General Discussion

I was really obsessed with hurricanes as when I was younger (I kinda still am to be fair) and knew tons about all the big ones.

Camille was a tremendously powerful Category 5 storm (they didn't have categories until after her actually , but that's what she'd have been on the scale), but by the time she got to Virginia she was just a rain storm. However, the Low pressure system that was her remnant interacted with two other systems and the mountains of VA which lifted her clouds up. Camille didn't just rain, she wrung out all the moisture she had within just a few hours. Survivors told of having to cup their hands over their mouth to even breath, the water was coming down so hard one had to keep from inhaling water. The tales of the survivors were almost unbelievable when they described the amount of water that was falling. Birds actually drowned in the air because they couldn't breathe. Many areas reported over 20 inches of rain in less than six hours. One town officially got 27 inches in three. Unofficially the figures were even higher, perhaps north of 40 inches...all within a period of time of two to five hours. Erosion on the mountains was described to be a thousand years worth in a single night and literally the sides of several of them fell off. It was unbelievable.