Heavy rain will continue to run off, flood streams
Latest updates from The Roanoke Times on Roanoke/New River flooding
Rainfall totals reported to NWS-Blacksburg through 4 a.m.
Latest flood and wind advisories and warnings
SW Virginia river stages and forecasts
UPDATE 10 AM, 1/31: The New River at Radford is nearing an expected crest of 21 feet — major flood stage, swamping vehicles at Radford University — and the Roanoke River is nearing an expected crest just above 12 feet at Walnut Avenue, 2 feet above flood stage, a low-end “moderate” flood. These rivers will be receding upstream from these points, and rising downstream, through the day, as widespread 2-6 inches of rain (and some higher amounts) continues to drain off of steep terrain and saturated soil. Hundreds of roads are closed by flooding statewide. It appears to be our region’s worst widespread flooding event at least since late June 2006 and possibly since the triple-tropical-trouble (Frances-Ivan-Jeanne) of September 2004. END UPDATE
UPDATE 12:05 AM, 1/31: The bulk of the rain is pulling east of Roanoke as I type this, with some showers remaining for the rest of the evening — and some windy, colder weather. Snowflakes may even fly in some locations, especially west of Roanoke and in higher elevations. The large amounts of water dumped on already wet ground will continue to runoff, with flooding on streams and some rivers continuing today, including the New and Roanoke rivers. A quick-moving disturbance from the northwest will bring a chance of light snow or snow showers into the area late Thursday night and early Friday, and a similar system may cause a second round late Saturday night and Sunday. We’ll plan to take a closer look at that on Thursday afternoon. END UPDATE
The severe storm threat has passed with the departure of the squall line (with considerable damage in Pulaski County), but the heavy rain/flooding threat is ongoing, with numerous flash flood warnings affecting the Roanoke and New River valleys and much of Western and Southwest Virginia. Moderate to heavy rain is likely to continue for another 3-5 hours over most of the region, with many areas already over an inch, and some already topping 4 inches, especially near the North Carolina border. This rain is falling onto soil that has become saturated from substantial rain and snow since Jan. 14, so much of it is running off into drainages and streams. Beware if traveling tonight for ponding on the roads or, even, creeks and rivers rising out of their banks across roadways.
Colder air will be moving in on Thursday behind an Arctic cold front and a series of Alberta clipper systems will bring chances of light snow through the weekend, with the better chances west of Roanoke.
January 30, 2013 - 6:57 PM
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Check out the rapid rise in stream flow for the New River in Grayson County and Chestnut Creek in Galax.
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwisweb/graph?agency_cd=USGS&site_no=03165000&parm_cd=00060&period=7
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwisweb/graph?agency_cd=USGS&site_no=03164000&parm_cd=00060&period=7
I had a hunch this would happen. Was a little confused as to why Roanoke wasn’t initially included in the Flash Flood Watch.
Stay safe tonight.
The Roanoke River is currently forecast to rise above action stage (6 feet). We’ll have to watch this carefully.
Showing 1.6″ of rain here in Bonsack
Lots of road closings for flooding/trees down, via VDOT.
http://www.511virginia.org/mobile/?menu_id=conditions
Galax opened shelter at rec center for flood zone evacuees.
One thing I’ve learned about Roanoke’s weather, if it’s dry for an extended period of time we seem to always make up for it pretty quick.
Flooding in Boone N.C. mall parking lot under water.
https://twitter.com/maryrtaylor10/status/296778145686765569/photo/1
In case you haven’t noticed this weather makes me hyper.
Another pic of Boone flooding.
https://twitter.com/WelcometoApp/status/296753503274139648/photo/1
Sheesh, rain gauge at KHLX up to 5.63″ now. Just got a reverse 911 call for flooded roads. Must resist urge to get out and see for myself.
Let us know what’s going on down there, Johnny. It’s rainy everywhere but certainly the heaviest is down near you.
At our home in East Rke County next to Wm. Byrd and the parkway overpass my rain gauge is at three (3) inches and still pouring down. Obviously an elevation component in there.
Two hours after I last reported and we are now at “2.19″ inches of rain. We have had 1.19 inches of rain in the last two hours.
Will the winds be picking up after the rains stop?
Johnny near KHLX – thanks for the pictures from Boone – our old stomping grounds. I wonder if that is not part of Kraut Creek that ran through campus back in my hey day.
Wow sounds like some of you guys are getting pounded rainy here but nothing like what i am hearing here…thinks its headed this way or not so badd???
Where do we find the local water levels and flooding projections? Our driveway is now a mudslide. However, little or no wind.
Erin: Here’s one site that may help.
http://afws.erh.noaa.gov/afws/index.php?gtype=precip&wfo=rnk
Erin, here’s another link you can try:
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=rnk
“Only” 1.83 in Goodview, 2.68 in Jordantown. No wind gusts over 25. Temps steady at 56. Rain will change to snow at Snowshoe tonight…heading up tomorrow afternoon so we should be there for some nice whiteness, along with cold temps and windy conditions.
Snowshoe will be getting snow off and on for several days. Clippers, NW upslope flow.
Updated Roanoke River forecast. It was projected to crest at 6.6ft on the previous update. Newest update has it cresting 9.5ft.
http://i.imgur.com/JmkhNqo.png
Another emergency alert flash flood warning for my area via my iPhone, till 3 AM.
Carol here’s a video of the flooding in Boone. I go up there once in a while and have family and friends that attended App.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-918155
As for Carroll County lots of closed roads. I rode around a little close to home and 58 and 52 have lots of gravel driveways washed into the road. Broken limbs etc. from the snow that VDOT hasn’t gotten up yet blocking pipes and making for dangerous driving.
Little Reed Island Creek is out of its banks but I’ve seen worse. Of course it will rise more.
Rain gauge at the airport now up to 6.15, mine has 5.5″. I’ll try to get some pics tomorrow and post on Capt. Quags site.
I heard that Alleghany High School in Sparta, N.C. has holes in the roof and damage.
Another Boone post but it shows the reason for the flooding. The gauge is at the upper boundary of moderate and major flood level is next.
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=rnk&gage=sgwn7
Went to Marion tonight and came home dodging the creeks. Creeks are out of their banks all over the county and travel is hazardous. Gauge 2.2″ at last check. Snow to follow.
Two of my former students are now grad students at App State in Boone. One posted flood photos on Facebook and I checked in with the other texting. She said classes were cancelled immediately and it happened so quickly which is clear on the chart Johnny near KHLX shared.
FYI. . . Quags’ web site is down….
Just checked my back yard and I have at least an inch of standing water in the back. I’m sure my sugar maple tree will love it, but right now I am not a happy camper. Praying the basement continues to stay dry!
Posted on Facebook by Virginia Tech Police about 10 minutes ago:
Divers and Swift Water Rescue Technicians from the VTPD are currently on standby for potential deployment in the community. Please keep them and our other area public safety personnel in your thoughts during these tough weather conditions.
2.86 inches of rain so far and now the wind has picked up. It is still raining. Temps are now down to 50. Waiting on the power to go out.
Is it over yet?
from Callaway.
Nope, looks like rain keeps on until at least midnight. Not as torrential as before, but still pretty heavy at times.
I’m sure y’all seen the news today about all the action in Fairlawn. I think I’ve seen about every news crew from the NRV here today. I live across the street from the Foodette where the wall came down. I was pretty lucky I reckon, The only damage I got was stuff strewn around on my deck but both my neighbors on each side lost a total of 3 trees one one was about a 80′ walnut which came down in my yard and over my building and the other neighbor lost two pines. I still have power but no TV. looking out my backdoor I can see a lot of dark houses.
Pond rose over three feet today, water running very fast down the mountain feeding the pond. In our travels out tonight for dinner a lot of water on roads and some back roads covered in running water and debris from recent logging operations. Still raining and wind is picking up as well. Stay safe
no mas 2 weeks ago I was talking to my farmer friend about how dry it was. Now its so wet and messy feeding is a major chore but he’s not complaining to much.
I didn’t look at the models this morning but I doubt any had this much rain.
I didn’t look at every model output on rainfall today, but this rain has far exceeded forecasters’ projections from HPC and NWS in many locations.
Lee, we got really luck in New River. As far as I could tell driving through here, there was no noticeable damage at all. I was expecting some tree limbs or something, but nothing over this way. My tarp over the firewood even stayed in place…
Just had the dogs out for a final pitstop and it has actually stopped raining – for a moment.
I haven’t gotten a firm measurement since I don’t want to disrupt collection on my rain gauge, but we’re well over 1″ and just guessing by the overflow collecting in the outer cylinder, we’re probably close to or over 2″ total so far, and we’re in another moderate-heavy downpour right now. The yard is absolutely water logged, and there’s some standing water in the usual places.
Flood and flash flood warnings now extend all the way up into the DC area. This has been one heck of a storm system. We’re going to be dealing with high water for awhile.
Currently 2.84″ in Raleigh Court, Roanoke.
I gotta hunch that Blacksburg got more precip in January than in the previous 6 or 7 months combined
Been in Richmond for a conference and legislative visits since yesterday. Looks like some really nasty weather at home today. Battened down the hatches best I could before I left. Hope I don’t find any damage when I get back and the road is not blocked by fallen trees or washed out. Still pretty warm up here, around 70 and the winds are fierce, even accounting for urban wind tunnel effect. Tornado watch warnings constantly running across the TV screen. Heavy rain has just started.
To add to what HokieTrax posted in #29, Blacksburg Rescue, Christiansburg Rescue, Riner Rescue, and Elliston Rescue are all either standing by for or actively involved in swift water operations right now. The RT just posted a story about Pulaski County responders trying to free a woman trapped in her car while water is rising around her. Please keep these responders in your thoughts tonight, and be careful if you have to go out tonight or are in a potential flood area.
For those who were inquiring about the emergency text alerts they received today, I did a quick search and found this USA Today article explaining what it’s all about.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/news/story/2012-05-13/extreme-weather-alerts-texts-cellphones/54943804/1
Just updated blog with link to rainfall totals — also below:
https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201301310357-KRNK-NOUS41-PNSRNK
There’s a good chance that by the time the rain wraps up, this will be the rainiest month I’ve recorded going back through 2009. That year, the first that I had a CoCoRaHS gauge, we had 8.33″ in May, and 7.48″ in December. No time since have we gotten more than 6.53″ of rain (or total liquid equivalent) in a month, until now…but in 2011 we did have 4 months that topped the 6″ mark. This will certainly be greater than the cumulative total of rainfall we had from about mid-September (9-20) through mid-January (1-14), when the cumulative total was 6.2″ for that time period. From 1-15 through this morning, we had picked up 5.36″, and we’ve definitely gone over 2″ today. Our entire 2012 precipitation deficit got erased in 2 weeks.
From the NWS Blacksburg rainfall total linked by Kevin.
…CARROLL COUNTY…
3.20 WOODLAWN IFLOWS
2.30 TWIN COUNTY APT
My own rain gauge holds 6″ and its full. Linked is a screenshot of the KHLX current data showing 6.57″. I don’t understand the difference in totals. I live 1.2 miles from Twin County Apt.
http://screencast.com/t/80kwhL1VvTiF
So how much of a surplus have we ended up with so far in Roanoke this month?
Roanoke will be more than 4 inches above normal after this rain. Was 1.83 above norm at 4.56 inches going into today and the airport site has collected more than 2 1/2 inches. (Very confusingly, it’s listed as “Roanoke AP” under Roanoke County instead of in Roanoke city.)
John – just another reason I hate automated weather stations!! Hearing from those in the Pipers Gap area that Elkhorn and Coal Creek are impassible. Lot’s of hollers out that way. Shorts Creek lady I know said she’s never seen it that high and reports 7 houses under water. Hearing the low water bridge in Fries is impassible as well as several other locations. Worst flooding in 20 years?
That should say John KHLX haha
3.12″ here in Bonsack
Close enough Zach and I’ve heard lots of reports similar to yours all over the county.
Ok, so I was a bit wrong…I just measured the rain during a lull here (and it’s gotten much colder and windier up here too, btw), and we currently sit at 1.78″…which gives us 7.14″ from January 15 to today, and 7.35″ total for the month. I think we might get a few more hundredths, maybe a tenth or 2 if we get a heavy shower overnight, but it looks like we will stay well below the May 2009 total, and probably just a little shy of December 2009 as well. But still, the entire precipitation deficit of 4.34″ from 2012 is gone…we are currently 4.35″ above-normal this month.
To add some interesting perspective on the precipitation…last year, it took us until March 24 to get to the 7.35″ we already have this year. Interestingly enough, it also took until March 24 in 2011 as well, but only March 3 in 2010, and March 16 in 2009.
3.60 inches recorded at my location in Blue Ridge (1330′)as of midnight. This puts my monthly rainfall at 8.39 inches.
wow, well at least we’re plenty moisturized, thanks for the info kevin!
Just evacuated Riverview Trailer Park in Elliston /Lafayette.
Our dry branch is way out if its banks. The creek and branch are running so swiftly I can hear the roar inside with the windows closed and the creek is about 2/10 of a mile away! I am betting North Fork is flooded and parts of Bradshaw Rd too. I heard that some folks are trapped in Alleys store in Allegheny Springs. What weather! Stay safe folks!
I was on I-81 southbound at about 3:00 pm or so at MP 81 give or take a mile and may have seen a tornado on the south side of the highway. It was raining and quite windy and about a couple of minutes after passing what may have been the tornado I hit a wall of rain and extreme wind that slowed traffic to about 28 mph for 15 minutes or so.
The bottom of the leading edge of the very black cloud was , I would guess, about 600 to 800 ft above ground level. Ground level width of the funnel was about a couple of hundred yards wide at most. Could it have been a tornado?
66 roads closed in Carroll County this morning according to 511virginia.org 830 closed state wide. A lot of these are the usual suspects when it rains much but there are some on the list that flood only when we get higher rain totals.
28º and a little snow on the windshield now, quite a change.
Down to 32.5* on da Knob with snow flurries. Look for the WWA to be extended for more areas to the west.
Good morning from flooded Woodlawn!! Ground is white this morning from snow shower after the rain…28* at 7:30am…
Bye to drought for SW Va. for now…hope to have a week or two with NO precipitation?…somewhere? and normal (for February) temperatures?
“KFCX RADAR IS EXPERIENCING COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS. TECH HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED.”
Sorry about that folks. Yes, every time we have lots of moisture, we seem to have problems with the Doppler. Hmmmmm?
28, wind blowing with flakes flying and partly cloudy this morning. We had 3.11 inches of rain yesterday.
Coming out of this extremely rainy January I can only imagine had it been a persistently could January, we would have been buried under snows like we’ve never seen!
I imagine a persistently cold January would have been far less juicy, with the tap to the Gulf of Mexico far more limited than we’ve seen it locally.
The New River near 114 was out of its banks this morning, beginning to flood the adjacent farmland…first time I’ve seen that in a while.
Woke up to temperatures more than 30 degrees colder today than yesterday, with leftover rain frozen to ice, and coated with snow this morning…and much windier. Had to work to get my car door open, it froze shut.
Doppler Carol, I hate to ask but next time falling weather is predicted would you mind putting a tarp over that radar. If the NWS cannot keep it going you may have to step in. The morning dawned with snow showers and 29. Winds howling. Some lite accumulation and even some on our road but schools were closed due to flooding. We go from flooding to WWA tonight for 2″ of snow. My how interesting it has been. Guess we won’t be talking drought until later in the summer.
PERSISTENTLY COLD in above statement NOT could, but I guess everyone would have known what I meant!!
Clarkdocvet: It was nice to see your posting this morning. If you are posting, I know your clinic is okay. Clark’s clinic is next to Chestnut Creek. How high is the creek? When I saw how much rain Galax was getting last night, I thought about Clark’s clinic and all the businesses on Railroad Ave. It can flood easily in that area.
Went from a swamp in the back yard last night and temps of 60 degrees to 38 and snow flurries this morning. I saw a cartoon about weather yesterday that was quite funny, I will have to see if I can find it again so I can post it.
Just updated rainfall totals link at top. Here it is below as well:
https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201301310930-KRNK-NOUS41-PNSRNK
Thanks for asking Leo Lady..but all good here. Looks like Chestnut Creek was up 6-8 feet last night,but not that far today.I think they had to move some people out of lower areas last night. The Army Corps of Engineers did a great job after the flood of 1940? when the whole town of Galax flooded. The closest we have come to being over run here at our clinic was several days after Hugo,when the area recieved close to 9″ of rain in 3 days.The creek was still several feet from entering the parking lot. I do have some sleepless night (like last night) when we get heavy rain…
Not sure how much rain we got up here on Read Mountain, but it was enough to have water seep through the floor in the basement. Big mess this morning. Everyone stay safe if you have to go out today.
I’m wishing I had my rain gauge up before the storm. North Fork Roanoke River out of its banks last night with probably 2 feet of water in the floodplain. Last time I saw that we had a tropical storm pass over us and got 6 inches of rain in 12 or so hours. I do not remember which storm. Sometime in the past 10 years. Glad to hear people downstream were evacuated and warned. I’m in Ellett Valley at the higher altitude end of eastern Montgomery County. Tina B., can’t imagine what it looks like at your end of the county!
Looks like the Smith Mt. Lake levels are holding around full pond. Wish we still had a couple feet to spare with all the water that is backed up. They can only let so much water out of the dam without creating havoc downstream.
Sometime during the night, we got probably about an inch of snow. It’s melting and blowing away now. I can’t see any water from here, but it sounds like I need to take a walk downtown and check out Wolf Creek and the New River and see how the flooding is. Fortunately, the river had come down a lot since the week of rain we had earlier or things would be much worse.
The National Weather Service in Blacksburg has issued a Flash Flood Watch for Wythe County, specifically the areas of Ivanhoe and Austinville. The watch was issued in response to a notification from American Electric Power (AEP) regarding developing problems at the Byllesby/Buck Hydroelectric Dams on the New River.
http://www.wdbj7.com/news/wdbj7-wythe-county-warns-of-potential-dam-failure-20130131,0,7434289.story
Internet was out at the house so posting much later here at work…surprised to wake up this morning to a light snow covering in Hokieburg. Was 29 this morning at my house. Around 1 AM it sounded like sleet hitting the window and this morning leaving confirmed that there must have been some sleet or ‘sneet’ in the mix. Now a classic windy, windy Virginia Tech day here.
Was AMAZED at the photos of cars underwater at the lot near the Dedmon Center at Radford University were I taught long ago. In some places up to the roofs of the cars!
Kevin, on rainfall totals in the link you posted in #73, where or what is Blacksburg IFLOWS?
My wife and I received an emergency alert from Radford University at 5:30 am this morning to advise drivers to get their cars out of the lot. My wife is a director of disability resource office at Radford University and she told me that the alert system was too late in warning folks to move their vehicles. I would imagine there are some upset students about it, and I can’t blame them.
However, I would have issued a warning last night because on my way home from the NRCC mall class, I noticed a lot of puddle near the storm drainage, and knew immediately the storm drainage system were overwhelmed. I think that should have been enough to sound the alarm.
Looking at the photographs via TheBurgs is just head shaking amazing, just at how appreciative awesome the destruction of the storm was last night, and I’m not saying it as a happy person, but strictly as an observer. I hope that make sense.
This kind of storm is typical of a summer storm, but for it to happen in the middle of winter is simply amazing. To add insult to injury, there’s supposed to be a round of snow tomorrow?
We just need to start doing anti-snow dance just to get a break. The ground are already oversaturated from the rains and snow.
KEVIN OR DOUG GRIGGS (or anyone else interested in water levels who might know this answer): So Smith Mountain Lake is back to full level I would believe. All rivers are flooded in the area…but how’s Mountain Lake’s level doing? Seems like it could never fill up considerably but I think the past 15 days have changed that…got 2.8 inches of rain here in Ellett…close to Ironto’s 3.1.
I noticed the low for tonight in Wytheville is 20, yet the high for tomorrow is also 20. Does this mean the temps will be dropping some during the day?
Goodview total was 2.49. Jordantown total was 3.38. My ride will be here shortly for our trip to Snowshoe. Will be seeing snow and feeling brrrrr cold in a few hours!
Anyone that gets WGN Chicago..
Might want to occasionally visit
their weather forecast..
As it looks now what Chicago gets is headed
for the Mid Atlantic in a day or so afer.
That appears to be the vector for much of ROA weather
for the next week. Plus…WGN has a great weather department.
Joe, I used to watch WGN when we lived in Chicago in the late ’70s…John Coleman was the weather guy. He was wonderful and those were exciting times in the weather department.
Smith Mountain looks as if its doing ok..
They reached full pond after midnight last night.
And they have begun to drop..im sure with release..but
they still have 7 feet to go before it goes over spillway.
http://www.smithmountainlakelevel.com/
Buggs Island has a little to give..They are predicted to be at 298ft on Feb 4..full pond there is 320..So I think things are in pretty good shape.
Smith Mountain folks have to be smiling.
A number of folks have commented on the ups and downs of Smith Mountain Lake recently. SML is not your ‘normal’ hydro scheme. It is a pumped-storage lake for Leesville Lake, so a lot of the water that’s used for generation in the SML turbines is held in Leesville and pumped back into SML when it’s not needed for generating. AEP has more info at http://www.smithmtn.com/about/SmithMountainLake.aspx
According to the NWS Hydrology page, it looks as though the New River near Radford crested a little while ago and is beginning to recede. It will still take a while before the river gets back within the normal range though, but that’s a good sign for the moment. If the 21.13′ crest is accurate, today became the 5th highest crest, and just 0.6′ shy of the #4 crest in September 1989…from what I believe was Hurricane Hugo (I lived in VAB at the time…so I’m doing some historical thinking).
The NWS also confirmed the wind damage in Pulaski County was from 70-80 mph straight-line winds…though the damage in Fairlawn took on a bit of a twist (pun intended) in the form of a gustnado, which is a low-level swirling of the wind. That confirms my suspicions that there wasn’t a tornado, but that something of a vortex was likely in Fairlawn given the primary wind direction, and how the damage to the Foodette occured (on the lee side of the building, with U-hauls tossed in a direction somewhat against the motion of the squall line.
MikeN, where are you located and do you have a station? I might know you. At least the name fits. If you have a brother named Keith, then we know each other.
I want to thank everyone for dropping bits of news on here today. I haven’t been able to get on the blog much myself during the day. In a post-storm situation I like to post links for information at the top and let folks feed in what they know about what’s going on. This is the blog at its best.
I live in the neighborhood down from the Foodette in Fairlawn. Power was out from around 4 PM yesterday until 11 last night. My internet just came back up. As said by previous posters, lots of damage in the area, trees uprooted, hanging branches, lost fences. I wasn’t home when it hit but my roommates said they couldn’t tell the direction of the winds because it looked like it just swirled in all directions.
If anyone wonders … the worst flood on record at Radford occurred in 1940 … take today’s water level at its peak and add about 14 feet to it.
http://vawatercentralnewsgrouper.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/new-river-flood-record-marker-unveiled-in-radford/
Patricia, it was not too bad where I live. Bradshaw creek was up but our worse was the branch, which normally is a couple feet wide when we get a good heavy rain, but covered about 20+ feet from one side to another this round. I heard North Fork was out if its banks and over the road where Bradshaw meets it at the railroad trestle.
I saw pics of Radford. What a mess!
Ask and ye shall receive Mr. Myatt. Might not be 100% accurate, but it will be an honest assessment. Little enough to repay your time and effort. Well, maybe with a little bit of knowledge throwed in to sweeten da pot on your end.
Thanks, WD.
I will be posting new soon, hopefully by 8 p.m., about the “clipper-iffic” weather pattern ahead.
Dee…Yes..
I liked Tom Skilling,,’He was one of the most respected
weather guys around anywhere.
I really didnt know he was still chief Meteorologist there..
Thought he may have retired.
Ive read he-s rumored to be the highest paid TV Weatherman
in the country. Its said its in the 7 figures per year.
I often watched WGN weather when I lived in Arkansas. Still subscribe to Tom Skilling’s Twitter feed.
The water is lapping at the bottom of the trusses on the stationary docks at Smith Mountain Lake. I’m sure they’re releasing at a pretty good clip. I bet it’s really aggressive looking on the backside of the dam.
Any chance of any snow making it this far south or east
Here’s a link to the Galax Gazette with some pictures from Buck and Byllesby dams after they got the emergency spillways open. The Gazette is a subscription site but I think you can see this story.
http://www.galaxgazette.com/content/water-rises-and-recedes-quickly
A chance you see some snow, Kevin, especially if clipper is far enough south and just strong enough to carry some squalls over the mountains.
About to discuss clippers on next post.
Checked out Narrows this afternoon. Wolf Creek is up behind Anna’s Restaurant and Grant’s Supermarket and way over the bridge on Lurich Road. I’d be a little nervous if I had anything in the storage units there – the creek was inching up on them. On 100 between Narrows and Pearisburg, we got a good view of the New River flooding on both sides. Fortunately, it’s mostly hay fields on 100, but the campground on the 460 side looks to be a mess with lots of travel trailers in the water. Only the very top of the roof of their activity pavilion was visible. Unfortunately, we didn’t got over the bridge at Narrows before dark. It was pretty scary there a couple of weeks ago after all the rain because they have messed with some of the water flow to do the bridge work – the water was really rushing on through there. Glad the river has crested so it shouldn’t get any worse.
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