Cataclysmic Camille: After 40 years, Nelson County's wounds still fresh
t was as bright as day the night Warren Raines was orphaned.
"If it wasn't for the lightning..." he pauses. "I didn't know what move I'd have to make next. You had to watch your back. Whole houses were floating by... cars, cows..."
Raines, 54, sits on a rail of the bridge over the Tye River in the village of Massies Mill. Forty years ago, the warehouse where his father worked sat atop that bridge, washed 50 yards downstream by the cataclysmic flood that swept away Raines' parents, two sisters, and a brother.
That Tuesday in 1969– still known as "the 19th" in Nelson County– dawned a dog day of August, far removed from the cultural watershed known as Woodstock winding down to the north, far removed from the carnage known as Hurricane Camille that had just killed 174 people as it steamrolled through the Gulf Coast.
No one knew that Camille's fury wasn't quite spent.
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