Flood of 96', Hurricane Fran, Coles Hill Area
A home video of the Flood of '96, Hurricane Fran, Coles Hill Area
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Reporting Period: 7 a.m. EDT, September 8, 1996 to 7 a.m. EDT,
September 9, 1996
1. SITUATION The heavy rains from Hurricane FRAN resulted in major river flooding in eastern North Carolina, in west central Virginia and in parts of the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. River flood warnings remained in effect through much of the weekend. In North Carolina major river flooding is occurring on the Cape Fear, Tar and Neuse Rivers. Near record floods will likely occur on the Haw, Neuse and Tar Rivers and on Crabtree Creek. These rivers will return to normal flow within the next few days. Flood warnings also remain in effect for the following additional rivers: Lumber, Little Pee Dee, Great Pee Dee, Waccamaw, Eno, Fishing Creek, Yadkin and Little. The slower responding rivers in the eastern part of the State will remain above flood stage for the next five days. North Carolina State Parks remain closed until further notice. Flood warnings are in effect for most forecast points in Virginia where up to 15 inches of rain fell in some areas. The north and south branches of the Potomac, Shenandoah and Rappahannock Rivers have crested and are now falling. River levels are still high and should recede within their banks by Monday. The Potomac crested in Washington late Sunday, September 8, at levels slightly higher than those experienced in the January, 1996, flood. On the Dan River in Virginia, flood stage has exceeded the 31.8 ft. record and crested near 33 feet on Sunday. On the Roanoke River moderate flooding has occurred with levels 10 to 15 feet above flood stage. Moderate flooding is occurring on the James River.
http://reliefweb.int/report/united-states-america/fema-situation-report-5-hurricane-fran
ARTICLES ABOUT HURRICANE FRAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7mcUYAi_O4
Reporting Period: 7 a.m. EDT, September 8, 1996 to 7 a.m. EDT,
September 9, 1996
1. SITUATION The heavy rains from Hurricane FRAN resulted in major river flooding in eastern North Carolina, in west central Virginia and in parts of the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. River flood warnings remained in effect through much of the weekend. In North Carolina major river flooding is occurring on the Cape Fear, Tar and Neuse Rivers. Near record floods will likely occur on the Haw, Neuse and Tar Rivers and on Crabtree Creek. These rivers will return to normal flow within the next few days. Flood warnings also remain in effect for the following additional rivers: Lumber, Little Pee Dee, Great Pee Dee, Waccamaw, Eno, Fishing Creek, Yadkin and Little. The slower responding rivers in the eastern part of the State will remain above flood stage for the next five days. North Carolina State Parks remain closed until further notice. Flood warnings are in effect for most forecast points in Virginia where up to 15 inches of rain fell in some areas. The north and south branches of the Potomac, Shenandoah and Rappahannock Rivers have crested and are now falling. River levels are still high and should recede within their banks by Monday. The Potomac crested in Washington late Sunday, September 8, at levels slightly higher than those experienced in the January, 1996, flood. On the Dan River in Virginia, flood stage has exceeded the 31.8 ft. record and crested near 33 feet on Sunday. On the Roanoke River moderate flooding has occurred with levels 10 to 15 feet above flood stage. Moderate flooding is occurring on the James River.
http://reliefweb.int/report/united-states-america/fema-situation-report-5-hurricane-fran
ARTICLES ABOUT HURRICANE FRAN
NEWS
By ALISON FREEHLING and MATT GLYNN Daily Press | September 10, 1996
Anne Banks woke up at 4:30 a.m. Friday when the power in her home went out. That night, after a day without water or air conditioning, Banks' husband, Ken, got her a room at a nearby motel. Then Ken, afraid of leaving their house on Ivy Hill Road unoccupied, went home. He ended up sleeping in his truck because it was cooler there than inside his house. "Little did we know," Ken Banks said Monday, "that that night was the beginning, not the end." The Banks home, along with those of around 40 other families on the small, rural road, was among the last residences still without power Monday in the aftermath of Hurricane Fran.
NEWS
By Daily Press | September 10, 1996
The American Red Cross has responded to victims of floods in Virginia for the third time in 15 months, according to a press release. Hurricane Fran caused flooding in central and western Virginia last week. More than 125 Red Cross volunteers from Virginia as well as Alabama, Texas, California and Connecticut are on site or en route to help feed and shelter victims, deliver clean-up kits, assess damage to homes, offer emotional support and provide emergency assistance. All Red Cross assistance is free.
NEWS
By ALISON FREEHLING and NIGEL D. HATTON Daily Press | September 8, 1996
As of 8:30 p.m. Saturday, 15,500 Virginia Power customers - including 6,357 on the Peninsula and 3,242 in the Williamsburg area - in Hampton Roads remained without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Fran, said Pat Gayle, a utility spokeswoman. That was down from a high of 138,461 customers who were without power Friday morning. Gayle said the utility hopes to restore service to all customers by today, but some may remain without power until Monday. "We've just been working on it steadily, without stopping," she said.
NEWS
By NIGEL D. HATTON Daily Press | September 8, 1996
Rogers Mitchell Jr. had a chainsaw, his cousin's Ford pickup truck, and a few helping hands from around the neighborhood. He, like thousands of others in Hampton Roads Saturday afternoon, was prepared to clean up the debris - fallen trees, tree limbs and branches - left by the 60-mile-per-hour winds of Hurricane Fran. "I've got some friends with some dump trucks, too," he said, standing in front of his Cherry Avenue home. Saturday, the roadways were filled with solid waste crews working overtime to pick up branches along neighborhood streets, and Virginia Power crews working to restore power to those who had been without since Friday.
NEWS
By ALISON FREEHLING Daily Press | September 8, 1996
A candle being used to light a home, left without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Fran, caused an early morning fire on Saturday that killed a 56-year-old woman, fire officials said. Family members identified the victim as Virginia Smith, a Newport News native. Smith was found lying on the floor of her second-floor bedroom by fire paramedics who arrived on the scene just before 6:15 a.m., said Newport News Fire Marshal R.L. Ware Jr. Smith was taken to Hampton General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead after unsuccessful attempts to revive her, Ware said.
NEWS
By Daily Press | September 8, 1996
An 82-year-old woman died of smoke inhalation Saturday morning after her home, without power at the time, caught fire in Williamsburg's Highland Park neighborhood. Verdell Chapman of 505 Burbank Street was pronounced dead at Williamsburg Community Hospital after failed attempts to revive her en route to the facility, said Capt. Pat Reinecke of the Williamsburg Fire Department. Though fire officials have yet to determine a cause, neighbors say the woman was using candles for light since Hurricane Fran knocked out power.
BUSINESS
By L.A. FINNERAN Daily Press | September 8, 1996
Bob Crofton started his hurricane routine late last week. First he secured his own equipment: barges, cranes and the like. "We'll spend a tremendous amount of time putting stuff away," Crofton said. Then he prepared for the possibility that Crofton Diving, his family's Portsmouth-based company, could get very busy raising sunken vessels and checking for underwater damage caused by Hurricane Fran. "You just have to continue doing your work and watching the storm," Crofton said Wednesday afternoon, when it was still uncertain where the storm would hit. "We're working on ships all the time."
NEWS
September 7, 1996
Once again, Hampton Roads was lucky. The area received only a glancing blow from Hurricane Fran, which by the time it moved into Virginia near Danville had been downgraded to a tropical storm. But even a glancing blow was more than enough to close schools here, knock out electrical power and shower streets with debris. The people of North Carolina and in western parts of Virginia were not nearly so lucky, and reports from those areas once again demonstrate the frighteningly destructive power of these storms, even after they've begun to disintegrate.
NEWS
By JEANNE PECK Daily Press | September 7, 1996
When the power goes out and the generators kick on at Riverside Regional Medical Center, it gets hot. That's because emergency generators are reserved for essential operations, like emergency surgeries and life support systems, not air conditioning. Riverside ran off its generators for about 10 hours after fallout from Hurricane Fran stole power from the hospital at about 4:15 a.m. Friday. As a result, many patient and staff rooms went without lights and televisions were dark.
By WILLIAM BURNHAM Daily Press | September 16, 1996
There's scant evidence of a hurricane or flood in Front Royal. Shops and restaurants on Main Street are busy. A Boy Scout color guard drills in a church parking lot. But Hurricane Fran and flood waters from the Shenandoah River left scores of people homeless and $46 million in damage here. Those worst off are out of sight, tucked in valleys and the surrounding mountains beyond washed-out roads. They are survivors, for the most part left to clean up by themselves. Like Giles Nossett.
By ALISON FREEHLING and NIGEL D. HATTON Daily Press | September 8, 1996
As of 8:30 p.m. Saturday, 15,500 Virginia Power customers - including 6,357 on the Peninsula and 3,242 in the Williamsburg area - in Hampton Roads remained without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Fran, said Pat Gayle, a utility spokeswoman. That was down from a high of 138,461 customers who were without power Friday morning. Gayle said the utility hopes to restore service to all customers by today, but some may remain without power until Monday. "We've just been working on it steadily, without stopping," she said.
NEWS
By NIGEL D. HATTON Daily Press | September 8, 1996
Rogers Mitchell Jr. had a chainsaw, his cousin's Ford pickup truck, and a few helping hands from around the neighborhood. He, like thousands of others in Hampton Roads Saturday afternoon, was prepared to clean up the debris - fallen trees, tree limbs and branches - left by the 60-mile-per-hour winds of Hurricane Fran. "I've got some friends with some dump trucks, too," he said, standing in front of his Cherry Avenue home. Saturday, the roadways were filled with solid waste crews working overtime to pick up branches along neighborhood streets, and Virginia Power crews working to restore power to those who had been without since Friday.
