April 19, 2007
ShareWas out at Wintergreen Winery yesterday. Jeff and the entire crew were bottling lots of their wines when I was over there. In the photos below they were bottling their Thomas Nelson White. Yummy! Photos: Tommy Stafford – Nelson County Life Magazine You might notice something a little different in the label too. Yep, they [...]
April 19, 2007
ShareGood Thursday morning! A pretty uneventful day on tap for most of the area. If you think it’s been a cool or cold several weeks you are right. Was reading the discussion this morning from the NWS office in DC / Sterling: Past 12 days balt (Baltimore) as cold as ever recorded. District of Columbia [...]
April 18, 2007
ShareUpdated 12:33 pm We got this from Jennie just moments ago: Hello again from a very somber Blacksburg, Virginia. I wrote yesterday as comments to the story about the shootings here at Virginia Tech. The things I wrote on the Nelson County Life site were apparently picked up by a website, cybersoc.com, that was picked [...]
April 18, 2007
ShareGood Wednesday to everyone, Did you hear that last night? Yea, me too, nothing! For the first time in days the wind wasn’t howling. Yea, we still had some breezes, but nothing terrible. Wednesday look for partly cloudy skies and temps working toward near 60 degrees valley – around 50 mountains. A stray shower in [...]
April 17, 2007
ShareUpdated: 4.17.07 1:54 PM EDT We’re back on! CVEC just restored power to this area of Greenfield. The latest from CVEC’s website as of 11:30 AM E Tuesday – April 17, 2007 11:30 AM Crews have made good progress and appear to be closing in on the goal of restoring power to all CVEC members. [...]
April 16, 2007
ShareGood Monday evening, What an interesting 24 hours this has been across Nelson and Central Virginia. Rather than just being a simple weather update I am including several items in this evening’s post. First we want to send out a big thank you to Jennie Tal. She knocked it out of the park today and [...]
April 16, 2007
ShareUpdate on status oif CVEC repairs countywide. 4/16/07 1:30 PM EDT Additional update for power outage status via CVEC. Just got an e-mail from Greg Kelly at CVEC. Here is their link to show exactly the status of their outages and repairs. Thanks Greg for the info! Previous posts: Updated 4.16.07 12:55 PM EDT Know [...]
April 16, 2007
ShareJennie Tal just sent us this via comments. The numbers … my goodness. BTW an official VT presser is confirming the 20+ fatality figures. Ok, Second update. Apparently one of my freinds was shot in the leg at WAJ, the dorm shooting this morning. I have heard he was shot in the leg, he’s an [...]
April 15, 2007
ShareGood Sunday & Monday, As I predicted in my earlier post today, the guys at NWS in DC / Sterling finally decided it was time to issue a high wind warning for tonight beginning at 8PM EDT until 2PM EDT Tuesday morning. I have no idea why these guys never saw the same data I [...]
April 15, 2007
ShareUpdated 4.15.07 12:38 PM EDT for flood watch expiration @ 4PM Flood watch will remain in effect until 4PM EDT. Far southern counties may even hear a clap of thunder as a warm front is down there in the vicinity creating dynamics favorable for thundershowerrs and moderate to heavy rain. Generally speaking we have seen [...]