'Straight-line wind' storm destroys trees, damages buildings

Community May 2, 2022

No, it wasn’t a tornado. Even if Sunday night’s storm that mowed over trees and ripped away large portions of the roof at Hazel’s House of Hope acted like one at times. “We call these kinds of storms ‘straight-line wind’ events,” said Myranda Fullerton, a meteorologist ...

Hazel's House of Hope condemned due to wind damage

Community May 2, 2022

MORGANTOWN — A terrible grinding and crunching. That’s how an employee of the United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties described the sound that prompted her to pull the building alarm at Hazel’s House of Hope Sunday evening. It turns out that sound was most of the ...