Instead of making tunnels EVERYWHERE throughout the state, they made windy roads on the sides of mountains.
Oh yes, it's very windy here at times, especially on the west, south west and north west coasts
West Virginia is a landlocked state, so it has no shorelines.
West Virginia was a part of Virginia that was anti-slavery, so they created a border and West Virginia joined the Union.
West Virginia wasn't a state at the time, so it did not have a governor.
Both Virginia and West Virginia share a border with Maryland, so they are virtually equal distances away.
Take a look at a map: parts of Virginia are west of the state of West Virginia. When it was removed from Virginia and made a separate state in the Civil War, West Virginia received that name because it was on the western side of the Appalachians.
Infrastructure.
Hampton Roads, Virginia, just off the coast. it was a naval battle, so... wet?
West Virginia is north of the equator, so from West Virginia you would travel south. It is a long way south of, as it crosses through South America.
The state of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia are to the east of West Virginia. Maryland is to the east of north-central West Virginia (and to the north and east of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia). Virginia is somewhat to the east and southeast. Oft-forgotten is the fact that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is also east of West Virginia, but it is only east of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia. In all other respects, Pennsylvania is north of West Virginia.Side note: West Virginia is bordered to the West-Southwest by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Thus, West Virginia is bordered by three of the four commonwealths still-existing in the United States (the other being Massachusetts).
Colorado to West Virginia, east. West Virginia to Colorado, west.
The state of West Virginia did not separate from Virginia until the Civil War. In the west of colonial Virginia, mountains blocked easy transportation so, the land was sparsely developed as compared to tidewater Virginia.