Use a peat-based, âsoil-lessâ mix, consisting of at least 30-50% vermiculite and/or perlite. âVioletâ soils arenot necessarily good for violets! Go by the ingredients, not the label! A bag of good soil should feel like a nice, fluffy, soft, pillow. Add more perlite to soil the wetter you plant on keeping the plant.
1 Hurricane Fran--The most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the United States during the 1996 Hurricane Season. 2  Made landfall over North Carolina with 115 mph winds in September of that year, and caused some $3.2 billion dollars in damage at the time. 3  Damage estimates are even higher today. Colonial Hurricane of 1635--Was a powerful New England hurricane that struck the Massachussetts Bay Colony in 1635 some fifteen years after the Mayflower struck land at Plymouth Rock. 2  This storm had reminded many of the pilgrims and settlers of past hurricanes that struck in the West Indies or Caribbean.
Only Hurricane Andrew was even close in wind speed. Camille is one of only three U.S. cyclones to be a Category 5 storm at landfall and it had the fastest recorded winds ashore, 190 miles per hour. Camille was the third deadliest U.S. hurricane in the 20th century. About 150 people died in Mississippi and Louisiana, and another 106 deaths occurred in Virginia from flash floods spawned by tropical rain as the storm broke up.