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must cross streams in order to ge home — to alter their plans.

Creek beds were saturated an< at least one single-vehicle acciden was reported as a result of th storm. A light pickup truck drivei by Henry Gorfine was swept into th< Rush River Sunday night when h< tried unsuccessfully to cross a bridgi washed out by the rising waters Neither he nor his wife, Meridetl Hatch Gorfine, a passenger in th« truck, were reported to be ipjuret as a result of the accident.

There were also reports o: flooded basements and power anc telephone outages scatterec throughout the county.

It was what weather forecasters predicted Hurricane Gloria would bring with her when she assaulted the East Coast in late September.

But the six-day period of the latest storm, combined with an October rainfall of some 6.7 inches, dumped more rain on this area than had been recorded in the first six months of the year.

Sperry ville weather watcher Dennis Wingfield reported that October and the first five days of November provided more rain to Rappahannock than had been recorded during the period from January to June.

In addition, Wingfield reports the latest rainfall is the heaviest at any one stretch “since I’ve been keeping records, and that’s been 20 years.”

The rain began Oct. 31 when 0.21 fell. On Friday, another 2.61 inches were recorded and Saturday’s rainfall measured 0.93 inches.

On Sunday, the county was hardest hit by the storm. Wingfield recorded 4.04 inches of rain Sunday, 3.26 inches Monday and 0.14 on Tuesday morning.

The threat of rain continued into Tuesday afternoon.

The storm, which blew in off the Atlantic Ocean pushed by westerly and northwesterly winds, soaked the Mid-Atlantic States over the weekend and was heading north into Pennsylvania by mid-week. Such a storm, Wingfield said,