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By ARCOM Newspapers
The worst flooding in four decades left a multimillion dollar path of destruction last week in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
Hundreds were left homeless by the raging Shenandoah which was pushed far beyond its banks by several successive days of hard rains. Local estimates in Clarke and Warren counties show the river was nearly five feet higher at its peak last week than during the flooding brought on in 1972 by Hurricane Agnes.
The 1985 flood almost matches in magnitude the great floods of 1942 and 1936.
Local officials estimated Warren County suffered by far the worst damage with $8.2 million worth of homes and furnishings damaged or destroyed. Clarke County, which is down river from Warren but has far fewer residences in the river’s flood plain, suffered an estimated $848,000 worth of damage.
Several homes were completely covered with water and many pushed from their foundation in the river section of Shenandoah Farms subdivision, which straddles the Clarke-Warren line along the banks of the Shenandoah.
Evans-Smith denied trial
Convicted murderer William “Bull” Evans-Smith was denied a new trial in Loudoun Circuit Court last Thursday.
But the former American University official — who has maintained innocence for his wife Barbara’s murder — will appeal his case until acquitted, a defense lawyer said.
“Clearly, we will keep going until we get a new trial or a judgment of acquittal,” defense lawyer David H.
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