Pigeon Creek and Mate Creek in Mingo County left their banks with "mean intent" is how Mingo County Emergency Services Director Jarred Fletcher describes his weekend.

Although state officials estimate the number of homes damaged, destroyed, or at least impacted is around 33-hundred, Fletcher believes the number will grow to well over four thousand before the totals are finished.

"You're talking from Gilbert Creek to Ben Creek to Beech Creek.   To Newtown, Red Jacket, Rutherford Hollow, Mitchell Branch,” said Fletcher as he reeled of the local communities impacted by the high water. "Matewan, Varney, Pie, Delbarton...we've had our hands full to say the least."

Fletcher says the southern end of the county was the hardest hit.    He credits the local coal companies for jumping in with heavy equipment and partnering with the National Guard to get the main highways open.    The attention is now turning toward more remote locations to deliver vital supplies and offer a way to get stranded residents out of their homes.

"Pulling together again, and trying to cleanup and dig out," said Fletcher.