December 16, 2010
ShareNelson County, Virginia Updated 5:30 PM EDT : Nelson County Public Schools will be closed on Friday 12.17.10 due to snow and ice. Though Nelson County has already seen a dusting of snow this season, Thursday’s was the first widespread appreciable snow so far. The snow began just after daylight and continued for much of [...]
December 6, 2010
ShareBlue Ridge Parkway Nelson County, Virginia Who could ever forget the winter of 2009-2010? We sure haven’t! Regardless of the winter in the valley, it can be brutal up in the mountains along the Blue Ridge Parkway. So just how do you know if it’s open between the gates or not? You check our our [...]
March 17, 2010
ShareBlue Ridge Parkway Nelson County, Virginia For the first time in months, all of The Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia is now open. The December 19th blizzard shut the parkway down for weeks. It briefly opened for a few days then another series of storms kept it closed in Nelson until Tuesday of this week [...]
February 22, 2010
ShareBlue Ridge Parkway Nelson County, Virginia Lots of locals and many visitors use the Blue Ridge Parkway as a means of getting around a little quicker, even in the winter months when it’s open. The BRP hasn’t been open very much since the December 19th snow that dumped 2 feet and then some along the [...]
February 16, 2010
ShareNelson County, Virginia It wasn’t much and it didn’t last very long, but it was just enough to cause a bunch of headaches Monday across Nelson County. Snow began falling Monday morning in the area and by noon most roads were covered, slick, and hazardous. This starts the third week that Nelson County Public Schools [...]
February 10, 2010
ShareNelson County, Virginia Around 3-5 inches of snow fell overnight in Nelson County, Virginia. No new story there, it’s one of many snows this winter season. But people in Nelson awoke to very gusty winds blowing the snow all over the place. Ann Strober of Nellysford grabbed this shot Wednesday morning of the wind driven [...]
February 5, 2010
ShareNelson County, Virginia As we have been forecasting for the past several days, a major snowstorm started around daylight Friday and is expected to continue until Saturday night when the snow will finally end from west to east. To make matters worse, winds are expected to pick up after midnight Friday into Saturday, blowing the [...]
January 30, 2010
ShareNelson County, Virginia For the second time in just a little over a month Nelson County and much of Virginia has been slammed again with a significant snowfall. As of 1PM Saturday, a Winter Storm Warning continued and heavy snow was falling all across the area. Roads conditions across the area are described as slick [...]
December 23, 2009
ShareNelson County, Virginia After last weekend’s major snowfall across Nelson and the entire state, primary roads here in Nelson are in good shape. Most of the major highways are completely ice and snow free. Many secondary roads, however, have ice and snow remaining. The landscape and mountainous areas of Nelson have plenty of snow remaining. [...]
December 21, 2009
ShareNelson County, Virginia Many roads have improved since the blizzard that hit Nelson County over the weekend, but many are still in very bad shape. For this reason all non-essential government offices here in Nelson County have been closed. Nelson EMS Director, Ray Uttaro notified us of the information this morning via our NCL Facebook [...]