Roar of the Heavens: Surviving Hurricane Camille by Stefan Bechtel is a page-turner that will enlighten readers on Hurricane Camille’s horrific impact on Nelson County on 19 August 1969. As Camille hit the mountains of western Virginia she also collided with two other weather systems that squeezed millions of tons of water out of the storm like a sponge. It didn’t just rain; the air held nearly the maximum amount of water theoretically possible, becoming a solid body of descending liquid as lightning flashed sideways. Eight hours and more than two feet of rain later, 124 people in rural Nelson County were dead. Many of them, taken by the devastating floods, would never be found. Read the rest of this entry »
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