Bob Wise: “there are times to say thank you, and as the flood waters are receding but not gone from West Virginia, it is time to…”

“there are times to say thank you, and as the flood waters are receding but not gone from West Virginia, it is time to say thank you to the National Guard, the hundreds of men and women who have been on duty for many, many days. It is time to say thank you to the emergency services personnel, the State and county office of emergency services, the volunteer fire departments all across our State. The many volunteers, the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. We are still pulling out the mud, still feeding people in shelters, still trying to clean out homes, still trying to clean off roads, and that work is going to go on for a long time, but a lot of people have made the loss of life minimal and have safeguarded much life and properties because of their efforts. So to these people we owe a great deal of thanks. Governor Underwood has done an excellent job coordinating all these different resources, and as we finish the first stage in our State in flood recovery, we now enter the second stage.”