ABOVE, Southern Virginia Junior College’s Chandler Hall auditorium became the site of the first locally coordinated relief effort in the Rockbridge area in the immediate aftermath of the flood. The collection of food and clothing at the relief center had mushroomed by Friday of that first week, according to Melanie Fure, then the director of special programs at Sem. AT LEFT, this photo by Greg Moore of a Glasgow woman being rescued from her home by Glasgow Rescue Squad members made the front page of The News-Gazette on Nov. 6, 1985.
