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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Anutdd Newspaper* Staff Writer
The blacktop is white topped. Falling at a near blizzard rate of two inches per hour, the snow has turned dual laned Route 211 into a wagon track. High above the highway in the cab of the three-ton snow plow, we own the road. It’s 9:30 Thursday morning and already the 1,150 miles of road in the joint RappahannockFauquier residency are close to impassable. The storm of ’87 has begun.
"Some of the crews have been out since midnight. Others were called in when it started snowing, Trout 5 a.m. this morning,” reports Walter Jenkins, 18-year veteran of the Highway Department’s winter wars. "This could be a bad one,” he says, adding that predictions call for the storm to dump up to a foot of snow. “Then, if the wind picks up like it’s supposed to,” he says, shaking his head. “The wind is the worst - and ice is worse than that.”
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