From 1891 until 1969, you could board a passenger train in Covington and ride it to The Homestead in Bath County, along a C&O Railway spur known as the Hot Springs branch. Heading north, it followed the Jackson River, one of a handful of wild trout streams left in Virginia.
Brown and rainbow trout, some of them a foot to 18 inches long, still swim that stretch of water below Gathright Dam. But the locomotives and tracks are long gone. In their place are crushed cinders, modern bathrooms, parking areas and picnic tables.
Those comprise one of Western Virginiaâs most recent rails-to-trails projects, the 14.4-mile (and counting) Jackson River Scenic Trail. Itâs a bit more than an hourâs drive from Roanoke. Donna and I made our first visit Sunday â and it wonât be our last.
ashore to the time give a sense of how bad it was. pleasure to be on your show. generally the first four or 48 hours is going to be critical to get what we call ground zero. if you remember, 1992 hurricane andrew, came through the homestead and we couldn t get into the homestead for about 12, 18 hours but once we did we knew it was a catastrophic event. in this particular instance is very different because, if you remember, andrew in 1992 was mostly wind damage and it appears from everything that i ve seen that this will be mostly flooding which in many cases is actually worse. leeland: flooding, for sure. were hearing about 30 or 40 inches of rain in places, rockport specifically his background, victoria, texas is also flat and they ve had flooding and that wasn t even with a hurricane how much
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