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The highway department had its shovels full this week keeping county roads cleared of snow and ice as Rappahannock was swept by the “Blizzard of ’79,” the worst storm to hit the Washington, D. C., area in over half a century.
Snow started falling around noon on Sunday and kept up until early Monday, coming down at the rate of one to three inches per hour. At her weather station in Amissville, Lucille Riley recorded 18 inches on the ground with 11 inches of the total coming Sunday and Monday. At the highway department maintenance shop on Washington, personnel measured 14 inches on equipment when the snow finally stopped falling.
Gusty winds began late Sunday and continued until Monday afternoon, blowing new snow into three to five foot drifts that blocked the county’s secondary roads for
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