Hurricane Irene brought a soaking rain, downed trees and power outages to the Potomac Communities.
Julie Bohn lives along the Occoquan River at the town that shares the same name. Though two tree limbs fell into her yard due to high winds during the height of the storm, she was happy things did not get as bad as they could have.
“We get a lot of big storms and then we get the flooding, but there is always something to fight down here. Living on the river has got its joys and its good points, and then, sometimes, you’ve got other things like this to deal with,” said Bohn.
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Occoquan officials warned residents before the storm that town could flood, but a down Mill Street in Occoquan Sunday morning revealed no significant damage.
What’s left after Irene can be summed up with the various downed trees and power lines in the area. Dominion Virginia Power says they are responding to the 1.2 million people without power after the storm, and has asked anyone without power to call them.
Also in Occoquan was a downed tree hanging on a power line blocked a portion of Union Street leading into town.
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In the rural Arkendale area of North Stafford, a fallen tree closed a gravel section of Brent Point Road near Arkendale Road. An electrical cable also laid in the intersection of Arkendale and Widewater roads Sunday morning.
At 2 a.m., the long awaited brunt of the storm picked up bringing high winds to the area, but otherwise the storm brought some much-needed rain to the region.
