Floods at Great Falls, Great Falls Park, VA
Posted on 09/02/2021 5:46:15 PM PDT by 11th_VA
"Hurricane Agnes originated in the Caribbean Sea region in mid-June. Circulation barely reached hurricane intensity for a brief period in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm crossed the Florida Panhandle coastline on June 19, 1972, and followed an unusually extended overland trajectory combining with an extratropical system to bring very heavy rain from the Carolinas northward to New York.
This torrential rain followed the abnormally wet May weather in the Middle Atlantic States and set the stage for the subsequent major flooding.The record-breaking floods occurred in the Middle Atlantic States in late June and early July 1972. Many streams in the affected area experienced peak discharges several times the previous maxima of record. Estimated recurrence intervals of peak flows at many gaging stations on major rivers and their tributaries exceeded 100 years. The suspended-sediment concentration and load of most flooded streams were also unusually high.
The widespread flooding from this storm caused Agnes to be called the most destructive hurricane in United States history, claiming 117 lives and causing damage estimated at $3.1 billion in 12 States. Damage was particularly highin New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia."
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Some of you probably have stories - biggest storm I’ve ever seen in the East
They had a major hurricane in the 30s….. global warming then?
This happened 7 years before I was born. My Dad would have been 24 at the time.
Ruined 1/2 my summer after the 8th grade. I swear it rained for three weeks straight.
I was at a summer “karate camp” in West Virginia. It rained every day, and the cabins were in bad shape. It was chilly too. Extended drills and sparing was the only way to stay warm. We got seriously fit.
Agnes just stalled and parked over the mid atlantic coast cities and 200 miles inland. When I say parked, I mean the long term parking.......
I believe this was the storm that caused massive flooding in West Virginia.
I always remembered it as a news reporter found a child whose parents had been drowned in the flooding.
He ran up to the kid, stuck his microphone in the child’s face and said loudly...”HOW does it feel knowing your parents are dead!”
Agnes and the Watergate hearings ruined two of my summer breaks.
typical new york...its not real or doesn’t matter, until happens to them.....insufferable bastards. You want devastating flash floods??....google what the remnants of Hurricane Camille did to western Virginia in 1969...31 inches of rain in 8 hours....dozens of people buried in mudslides...who’s bodies were never found....to this day..scars of those slides are still visible on mountain sides in Nelson County Virginia..
Same for me - I was taking 7th grade regents at the end of the year when the rain started.
Corning Museum of Glass has a section of the museum dedicated to that flood which really did a number on them.
They have a mark on the walls of the height of the flood waters. A lot was damaged and lost.
Trump’s fault.
The latest storm is always “EPIC!”. Nothing like it EVER! Join us tonight at 11 for the latest video of death and destruction from this once in a 100 year storm!
Interesting though. Thinking about it. Agnes was waaay before most TV news readers were even born. The sad part is that Sandy was just a few short years ago and they can’t even recall that one.
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane wiped most of Galveston, Texas off of the face of the Earth. At the time, Galveston was the largest city in Texas. After the hurricane, most of the survivors moved inland to Houston.
https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/nws-heritage/-/galveston-storm-of-1900
It too was Trump’s fault.
You’re right - I forgot about Sandy …
Agnes was the last big one before FEMA.
However did we manage.
Good history videos on that one … I believe the meteorologist was not believed a big storm was coming
I remember Agnes well as does my wife. It just rained and rained and rained and rained.......
Agnes was a 99 year, 11 month and 29 day storm , Ida beat it by a day on the Weather Channel’s breathless “We never seen nuthin’ like this before...” scale.
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