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Larry Camp remembers Hurricane Floyd's impact on Rocky Mount. He was the Parks Maintenance Superintendent at the time of the storm, and he describes wind and flood damage to the city's parks, community centers, cemeteries, museum, and art center. Camp recalls moving computers and equipment to high levels in the new Park Maintenance building, which ended up flooded with nine or ten inches of water. He also remembers travelling by boat to check on the Art Center and finding the deceased animals in the Children's Museum. He describes the methodical nature of the monumental cleanup and decontamination of the city, and how everyone worked together to rebuild the community back to better than it was before. He notes that the people of Rocky Mount have been scarred by the storm, but they are resilient. Finally, he remembers going around the city in a flatbed dump truck and rescuing people from flooded homes.

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