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Resident Highway Engineer Don Askew estimated earlier on Thursday that road damage throughout the county totalled approximately $300,000. “We’ll never get them all back the way they're supposed to be...We’ll be into the snow season and we still won't be finished.'' he said, adding that the High way Department's primary objective was to get enough repairs done so people could get in and out to their homes.
Askew' reported that he was charging the costs of damage repair to a special emergency fund rather than tapping the county's $432,000 secondary road budget for 1979-80. "They opened up our charge for this particular storm...! hope the state will continue to give us relief.” he said.
According to Askew, the most severe damage occurred from Sperryville to Peola Mills along the Hazel, Hughes and Thornton Rivers. Sections of Route 231 in the F. T. Valley were still closed to through traffic as of Tuesday morning, September 4.
Moody Aylor's Old Mill Stables at Fletchers Mill on Beaver Dam Creek suffered what appears to be the most concentrated destruction. Aylor reported that his damages totalled approximately $20,000. One barn was swept completely away, a tack shop and tack repair building were picked up by the flood waters, carried and deposited in u new location and Aylor’s blacksmith shop was carried and smashed into trees. A silo, warehouse building and hundreds of feet of fencing were all ruined.
Pointing to a field littered with uprooted trees, rocks an<J boulders, Aylor recalled that the area had been rock
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