High Water, High Wires

Woodstock, VA

One afternoon I headed for the state park and found the low-water bridge looked like it was close to being flooded. I knew that Lupton Road would have been closed if the river was precariously high so I wasn’t afraid to cross it, but I only stayed there long enough to turn around and head back up the hill to town. 

Note the debris on the upriver side. That’s mostly branches that floated down the river and got caught on the bridge. Sometimes entire trees get uprooted by the high water and wind up trapped by bridges. The Shenandoah River still has a surprising number of these low bridges.

The second picture was taken on the other side of Woodstock, from a gas station near the interstate highway.