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Bywaters, supervisor at the Highway Department’s Washington maintenance shop. The areas hardest hit were around Slate Mills and down Route 729, he said. Crews were back out early Friday morning to clear downed limbs and will continue working this week on grinding up brush. “I’ve never seen the wind blow that hard before,” Bywaters added.
According to Dennis Wingfield, channel four’s weather watcher in Sperryville, northwest gusts reached 45 to 50 miles per hour there.
High winds and falling branches did not cause any accidents in Rappahannock County, however, reported acting Sheriff John Henry Woodward. But deputies were on the road, he said, assisting highway crews in clearing trees and directing traffic after the temporary light on the Thornton River bridge near Sperryville went out.
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