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Patrick Morrisey: “There is still a road closure, we believe, County Route 19…”

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Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia

Published June 27, 2025 | Video Starts at 10:18

There's still people on the ground, over 30 people on the highways. Five tandem truck trucks have been busy working. They were assisting the National Guard. There is still a road closure, we believe, County Route 19, 76, Jackson Street. So there's one lane closed for slip repair and that's expected to be completed, we hope, by next week. (10:18–10:27)

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Asserts that County Route 19, 76, Jackson Street is still closed.

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“There's been nearly 11,000 tons of debris already removed and transported to some of the collection sites [in Ohio County].”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 08:28-08:38
“There was a ninth fatality due to the flood [in Ohio County].”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 03:05-03:16
“We do not have any more missing persons, at least as of late last night.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 04:22-04:29
“Marion County did not have any loss of life.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 04:36-04:40
“$561,000 [was] made available just yesterday to ensure that housing expenses can get met.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 05:15-05:24
“I requested a major disaster, a declaration, an emergency declaration from Donald Trump to unlock federal resources in Ohio and Marion…”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 05:43-05:56
“We've had close to a thousand people already submit evidence between Marion and Ohio counties.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 06:55-07:04
“I immediately deployed the National Guard to assist [in response to the situation].”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 07:12-07:20
“There are over 100 people on the ground [in Ohio County].”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 08:37-08:41
“Marion County's emergency operation status has been returned to under control.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 09:10-09:16
“Ohio County's emergency operation status remains destabilizing.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 09:19-09:26
“Both counties do remain under states of emergency.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 09:54-09:58
“There's still a bridge that's closed in Elm Grove, the Shilling Bridge.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 11:10-11:15
“It's been reported that there are no fatalities [on the turnpike].”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 12:16-12:19
“We know that it [the turnpike] was hit pretty hard by multiple feet of water by exit 77.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 12:44-12:53
“We've still been funding a number of projects through our civil Contingency Fund.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 18:54-19:00
“We have resources that have been available for the Milton flood wall.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 19:08-19:13
“We have funded a number of studies to match some of the federal dollars that are out there.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 19:13-19:18
“It is important to look at the plan that was originally put in place in 2004, because a lot of that was never really funded over the years.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 19:18-19:28
“Recovery is ongoing and there's still a lot more work that needs to be done [in Marion County].”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 20:39-20:45
“We know that through the FEMA process there are actually three different forms of relief that can occur.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 21:47-21:54
“Last week it was reported that the match for some of the work done in southern West Virginia changed and it went up to 90 10.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 23:30-23:39
“We had announced that we had found some resources that we could match with the federal government.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 25:29-25:36
“Out of our Civil Contingency Fund, we had funded various flood resiliency projects doing analysis.”
Patrick Morrisey Addresses Flood Recovery Efforts in Marion and Ohio Counties, West Virginia | Uploaded June 27, 2025 | 27:16-27:25