MORGANTOWN, W. Va. – – The most recent WVRC Media Care for Community event with Titan Roofing delivered much needed supplies to flood ravaged McDowell County.

On short notice, listeners brought enough flood relief supplies to fill three 26 foot Haul trucks that were taken into one of the hardest hit areas in the southern part of the state, according to the owner of Titan Roofing, James Sanders.

“Considering we only had a day and-a-half to put it together, so thank you to the listeners in north central West Virginia who really stepped up,” Sanders said. “We were able to take it down to Leager and Welch.”

Sanders said the communities are largely unrecognizable. Rows of homes with furniture and personal items pulled out lining the streets and a lot of water. He said the county of about 19,000 is made up of resilient people, but many are older and battling disabilities.

“Don’t quote me on the numbers, but 60 percent or great are probably over the age of 60, or they’re disabled,” Sanders said. ” They don’t have the means go down into their basements and help themselves dug out.”

Sanders helped to clean up a basement of an elderly person that had eight feet of water in it, with water tanks floating aimlessly. Once the tanks were removed, they started to pump the water out to find two feet of mud that was swept in with the floodwaters.

” Think about this, a basement that has eight feet of water in it and the water starts to go down – we were working in two feet of muck,” Sanders said. ” Now, I’m in decent shape but imagine an elderly person trying to down in their basement and walk in two feet of muck.”

Sanders said volunteers are what is needed now. People willing to shovel out basements, pump water, and help those in need clean their properties up following the storm.

“They’re living in a shell of a house right now, and they have limited resources,” Sanders said. “What they need are boots on the ground to help them get those basements dug out because there are still people down there without water and electricity.”