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neighbors in Warren County required Virginia National Guard assistance to evacuate snow-bound mountain residents. According to the Water Resources Research Center at Rig Meadows, this section of Virginia has experienced as little as 18 inches during the winter of 1949/50 to 81 V-i inches in 1960/01 and the greatest daily accumulation on record is .‘W inches in March, 1962.
Other natural hazards we have experienced and, unfortunately, must expect again are ice storms, windstorms, lightning, tornados, hurricanes, forest fires, landslides, mudslides, earthquakes and drought.
The most likely manmade disasters that might occur within county limits are hazardous material spills and multi-casualty vehicular accidents. Also, because of our close promixity to Dulles and National Airports the possibility of a commercial air crash is relatively substantial. Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, J. Richard Latham, when interviewed, said “Of particular concern to me is the concentration of people at the Aileen plant, the schools and the trailer court in
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