All Virginia Railway Express trains headed south on the Fredericksburg line are being stopped at Franconia due to high water.
The transit agency water is washing out track ballasts and the trains cannot go any further.
VRE says they will bring in buses to get people home the rest of the way, but that could take up to two hours. If you have another means to get home this evening, VRE has asked that you use it.
In addition to tracks, several roads in Stafford and Prince William counties, and in the towns of Dumfries and Occoquan have also flooded.
This comes as a slow-moving thunderstorm that for much of Thursday afternoon has been producing incredible rainfall amounts of over three inches per hour, moving north from the Potomac Communities into Fairfax County.
In the wake of the rain that has deluged Northern Virginia today, the National Weather Service has extended a flash flood warning until 9:45 p.m.
You can follow the latest developments with area flooding on our Facebook page, as well as Twitter, and use hash tag “#PotoFlood.”
