Wintergreen Nelson County, Virginia Tommy Stafford The calendar says fall doesn’t officially start until this coming Tuesday (September 22nd) at 9:30 AM EDT. However, it was certainly priming the pump Saturday morning when our Nature Foundation At Wintergreen WeatherNow station on Devils Knob (3500′) hit a morning low of 35° around sunrise. Our Devils Knob […]
Crimora Augusta County, Virginia Release from Virginia State Police – Richmond At 2:21 a.m. Saturday (Sept. 5), Virginia State Police responded to a single-vehicle crash in Augusta County. A vehicle traveling in the 2000 block of Eastside Highway in Crimora ran off the road and crashed. There is one confirmed fatality. The crash remains under […]
The Rose Garden Washington, D.C. In a most prestigious honor, Saunders Brothers, Inc located in Nelson County was the exclusive provider of boxwoods in The Rose Garden at The White House in Washington, D.C. “We were honored to be the sole supplier of boxwood in the recent renovation of The White House Rose Garden. The […]
Central Virginia Blue Ridge By Tommy Stafford Hurricane Laura is now a tropical depression that’s been bringing heaving rain and some tornadoes to the mid-south region of the US over the last 24 hours. A tornado caused damage near Jonesboro, Arkansas as the tropical depression moved north. Over the next 24 hours TD Laura will […]
Central Virginia Blue Ridge By Tommy Stafford Most of us have been watching early Thursday as Hurricane Laura came ashore in Louisiana. As she made landfall the storm was a very strong category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 MPH. That nearly makes Laura a category 5 storm. Winds of 156 MPH or greater would […]
Verbatim release from VSP: Virginia State Police Trooper N.E. Hollandsworth is investigating a fatal pedestrian crash in Amherst County. The crash occurred Aug. 14, 2020 at 8:26 p.m. in the 4900 block of South Amherst Highway/Route 29 Business in Madison Heights. A 2008 Toyota Scion was traveling north in the right lane of South […]
Roseland Nelson County, Virginia I’ll admit it. I felt nothing. But our neighbors down the road sent me a text. “Did you just feel that, was that an earthquake?” Apparently it was. A magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit near Sparta, North Carolina around 8:07 AM. Our BRL Facebook page is lighting up with comments from all […]
…FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED… District of Columbia-Nelson-Albemarle-Greene-Madison-Orange- Culpeper-Prince William/Manassas/Manassas Park-Fairfax- Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria-Southern Fauquier- Northern Virginia Blue Ridge-Central Virginia Blue Ridge- Including the cities of Washington, Lovingston, Charlottesville, Stanardsville, Madison, Orange, Gordonsville, Culpeper, Dale City, Manassas, Woodbridge, Lake Ridge, Montclair, Reston, Herndon, Annandale, Centreville, Chantilly, McLean, Franconia, Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, Turnbull, Big Meadows, and […]
FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING Flood Watch National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC 246 AM EDT Thu Aug 6 2020 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-Augusta-Nelson-Albemarle-Orange- Prince William/Manassas/Manassas Park-Fairfax- Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria-Stafford-Spotsylvania- King George-Northern Fauquier-Southern Fauquier-Western […]
A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for the areas shaded in green from Monday afternoon into Tuesday evening. For the absolute latest updates from NWS, click on the image above. Nelson-Albemarle-Greene-Northern Virginia Blue Ridge- Central Virginia Blue Ridge- Including the cities of Lovingston, Charlottesville, Stanardsville, Big Meadows, and Wintergreen 801 AM EDT Tue Aug […]
