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On the night of August 19–20, 1969, Nelson County was struck by disastrous flooding caused by Hurricane Camille. The hurricane hit the Gulf Coast two days earlier, weakened over land, and stalled on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountains , dumping a world-record quantity of 27 inches (690 mm) of rain, mainly in a three-hour period.
Massies Mill is an unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States. It is located on State Route 56 adjacent to the headwaters of the Tye River . The head of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway , a now-defunct short line railroad , was once located at Massies Mill.
The area of total destruction in Harrison County, Mississippi was 68 square miles (180 km 2). [14] The total U.S. estimated cost of damage was $1.42 billion (1969 USD). [3] This made Camille tied (with Hurricane Betsy) as the most expensive hurricane in the United States, up to that point. [15]
Flood damage along the Tye River near Norwood in the aftermath of Hurricane Camille. Norwood is an unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States. [1] It was among the communities severely affected by flash flooding from Hurricane Camille in 1969. [2] Montezuma was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [3]
Rockfish Post Office in Rockfish, Virginia. Rockfish is an unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States. [1]Looking North at the Old Rockfish Post Office and the intersection of Rt 617 and Norfolk Southern Railroad Flood damage in the Rockfish area after the passage of Hurricane Camille
The photo, which is at least seven years old, isn’t of Helene. It was posted after several hurricanes, but it appears to have first surfaced online after Hurricane Irma swept across Florida in 2017.
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Radar image of Hurricane Camille on August 17. The 1969 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1. [1] Of the twenty-three tropical cyclones that developed in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1969, eighteen of them intensified into tropical storms; [2] this was above the 1950–2000 average of 9.6 named storms. [3]