by Mark Gongloff If the Car Crash Fairy offered you a deal that would lower your odds of getting in a car accident, but the trade-off was that any accidents you did get into would be far more likely to injure or kill you, you probably wouldn’t take that deal. But that might be the ...
BY MIKE NOLTING Weekend weather across northern West Virginia is expected to bring rain, high winds and possibly hail. Power crews are bracing for the possibility of an another high-wind event just days after restoring power from last Saturday’s destructive storm. First Energy ...
When John Lyons, of Strand Associates, tried to compare this past summer’s 100-year floods to football game day traffic, he missed the mark. “So your level of service Saturday for your road network is going to be horrible,” Lyons said as he delivered the initial results of a flood ...
New developments plus severe weather could overwhelm water systems “I would say we’re at the borderline of the capacity for that pipe based on our calculations,” Morgantown Utility Board Stormwater Senior Engineer Ken Hacker told the Morgantown Planning Commission. At ...
A major weekend snowstorm predicted for the area prompted Governor Jim Justice to declare a State of Preparedness, putting all 55 of West Virginia’s counties on alert. “Right now we have a winter storm watch out in the area for Sunday afternoon through Monday afternoon,” said ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com As part of its long-standing tradition of assisting other electric companies during large-scale power outages, FirstEnergy Corp. utilities have sent about 500 line workers, forestry crews, support personnel and internal contractors to Louisiana to help ...