A number of homes in the Mt. Vernon area were overrun and nearly destroyed by floods this week. Read more about the situation on Extra Innings.
Tomorrow, Volunteer Fairfax is going to be helping those people who were impacted. I am going to the 1230-5 p.m. shift, and I hope others will consider going as well. Sign up here, and let me know if you can join me.
(Thanks to Doug in Mt Vernon for sending this over)
Does this mean the housing bubble is over?
Posted by: | June 29, 2006 at 01:12 PM
Yesterday, I had breakfast with Supervisor Gerry Hyland (who had been up all night) this morning at Elsie's and while we were there, a man came up who was eating breakfast there (because he obviously has no house) and talked about how he had 11 feet of water up through his basement and into his first floor. The flood came without any kind of warning or notice. They've never flooded there before. They were not in the 100 year flood plain so no one was required to have flood insurance and none had it. Even in the rains of hurricaine Agnes in 1972 which wiped out the GW parkway bridge over Hunting Creek, that neighborhood didn't flood. All of his belongings were in his basement and first floor. He said it all has to go and that he wants to renovate and stay. He needs to take down all of his walls and empty his basement and dry the place out before he can start renovating. He's got residual water in his basement he needs to power vac out, but the County can't turn on his power until his electrical box is replaced or temporary power is installed so he's basically stuck waiting. FEMA says it's too small of a number of families affected for them to take jurisdiction for providing relief although they are working on that. There are over 100 people like him. It's like the New Alexandria/Belleview from Hurricane Isabel situation all over again except that was a higher end neighborhood.
Contributions should be sent to:
Huntington Relief Fund c/o UCM
7511 Fordson Road
Alexandria, VA 22306-2225
Checks should be payable to "United Community Ministries" and you should put "Huntington Disaster Relief" on the memo line.
If you want to give your time, Volunteer Fairfax is coordinating those efforts. Information is at:
http://www.volunteerfairfax.org/DesktopDefault.aspx
Posted by: Scott A. Surovell | June 29, 2006 at 01:39 PM
I am hoping to get there by about 12:30-12:45 to help out as well. Hope to see some other blogger folk over there to help out those who need it!
FYI, meet at Edison HS. Last volunteer check-in over there is at 1:30 PM.
Posted by: Doug in Mount Vernon | June 29, 2006 at 09:52 PM
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