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A Flood Watch is in effect from 11 a.m. Tuesday through the evening for parts of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia as showers and thunderstorms threaten the D.C. area.
A flash flood that swept through the city Sunday left streets looking like rivers and displaced about 50 residents of a West ...
The NWS Blacksburg VA released a flood watch at 2:36 a.m. on Sunday valid between 1 p.m. and 11 p.m. The watch is for Stokes, ...
Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin thinks the state can shoulder the burden, but Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Warner warns ...
More damaging to the Damascus economy than U.S. 58’s closure has been the devastation along the Virginia Creeper Trail, says town manager Chris Bell. More than 200,000 people annually use the trail ...
the eastern West Virginia panhandle, and surrounding areas, authorities announced. A flood watch is also in effect for the entire region, with forecasts predicting up to five inches of rain and the ...
and much of the Virginia Creeper Trail was washed away. Standing in downtown Damascus, David Phillips recalled the chaos of last September’s flood. “Where the creek actually is, it looked like ...
I crossed the silty flood-plain, stepping over shards of wrecked lives ... Outdoor tourism is even more essential to Damascus, where the Virginia Creeper and Appalachian Trails converge. On a recent ...
DAMASCUS, Va. – Vice President JD Vance on Monday traveled to Damascus, Virginia, a town on the southwestern edge of the state that was hit hard by Hurricane Helene in September. The visit was ...
DAMASCUS, Va. (WDBJ) - With Vice President J.D. Vance ... He shared his story from the day of the flood with WDBJ. He and his wife were at the home of his 87-year-old mother and were unable ...
A couple of things that seemed to matter the most to the people of Damascus was this incredible bike trail [Virginia Creeper Trail] and hiking trail that runs along these mountains. It’s a major ...
That includes those in Tennessee and also those in Damascus.” According to Vance, roughly $4 billion has been earmarked for Virginia flood recovery, but he said only $47 million has been ...