what is one thing you don t have in this house? we don t have water. sonny barton has lived on this west virginia ridge for 40 years, he says they re mountain community was promised pipe water when he first got here, but it never happened on my truck out of the creek. just straight out of the creek was great. so this is your water system water system right here. i m assuming it starts here. here you go. fill those up the creek, okay? and i drop it off here. this is life in mcdowell county, west virginia, population 18,393 down in the valley. put my ship lap up over top of my cabinets painted my cabinets. tammy bailey put some serious sweat equity into her home. this man and hurt right here was the last mile on had my dad wore in the coal mines helped the family make a living, but they were never hooked up to a city or county water line. so one day i come home and um i