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washouts in Nelson and Amherst bounties. Work on its repair >egan August 21. Along a three-mile portion outh of Woods Mill, the lockfish River and Davis and Muddy Creeks had washed away whole sections of highway, severely damaged what was left, md strewn all of it with debris. By August 28, US 29 had been apened from Lynchburg to Lovingston, seven miles south of Woods Mill, with use restricted to local traffic and flood relief vehicles.
South of Woods Mill, repairs varied from total replacement to repaving to debris removal. By September 12, two of the four) lanes from Woods Mill to Lovingston had been reopened to normal traffic.
On September 29, less than six weeks after the storm, all four lanes were in use. The off-roadway work remained.
The other main primary routes with flood damage were VA 56 and VA 151. From the intersection with VA 151 west, VA 56 was unusable for about 17 miles -- half destroyed, the rest inaccessible. One-way trails were opened by early September, and full service was restored gradually.
VA 151 had sections of highway scoured from the sides
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