The National Weather Service just issued a flash flood warning — creeks and rivers have jumped their banks, leadning to widespread flooding throughout Montgomery County (where I live.) Something like 8.5 inches of rain have fallen since early this afternoon. The warning is in effect until 3:45am, and we’re all supposed to move to higher …
Category Archives: Blacksburg
VT’s budget cut led to crowding.
In yesterday’s Roanoke Times, reporter Kevin Miller described the overcrowding and underfunding at Virginia Tech this year. I’ve witnessed in all of my classes that we must arrive early to avoid having to sit on the floor, that we’re to expect to take five years to graduate, not four, because the classes simply aren’t available. …
Long-haired hippies need not apply.
Blacksburg has banned rollerblading. Not only is it illegal to skate on the sidewalk or in the streets throughout downtown, but it’s illegal to use them on the Bicentennial Greenway, the paved pathway that runs along a tree-shaded path through town. I brought two pairs of ‘blades with me. I’d intended to use them as …
They revamped the airport completely.
The students are coming back to Blacksburg. This sleepy little town is about to go from a population of 10,000 to 35,000. I’d gotten to like the town’s sparseness, the slow, friendly approach to just about everything. I think that’s about to disappear. Outside my window, where there’s a metered parking lot, SUV after SUV …