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August 19-20, 1969. Nelson County was in the path of one of the most devastating natural disasters that the Commonwealth of Virginia has ever experienced. Classified by the National Weather Service as a Category 5 hurricane, Camille came ashore along the Gulf Coast on August 16th causing major destruction in that region.
After leaving twenty-seven inches of rainfall in Nelson County, Hurricane Camille makes its way toward the coast and goes out to sea, leaving in its path 113 deaths from the storm, thirty-nine missing and presumed dead, and damages adding up to $116 million.
By The Citizen on August 23, 2022. Larry Spencer was 20 in August of 1969, when when the remnants of Hurricane Camille tore through Nelson County, taking at least 114 lives with it. Another 37 remain missing.
Virginia’s deadliest natural disaster unfolded 50 years ago from Hurricane Camille Aerial shot of massive mudflows in the mountains of Nelson County, Va., created by Hurricane Camille’s remnants.
Hurricane Camille was a powerful, deadly and destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane which became the second most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States (behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane) and is one of just four Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S.
As iconic as those events are, that’s not what Nelson County remembers about 1969, when the remnants of Hurricane Camille latched onto the mountains the evening of August 19 and dumped around three feet of rain. By morning, 124 people were dead, some of whom were never found.
NELSON COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — Hurricane Camille slammed into the Appalachian Mountains 53 years ago, taking hundreds of lives across a few states and wreaking irreparable devastation in...