RE: [at-l] flood mud

["Cora Drake" <cora_drake@hotmail.com>]

Rest assured.

jpj from northern VA

(my balcony faces west about 50 miles east of the mountains, and there was a 
light show with sound effects of humbling proportions last night, followed 
by an old-fashioned gully-washing; we've had pretty much a full week of 
off-and-on rain, some of it real impressive.)

>From: "W F Thorneloe, MD" <thornel@ibm.net>
>To: "FERGUSON J. MARK ... INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY" <ferguson@cwf.org>
>CC: "'kahley7'" <kahley7@ptd.net>,        "'at-l@backcountry.net'" 
><at-l@backcountry.net>
>Subject: RE: [at-l] flood mud
>Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 10:07:57 -0400
>
>I moved to Richomnd the year after Agnes. That little class 1 storm just
>parked over the mountains, over the James River drainage. I recall flooding
>was a big problem downstream, but whole mountainsides sliding with the
>weight of mud and muck. At least Dennis had the courtesy to dump and keep
>moving once it decided that Hatteras had been battered enough.
>
>I sure hope it rained enough to break the drought before my October trip in
>Central VA.
>
>OrangeBug
>Atlanta, GA
>
>At 08:45 AM 9/8/1999 -0400, FERGUSON J. MARK ... INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 
>wrote:
>>In the 1972 floods, as a member of the local volunteer fire department and
>>the Bucknell Outing Club (there, I made it hiking related), I helped with
>>the with the rescue and recovery.  Lake Lewisburg it was.  Rte 15 flooding
>>probably at Buffalo Creek at north end of town, least it happened there a
>>fair number of times.
>
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