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Shipman Couple Survives Tornado
Shipman, Virginia
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The new farm market at a.m. Fog in Afton.
Not long ago I went back to Tennessee to visit my folks on the farm. You’ve heard me talk about my days back there as a kid. They were some mighty good ones, just like my grown up days here in the mountains. I was remembering this old man that lived across the road by the name of, Son Johnson. I’d always walk up to his house and remember those chickens running all over the place. He was farm raising eggs and meat long before it was trendy. Just good, down home, quality food.
Ken and Yvonne Harris at a.m. Fog on the Nelson-Albemarle County Line along Route 151 in Afton do the same thing.
My old friend Son is long gone these days. His house isn’t even there anymore, but Ken and Yvonne’s is. Right now they have spinach, kale, brocoli, cabbage and veggie start, 6 kinds of lettuce, 26 types of heirloom tomatoes, plus sweet peppers, and a big selection of HOT peppers! Heck for your Hawaiian flair how about pineapple, and back home…maybe a little watermelon!
And look what else they have: asparagus, lettuce, cucumbers, STRAWBERRIES, strawberry onions (the best!!!), roasting potatoes, Idaho potatoes, carrots, green peppers, farm eggs, meat, and fresh baked bread.
And yea, my buddy, the trusty:
-Local “Happy Steer” Hormone and Antibiotic Free Meat
-Local Hormone & Antibiotic Free ChickenNot to mention the countless other vegetables, annual, and perennial plants along with fruit trees ready for planting.
The beautiful new farm market is OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOW, and just on the horizon, hot teas, coffee, muffins, and bread while you take a look around.
If you do the WWW thing you can visit them on the web at www.amfog.net If you don’t, they are the kind of folks who still answer the phone, now there’s a concept! Call ‘em at 540-456-7100.
Rainfall totals as of 8:00 AM FRIDAY MORNING:
-FRIDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Nelson County Life Magazine in the Rockfish Valley : 82°/58° - RAIN : 0.02″ - YTD: 13.57″
-FRIDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Wintergreen Nature Foundation on Devil’s Knob @ Wintergreen Mountain : 66°/44° - RAIN 0.06″ - YTD: 19.66″
-THURSDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Hatcreek Farm on Horseshoe Mountain @ Roseland, VA : 78°/57° - RAIN : 0.04″ - YTD: 19.48″
-THURSDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Tiger Fuel @ Lovingston, VA : 77°/59° - RAIN : 0.08″ - YTD: 8.46″
-THURSDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Delfosse Winery & Vineyard @ Faber, VA : 77°/58° - RAIN : 0.00″ - YTD: 8.30″
Other area rainfall totals by clicking here.
First, want to tell you about a neat couple I met Thursday afternoon in Shipman. Ed & Sharen Dowdy are some lucky folks. They’re in today’s weather photo above. They had the rare honor of getting hit by a tornado in Virginia and they came out without injuries. It’s one of our web stories and will be detailed in print in the June issue of NCL. Very neat to read about!
Also a reminder about Band Fair coming up this Sunday over at Cardinal Point Winery to benefit North Branch School. You’ll hear Jenn Rhubright that’s playing on our cast today, as well as her husband Andy Waldeck and others. They have a really neat item for this year’s event, $5 buys a raffle ticket for two Dave Matthews Band tickets to any show, anytime, anywhere in the country, with great seats and two backstage lounge passes. You can also get 5 tickets for $20. The tickets are available at Band Fair and also at North Branch Be sure to go out on Sunday. It will be a great afternoon!
Showers tapered off Friday afternoon as high pressure begins to work in. By Friday night we began clearing out.
Saturday looks to be the nicest day of the weekend with partly sunny skies and temps in the mid 70’s. Late Saturday night into Sunday scattered rain showers redevelop and linger until Sunday night. Some sun still around Sunday, but earlier models showing more un than rain have changed and now show a fairly rainy and windy afternoon.
Monday is sunny again before more rain heads our way by mid-week.
Regional Current Surface Map via wunderground
Looking 12-24 Hours Ahead
Your Nelson County Life custom area forecast including: Shipman, Wintergreen, Tyro, and Gladstone.
SATURDAY: Mostly sunny early, partly cloudy by afternoon. Breezy.
* Highs Valley: 74-77°
*On the mountains: 64-67°
*Winds: SW 10-20 MPH.
*OVERNIGHT: Becoming mostly cloudy with showers developing late night. Lows valley: 50-53° : Mountains: 44-47° : Winds: SW 10-15 MPH decreasing after midnight.
SUNDAY: Scattered showers and windy.
* Highs Valley: 70-73°
*On the mountains: 59-62°
*Winds: W 10-15 MPH gusting to 35 MPH in the afternoon.
*OVERNIGHT: Evening showers Lows valley: 48-52° : Mountains: 44-47° : Winds: W 10-15 MPH & gusty
>Early next week has partly sunny skies returning on Monday with temps in the lower 70’s valley and mid 60’s mountains. By Tuesday rain reenters the forecast and stays around through Wednesday. Temps are mild in the mid 70’s.
Looking way ahead to Memorial Day weekend, for now the trend looks drier and much warmer.
Jenn Rhubright of Arrington and Jive Katze take us out with a cut from their collection. This one’s called Fly Me To The Moon. Jenn is one of four acts playing this coming Sunday at Band Fair. We’ll see you there!
Have a great weekend everyone!
According to the online urban dictionary a “Jive Cat” is “not the ordinary person you or your homeboys would hang out with”. And what has a less jiving, less hip and less swinging reputation than a “German Jazz Cat” anyway? – Well, Jive Katze is not your ordinary Jazz band.
Jive Katze is the newest addition to the diverse Charlottesville music scene. They combine vocal jazz in the tradition of Billy Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald with contemporary forms and concepts influenced by Brad Mehldau, and Kenny Werner.
Jenn Rhubright’s intimate renditions of jazz classics meet the sensitive and versatile playing of German born pianist, Gerrit Roessler. Jenn contributes her unorthodox approach to music as well as her vast experience with rock and pop from her nationally acclaimed bands Clare Quilty and The Dirty Dishes. Gerrit on the other hand, has a background as a formally trained jazz musician and paid his dues playing mostly in Europe and the US with his award winning band Mars Attacks.
It is this difference, and the artistic tension that makes this project so interesting: Sometimes only subtly and carefully altering the divine masters, sometimes overhauling them drastically to create something entirely new. Although they are not a retro-jazz band that attempts to re-enact an alleged golden past, they are respectfully aware of the vast tradition of vocal jazz and are attempting to translate it into the world of today. The result is an intimate and energetic performance that is strongly shared by the audience during their performances.
Although Jive Katze is conceptualized as a duo, Jenn and Gerrit are frequently backed up by Bassist David Cosper from South Carolina and Drummer Granville Mullings from New York.
Jive Katze is not in it for the money. They play for their love of music. That is why they decided to support a non-profit organization that is dedicated “to revitalizing the music and cultural community within the neighborhoods of New Orleans by helping its tradition bearers return to and stay at home.” By financially and actively engaging with “Sweet Home New Orleans” (http://www.sweethomeneworleans.org) Jive Katze feel they are reaching out to a vast musical tradition and heritage on more than the mere artistic level.
SHIPMAN : Family Dispells Myth That Tornadoes Don’t Hit In The Mountains
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Shipman, Virginia
Above, Sharen and Ed Dowdy of Shipman, pose in front of what’s left of their home after a confirmed tornado hit on Thursday May 8th.
Much of my professional life was spent as an on air television weatherman working for various affiliates and networks across the country. That 10+ years on television involved making the scene, chasing, tracking, and reporting live on tornadoes. I can’t remember how many I covered, probably at least 75-100 over the years.
Once we moved to Virginia I pretty much forgot about them. Tornadoes can and do occur in all of the states, but they are less frequent in Virginia, non existent in comparison to the numbers we had back in the mid-south. You don’t have to convince Ed and Sharen Dowdy of Shipman that tornadoes can occur here in Virginia. They just lived through a direct hit on their home off Dowdy Lane last Thursday night. A minor EF0 with winds estimated around 75 MPH, but a tornado none the less. “We were teasing our niece that was working on a school paper in the floor that it wasn’t going to be that bad. Boy we were wrong,” laughs Sharen.
Sharen and Ed stand in what’s left of their dining room with the sky above.
Both spent years in Iowa, a very active state for tornadoes in the warm months. But like so many, she and her husband didn’t think much about them once they moved back to Virginia. “The first thing I recall hearing was the flying door of the kitchen, the breaking glass, my niece yelling out, and I instinctively knew something was not right. The wind didn’t sound right to me,” Sharen continues. “I was tracking the weather radar out of Roanoke. The only thing we were seeing on local TV was Flash Flood Warnings for Nelson County. All of the sudden there was a change in the wind, a thump on the side of the house, then the windows blew out, Ed remembers.
Sharen points out the closet she and her niece, Ashley Campbell, dove into as the tornado hit.
The National Weather Service never issued a specific tornado warning for Nelson County the night of the Thursday storms, but many other nearby counties were under tornado warnings. A tornado watch (conditions ripe for the development of tornadoes, had been issued earlier in the evening) Many Virginians live under the myth that tornadoes will not hit in mountainous regions. Though much less likely to occur, they can and do. The recent occurrence of tornadoes here in the past month has lots of folks on edge. However, many decades in the past have seen their share of tornadoes as well. On August 6, 1993 one deadly tornado killed four and injured 238 people. It was the first recorded violent tornado in Virginia since 1950, according the Virginia’s Emergency Management site. The daily and annual records for tornadoes were shattered in 2004, when 87 tornadoes struck the Commonwealth. The hyperlink to VAEMA in this paragraph is a great historical account of tornado history in Virginia. Then of course there’s the most recent round that pummeled Suffolk.
Where April and May can be active tornado months in the mid-south and gulf coast states, July is the most active for Virginia, making the recent ones a rarity for this time of year, but again not unheard of.
Ed looks up where his roof is now gone.
“I wandered back in the dining room and noticed the ceiling was gone. Could have sworn I saw the roof when I glanced up, then I felt it sprinkling and it took me a minute to understand and realize that the entire roof was gone,” Ed continues.
Much of the past week Sharen and Ed have been cleaning up and saving what they can.
The Dowdy’s tell NCL they have been so blessed with people coming by and helping them clean up and giving them food and items to help them get back on their feet. They currently are living in a relative’s house across the street until they work out a permanent plan in the coming weeks.
You can read much more about Ed and Sharen in our upcoming June issue of Nelson County Life, out in just a few days.
NCL
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT : Flood Watch - CANCELED
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FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
305 PM EDT THU MAY 15 2008
HOWARD-SOUTHERN BALTIMORE-ANNE ARUNDEL-ST. MARYS-CALVERT-HIGHLAND-
AUGUSTA-ROCKINGHAM-SHENANDOAH-PAGE-WARREN-NELSON-ALBEMARLE-GREENE-
MADISON-RAPPAHANNOCK-FAUQUIER-ORANGE-CULPEPER-SPOTSYLVANIA-
KING GEORGE-PENDLETON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…COLUMBIA…BALTIMORE…ANNAPOLIS…
ST MARYS CITY…STAUNTON…WAYNESBORO…HARRISONBURG…
FRONT ROYAL…CHARLOTTESVILLE…WASHINGTON…CULPEPER…
FREDERICKSBURG
305 PM EDT THU MAY 15 2008
* FROM MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING
LOW PRESSURE OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY WILL TRACK NORTHEAST THIS
EVENING. STEADY RAIN FROM THIS SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN ACROSS
THE POTOMAC HIGHLANDS AND SHENANDOAH VALLEY BY 9 PM…WITH STEADY
RAIN MOVING INTO CENTRAL MARYLAND CLOSER TO MIDNIGHT. THE PERIOD
OF HEAVIEST RAIN IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR BETWEEN 2 AM AND 8 AM.
RAINFALL FROM THIS SYSTEM WILL BE NOWHERE NEAR AS HEAVY AS FROM
THE STORMS THAT IMPACTED THE DC AREA SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY
MORNING. HOWEVER…BECAUSE OF RECENT HEAVY RAINS IT WILL NOT
REQUIRE MUCH IN THE WAY OF ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION TO CAUSE
FLOODING. ACROSS THE WATCH AREA…1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL IS
EXPECTED.
A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING BASED ON
CURRENT FORECASTS.
YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE
FLOOD WARNINGS. THOSE LIVING IN AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP.
WEATHER THURSDAY : Cloudy w/ showers likely by afternoon, mild, some sun for weekend
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Kentucky Lake Sunset
Benton County, Tennessee
Today’s weather and is brought to you exclusively by:
The new farm market at a.m. Fog in Afton.
Not long ago I went back to Tennessee to visit my folks on the farm. You’ve heard me talk about my days back there as a kid. They were some mighty good ones, just like my grown up days here in the mountains. I was remembering this old man that lived across the road by the name of, Son Johnson. I’d always walk up to his house and remember those chickens running all over the place. He was farm raising eggs and meat long before it was trendy. Just good, down home, quality food.
Ken and Yvonne Harris at a.m. Fog on the Nelson-Albemarle County Line along Route 151 in Afton do the same thing.
My old friend Son is long gone these days. His house isn’t even there anymore, but Ken and Yvonne’s is. Right now they have spinach, kale, brocoli, cabbage and veggie start, 6 kinds of lettuce, 26 types of heirloom tomatoes, plus sweet peppers, and a big selection of HOT peppers! Heck for your Hawaiian flair how about pineapple, and back home…maybe a little watermelon!
And look what else they have: asparagus, lettuce, cucumbers, STRAWBERRIES, strawberry onions (the best!!!), roasting potatoes, Idaho potatoes, carrots, green peppers, farm eggs, meat, and fresh baked bread.
And yea, my buddy, the trusty:
-Local “Happy Steer” Hormone and Antibiotic Free Meat
-Local Hormone & Antibiotic Free ChickenNot to mention the countless other vegetables, annual, and perennial plants along with fruit trees ready for planting.
The beautiful new farm market is OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOW, and just on the horizon, hot teas, coffee, muffins, and bread while you take a look around.
If you do the WWW thing you can visit them on the web at www.amfog.net If you don’t, they are the kind of folks who still answer the phone, now there’s a concept! Call ‘em at 540-456-7100.
-WEDNESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Nelson County Life Magazine in the Rockfish Valley : 76°/41° - RAIN : 0.00″ - YTD: 13.57″
-WEDNESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Wintergreen Nature Foundation on Devil’s Knob @ Wintergreen Mountain : 59°/48° - RAIN 0.00″ - YTD: 19.66″
-WEDNESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Hatcreek Farm on Horseshoe Mountain @ Roseland, VA : 71°/41° - RAIN : 0.00″ - YTD: 19.23″
-WEDNESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Delfosse Winery & Vineyard @ Faber, VA : 72°/51° - RAIN : 0.00″ - YTD: 8.30″ (estimated rainfall)
Your eyes aren’t fooling you, that is a shot from Tennessee near the Kentucky border where I was late last week. The place is called Big Sandy on Kentucky Lake. A beautiful sunset that afternoon!
Wednesday back here in Nelson started sunny and warm, but ended cloudy with cool temps. But, not before the day warmed to the low and mid 70’s for all of the valley locations. The mountain warmed to right around 60° for an afternoon high.
Over the next 24 hours we have chances for showers in the forecast, the best time will be Thursday night into Friday, then we have a lull in the action Saturday with partly sunny skies then a chance for scattered showers again Sunday. Like I said earlier this week, the upcoming weekend rain events won’t be a total washout, we’ll have some sun in between, but chances for rain stay around for the foreseeable future.
Daytime highs are generally in the lower 70’s through the entire period. The exception would be on the rainy days if sunshine is limited.
Regional Current Surface Map via wunderground
Looking 12-24 Hours Ahead
Your Nelson County Life custom area forecast including: Hickory Creek, Colleen, Love, and Ivy.
THURSDAY: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers in the afternoon, more likely at night.
* Highs Valley: 73-76°
*On the mountains: 60-63°
*Winds: SW 5-10 MPH
*OVERNIGHT: Cloudy with rain likely overnight. Lows valley: 60-63° : Mountains: 53-56° : Winds: SE-5 MPH.
FRIDAY: Continued cloudy with rain in the morning then isolated showers afternoon.
* Highs Valley: 71-74°
*On the mountains: 58-61°
*Winds: W 10-15 MPH.
*OVERNIGHT: Becoming clear and breezy. Lows valley: 44-47° : Mountains: 42-45° : Winds: W 5-10 MPH gusting to 20 MPH early evening.
The weekend has partly sunny skies Saturday with highs near 70° valley and 60° mountains. Rain is possible again Sunday with highs again near 70° valley and mid 60’s mountains.
Andy Waldeck takes us out with Those Days Are Gone He’ll be playing at this weekend’s Band Fair.
Have a great Thursday everyone!
Andy Waldeck is one of four acts playing this coming Sunday at Band Fair. See electronic flier above for more info.
SHIPMAN : NWS Confirms Tornado Touchdown Last Week
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Nexrad Radar Image from (via wunderground.com ) line of storms on May 8th that caused Shipman tornado. Click on image above for larger view.
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
953 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2008
…PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT…
…TORNADO CONFIRMED IN NELSON COUNTY…
TODAY A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM SURVEY TEAM FROM THE
WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE IN STERLING VA EXAMINED DAMAGE IN SHIPMAN
VA IN EASTERN NELSON COUNTY.
THE SURVEY CONCLUDED THAT A BRIEF TORNADO…RATED EF0…CAUSED THE
DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED LAST THURSDAY EVENING 08 MAY 2008 IN SHIPMAN
VA. ESTIMATED MAX WINDS WERE 75 MPH. TORNADO TOUCHDOWN TIME WAS
10:39 PM EDT BASED ON EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS AND 911 CENTER CALLS.
THE TORNADO…ABOUT 50 YARDS WIDE…WAS ON THE GROUND FOR ONE-
QUARTER MILE…LASTING ONLY ABOUT 20 SECONDS.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS CONCENTRATED TO TWO ADJOINING
HOMES ON DOWDY LANE AND NEARBY TREES. A PORTION OF THE ROOF FROM
EACH HOME WAS BLOWN OFF. ONE HOME…ABOUT HALF OF THE ROOF WAS
REMOVED EXPOSING THE LOWER FLOOR OF THE HOUSE THAT WAS OCCUPIED BY
TWO PERSONS. THERE WERE NO INJURIES. NEARBY A SUB-COMPACT CAR WAS
BLOWN ON ITS SIDE. METAL ROOFING WAS WRAPPED COMPLETELY AROUND A
NEARBY TREE.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING EXTENDS THANKS FOR
ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY NELSON COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES IN
CONDUCTING TODAYS SURVEY.