In addition to the declaration, a special phone line has been set up for residents who have non-emergency questions about the storm and its impacts on the area. Residents can call 540-659-5362 to reach operators on the special line.
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Author: Potomac Local News
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President Obama said it, the West Coast Social Network is currently saying it, even my husband, a native New Englander has said it: We’re kind of pansies about weather in our area, and lately we’ve been hit with a bunch of it.
Growing up in Northern Virginia, when I went away to the College of the Holy Cross and had to take an exam in an actual blizzard, it was culture shock. Here in the DC Metro Area, we cancel school for a projected dusting. My military friends who have lived in California tell me that no reaction is warranted to anything under a 6.5 earthquake. Friends in the gulf coast region have informed me that the appropriate response to a rapidly approaching storm is not to buy toilet paper and milk, but batteries and margarita mix for whomever’s house you’re holding your hurricane party at.
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Woodbridge, Va. — With what is predicted to be a violent storm on the way, Virginia State Parks announced they will be closing several state parks by this afternoon.
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Dumfries, Va. — The Dumfries Town Council discussed reasons why the town’s requirement that “massage technicians” pay an annual $1,000 fee should be eliminated at their most recent meeting.
Kimberly Blanton, a Dumfries resident and massage therapist, originally brought the issue to Councilwoman Michele D. Jurgensen. Blanton spoke to the council during the work session saying that the $1,000 fee is too much for her to have to fork over after all that she has done to get licensed and certified. She told the council that, since this fee would have to be paid for each massage therapist every year, she would never be able to grow her business, at least not in Dumfries.
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Occoquan, Va. –– Occoquan is bracing for the effects of flooding caused by Hurricane Irene
The area along Mill Street, the town’s main thoroughfare, is prone to flooding during storms.
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Update 7 a.m.
Things just got kicked up a notch as a tropical storm warning is now in effect for the Potomac Communities. It replaces the tropical storm watch issued Thursday afternoon.
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Update 8:30 p.m.
Dominion now reports 157 outages in Stafford County.
On Monday, police said a man was robbed at gunpoint at a Bank of America on Financial Loop, just off Old Bridge Road in Lake Ridge. More than a week earlier, a Woodbridge at the bank’s ATM. No one was injured, but both robberies occurred during early morning hours.
On Aug. 18, a 58-year-old man told police he was sitting in his car in the drive through line at Taco Bell at Tackett’s Mill shopping center when a man approached, brandished a gun and demanded money. When the victim refused, the robbery violently attacked the man, striking him several times in the face with the weapon before grabbing his wallet and fleeing the scene, police said.
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Prince William County, Va. — Now that the Primary Elections are over, now it’s time for the candidates to face off in a series of forums.
Prince William County’s Committee of 100 has announced several forums where candidates in the Potomac Communities who are in need of your vote will square off on the issues.