Posted on 10/12/2018 11:14:43 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
The worst of Hurricane Michael’s remnants were supposed to track south of tiny Charlotte County in southern Virginia, but a desperate 911 call Thursday night told a different story: A car had been washed away in a torrential flash flood.
When sheriff’s deputies raced to the scene on Mount Harmony Road after 11 p.m., county administrator Daniel Witt said they heard the screams of a 17-year-old boy clinging to a guardrail.
The sheriff’s deputies and some bystanders linked arms and waded into the raging water, before tossing the teen a rope. He was pulled to safety, but his father and grandmother were swept away. The man’s body has been recovered, but the woman remains missing.
Frightening scenes played out across a wide swath of southern and central Virginia Thursday, as the storm caught many in the commonwealth off guard with its ferocity. Officials said the storm left one missing and five dead — out of a nationwide death toll of at least 15 from the storm that slammed the Florida panhandle with 155 mph winds on Wednesday.
The storm knocked out power to 565,000 people at the height, and it flooded or closed 1,200 roads. There were five suspected tornadoes across the state.
“We were just expecting three or four inches of rain, but it tracked north and just slammed us,” Witt said. “It caught us by surprise.”
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No, it missed us luckily.
Still thinking about putting in an $8K natural gas generator every time one of these comes by. Then it misses us and I say why spend the money? We haven’t had the power out since Hurricane Isabel in 2003, and Snowmageddon of course. Snowmageddon was worse than Isabel, 4 days vrs 5 days out of electricity but it was so cold we had to leave the house.
Generac makes the best units:
We had one at the Family Farm, which sold last Sept.
I made a lot of $ on them a few years ago, in the market.
Poplars are brittle and shallow rooted; junk trees. Make good paper pulp, though.
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