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The Monongahela River crested at 42.7 ft (13.0 m), or 10.7 ft (3.3 m) above flood state in Brownsville, and rose 18 ft (5.5 m) above flood stage in Greensboro. [7] In the latter city, the peak discharge rate was 220,000 cu ft (6,200 m 3 ), 60% greater than the previous record, and downstream at Elizabeth , the peak discharge was 178,000 cu ft ...
Free Union is a census-designated place (CDP) in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States, [1] ten miles north-northwest of Charlottesville. The population as of the 2020 Census was 187. [ 2 ] It is a small hamlet consisting of a private school (Free Union Country School), a doctor's office, a post office, a homebuilder, and several dozen homes.
Zillow Group, Inc., or simply Zillow, is an American tech real-estate marketplace company that was founded in 2006 [4] by co-executive chairmen Rich Barton [5] and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia; Spencer Rascoff, a co-founder of Hotwire.com; David Beitel, Zillow's current chief technology officer; and Kristin Acker, Zillow's current ...
A weather battle zone marking the northern edge of extreme heat and more temperate air will set the stage for torrential downpours to repeat along a 1,200-mile-long zone from Kansas to West ...
Between July 26 and August 1, 2022, widespread and catastrophic flooding swept through portions of eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia, and southern West Virginia. 45 people died from the floods. Entire homes and parts of some communities were swept away by flood waters, leading to costly damage to infrastructure in the region.
Unlike the marshy areas upstream, at these points the river's channel is limited, and flood stages can be reached very quickly. This occurred during Hurricane Floyd in 1999, and again in October 2006, after an unnamed Nor'-Easter storm dumped 10 inches (25 cm) of rain on the region.
Throughout the state, Hurricane Isabel resulted in a damage total of $1.85 billion (2003 USD, $2.17 billion 2008 USD). [3] The hurricane destroyed more than 1,186 homes and 77 businesses, severely damaged 9,110 homes and 333 businesses, and left 107,908 homes and over 1,000 businesses with minor damage.
Fluvanna County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,249. [1] Its county seat is Palmyra, [2] while the most populous community is the census designated place of Lake Monticello.