Mount Storm 📍

Mount Storm is an unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. Mount Storm lies on the Northwestern Turnpike at its junction with West Virginia Route 42.

Mount Storm Lake – also known as New Stony River Reservoir – is a 1,200 acres (4.9 km2) reservoir created in 1965 on the Stony River in Grant County, West Virginia.

Mount Storm Lake serves as a cooling pond for the Dominion 1.6 gigawatt Mount Storm Power Station, which provides electricity to more than two million customers in Northern Virginia. The reservoir stands at an altitude of 3,244 feet (989 m).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Storm_Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Storm_Power_Station

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Coal Country

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Heading through Northern West Viriginia Coal Country, not too far from the Mount Storm Power Plant.

Monday October 14, 2019 — Mount Storm
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Before Mount Storm Lake

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The Davis and Cumberland Topographic Maps of 1921 show what area was like before the Mount Storm Coal Fired Power Plant and the Mount Storm Reservoir. The area was mostly wilderness, with a smaller now defunct reservoir further upstream.
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Old WV 93 Was Steep

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Before Corridor "H" if you wanted to go from Bismark to Scheer, you had to descend this steep, windy hill on West Virginia Route 93. This road had been improved, in the sense that it's smooth and wide, but it was still quite steep and windy -- for a major route driven by coal-hauling trucks. Corridor "H" changed that totally.

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Pigeon Roost

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And forenobs of the Allegheny Front looking down from the parking area along Corridor H.

Wednesday November 10, 2021 — Mount Storm
Map: Gilman Lake