Snap o' the Day
Snap: Striped road for snow
Published on Jan 29th, 2010
4 comments Speak softly and carry... a lot of deicing compound that you can stripe on the roads. That seems to be the mantra of VDOT this time around. In anticipation of a snowstorm, this is how Route 29 looked...
Snap o' the Day: Waterways crest their banks
Published on Jan 25th, 2010
0 comments Torrential rains last night turned rivers and streams into raging torrents, many of which overflowed their banks, including this small waterway at the entrance to the Key West subdivision on Route 20...
Snap: High climber
Published on Jan 15th, 2010
6 comments A workman with Dodson Glass reglazes the upper part of a window at 10:08am Friday morning, January 15 at an office of the Southern Environmental Law Center on the Downtown Mall. (Ladder falls cause...
Snap: Starr Hill houses from train
Published on Jan 3rd, 2010
6 comments Houses along Anderson, Page, and Albemarle Streets still sport their mantle of snow, as seen in this 11:14am view from Amtrak's Northeast Regional on Sunday, January 3. –-the headline has been...
Snap: Waste Management
Published on Dec 27th, 2009
18 comments Working through the situation, Waste Management employees collect garbage at 8:19am on Wednesday the 23rd of December on Second Street NW.
Snap: The hunt goes on
Published on Dec 26th, 2009
1 comments Stranded commuter? Nope. Deer-hunting slows for no season, as this 9:46am, December 24 photo seems to indicate.
Snap: All we want for Christmas...
Published on Dec 25th, 2009
1 comments A City scraper heads east on West Market Street at 1:36pm Wednesday, December 23. Some neighborhoods would have liked to see this earlier in the snowfall.
Snap: Mt. Chipotle
Published on Dec 24th, 2009
16 comments While public response has been criticized, private crews have made mountains out of snowhills, such as this peak near Chipotle restaurant in Barracks Road Shopping Center. Photographed at 9:59am...
Snap: All calm on the big road
Published on Dec 23rd, 2009
1 comments After several days of turmoil, including a little pond on Monday that bred an ice event Tuesday near the Comfort Inn, Route 29 was moving smoothly enough for transportation of a small structure at 8...
Snap: McGuffey gleams
Published on Dec 22nd, 2009
2 comments Although the street on which it's located, Second NW, is still choked with a foot of snow and ice, the artists who enjoy subsidized rent at the McGuffey Art Center appear to be as proficient with...
Snap: Cardinal taking off
Published on Dec 21st, 2009
2 comments A cardinal takes off Saturday morning from an Ivy-area deck. –photo by Coy Barefoot
Snap: Snow began at 3:55 downtown
Published on Dec 18th, 2009
6 comments And it looked like this at 5:12pm. 10:31pm update: The snow is now about 11" deep, and the National Weather Service is now predicting a two-day total accumulation of 20-25".
Snap: Lot of tears
Published on Dec 18th, 2009
6 comments This is how the RV Lot, the place where people last interacted with Morgan Harrington, looked on Saturday, December 5.
Snap: Remaking the crosswalks
Published on Dec 17th, 2009
1 comments A contractor jack-hammers out a cobblestoney set of concrete pavers Wednesday, December 16, installed as part of an early 1990s Corner district overhaul. The city is now overhauling many crosswalks...
Snap: Quiet club
Published on Dec 17th, 2009
0 comments The Blue Ridge Swim Club (established 1914), like most outdoor pools in these parts, appears to have shut down for the season. The stream-fed pool, reportedly the longest in the County, also appears...
Snap: Snappin' the lights Ventana
Published on Dec 15th, 2009
1 comments A woman with a Blackberry decides the lights in hip bar Ventana, which reopened in the fall after a major expansion, are worth a photograph.
Snap: Crozet house whacked for no library
Published on Dec 12th, 2009
9 comments This is the house torn down last year for the planned Crozet replacement library, a $10 million, 20,000 square-foot behemoth that has now been removed from the County's 5-year CIP, or Capital...
Snap o' the day: Skyline with man in tree
Published on Dec 11th, 2009
0 comments A non-holiday tree trimming takes place on the west end of the Downtown Mall.
Snap: 'It's Dee-lish'
Published on Dec 9th, 2009
1 comments One of the interesting, if unsung, components of the old Jefferson Theater is this old popcorn warmer–- saved by Stu Rifkin, seen here in background. The warmer, photographed in late November...
Snap: Height of the squall
Published on Dec 6th, 2009
3 comments Shoppers brave the peak of the Saturday's snowfall at the Barracks Road Harris-Teeter. The National Weather Service issued a black-ice warning until midmorning Sunday with advance warning of a...
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