High winds on Aug. 18 had severe consequences for the Greenville Airport.
At last week's regular city council meeting during the department reports Interim Director Chontina Smith thanked the city and county for two Zero-turn mowers and two generators for the wells at the airport.
“Right now with the recent storm we still don’t have power or water,” Smith said. “We’re kinda down right now but hopefully when the next storm comes we’ll be prepared and ready.”
Vice Mayor and Councilman Vernon Greenlee, said when the storm came through it impacted the Vector Disease Control building.
“It destroyed the building and knocked out the wells at the airport, so we’ve been in dire straits after that,” Greenlee said. “But thanks to the fire chief and Jermain Thornton’s guy in Public Works they’ve got everything in town, downed trees and the stuff at the airport, taken care of, it was pretty rough.”
In a phone interview, Smith said they weren’t sure what happened to the building at the airport, but it looked like something inside might have exploded.
