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Weather was the big story for 1979 in Rappahannock. An angry Mother Nature used all the weapons in her arsenal, first dumping snow with high winds, then rain, rain and more rain and finally another unexpected blanket of wet snow on the county.
The "Blizzard of ’79” struck on Sunday and Monday, February 18 and 19, leaving over a foot of new snow on top of the layer of ice deposited by earlier storms.
Gusty winds piled up drifts that kept roads blocked for over 24 hours in some locations as highway crews battled around the clock to keep main thoroughfares passable. Temperatures that hung ten degrees below the freezing point for daytime highs complicated the highway department's recovery from the worst storm to hit the Washington, D. C. area in more than half a century. Schools in the county were shut down for almost two weeks giving students and teachers nightmares of classes until the Fourth of July.
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