Floods at Great Falls, Great Falls Park, VA
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..
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.
You’re right - I forgot about Sandy …
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.
I was in basic training in October of ‘69. There were several guys from Mississippi in our platoon and they told us stories about Hurricane Camille. Yikes!
Doesn’t global warming decrease when it rains?
My High School graduation was flooded out by Agnes ... Spent the rest of the year cleaning up between college classes
The Porto Rico Storm--Carson Robison (1928)