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- Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane in North Carolina history. It struck our state's southeastern coast as a Category Four storm in October 1954 and left a path of destruction and death across eastern North Carolina and up the eastern seaboard. The WRALDoc team looks back at Hurricane Hazel in interviews with survivors and through archival film, audio and photographs. Former WRAL News anchor Charlie Gaddy hosts. This program originally aired on September 8, 2004, just ahead of Hazel's 50th anniversary .
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It would be 70 years ago this year (1954-2024) that Hurricane Hazel would've devastated North Carolina. 💔
May those who lived to tell the story Rest In Peace.
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resting and still breathing....
Ten years before I was born, yet Hazel was legendary in ENC when I was growing up in New Bern. Anytime people talked about hurricanes, Hazel was mentioned. Most people that lived through it are dead now, so the memories are fading. We have other storms to remember now. Floyd, Florence, Bertha, Fran, etc.
"Matthew" of 2016 was another one.
Ike
we're not all dead...but yeah...head that way.
@@StephenZ827 no offense intended. I’m 61 myself
We were in Nags Head, NC when Hazel cut the island in half on Soundside Road, just south of Jockey's Ridge sand dunes
There was a large gasoline tanker dangling from the road into the opening. The homes were 8 feet off the ground so the tidal surge was level with the doors. We had filled the bathtub and buckets with well water for drinking and hygiene. As the water receded, there were water moccasins and other snakes swimming around. The only transportation was the ferry from currituck inland. I remember the National Guard coming in for aid. I wondered at the time if this event could have resulted in "the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island.
Good point. A hurricane would certainly take out a small coastal island town.
I was 4 years old when Hazel hit Portsmouth VA. We lived in an apartment building on the 3 floor. Our next door neighbors had their window break on the porch. My dad went the attic and got my brother's Lionel train board.
He went next door and put in the broken window and it kept the wind and rain out of our neighbors apartment. We had power and mother kept reminding us to stay away from the windows. I can still remember the howling wind and the rain beating on the windows. Barbara
I was 4 as well, my first hurricane. lived in Simonsdale , in Portsmouth.
Cool program. I experienced Hazel as an 8 year old in Pennsylvania and never forgot it. There was local flooding, although we lived on a hill. Now I live in tropical north Queensland, Australia and have unfortunately suffered three intense hurricanes here, called tropical cyclones. In the worst case my property was directly on the left quadrant (southern hemisphere, the interviewee referred to the dangerous right quadrant for the northern hemisphere. It was terrible.
Thank You Wral
I was 5 years old and Sand Street in fort Bragg and remember the gloomy weight for the hurricane and I remember weeks afterwards picking up shingles along the streets and seeing the television antennas bent those are the main memories.
I lived threw Hazel, I was in 2nd grade. We were let out of school at noon, by 5;30 we were hit. It was scary.
through, not threw.
I was 8 years old when Hazel hit 155km north of Toronto where we had waist deep flooding. The effect of the hurricane is still evident today. Most of those killed lived in homes along rivers where there was massive flooding. Because of this all buildings were removed from river ravines and turned into parks. This has meant that there are parks that stretch many km north of the city and surrounding cities. Which means that many wild animals can make their way well into the city, racoons, oppossoms, ducks, skunks and recently we have seen a beaver busy working away. That hurricane one of the only in the greater Toronto area nad has permanent effects on the area.
I was only 2 years old and we lived in south central Pennsylvania. Mom told us stories of how the winds blew the outhouse across the field. My grandma who lived there too was named Hazel.
My mom was only 3mo old in Oct of 1954. However she and her family lived in Florida. They knew friends who lost their homes in North Carolina.
i remember that all the giant sand dunes were gone....my uncle's beach front cottage was found in the marsh, along with many more......thanks for this look back....
Where are you talking about? I lived at milepost 12 close to the dunes...they shifted but we're still there.
I was at home with my mom and older brother. We were 4 and 8 years old and living in a new development in Toronto. Dad was in hospital having surgery. As we looked out our front window it was dark way too early that day. Our neighboring community of Weston was older and hit hard.
Interesting note that the nickname of Huricane Hazel was to become the way folks referred Hazel who was, many years later, mayor of Mississauga, Ontario just outside of Toronto. She was a feisty opponent and passed away in her 90s still involved in local politics
My mom was nine-- she talks about wading through water up to her waist in Jacksonville North Carolina
I remember Hazel very 🎉well ,I was eight years old . It hit out coastal hometown of Rehoboth Brach and up toward Wilmington Delaware . The devastation was profound , but not near as bad as the March ‘62 that hit us full force …
I can remember my mama talking about hurricane Hazel.
YES! we were tested again with Hurricane Hugo, and Yes it hit hard as a 4, Geeze you guy's forgot that huge one!
I can’t imagine how difficult it was to track and notify people about storms.
At least by then the national weather service wasn't saying there was no hurricane, despite scientific evidence, as with 1938 New England and 1900 Galveston. Sad they lost their excellent meteorologist and hurricane tracker Grady Horton. When you are dealing with a hurricane, it is the people who make all the difference. Does anyone listen or is it business as usual?
I remember my late father speaking about Hazel. That was the only one he ever spoke of. I have been to all of these beaches.
I lived through Hurricane Fran in 1996. That was bad enough! I wouldn't want to live through that again. I guess Hazel was so much worse, Fran doesn't even compare.
Aired a few days after Hurricane Frances made landfall near Port St. Lucie, FL.
Man..........NC either has barely an impacts from storms or tons of impacts.
My daddy helped rebuild the pier at Carolina Beach after Hazel came through.
My daddy saved up to 15 percent by switching to GEICO.
Wow I can't believe this happened I'm glad something worse hasn't hit NC since then
Both sets of my grandparents told me the story of when Hazel hit NC when I was a teenager. Utter devastation
Fran was bad too for N.C.
I've heard that no Hurricane has never done the damage that Hurricane Hazel did, not even Hurricane Fran.
Floyd was no joke
Hugo was really bad too. It came ashore in Charleston, and roared up the interstate to Charlotte like a buzz saw. In uptown Charlotte, shards of glass blew out of skyscraper windows and embedded in the concrete of nearby skyscrapers. Massive oak trees were either toppled with their roots exposed or the trunks were twisted and snapped halfway up. There was never a storm like that to hit Charlotte before or since. Now I live in Ocean Isle Beach, and every time hurricane season rolls around, I am afraid.
I remember Hazel I was seven years old
Hazel blew through Washington, D.C. as well.
Hurricane Agnes was also a bad hurricane. Western Marylander here! Agnes came up the Chesapeake Bay and slammed into Pennsylvania! Tons of flooding , just south of Harrisburg. Not far from the Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor in Middletown , PA. 1972!
I I live in North Carolina I didn’t see hurricane hazel, but I’ve heard destructive
I trust Charlie Gaddy
Thirteen years before I was born in 1967.
any chance of having some volume...
This was a worse disaster for Canada if my memory of Wikipedia browsing is correct
Wikipedia, about as trustworthy as a politician promising term limits.
Worse in what sense? Preparedness, govt aid, deaths, destruction totals...?
81 people died in Toronto and the surrounding area, most of them in flash flooding that happened along the Don and Humber rivers. 36 people alone died on a part of one street (Raymore Drive) which at the time of Hazel ran parallel to the Humber River. In the aftermath of Hazel, the city of Toronto bought up all the land next to the Don and Humber rivers (including the part of Raymore Drive where the tragedy occurred) and turned it into park lands.
I have to correct something here. Eisenhower was not running for re-election in 1954...that was in 1956. However, he was campaigning for GOP candidates in the midterm elections that year.
Hazel was the worst hurricane I here of my dad newto. Tell me story and I was born in 1967
shrekscoped.
now we shut down the entire countries business and force people indoors because some may get sick
Your gene pool could use a little more chlorine!
@Doc Watson no your not the detective so don't "STFU" people
Ok Karen ,😊
@@lightusofficial disgusting
Please do not compare a virus to a fucking hurricane the lasted a few hours dumbass. Thank you.
Don't forget about Hugo. I always heard Hugo was the worst.
1:43 -- Yeah, I get it's Marlon Brando and all, but why are you showing a clip from _Streetcar Named Desire_ (1951)?
11:01 -- A note about the Sanitary: It's still there, serving fish and hushpuppies, but it's not the same as when it was owned by the Seamon family. The deviled crab is bland and flabby, and the hushpuppies were greasy the last time I was there, and I'm told our experience was consistent with that of many others. It's sad, because it used to be absolutely the best, freshest seafood on the Morehead City waterfront.
Final edit: I was born in Alamance County in 1956, and Daddy's family was from Tidewater Virginia. I remember people telling stories about Hazel and Camille in tones of absolute awe. They were more like characters than storms to me as a child. Thank you for filling in a lot of details about one of these two events. Now I'm off to find out about Camille!