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[In the summer of 1916, a pair of cyclones — one coming from the Gulf of Mexico and making landfall in Mississippi, the other coming from the Atlantic and landing in Charleston, South Carolina — poured torrential rains (“all previous 24-hour records for rainfall were exceeded”) across the southeast. Western North Carolina was hit especially hard. In this photograph from NOAA’s historic archives, men stand on a railroad track which was left suspended in mid-air after the fill material it rested on washed away.]

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