We are in weather alert mode. Putting out exfrom postings on our feeds. Heaviest rain during the afternoon hours. That band of heavy rain is two hours. 7 00, 9 00, 10 00, that will be the worst of it. Heaviest rain in the morning. Any afternoon storms could produce gusty winds and small hail as well. The dog had a quick potty break. We had the steady rain. Dog walking or if you need one, we have cinnabun needs a heavy rain, breezy. By afternoon shower or thunderstorm. 270 on the radar. Steady rain. Closer to the district. Alexandria, springfield, west springfield. That extends towards fredericksburg. Chuck and i will take a look at the roads. Outer loop at old georgetown road, that crash spun around. Sounds like it is on the shoulder and things are loosening up. Not solid red any longer. Rest of the beltway looks okay. Inner loop at 7, still have the crash on the shoulder there. New crash before popes head road. Crash reported there as. Same situation 95. Reminder that all of that gree
Full. Thats right. Get a quick check of the weather and traffic right now. Tucker washout for the weekend or just today. I mean lets start with today. Definitely a washout the first half of the day. Then scattered showers in the afternoon. Were getting very heavy rains across the area and even the potential for thunderstorm activity, reports of severe thunderstorm down near charlottesville. Bottom line rain in the forecast for the first half of your day. Things become shattered later. Well focus on the weekend forecast in a couple minutes. Erin how are the roads. Roads are terrible tucker. You know what rain can do during the morning commute. This is the outer loop at old dominion. A big crash blocking the right lane right shoulder. Its seeing some big slowdowns. Fire department on location. And if youre take, metro skipping the roads additional delays in both directions on the green line outside college park. In the in addition to the safe track work. We have several other crashes and
Driving to work this morning, walking to work going to be outside you will encounter rain and it will be occasional heavy for the next several hours. Most of the Morning Hours well be in for a cinco de washout. I heard it started at 6 oclock. Lots of details on the forecast t ill let you know when the rain will that get out of here and of course the weekend forecast coming up guys. Well toss back to you. Tucker thanks very much. More weather on the way. In the meantime this morning a dramatic scene in Prince Georges County after a car slammed into the front of a home on audrey lane in oxon hill. The impact may have ruptured a gas line. The driver taken to the hospital. A family was inside at the time not believed to have been hurt but displaced as a result of that crash. Heads up for drivers in the district. The 1800 block of randolph street northwest closed this morning due to downed power lines and the trees. This is in the citys press wood neighborhood. The area has been closed for
Full. Thats right. Get a quick check of the weather and traffic right now. Tucker washout for the weekend or just today. I mean lets start with today. Definitely a washout the first half of the day. Then scattered showers in the afternoon. Were getting very heavy rains across the area and even the potential for thunderstorm activity, reports of severe thunderstorm down near charlottesville. Bottom line rain in the forecast for the first half of your day. Things become shattered later. Well focus on the weekend forecast in a couple minutes. Erin how are the roads. Roads are terrible tucker. You know what rain can do during the morning commute. This is the outer loop at old dominion. A big crash blocking the right lane right shoulder. Its seeing some big slowdowns. Fire department on location. And if youre take, metro skipping the roads additional delays in both directions on the green line outside college park. In the in addition to the safe track work. We have several other crashes and
And that was the end of milling operations forever. Back in the early 19th century this was rural land out here this was Washington County. It was a separate legal jurisdiction from Washington City which is what we now think of as downtown. Florida avenue was the old boundary street, that was the Northern Boundary of Washington City and this was Washington County. Washington county was sparsely inhabited, less than 10,000 people lived out here, mostly farmers and large land holders and farmers here grew all sorts of crops, a lot of wheat and corn and rye was grown for a local use and for shipping along the east coast. Mills were very important to this Rural Economy and because you had formers that were growing grains, you had to they had to really come up with an efficient way of compacting that material for transportation to markets elsewhere. And essentially thats what the millers job was to turn a crop of harvested grain into flour and meal and pack it into barrels so that it would