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■"iii i8* 4>*i.^.v,vt By Naomi Smoot-Kimble Rappahannock New* Staff Writer . > Rappahannock County dodged Hurricane ‘• Isabel only to be hit with relentness rain and flooding earlier this week which left three motorists in jeopardy, one clinging for life on a , telephone pole. f Isabel caused the county little damage except a power outage which left many residents in the dark, some for days. / . But then out of nowhere came another storm Monday night, one which residents worried little over until, according to the National Weather Service, it dumped an additional 3.45 inches of rain in some parts of the county overnight, with five inches having already fallen last week. ». 6|l: It was then Rappahannock saw the flooding it had braced for only five days earlier, as f . rivers swelled from their banks, with flooding, p/in several locations in the county. This storm, said Rappahannock Sheriff Larry Sherertz, | left one motorist stranded and three vehicles inoperable. John Woodward, Chief of Castleton's Fire Department, said one resident, Charles William Allison III, became stranded near ' Laurel Mills store after leaving his home in !’ Amissville for work at 4:30 Tuesday morning, jp* Traveling down Route 818 in the dark morning hours, Allison came upon a flooded