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By CINDY MAHAN
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Last Saturday night’s storm made a big impact on the county.
About 9 p.m. that night a large white tent set up on the patio at the Bleu Rock Inn and tethered by six 55-gallon drums full of water was lifted by the wind and set atop the Inn. Employee Kay Kohler said that the diners inside the restaurant watched outside the windows as the tent rose up and landed on the roof, and bounced around up there for a while along with one of the drums full of water. “It was frightening,” she said, adding that the noise from it was amazing.
The tent had been set up for a wedding reception held there that afternoon. Now on the roof, the poles are bent every which way. Mrs. Kohler thought it must have been a little twister as part of the storm. A weeping willow growing at the base of the pond was felled completely, and a huge limb from a nearby cherry tree was hit by lightning and on the ground.
Bleu Rock Inn owner Bernard Campagne said that a lot of people at his restaurant left that night before having dessert.
Beth Gall at RCHS said that the Channel 4 weather center there recorded a peak gust for Saturday night of 43 mph at 9:31 p.m. with rain measured for the weekend at 1.7 inches, while Dennis Wingfield measured 37 mph as the peak gust in Sperryville with a total rainfall of 2.1 inches.
Also in Sperryville, west of Bleu Rock Inn on U.S. 211, two of Gray Armistead’s Angus cattle were grazing together when they were struck by lightning. When the vet came out, said Mr. Armistead, he commented that he had never seen cattle hit by lightning who still had grass in their mouths.
On land further west down U.S. 211 in Sperryville, a cow owned by John Marshall Clark stepped on a downed power line and was electrocuted.
At David and Marilyn Armor’s Sharp Rock Farm near Nethers, one of their large
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