Thursday, September 15, 2011
Business on Route 1 was under 10 feet of water at the peak of the flooding.
Elizabeth Nuckols’ father has worked at A&M Auto Repair for 26 years. In the flooding during Sept. 8-10, the shop on Route 1 was under 10 feet of water and lost everything. “All their equipment to service the vehicles, it’s hundred of thousands of dollars lost,” said Nuckols at the board of county supervisors meeting on Tuesday. “I have a list of everything to replace but some things are so old they can’t be replaced.” Nuckols said that her family was not aware of the extent of the damage during the flooding, until her father came to work on Friday morning to find everything destroyed. “We lost three vehicles,” said Nuckols. “We have boats over there and one of the boats was carried to the front of the business.” Nuckols said that a …
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A & M Auto Repair
13748 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Woodbridge, VA
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
County answers questions on what happened, where residents will go, what aid can be offered and what is next.
What happened to Route 1 during the flood last week? As a result, approximately 66 mobile homes in the Holly Acres mobile home park are in a FEMA-designated floodway, which means that 150-175 people, or 35-40 families are permanently displaced and can not rebuild on the floodway. “All the ground was saturated, the tributaries were pretty full,” said communications director Jason Grant in a presentation in the afternoon Board of County Supervisors meeting. “About 15 inches of rain fell in the eastern end of Prince William County.” By the numbers, details broken down: Grant also mentioned the retaining wall that gave way in Woodbridge at Breezy Ridge Way. About two-thirds of Holly Acres mobile homes units were located in what the county …
Press conference will be held at 12:30 on Tuesday
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Lauren Jost
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
"Residents of two mobile home parks, of an apartment complex, and business owners in Woodbridge, VA that were victims of the floods caused by the intense rains of the second week of September, summon together to a press conference to announce actions which they look to resolve the present emergencies and the future that until now is uncertain for all of those who lost everything. The floods devastated the area and proved that tens of families lost their homes as well as all of their belongings and properties. The affected receive temporal help from the Authorities of Prince William County and the American Red Cross, however this help will be suspended definitely next Friday the 16 of September at midday." The press conference will take …
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13721 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Woodbridge, VA
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11:23 am on Wednesday, September 21, 2011
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