Lynchburg residents recall monster storm of ‘93
Some people don’t take thunderstorms seriously. Those people were probably not living in Central Virginia in the summer of 1993.
It took only 15 minutes for a storm on June 4 of that year to leave a lasting impression.
“It came out of Bedford County,” recalled Larry Jackson, then the director of customer service for Appalachian Power, “hit Lynchburg, went on into Campbell County and all the way out past Appomattox.”
Jackson was sitting inside Movies 10 in Candler’s Station when the power went out and the screen went blank.
“I had no idea what had happened,” he said. “I walked outside, and the first thing that hit me was the smell of pine. The pine trees…
