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(Sunday, August 17, 1969, approximately 11:30 p.m. CDT) — Hurricane Camille, the second most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States, with sustained winds of 175 mph, made landfall tonight near Waveland, Mississippi, as one of only three Category 5 hurricanes ever to make landfall in the U.S.

As Camille pushed inland, it quickly weakened and was a tropical depression by the time it was over the Ohio Valley.

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Camille flattened nearly everything along the Mississippi coast and caused additional flooding and deaths inland while crossing the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.

In total, Camille killed 259 people and caused $1.43 billion in damages (equivalent to $9.8 billion in 2018).