RICHMOND, Va. — In the wake of Hurricane Helene and the massive flooding that hit western North Carolina, many in Virginia are reminded of a similar event 55 years ago: Hurricane Camille.

This is the story of Hurricane Camille’s catastrophic flash flood, mudslides and debris flows in Nelson County, Va. Long as I remember ... headed east toward Richmond, thence into the Atlantic ...

Flooding related to Hurricane Camille a week earlier caused significant damage in Richmond and claimed more than 100 lives statewide. A house rests on its side on Rt. 655 at Roseland, VA after ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Long before Katrina, there was Camille. In the summer of 1969, the first and last storm to ever bear that name smashed into the Gulf Coast as a massive Category 5 hurricane.

No one expected Camille to devastate Virginia. No one could have even imagined ... hundreds of people would be dead and the land itself reshaped. Hurricane Camille pushed the meteorological ...

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 affected ...

Aug. 20, 1969, Hurricane Camille: Camille's remnants ... Agnes produced devastating floods in Virginia: 16 inches of rain dropped on Fairfax County. In Richmond, the water supply, sewage-treatment ...

In 1969, Hurricane Camille dropped 27 inches of rain on Nelson County, Va., in just six hours. The storm hit the Blue Ridge Mountains with an intensity that no meteorologist had anticipated ...

In 1969, Hurricane Camille dropped 27 inches of rain on Nelson County, Va., in just six hours. The storm hit the Blue Ridge Mountains with an intensity that no meteorologist had anticipated ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Fifty years ago, on August 19, 1969, Hurricane Camille hit Virginia and caused inland flooding and mudslides, and killed over 150 people. The Virginia Department of Emergency ...