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Although Hurricane Winds did little damage county last week, the rains that accompanied her and followed in her wake, coupled with those that Hurricane Connie brought^ poured into the county riven, until they surged over the banks into fields and roads making new channels at will. ■ i The powerful waten ate great chunks from the roads, at places stripping them down to bed roak. The damage to county roads was, . roughly estimated at $40,000 or $50,000. State road fbnje men worked from “can” to “can’t”, making it possible for the stranded families to get out, but even “then we.re.nto able to makjethem "open” fp^travel. ... Among the hardesthit 'of the roads were the Old Hollow* Road, Schwartz’ Hollow, the Harris Hollow Road, the Rock MillsHope Hill Road, Peola Mills) Nethers Mill Road and the Clark .Hollow Road in Wakefield district. On the Foddcrstack Road, at Cooper’s Hole, waten flooded the road, and lapped at the win; dows of Mrs. Joe Donald’s hoipe.
In Sperryville the Thornton River was reported to have crept into Cab Inn. In Peola Mills eight families moved across the river before the roads became impassable. Everywhere bridges fpll *and basements filled. Many of the old timen said it was “the Wont we have seen”, othen “as bad as in 1942*. ^
The county was hard hit, but it blessed by not having any fing in Marshall Tuesday
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