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I can't believe Camille isn't in that list of retired names. It was one of the worst I can remember in my lifetime.

I can't believe Hazel didn't make it either.

1954 - Friends of my parents had a beach house at Myrtle Beach, SC. Nothing left of it but a plumbing pipe sticking alone in the air with the bathtub still attached.

Insurance company said they wouldn't pay a claim because it was destroyed by flood waters.

Lucky for them, the husband had his name and address in his shirts. Couple in Conway, SC (15-20 miles away) found one of his shirts in their yard and called him.

Shirt was proof that the hurricane "winds" destroyed the house and not flood waters, so insurance company was forcd to pay the claim.

169 posted on 08/27/2005 5:42:17 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Be a glowworm. A glowworm's never glum. How can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum?)

Oops. Hazel is on the full list. One of the deadliest. Even had 81 people in Toronto, Canada die in floods from its effects.

173 posted on 08/27/2005 5:44:53 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Be a glowworm. A glowworm's never glum. How can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum?)

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