Woods Mill
Nelson County, Virginia
Traffic was delayed Thursday afternoon when a crash occurred at the intersection of River Road & US 29. Crews were working to clear the scene around 5PM and long delays are not expected.
No information on injuries (if any) at this time.
Northbound traffic going past the accident was not affected.
FROST ADVISORY
URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC
1037 AM EDT Thu Oct 26 2017
District of Columbia-Frederick MD-Carroll-Northern Baltimore-
Southern Baltimore-Prince Georges-Anne Arundel-Charles-St. Marys-
Calvert-Northwest Montgomery-Central and Southeast Montgomery-
Northwest Howard-Central and Southeast Howard-Northwest Harford-
Southeast Harford-Nelson-Albemarle-Greene-Orange-
Prince William/Manassas/Manassas Park-Fairfax-
Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria-Stafford-Spotsylvania-
King George-Northern Fauquier-Southern Fauquier-Western Loudoun-
Eastern Loudoun-
Including the cities of Washington, Frederick, Ballenger Creek,
Eldersburg, Westminster, Reisterstown, Cockeysville, Baltimore,
Bowie, Suitland-Silver Hill, Clinton, College Park, Greenbelt,
Laurel, Camp Springs, Glen Burnie, Annapolis, Severn, South Gate,
Severna Park, Arnold, Odenton, St. Charles, Waldorf,
Lexington Park, California, Chesapeake Beach, Huntingtown,
Dunkirk, North Beach, Lusby, Prince Frederick, Germantown,
Damascus, Bethesda, Rockville, Gaithersburg, Silver Spring,
Lisbon, Columbia, Ellicott City, Jarrettsville, Aberdeen,
Lovingston, Charlottesville, Stanardsville, Orange, Gordonsville,
Dale City, Manassas, Woodbridge, Lake Ridge, Montclair, Reston,
Herndon, Annandale, Centreville, Chantilly, McLean, Franconia,
Arlington, Alexandria, Falmouth, Fredericksburg, Dahlgren,
Warrenton, Turnbull, Purcellville, Leesburg, Ashburn,
and Sterling
1037 AM EDT Thu Oct 26 2017
…FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM
EDT FRIDAY…
* TEMPERATURES…Falling into the mid 30s by dawn, mainly away
from the urban centers and large bodies of water.
* IMPACTS…Sensitive outdoor plants may be damaged or killed by
frost if left uncovered.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A Frost Advisory means that widespread frost is expected.
Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
301 PM EDT Thu Oct 26 2017
…Frost developing late tonight…
.High pressure will bring clear skies and light winds to the
Appalachians and central mid atlantic region tonight. This will
allow temperatures to fall rapidly overnight and frost is
expected to develop across portions of Virginia east of the Blue
Ridge, as well as across the foothills and piedmont of North
Carolina.
Roanoke-Botetourt-Rockbridge-Franklin-Bedford-Amherst-Campbell-
Appomattox-Buckingham-
Including the cities of Roanoke, Salem, Fincastle, Lexington,
Buena Vista, Rocky Mount, Bedford, Amherst, Lynchburg,
and Appomattox
301 PM EDT Thu Oct 26 2017
…FROST ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EDT FRIDAY…
* Locations…Areas of Virginia east of the Blue Ridge
* Hazards…Frost.
* Temperatures…Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
* Timing…3AM to 9AM Friday.
* Impacts…Unprotected sensitive vegetation may be damaged or
killed.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A Frost Advisory means that frost is expected. Sensitive outdoor
plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Central Virginia Blue Ridge
By Tommy Stafford
Don’t throw in the towel just yet on the fall colors! Some pretty brilliant colors are starting to emerge in the higher elevations of locations across the Central Virginia Blue Ridge. A very dry late summer has hurt some of the brilliance, but there’s still plenty of leaves on the trees and lots of color starting to appear.
With frost likely over the next couple of nights, that should enhance the chances for even more color in the coming days.
Enjoy!
Tornado Watch – scroll for county outlines
URGENT – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Tornado Watch Number 509
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
540 PM EDT Mon Oct 23 2017
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Tornado Watch for portions of
Central North Carolina
Southern Virginia
* Effective this Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning from 540 PM
until 200 AM EDT.
* Primary threats include…
A couple tornadoes possible
Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
SUMMARY…Bands of storms including some embedded supercells will
continue to steadily progress east/northeastward this evening with
damaging winds and a few tornadoes possible.
The tornado watch area is approximately along and 85 statute miles
north and south of a line from 25 miles west southwest of Roanoke VA
to 20 miles north northeast of Rocky Mount NC. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
REMEMBER…A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for
tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch
area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for
threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements
and possible warnings.
TORNADO WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WT 509
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
540 PM EDT MON OCT 23 2017
TORNADO WATCH 509 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT FOR THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
VAC007-009-011-015-019-023-025-029-031-035-037-045-049-063-067-
071-077-081-083-089-111-117-121-125-135-141-143-147-155-161-163-
197-530-590-595-640-678-680-690-750-770-775-790-820-240600-
/O.NEW.KWNS.TO.A.0509.171023T2140Z-171024T0600Z/
VA
. VIRGINIA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
AMELIA AMHERST APPOMATTOX
AUGUSTA BEDFORD BOTETOURT
BRUNSWICK BUCKINGHAM CAMPBELL
CARROLL CHARLOTTE CRAIG
CUMBERLAND FLOYD FRANKLIN
GILES GRAYSON GREENSVILLE
HALIFAX HENRY LUNENBURG
MECKLENBURG MONTGOMERY NELSON
NOTTOWAY PATRICK PITTSYLVANIA
PRINCE EDWARD PULASKI ROANOKE
ROCKBRIDGE WYTHE
VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT CITIES INCLUDED ARE
BUENA VISTA DANVILLE EMPORIA
GALAX LEXINGTON LYNCHBURG
MARTINSVILLE RADFORD ROANOKE
SALEM STAUNTON WAYNESBORO
$$
Schuyler
Nelson County, Virginia
By Tommy Stafford
The fans have gone and Richard Thomas is headed home after a fun and memory filled weekend in Schuyler, Virginia. It marked the 25th anniversary of the Waltons Mountain Museum and several different events gave fans a chance to have pictures made with Thomas and get his autograph. We told you about his arrival in this post on Friday – October 20, 2017.
Todd Hobson was able to give Thomas a ride to Schuyler in his old Model A Ford that was very similar to one used in the TV series. “He was a very nice person who truly seemed to appreciate all of the Virginia hospitality,” Todd told us.
Thanks Richard for coming back and visiting Nelson. We hope to see you again soon!
Nellysford
Nelson County, Virginia
Back in the summer of 2011 we told you about the progress on Nelson County’s first hard cider company, Bold Rock. Since that time they’ve had several expansions including the largest back in 2013. That’s when the current production facility and large tasting room on the hill were built.
“It’s an Innovation / Barrell Room. The unique part of this is it’s the original barn that John and I first built when John and I built when we first decided to do cider here. And so for the first two years of our existence of Bold Rock we did everything out of this barn. And what is now that little entranceway and the toilets were once our office and John and his wife and I sat there for years in the offices and did what we had to do. So in a way it’s sort of a coming of age and back to the past, and revitalize this whole barn. It’s a very interesting place for visitors to come,” Brian tells Marcie.
Above listen to Marcie’s compete interview with Brian Shanks about all of the very neat additions being made at Bold Rock.
What we want to do here really is concentrate on making some very unique and unusual ciders. We’ve done the hard yards and now we want to have fun producing ciders. We’re looking at the possibility of putting in a small still and doing fortified ciders. It opens up a whole new range and we can keep it separately from our mainstream cider making up in the main cidery. So it’s just a place we can have some fun, experiment, and do things and also return to history. I feel really near when I come and stand here because this is where we started and now we can put some of the most interesting ciders that are going to be available here,” Brian says.
Brian tells us the retail space up front is ready now, but the barrel area in the back won’t be completes for several more weeks with hopes to be making lots of unique ciders there in time for Christmas.”As you can see, we’ve go the front part of it working now. The retail part of it’s working even though the building’s not quite finished on the front. But the rest of it we’re aiming to get cleared out and our equipment, barrels and tanks and have our own little bottling plant here and hopefully a still. That will all be arriving in the first two weeks of November. Hopefully in producing of some interesting things coming out of here in production before Christmas in December.”
In addition to the new Innovation and Barrel Room, Bold Rock held their 2nd Annual Fall Festival this past weekend.
Marcie grabbed lots of shot from that while there chatting with Brian.
Martins Store
Nelson County, Virginia
A mid afternoon crash Friday backed up traffic for a considerable length of time along Route 151 at the intersection of Route 6 – River Road. According to witnesses there a tractor trailer and a passenger car collided at the intersection. Some injuries were reported, but the extent of those injuries wasn’t known.
As of late afternoon Friday the accident scene had been cleared.
Schuyler
Nelson County, Virginia
The last time Richard Thomas of The Waltons was in Schuyler, Virginia was back in the early 1970s when the television series was just becoming a sensation. He slipped in and visited with the mother of the late Earl Hamner, Jr. who created the popular long running television series.
Above, Richard Thomas greets fans from the porch of The Waltons Hamner House. It’s the home where the late Earl Hamner, Jr grew up. His childhood experiences there inspired the creation of the television series.
The ribbon cutting kicks off an entire weekend of events in Schuyler featuring Richard Thomas. Click here to see the entire schedule.
Augusta County, Virginia
“Virginia State Police Trooper C. Wasznicky is investigating a fatal pedestrian crash in Augusta County. The crash occurred at 12:38 p.m., in the southbound lanes of Interstate 81 at the 226 mile marker.
As Roger L. Johnson, 62, of Verona, Va., was driving south on I-81, a cooler fell off of his vehicle. He pulled onto the right shoulder, parked his vehicle, and ran into the southbound lanes to retrieve the item. A southbound tractor-trailer swerved in an attempt to avoid Johnson, who was in the center of the interstate lanes. But when the tractor-trailer swerved to the left, so did Johnson. Johnson was subsequently struck by the tractor-trailer.
The tractor-trailer driver immediately pulled off onto the left shoulder and stopped at the scene.
Johnson died at the scene.
Corinne N. Geller
Public Relations Director
Virginia State Police”
FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT WEDNESDAY
URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC
219 PM EDT Tue Oct 17 2017
District of Columbia-Washington-Frederick MD-Carroll-
Northern Baltimore-Prince Georges-Charles-St. Marys-
Central and Eastern Allegany-Northwest Montgomery-
Central and Southeast Montgomery-Northwest Howard-
Central and Southeast Howard-Northwest Harford-Frederick VA-Page-
Warren-Clarke-Nelson-Albemarle-Greene-Madison-Rappahannock-Orange-
Culpeper-Prince William/Manassas/Manassas Park-Fairfax-
Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria-Stafford-Spotsylvania-
Northern Fauquier-Southern Fauquier-Western Loudoun-
Eastern Loudoun-Hampshire-Morgan-Berkeley-Jefferson-Hardy-
Including the cities of Washington, Hagerstown, Frederick,
Ballenger Creek, Eldersburg, Westminster, Reisterstown,
Cockeysville, Bowie, Suitland-Silver Hill, Clinton, College Park,
Greenbelt, Laurel, Camp Springs, St. Charles, Waldorf,
Lexington Park, California, Cumberland, Germantown, Damascus,
Bethesda, Rockville, Gaithersburg, Silver Spring, Lisbon,
Columbia, Ellicott City, Jarrettsville, Winchester, Luray,
Shenandoah, Stanley, Front Royal, Berryville, Lovingston,
Charlottesville, Stanardsville, Madison, Orange, Gordonsville,
Culpeper, Dale City, Manassas, Woodbridge, Lake Ridge, Montclair,
Reston, Herndon, Annandale, Centreville, Chantilly, McLean,
Franconia, Arlington, Alexandria, Falmouth, Fredericksburg,
Warrenton, Turnbull, Purcellville, Leesburg, Ashburn, Sterling,
Romney, Paw Paw, Martinsburg, Charles Town, Shepherdstown,
and Moorefield
219 PM EDT Tue Oct 17 2017
…FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT
WEDNESDAY…
* TEMPERATURES…Dropping into the mid 30s by dawn, especially
away from larger bodies of water and urban areas.
* IMPACTS…A Frost Advisory means that widespread frost is
expected. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left
uncovered.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A Frost Advisory means that widespread frost is expected.
Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
