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Weather Watchers

mahatmakanejeeves

(61,822 posts) Sat Oct 15, 2022, 05:47 AM Oct 2022

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On this day, October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas. [View all]

I was around for Hurricane Hazel.

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

• 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. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 OP

I remember reading about Hurricane Hazel no_hypocrisy Oct 2022 #1

I remember Hazel as a kid in Philly Goonch Oct 2022 #2

I had just turned two Dave in VA Oct 2022 #3

I'm a year ahead of you. NT mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 #6

I was 7 in Wilmington Delaware randr Oct 2022 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author randr Oct 2022 #5

I was in the middle of Hazel unc70 Oct 2022 #7

My parents had been vacationing in Sarasota.. luvs2sing Oct 2022 #8

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