JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR: This story happening right now in West Virginia. Authorities there say the flash floods that hit the state yesterday damaged up to 3,000 homes. Amid the mad torrents of water, cars didn't fare too well either. The waters receded pretty quickly, but today eight counties are under states of emergency. CNN's Jeff Flock is in one of those counties now, Fayette, in the southern part of the state. Jeff, what are you finding there?</s>JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Indeed, Joie, just on the edge of Fayetteville, and you know, we've seen a lot of floods, but this was a powerful one. As perhaps you can see, the creek still running pretty high, although as you report the floodwaters are down. But what you see off behind me in the distance is what they have wrought. Take a look at this house. It is just along the creek bed here, typically a good ways away, much of it washed out.</s>CHEN: Jeff, where are the people going in all of this?</s>FLOCK: Well, I'll tell you, if you look off in a distance here, well, off to the side -- perhaps you can see it -- folks that live in this house here, this older gentleman in the hat and the lady with him, folks in this house here, it's been washed through. Some folks with friends. There have been people last night that were in shelters, and still some folks not heard from that are back in what they call the "hollers" here, three or four miles from here, folks that still have not yet been accounted for because nobody can get back to them. They suspect everyone's OK, but at this point not 100 percent sure.</s>CHEN: CNN's Jeff Flock for us in Fayette -- near Fayetteville, West Virginia, one of the eight counties of that state that's in a state of emergency right now.
Flash Floods Devastate South-Central West Virginia