Lot of people don't know that Hurricane Camille in 1969 killed more
people in Virginia than it killed along the Gulf coast. Almost all of it
from flash floods.
Nelson County VA got 27 inches of rain in 12 hours and had 123
fatalities; 1% of the local population killed in a single storm. It's
said it rained so hard that it drowned birds up in the trees.
From: Stan Halpin
I keep thinking of Agnes, 1972. Not much of a storm, but it just kept
pumping rain into the mid-atlantic states to as far north as the
southern Finger Lakes. My uncle (home builder) was overwhelmed with
work for the next two years in Cortland NY. Extensive flood damage,
entire neighborhoods wiped out. Virginia, WVa, Maryland, and
Pennsylvania all got it bad.
stan
On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:42 PM,Christine Nielsen wrote:
Here on the coast just south of Boston, we did pretty well.
Interesting that we knew to expect more wind damage than water,
being on the eastern side of the storm. But there's minimal damage
to property, no flooding to speak of. Many neighboring towns are
still without power, and will be for days, but we only had a couple
of very brief interruptions yesterday. What surprised me most is
the toll that the storm took in Vermont. Major flooding, damage to
homes, towns, roadways, bridges... I'm not sure anyone expected
that extent of destruction up there, being an inland state
especially.
Today was as beautiful a day as we've had all summer, though.
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