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Rappahannock News photo/Lou Hauer THE THORNTON RIVER rages through Sperryville early Saturday morning, as John Shipman looks at the damage caused to his storage building by the erosion of the stream’s bank. The bushes sticking out of the water were growing on the river’s bank before Friday night’s rain.

County roads cut by flooding

‘Sheets of rain’fell at estimated 1 ’’per hour

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