Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 1 · column 6 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved
guesses that the vehicle, which has neither four-wheel drive nor chains, belongs to a commuter returning early from a job in the metropolitan area. “These guys from over in the valley who work down country, it’s dangerous to be out here when they come over the mountain. But I’ve never seen a one of them stuck!”
Five minutes from the top, highway department plows in tandem roll by in the opposite lane. We reach the summit, Mr. Jenkins stops beneath an underpass to clean the windshield yet again and then swings a u-turn where the FauquierRappahannock territory ends. Already, the path cleared by the two plows is obliterated by the rapidly falling snow.
An hour later, Mr. Jenkins drops his passenger off at the maintenance lot and heads back to the mountain. “I guess I’ll be doing this all day, if you want another ride.”
There’s no business like snow business
“We had a snow like this a couple of years ago. We got the roads cleared. We had everything under control, and then we had another snow and a freeze on top of that. The
(Continued on Page 3)
85.1%