White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. - It’s not a utopian scenario by any stretch of the imagination, the New Orleans Saints arriving at training camp in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., greeted by a community that has been ravaged by a natural disaster.
The flood waters that rushed through the city and Greenbrier County just less than five weeks ago – dumping one-in-1,000-year amounts of water, according to meteorologists – shoved houses off foundations and essentially splintered them, if they didn’t push them into other structures.
White Sulphur Springs recorded 9.37 inches of rain in the two-day period from June 23-24; however, the combination of steep mountains, narrow valleys and onslaught of storms proved to be the deadly combination that would send waters rushing through the town of 2,441 residents (according to a count in 2014).