Zoom shot showing the extent of the flood down the road. The water covers about 1/2 mile of roadway.
24.) 00:13 Picnic table benches float across the road.
25.) 02:39 Shots of the rushing water, debris and flooded scenes.
26.) 00:30 A woman and her young children, including a baby, are trapped an a house in the middle of the flood. The car wash roof drifts around in the foreground.
27.) 00:58 Rescuers arrive on the scene and begin to assess the situation.
28.) 02:12 The brother of the woman trapped in the house gets the help of a bulldozer operator to reach the stranded family. He shouts at rescuers for an extra life jacket, but there are no extras. The waters are just beginning to recede slightly, and rescue crews do not think the stranded family is in immediate danger to warrant a dangerous rescue operation. Nevertheless, the brother continues on to try and get the family to safety without the help of rescuers.
29.) 01:26 Riding in the bucket of the dozer, the family rescue team presses on. The proceed with caution uopn reaching a channel of fast-moving, deeper water. As they enter the channel, the tremendous force of the water starts nudging the dozer sideways, and they retreat.
30.) 02:03 The dozer rescue operation regroups and tries another path, ignoring the danger of eroded ground that could give way under the heavy machine.
31.) 00:26 The brother finally reaches the family. By now, the waters are low enough to walk across to the house.
32.) 00:55 More scenes of flooded cars and muddy water cascading over the road.
33.) 00:33 The water is receding, but still dangerous as yet another person makes a risky trek into the flood.
33.) 00:14 Rescue crews stay on the scene.
34.) 00:33 More shots of rushing, muddy floodwaters.
Catalog ID: WVF-06162003A-Full
Total Run Time: 27;44;14
Format: SD 4:3
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catandAk47 2 months ago
i Dont know whats more entertaining Black ice, ice, snow or this....
MrCHevyG 4 months ago
The power of water is amazing and scary!
21suziem 4 months ago
Never under estimate the power of water. Its our life source and it can take life away.
Chynaash 4 months ago
What a mess !!! The power of water....
Daywalker335 4 months ago