[olldflame]

Watching the NBA game on WSET, and on the crawl they are reporting brush fires on Candler's Mountain, near LU. Talk about "fanning the flames!"

[Fumblerooskies]

That could save the school $$ in having to clear the trees and brush to put more dorms up that way...

[qkslvrsrfrboy]

stepped outside my dorm(E-23) and i smell smoke but dont see it, where is the fire at?

[sweetnahmah1]

umm it said the fires were in bedford county, didn't think that was close to us. but it was so windy today I wouldnt be surprised if it made it's way over here

[olldflame]

Actually, there are fires all over the area due to the high winds. The largest seems to be in the Moneta area of Bedford county.

[hurricane fan]

the fire is near camp hydaway which is on the other side of candler's mountain.

[hurricane fan]

just talked to someone who is there and he said they have it under control. they have fire lines dug the whole way round it but it did cause some serious panic

[Fumblerooskies]

Whew...what a relief. It would have been a disaster had all the poles for the paintball field gotten torched.

[kel varson]

Smell of smoke near my apt. in North Western Virginia as well. Crazy High Winds here today and the dew pt. is negative 10. Fire trucks just drove by about a 1/2 hour ago.

[01LUGrad]

Clearly a protest move by El Scorcho.

Solidarity!

[Hold My Own]

There are fires everywhere ....I was on my way back from Roanoke the parkway was on fire in Montvale (sp?) and there is another fire on Chandlers and then at the bottom of the runway at Falwell Aviation is the biggest fire of them all, that one is huge

[PAmedic]

quick- move the Cessnas

and HMO's Lear.

[Hold My Own]

G5...learjets were so 10 years ago!

[PAmedic]

you're talking to me, remember? 10 yrs ago is still 5 years in my future.

[LUconn]

Stupid wind flipped over my daughter's playground and pretty much destroyed it. This freaking sucks. Not to mention my fence is all over the place. My yard is trashed.

[Sly Fox]

Those must've been some serious gusts.

[jcmanson]

Fires all over the greater Richmond area as well. No serious damage to my property, just overturned lawn furniture and things of that nature.

[ALUmnus]

A guy just down the road from us had his carport lifted off of his driveway and flipped over in his back yard. I had trees in my woods lying all over the place, one of them landed about 10 feet from my car. There were downed trees all over the place. Luckily, my roof and siding is pretty much intact.

[PAmedic]

windy here, too- trees down in the 'burbs, and SCAR will find it interesting that in the city- Broad St was closed due to flying debris.

never heard of that happening before- flying bodies, yes- but normally the debris is not an issue

[JDUB]

i saw a 4x4 lift up and go across 2 lanes on timberlake yesterday. there was gravel and leaves and sticks blowing bad, i think i lost half my paint job driving to work

[Knucklehead]

I was driving back from a gaqme ut UR last night and saw fires all over. Saw one just this side of Richmond, near Farmville, and I saw the big one by Falwell Aviation. I saw a car flipped over near Richmond and several other wrecks as well.
I lost a bunch of shingles (like 10+) and I'm waiting for an available roofer to take a look.

[JDUB]

have fun finding a roofer after that storm. there's probably a 3 week wait

[Knucklehead]

have fun finding a roofer after that storm. there's probably a 3 week wait

You are 100% right it has been very bad. "I can look at it in 3 weeks"

[ToTheLeft]

I saw the title of this thread, and then continued the line...

"...run boy run.
Devil's in the House of the Rising Sun..."

and it has been in my head ever since.