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While the Gorfeins were swept away in their light pickup, it took a fire department tanker track to plow through Harris Hollow and return five people to the comforts of home.
Rescue squadsmen stopped traffic and closed Va. 622 during efforts to pluck Henry and Merideth Gorfein from the hard-charging river.
For Mary Beth Rustic, her boyfriend and her daughter, that posed a problem; how to get up the mountain to her cabin above Harris Hollow.
Mary Beth was returning from Culpeper Sunday night when she came upon the rescue scene. It was about 10 p.m. The weekend rain turned the Rush River into something “like a white water rapids washing through Harris Hollow.”
In front of her car was that of a young man whose car was washed into a ditch and no longer operational.
Rustic decided it was best to heed warnings of squadsmen.
Had she tried to ford the
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