A storm that raged through Virginia last Wednesday left 60,000 Dominion Virginia Power customers across the state without power—6,800 of those customers on the Middle Peninsula. In Gloucester, one house was extensively damaged and left unlivable until repairs are made; in Mathews, the boathouse at a marina was torn completely off.
Meteorologist Jeff Orrock with the National Weather Service at Wakefield said there were two corridors of 60 mph winds that hit Gloucester and Mathews during the storm, one that came across the York River from the Peninsula and hit in the Allmondsville area of the county, generating a waterspout that downed trees and caused damage at historic Holly Knoll, home of The Gloucester Institute. Those winds continued across into Cobbs Creek, he said, causing damage to the boathouse at Ginney Point Marina.
The other corridor started somewhere north of the Patrick Henry Mall area of Newport News, he said, and blew through Gloucester Court House with straight-line wind...