THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, February 17, 1995 TAG: 9502170564
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY STEVE STONE, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 46 lines
It was a typical February day in Hampton Roads - chilly, rainy, hazy, foggy. In a word, wretched.
And more of the same is in store for the next several days, with rain expected off and on through Tuesday.
Police were kept busy all day Thursday responding to accidents on city streets and interstate highways.
In Norfolk, a 16-year-old boy who was crossing Hampton Boulevard near 40th Street with two friends was hurt when he apparently slipped on the wet road and fell under a tractor-trailer truck.
The truck had been stopped in traffic. When it it started moving just after the boy fell, the wheels of the trailer crushed the boy's legs.
The youth, whose name was not released, was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
In North Carolina, a flash flood watch is in effect everywhere except along the coast.
Rain continued to fall across the state through the day with amounts of 1 to 4 inches reported Thursday. And in the southern mountains and extreme southwest, 5 inches of rain - and as much as 8 inches - fell in 24 hours.
By 5 p.m., just under an inch of rain had fallen at the National Weather Service office at Norfolk International Airport. That brought the month's precipitation to 1.8 inches, just below the average of 1.98 inches for this point in February.
While perhaps unpleasant, the rain is welcome after what has been a relatively dry winter.
For the year, 4.2 inches of rain has fallen in Hampton Roads. That's 1 1/2 inches below normal.
The deficit should shrink over the next few days, however.
There's a 60 percent chance of rain this morning and a 70 percent chance Saturday.
The chance of rain continues Sunday and Monday.
Temperatures also are expected to remain cool. But people looking for a warmer locale Thursday needed only to head to North Carolina's Outer Banks. At 4 p.m., when it was 43 degrees in Norfolk, it was 66 in Hatteras. by CNB