(Virginia Beach VA) - Storm season is ramping up in Virginia and so is the need for blood donors. Katie Niehoff [KNEE-hoff] runs the Coastal Chapter of The Virginia Red Cross. She tells News-10 she needed blood after delivering her son.....Preview: So every year on her son's birthday the Niehoff's have a family blood drive. Giving blood is even more important in storm season because the need for blood increases at the same time the weather cancels blood drives.