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Poquoson football standout Luke Hill is optimistic
Luke Hill starred for Poquoson High's football team last season with 100-plus tackles and more than 400 yards rushing. The 6-foot, 195-pound senior sounds optimistic about the Islanders heading into tonight's opener at home against Dinwiddie.Q: The Daily Press picked Poquoson as No. 1 in the Bay Rivers. Is that justified? A: If we keep our chemistry together and play to our potential, I actually think we could be (No. 1). But we have a lot of work ahead of us and we still have a lot to learn. Q: Why do you think Poquoson's chemistry is better this year than last? A: We’ve really concentrated on working hard since the Bruton game last year (a last-second loss in the regional championship game). We’ve got a lot of fire in us this year, everybody is lifting and we all wanted to come together.
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Marty O'Brien's Bay Rivers Blog
Friday - September 3, 2010
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Peninsula residents prepare, or not, for Hurricane Earl
Preparations for the possibility of Hurricane Earl affecting the local area were close to minimal Wednesday, but uncertainty pervaded the Peninsula.Earl's outer edge is expected to arrive Thursday, projected to skirt Virginia's east coast with winds producing a strong storm surge and heavy rain possible. Flooding of low-lying areas is the biggest concern here. Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency Wednesday as a precaution ahead of the storm. Kim Hames wasn't taking any chances with her Ridge Road home in Poquoson. Her family moved in a year before Hurricane Isabel in 2003, and the house sustained water damage. Wednesday Hames was mowing her lawn, putting tarps down in front of the windows and doors in her house and preparing her family to go to a relative's home in Hampton Thursday.Last year, three storms in November pushed water through the front of her house and ruined the floors. "I just had brand new hardwood floors put in here," Hames said. "I would die if it happened again."
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Daily Press
Wednesday - September 1, 2010
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Hampton and Poquoson are vulnerable to Hurricane Earl
Wal-Mart on College Drive in Suffolk was full of shoppers whose carts were loaded down with bottled water, flashlights and tinned goods on Tuesday night. With Hurricane Earl, a massive Category 3 storm, predicted to be menacing the coast of North Carolina by Friday, Hampton Roads residents are fearing the worst.To many the worst might be equated with Hurricane Isabel that ripped through Hampton Roads in 2003, downing trees, causing flooding and leaving homes without power for days on end. The bad news is Isabel was not the worst. The Hurricane was only a Category 1 storm when it came ashore. Anything bigger could be potentially catastrophic.
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Daily Press
Wednesday - September 1, 2010
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Hurricane Earl presents storm surge risk for Hampton Roads
Nearly 4,000 people live in the southeast tip of Gloucester County, a patch of marsh lands that rise no more than five feet above sea level.A category 2 storm — two notches below the strength of Earl, a mammoth hurricane moving up the Atlantic Ocean — would put the area under water. Gloucester isn't alone. Much of Mathews and York counties, Poquoson and Hampton would also be submerged, according to state Department of Emergency Management maps. So too would parts of Newport News and Isle of Wight, and population hubs in Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach. It appears so far that Earl won't get close enough to Virginia to cause destruction comparable to 2003's Hurricane Isabel or even last November's nor'easter. Still, Hampton Roads may get socked with heavy rain, strong winds, flooding and dangerous ocean conditions, said WTKR NewsChannel 3 Meteorologist Myles Henderson. Tides are running 6 inches above historical average, a phenomena that could make flooding worse, said John Boon, emeritus professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Boon declined Tuesday to estimate how much water levels will rise because the storm was still hundreds of miles away. The National Weather Service put the figure at two feet.
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Daily Press
Tuesday - August 31, 2010
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Marty O'Brien's Bay Rivers Blog
Saturday - August 28, 2010
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