By james art 
Grant County, WV. (Whsv) – The winds arrived on Wednesday morning and the gusts beat over 40 miles per hour before the sun even came out. For Grant County 911 operator Peggy Alt, things were already in full swing with floods. “It started around 12 o’clock, 1230 and it was just one call after another. Nothing catastrophic was coming, but it goes down the trees down. “Alt. She added that the most severe call volume was coming around 2 in the morning, as it looked Powerlines and the trees continued to go down.
But Alt says that even with the high influx of calls for power lines and trees down, the community works together. She was extremely pleased with the reaction of all who said, “And there were a few hours last night that there were trees and lines, and the energy company was right at the top of things, and the fire department even removed some trees to know you, make the roads along -Suzas. And when people work together. This is a beautiful thing. It’s really. “
Alt was also quite pleased with the way residents reacted to power supply. She explained that, usually, when the district would suffer large -scale power outages, the center 911 will receive a wave of calls prevailing employees. What about the cherry on top? The center 911 is not really able to do anything to break the power supply. Alt works hard to inform people of the best thing they have to do when they lose power, and she says she is paid. Grant County had almost 3600 electricity interruptions at one point, but Alt says there are minimal calls to the center on power supply interruptions.
And as with many events of high winds, the risk of fire is increasing. But in Grant County today it was not as bad as it could be. The deputy chief of the Volunteer Fire Company Peterburg Whetzel thought on the day, saying: “We had several today [calls]S Fortunately, most of them were fake alarms. The boys had a brush fire earlier today that they were about two acres in the end, that they had to go up and go out, but they did very well with that. ” Deputy Witzel said that if the snow had not saturated the earth in the last few weeks, this small two-acre fire could easily be something much larger in these powerful winds. The fire company also responds to a small fire in the yard, which went out of control. They also repaired it quickly.
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