The rainy weather we’re experiencing will continue for at least the next two days, bringing with it flooding chances.
Showers will persist through the day Thursday with the possibility of a few rumbles of thunder with this afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. However, no severe thunderstorms are expected.
Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, and Americans will kick off the season by traveling in near-record numbers. What a start it is, this time around. More than 41.5 million Americans will travel this Memorial Day weekend, nearly 5 percent more than last year and the most in more than a dozen years, according to AAA.
With nearly 2 million additional people taking to planes, trains, automobiles and other modes of transportation, INRIX, a global transportation analytics company, expects travel delays on major roads could be up to three times longer than normal.
If you ever get down to Dumfries to talk to its residents, one of the first things you learn is the state of U.S. 1 is one issue that binds all of its residents together. In the next three days, they have an opportunity to do something about it.
Dumfries and its communities to the east along the Potomac River have basically only three ways to get out of town – U.S. 1 North, U.S. 1 South, and two-lane Van Buren Road. In fact, U.S. 1 cuts across the creeks for each peninsula into the Potomac River, within a quarter mile of where each creek becomes tidal. This basically turns each peninsula into a massive cul de sac.
From a press release:
Will you be one of the thousands of Washington-area residents who participate in Bike to Work Day on Friday, May 18? Be one of the first 20,000 to register and attend a pit stop in D.C., MD, and VA to receive a free T-shirt, refreshments, and be entered into a raffle for a new bicycle.
MANASSAS — The Manassas Rotary honored the city’s police force on Wednesday as part of National Police Week.
Manassas police officers chose their fellow co-worker, Officer Marcus Hyde, 29, as their Officer of the Year. City police Chief Douglas Keen recognized Hyde for his service over the past year, knocking down a door to save the life of a choking woman, applying tourniquets to bleeding victims, and helping to run down a suspect while jogging on his time off.
From a press release:
A Manassas Park man pleaded guilty today to producing and distributing child pornography.
NORTH STAFFORD — A Giant Food store on in the Doc Stone Shopping Center was evacuated Tuesday night.
The Stafford County Sheriff’s office was called to the scene before 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 15, 2018, after someone made an unfounded bomb threat.
One person is dead this morning, the victim of a stabbing. More as we have it.
From Prince William police:
