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Disasters Threaten Even
This Gentle Countryside
Since the world began, nature has been able to undo in a flash what civilization has painstakingly constructed for centuries. Other disasters merely try the patience and courage of those they visit. Rappahannock, although in one of the most temperate regions on earth in a land of gently rolling hills and fertile valleys, has had its share of weather-related and natural disasters starting as far back as there were people here in the Blue Ridge foothills.
1740 - The greatest snow ever produced, according to a history of the Shenandoah Valley.
1749 - The Potomac flooded at its headwaters; surely Rappahannock experienced flood.
1772 - Another severe winter, reported bv Lord Fairfax. In the valley, snow lay on the ground at a depth of four feet for over a month.
1849 - In July, ministers called for a day of prayer and fasting to implore God to halt the spread of cholera over the land.
1852 - The Hazel River flooded so severely in April that its course was changed.
1870 - Rain fell for three days following the melting of three inches of a late spring snow. Rev. Barnett Grimsley of Mt. Salem Church said in his diary that the streams were higher than they had been in 10 years.
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