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By M. SEAN KILPATRICK
Kappahannock News Staff Writer
It snowed. Boy, did it snow!
People who have been in Rappahannock County for a couple of decades can tell you it has snowed longer and harder in the past and the drifts have been deeper and wider.
But this certainly was enough snow to last the rest of the year.
Sperryville’s weather observer Dennis Wingfield reported that about 16 inches of snow fell during the storm, which began late Friday night and continued until Sunday morning.
All last Friday weather reporters were forecasting blizzard conditions throughout the region. For once they were right. Mr. Wingfield recorded wind gusts as high as 36 miles per hour during the storm and an all-time barametric low of 28.07 inches, a reading normally found in the eye of large hurricanes.
The cold, biting wind drove the snow into huge drifts throughout the county, leaving many roads impassable until Tuesday afternon.
Ron Marshall, maintenance chief for VDOT’s Rappahannock Office, said the last blocked roads, Route 618 up the side of Red oak Mountain near Woodville, and Route 629 in Bean Hollow were opened Wednesday.
Schools remained closed on Wednesday. Dr. David Gangel, superintendent of schools, said he would give the highway department a list of bus turnaround points. “Once they have been cleared and the buses can turn around, I will reSee
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