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Hurricane Connie
Knock; Off Apples,
Downs Trees, Wires
Hurricane Connie arrived Friday night in a rush of strong winds pushing before them gushes of # rain. Steady rain and a gradual darkening of the sky, with increasing winds, had announced her approach and arrival. \ V
In the night she moved on leaving in her wake uprooted trees,’ bent TV antennas and pools of water under forgotten windows. A large number of apple trees were lost, but the greater damage to the fruit grower was in blowing the apples off the trees. C. E. Johnson, Jr., SperryviDe, lost at feast 40 to 50 trees in his orchards. H. T. Updike of Washington, lost 20 of his best trees from his orchard behind his home. All reported a costly loss in apples blown off. %
Electricity was off only briefly in most of the county. Many phones were dead as limbs became entangled in the lines.
Though less damaging than her sister, Hazel, the uninvited~Connie made a destructive visit to Rappahannock. It is a fervent that Diane-bypasses the county, for with the long preface of rain, die would perhaps be the! most damaging, guest ■ . ' 1
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