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for Beam is the winter weather in Rappahannock County. When bad weather is expected, Beam monitors it closely on the weather service.

When snow falls overnight, he and school superintendent Dr. Robert Chappell are out by 5:15 a.m. checking the worst roads in the county,

Gid Brown Hollow, Rock Mills, the Chester Gap area—if these are in too poor a condition to travel by car, they don’t want buses traveling them.

“Really it is not as much buses getting stuck in the snow, it is more what will slide into the buses,” said Beam.

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