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closed for more than a week, as VDOT crews had problems clearing drifts from the roads. Then rain combined with the rapidly melting snow created floods Jan. 18 and 19, washing out many areas recently repaired from flooding in June, 1995.

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The county got up to eight inches of rain with winds of up to 40 miles per hour as Hurricane Fran came through Friday, Sept. 6. Flooding was heaviest in the Thornton River watershed, both in Sperryville and in Old Hollow. Also hard hit were areas near the Madison County line. Again the county was applying to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help in clearing debris from county streams. Many customers lost electric power, some for

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