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ered highways and back roads to bring doctors, nurses and hospital staff to their jobs.
The next morning, farmers were out early with tractors and plows to open a path to hungry livestock. When they finished tending their animals, they stayed out all day Saturday and Sunday, clearing snow from neighbors’ driveways and lanes.
Those who had vehicles that could make it through the drifts brought food and medicine to the homebound. Welfare department workers and a Rappahannock deputy carried kerosene toa household without electricity. Neighbors trudged across fields to feed pets and keep the fires burning for families that couldn’t make it home. Older people who live alone were checked on regularly. Modern “knights” on horseback lunged through snowbanks to carry milk; bread and other necessities to snow-locked residences.
We could go on and on. The list of the county’s storm of ’83 heroes is a long one. Congratulations people of Rappahannock for showing us the best that is too often hidden in us all.
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