Central Virginia Blue Ridge Area
Updated Thursday afternoon at 4:15 PM with Albermarle County PD statement:
“The Albemarle County Police Department’s Crash Reconstruction Unit and members of the Criminal Investigations Division are currently investigating an incident involving two vehicles swept downstream as a result of heavy rains and flash flooding.
On May 30, 2018 at 2138 hours, two vehicles to include a Toyota Prius traveling west, stopped due to high water in the 900 block of Old Ballard Road. Rapidly rising water levels swept both vehicles off the roadway and downstream. Two occupants of the Toyota Prius were also caught in the flash flood. One occupant has been located and is deceased. The second occupant is still missing. The occupant of the second vehicle was able to swim to a safe location.
The identity of both the deceased and the missing person are being withheld until the missing person is located and family members can be notified of the search results.
Lieutenant Miller Stoddard
Albemarle County Police Department
Special Operations Division”
Original post at 8:17 AM – 5.31.18
Major floods hit the area overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning. Three people are still missing that were swept away from floodwaters and many roads are closed across the area due to either being washed out, collapsed, or mudslides.
Below are some of updates from our own feeds and those of our media partners at CBS19 News in Charlottesville.
Situation update:
–2 people are missing in Albemarle Co. 1 person missing in Madison Co. All 3 were swept away by flooding.
–Route 33 is closed west of Stanardsville because of a mudslide.
–There's limited water service in northern Albemarle because of treatment plant issues pic.twitter.com/m8Z7R2FURp— Bo Sykes (@bosykes) May 31, 2018
Damage from flooding of a creek in Ivy #Charlottesville @CBS19News pic.twitter.com/WDhGNbkFCJ
— Laura Perrot (@LauraCPerrot) May 31, 2018
Curious about how much rain has actually fallen over the area? Here's a radar estimate showing potentially 9" fell over the last 24 hours just west of #Charlottesville #vawx pic.twitter.com/sw9BTSIOq3
— Jack Durkin (@DurkinWeather) May 31, 2018
#albemarle service authority reports drinking water in north area of county near Rt 29 compromised due to broken pipe at river crossing. Check local news outlets for more details.
— Charlottesville ABE (@cville_abe) May 31, 2018
RT. 33 CLOSED ACROSS SWIFT RUN GAP DUE TO MUDSLIDES
Numerous secondary routes closed in Greene, Madison and Albemarle due to floodingCULPEPER — Route 33 over Swift Run Gap is closed in Greene and Rockingham… https://t.co/aOdVmSH6qP
— BlueRidgeLife (@BlueRidgeLife) May 31, 2018
Old Ballard Rd. at Woodberry Rd. in Ivy less than a mile from where 2 people were swept away by high water last night. A search is still ongoing. @ACPD_VA have the road closed due to flooding. I’m live in #GoodMorningCharlottesville with more @CBS19News pic.twitter.com/xvT8llSfqY
— Laura Perrot (@LauraCPerrot) May 31, 2018
