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mahatmakanejeeves

(61,655 posts) Sun Oct 15, 2023, 07:13 AM Oct 2023

On this day, October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas.

Sat Oct 15, 2022: On this day, October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas.

I was around for Hurricane Hazel.

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• 1954 – Hurricane Hazel (flooding pictured) made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the same day, killing 176 people in the two countries.

Hurricane Hazel flooding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_15

• 1954 – Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.

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On this day, October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 OP

I remember it, some of my earliest recollections, I was afraid because the grown-ups were afraid Walleye Oct 2023 #1

It's the first hurricane I remember. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2023 #2

Walleye

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1. I remember it, some of my earliest recollections, I was afraid because the grown-ups were afraid

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Sun Oct 15, 2023, 07:26 AM

Oct 2023

I can even picture the living room I was sitting in our newly installed TV aerial blew down. We had just gotten a TV for the first time. I remember hearing the wind and the trees crashing down in the woods behind us. I don’t think our house sustained any damage but a lot of people did. I have always had respect for hurricanes

PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. It's the first hurricane I remember.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Oct 15, 2023, 09:58 AM

Oct 2023

We lived in Utica, NY, so all we really got was a lot of rain.

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