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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Kappahttnnock News Staff Writer
“It’s a double whammy!” announced a disgruntled resident highway engineer as he surveyed the damage left in the wake of last Tuesday’s downpour. “The flooding and the thawing both. We’ve got a mess here,” said Don Askew.
“But we’ve got to look at the bright side,” he continued. “Six inches of rain would have been 72 inches of snow. We wouldn’t have been able to even find Rappahannock County if that had happened!”
Askew said last Thursday that he’d originally estimated flood damages to the county’s roads at about $75,000. “But after a closer look, 1 think it’s up there in the $100,000-1125,000 range.”
The cost will be considerably less than after the Sperryville storm in 1979 that dumped 12 inches in a much smaller area, essentially two hollows above the village. “We lost bridges in that one,” the resident engineer noted. “We’re real for
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