Tomblin Submits Request For Federal Disaster

• {Charleston, West Virginia}...Friday, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin submitted a request for a federal disaster declaration for residents of Marion, Lincoln, and Wayne counties. State Homeland Security Secretary Jimmy Gianato says there is about $5 million in highway damage alone, while more than 150 homes were damaged, about 70 of those either heavily damaged or destroyed. Several additional counties, most in northern West Virginia, are seeking assistance to repair public infrastructure outlets like water and sewer plants. Marion County was hardest hit by flooding. Wayne and Lincoln counties were ravaged by a tornado which blew through days later and caused widespread property damage.