
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, June 29, 1995                   TAG: 9506290130
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: DWAYNE YANCEY
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

IN GLASGOW, "'85 WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO THIS"

How did this flood happen? "Bad luck," said Chip Knappenberger in the state clinmatology office. Basically, two weather systems collided over Rockbridge County, and haven't budged. The result has been almost a week's worth of rain. Last week's rains saturated the ground, so now just about any rainfall runs off.

That was the main problem for many Roackbridge County residents. "It hasn't really been the river," said Tony Strawbridge of Glasgow. "It's been the runoff. It's probably the heaviest I've seen in years. This is a bad one - '85 was nothing compared to this.' Most of Rockbridge County received only 2-4 inches of rain. But in Glasgow, where the storm was concentrated, the National Weather Service measured more than 10 inches, almost twice what fell there during the flood of 1985.

by CNB