US Edition83-Year-Old Whose Home Was Damaged by Flooding Staying Positive Despite Clean-up, "Just Have to Fix it."
- An 83-year-old man named Bud Parker faces driveway damage caused by flooding from Friday's storm on Old Fifth Ave in North Versailles.
- The storm caused flooding that affected 15 homes and displaced 10 people, with a dead tree damaging a nearby bridge and opening a large hole.
- Parker's house, a few feet above ground, fared better than many others while firefighters rescued a woman and child from flooded homes in the area.
- Parker said, "I just think positive all the time," and plans to fix the driveway by jackhammering, expecting it to be repaired within two months.
- Despite the damage, Parker remains optimistic, recalling, "I've come a long way" from his childhood as a cotton picker in South Carolina.
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83-year-old whose home was damaged by flooding staying positive despite clean-up_ “Just have to fix it.”
KDKA By Ricky Sayer Click here for updates on this story NORTH VERSAILLES, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — An 83-year-old self-described “go-getter” says he won’t let the massive hole in his driveway that Friday’s storm left get him down. Instead, Bud Parker is looking forward to the challenge of rebuilding it. The still-working brickmason built a
83-year-old whose home was damaged by flooding staying positive despite clean-up, "Just have to fix it." | News Channel 3-12
KDKA By Ricky Sayer Click here for updates on this story NORTH VERSAILLES, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — An 83-year-old self-described “go-getter” says he won’t let the massive hole in his driveway that Friday’s storm left get him down. Instead, Bud Parker is looking forward to the challenge of rebuilding it. The still-working brickmason built a bridge for his driveway above the creek in front of his home in the 1980s. Friday’s storm brought floodin…
83-year-old whose home was damaged by flooding staying positive despite clean-up, "Just have to fix it."
KDKA By Ricky Sayer Click here for updates on this story NORTH VERSAILLES, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — An 83-year-old self-described “go-getter” says he won’t let the massive hole in his driveway that Friday’s storm left get him down. Instead, Bud Parker is looking forward to the challenge of rebuilding it. The still-working brickmason built a bridge for his driveway above the creek in front of his home in the 1980s. Friday’s storm brought floodin…
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A pair of severe thunderstorms ripped through the Golden Triangle Saturday and Sunday, downing trees and causing power outages and flooding roads throughout the area. A storm that passed through Lowndes County at about 2 p.m. Saturday felled several trees and downed power lines, county Emergency Management Director Cindy Lawrence said. One tree fell on a house at Ronnie Cove, which is in the Lacy Subdivision east of Columbus near the Alabama lin…
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