Richmond Public Schools CLOSED
UPDATE Richmond City Public Schools are now CLOSED for Monday March 5th. Get your snow boots on!!
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Hurricane reports
The hurricane has arrived! Please use this post to leave reports of downed trees, power outages, flooding, road closures, and those sorts of things. Hopefully there won’t be much to report. Good luck everyone!
Serious wind damage from last night’s weather event
I went out and took some pictures of the wind damage at Pollard Park this morning. There are several trees down, branches everywhere, and one powerline down. One of the falling trees had ripped a street light off of its post. The surrounding neighborhood isn’t much better off — city and Dominon crews have their [...]
Tornado! (maybe? totally!)
Update The National Weather Service confirms that it was indeed a tornado! The national weather service conducted a survey of the damage from the tornado that traversed a path from just east of The Diamond on the north side of Richmond east-northeastward into the Cold Harbor area of Hanover County. Most of the damage was [...]
Pools! It’s hot! SWIMMING.
You may have noticed, it is pretty darn hot outside — with no relief in site! Good thing the Richmond City pools are now open for swimming! We’ve got a couple on the Northside, details follow. Hours * Monday – Friday, 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. * Saturday, 12 [...]
Today’s Lakeside Market still on, moved inside
A quick note on the Lakeside Market today: Due to the prediction of 100+ Heat Index, we will be giving the vendors of Lakeside Farmers’ Market the option of moving inside of 6112 Lakeside Ave. (Inside of Lakeside Towne Center and beside the Farmers’ Market Paviliion). The space is air conditioned, clean and well lit. [...]
This weekend’s weather closings
I just got a list of closings from the City: * **Richmond Public Libraries** will be closedon Saturday January 30. Library programs scheduled for Saturday are postponed until further notice. All Richmond Public Libraries and programs will resume as regularly scheduled on Monday, February 1. * The Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities has [...]
