Another March snowstorm interrupted, or at least covered up, the greening of the countryside Sunday night and Monday. People took photos. Here are some of them.
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Photos: Spring is here! (Or maybe not.)
Update: More spring snow
The early-spring snowstorm passing through central Virginia and the Piedmont has left 4 to 6 inches of wet snow so far. In Rappahannock County at 1 p.m. Monday, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative was reporting about 460 customers without power. Most roads in the county were reported clear.
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VDOT mobilizes for another winter storm
Crews with the Virginia Department of Transportation will report to work at 8 p.m. in the Culpeper District to prepare for the winter precipitation that is forecast to fall across Piedmont Virginia on Sunday night and early Monday morning.
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Photo: Cooped up
The Inn at Little Washington’s chicken coop weathered this week’s late-season winter storm in colorful style. Wind-whipped snow piled up quickly throughout the county, beginning in the early morning hours of Wednesday. By 7 a.m., already seven inches of wet, heavy snow had fallen in Amissville, according to the National Weather Service. Nearly 2,500...
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Late-season snow takes out power
It was a heavy, wet snow and it took down trees, limbs and power lines. As of 6 p.m. Wednesday (March 6), more than 1,700 Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC) customers in Rappahannock County were still without power.
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Clark Hollow Ramblings: A-hunting we will go
I hope you have recovered from the big hurricane. We lost shingles and siding, and had water in the house in several places. I didn’t bother to turn the damage in on my insurance. I was able to fix it myself. I’ll save the insurance for the big one. We only lost power for about 24 hours, so, all...
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Letter: Hurricane help needed
Rappahannock County coordinators are collecting hurricane relief items in Sperryville and at the schools this week. Details in Ron Henslik's and Loren Swannick's letter.
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Wild Ideas: Condos for wildlife
When superstorm Sandy ripped up the East Coast, it caused devastation to many human communities, but it also destroyed habitat for wildlife, including a lot of standing dead trees, also known as “snags.”
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‘Super storm’ cuts us a break
Chainsaws came in handy in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, as neighbors pitched in to clear secondary roads while rescue crews cleared the rest. Power outages were widespread, but the damage wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been.
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Storm updates
Check here for updates on Hurricane Sandy-related news throughout the day Monday and Tuesday. We're also asking readers to post any of their own news as comments.
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Adventures in Caregiving: It takes a community
When, without warning, the derecho knocked out most of the electrical power in Rappahannock and our neighboring counties, no one was more vulnerable than the many older couples where one spouse is caring for another with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Wild Ideas: Big storm, little moments of resilience
While we humans struggled in the aftermath of the storm to deal with losing the technology most of us have come to depend on, wildlife seemed to accept this as just another day in the great outdoors.
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Clark Hollow Ramblings: Safely home and the straight line windstorm
I hope the derecho didn’t treat you too badly. It pushed my favorite apple tree over and blew off a shingle or two, but otherwise we fared pretty well. With a strong rope and the bucket on my tractor I have the apple tree standing up straight again. So far, the leaves haven’t wilted,...
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The Washington column for July 12
Washington's postmaster Yvonnel Jarrell is retiring; a house burns on Warren Avenue, a facelift for Trinity Episcopal and a Little Washington Winery picnic.
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Weather or not, county business goes on
Rappahannock County’s five supervisors, two of whom still had no electricity at home after last week’s storm, spent a couple of hours at the (air-conditioned) courthouse for their regular monthly meeting Monday (July 2), devising ways to maximize limited space and state-reduced budgets.
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With power knocked out, volunteer power kicks in
Though surely neighbors aided neighbors throughout the huge swath of mid-Atlantic infrastructure that had its plug pulled Friday, the stories of what happened in Rappahannock County during and after the storm prove that coping is one of this county’s top local industries.
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At Castleton after the storm, the show very much went on
The first hint of trouble came in the intermission of “The Barber of Seville.” The house lights in the Castleton Festival Theatre had dimmed, so we assumed the second act was about to begin. It wasn’t.
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Trees, powerlines are worst casualties
Friday’s storm started in the Midwest and took about 12 hours to reach and ravage Rappahannock County. Along the way, millions of people were left without power.
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Editorial: The Castleton spirit
At the Castleton Festival, there apparently is no obstacle that cannot be overcome, including the most damaging (non-tropical) storm in Virginia’s history.
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Sperryville column for July 5
Welcome to Sperryville co-columnist Robane Beroza, and a few more thanks for the neighbors who helped others during the storm and power outages.
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Southern Lights
Rappahannock photographer Forrest Marquisee, 24, said he was driving through Woodville at about 9:30 p.m. Monday night (Oct. 24) when he saw what he first thought was the reflection of brake lights in the light fog – until he realized the red and green glow was coming from the sky. He pulled over and,...
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Photos: Pole down in Little Washington
Joanie Ballard sent these photos along, taken this morning at Main Street and Warren Avenue in Little Washington, of a power pole leaning precariously over the roadway. At 10 a.m., Joanie said there hadn’t yet been any loss of power.
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