Oops!
As I walked towards my Jeep Wrangler Thursday morning I noticed the “12″ and “09.” “Oh hell,” I muttered. My inspection sticker expired at the end of the day. I called Joey Kaylor at Protocol Automotive. After giving me an expected ration of grief for waiting until the last day for an inspection he said [...]
Not much of a storm
Compared to what we’ve received in the last two “winter events” (as the National Weather Service calls them), the “wintry mix” that fell overnight was a little snow and a smidgen of ice and not much else. Some areas got more ice than snow and some just got rain. Roanoke and the New River Valley [...]
Here we go again
The National Weather Service says a “wintry mix” will hit here in the wee hours of Thursday morning and that could includes a mix of freezing rain, sleet and snow. The forecast led owners of The Floyd County Store to pull the plug on a planned New Year’s Eve dinner and dance and other venues [...]
Are we losing the Floyd County way?
Bad weather brings out the best and worst of people. We saw the best in those who took the time to help neighbors stuck in snow or without power. On Christmas Even, I stopped to help two young men in a pickup who slid off the road after hitting a deer on U.S. 221. While [...]
Don’t relax: More bad weather coming
The snow may be melting (slowly) but most weather experts, along with the solid black woolly worms, say the worst is yet to come. Storms now sweeping across the Midwest will bring colder weather and more snow, freezing rain and ice to our area in the coming days, weeks and months. What does this mean [...]
Power restored to all Floyd County homes
(UPDATE: AEP reported power restored to all Floyd County homes by late Monday night. However, power remained out for more than 8,000 homes in Southwestern Virginia.) (UPDATE: AEP is losing groud. At 1 a.m. today, the company said power remained out at 383 Floyd County homes. By 7:30 a.m. the company’s storm page said 403 [...]
Many county homes lack power
(UPDATE: At 3:30 p.m. today the total number of homes without power in Floyd County stood at 1,231 or 13.9 percent of the 8,878 homes. AEP is now hedging on its earlier estimate that power will be restored to all homes by midnight Sunday.) More than 20 percent of Floyd County homes remain without power [...]
The ghosts of Christmases past
My muscles ache this morning, partly because of the weather and more from helping dig people out of snow for the past few days. I was late getting to my mother’s house on Christmas Eve because I stopped on U.S. 221 to help two young men get their pickup out of a snowbank after they [...]
Not much melting
After most snow storms in this part of the world, a few days of warmer temperatures and rain melt off the snow pretty fast but the storm that left up to two feet of the white stuff on Floyd County is stubborn and does not want to go away. The ice storm that hit Floyd [...]
AEP = Always Erratic Power
At least 3,300 Floyd Countians spent Christmas day without power because Appalachian Electric Power’s (AEP) ineffective management proved once again it can’t handle weather emergencies in our region. The ice storm that struck Southwestern Virginia in the early morning hours took out power to 5,430 homes in the Roanoke and Christiansburg Districts for the holiday [...]