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Rick Steelhammer
Towboat nudges runaway dock with 16 boats to riverbank after wild 5-mile ride
A covered dock containing 16 boats moored in slips broke free of its moorings in St. Albans early Thursday and drifted five miles down a rain-swollen Kanawha River before a towboat nudged it to safety along the riverbank in Putnam County.
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Towboat nudges runaway dock with 16 boats to riverbank after wild 5-mile ride
A covered dock containing 16 boats moored in slips broke free of its moorings in St. Albans early Thursday and drifted five miles down a rain-swollen Kanawha River before a towboat nudged it to safety along the riverbank in Putnam County.
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