Wish You Were Here!
Hurricane Floyd impacted the East Coast of the United States from September 14 to 18, 1999
This postcard was bought in 2010.
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The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will officially start on June 1 and end on November 30.
Hurricane Floyd was the sixth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane in the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season. Floyd triggered the third largest evacuation in US history when 2.6 million coastal residents of five states were ordered from their homes as it approached.
The hurricane produced torrential rainfall in eastern North Carolina, adding more rain to an area hit by Hurricane Dennis just weeks earlier. The rains caused widespread flooding over a period of several weeks; nearly every river basin in the eastern part of the state exceeded 500-year flood levels.
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