This week West Virginians likely will escape any more of the flooding that has wreaked havoc across several counties, taking 23 lives -- a figure authorities warned may rise. But for the families on Mill House Road in White Sulphur Springs -- many of them kin -- any new flooding could hardly make things worse. Eleven houses stood on the road near Howard Creek last Thursday. Three remain. And Belinda Scott, a spunky grandmother with a strong will to live, didn’t make it. The flood uprooted Scott’s house, which exploded after it filled with natural gas.