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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Despite dire predictions on the 11 o’clock news last Thursday night of the impending arrival of Hurricane Hugo sometime Friday, the storm took a more westerly track and spared most of Piedmont Virginia.
The county’s Local Emergency Operations Plan was implemented Thursday afternoon by chairman of the Board of Supervisors Hubert Gilkey and Sheriff John Henry Woodward after advisories from the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Florida predicted that the storm’s path would bring it north through Central Virginia sometime Friday.
With forecasts calling for five to 10 inches of rain, winds of 30 to 50 miles per hour and gusts of 70 mph, with localized flooding likely, county officials felt the prudent course of action was to prepare for the worst, according to Emergency Services Coordinator Col. Dieter Knuepfer.
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