[CatherineofAragon]

I was six years old then, so I don’t remember much, but two days later Camille hit Nelson County, Virginia, which is just north of us (we’re in Campbell County). The storm dropped a total of 37 inches of rain (27 of those in the first three hours). I’ve read that animals drowned in trees. Communities were wiped out. Many people (bodies) have never been found.

[Moonman62]

Flooding is the deadliest weather event.

[dogcaller]

I grew up in Lynchburg, VA and remember the seeing the heaviest rain I have ever seen. One of the towns wiped out in Nelson County was Massie’s Mill. If I recall correctly they eventually found one of the residents body in Newport News. Once Route 29 was rebuilt the drive from Lynchburg to Charlottesville looked entirely different.

[Think free or die]

"I was six years old then, so I don’t remember much, but two days later Camille hit Nelson County, Virginia, which is just north of us (we’re in Campbell County). The storm dropped a total of 37 inches of rain (27 of those in the first three hours). I’ve read that animals drowned in trees. Communities were wiped out. Many people (bodies) have never been found."

I was living in Michigan when Camille hit, so although it looked horrible, it was far away. Ten years later, I moved to Albemarle County, Virginia. I was stunned by the tracks of Camille along the ridges and valleys of Nelson County. Many areas were still bare, and evidence of rock slides and washouts was still very obvious. Camille's impact on the gulf was so dramatic that the damage in Virginia was pushed out of the news.

[higgmeister]

We lived in Waynesboro and my younger brother helped with the cleanup there in Nelson County. He saw a locomotive lifted 100 yards off the track. Mountain sides were washed down into the valley. I stayed in Waynesboro cleaning up at a house that had the basement wall caved in along the whole back at ground level and filled with water. When the water was pumped out there was a foot of muck that we had to shovel out.