Over Labor Day weekend in 1970, the deadliest natural disaster in Arizona history struck when Tropical Storm Norma swept north into Arizona and unleashed a deadly downpour. One weather station measured nearly 12 inches of rain in a 24 hour period, an Arizona record that remains unmatched. Winds in the Rim Country reached 60 miles per hour, and torrential rains sent walls of water down Tonto, Christopher, Horton, and Dick Williams Creeks. The raging floods washed out bridges and swept away people, cabins, and automobiles in their path. Among the identified victims were Day Hamilton Campbell, Mina L. Hinton Campbell, Moris Orval Rhodes, Beverly Guffey Rhodes, Tasha Rhodes, Tara Rhodes, Eric Rhodes, Gilbert Andrew Duthie, Marguerite Dickinsen, Kyle Riggs MacDonald, Ina Randall MacDonald, Tempe Sue MacDonald, Nan MacDonald, Kyle Randall MacDonald, Robert Conklin, Donald George Salz, Richard Dewey Fellars, Nancy Jane Fellars, Sloan Carol Chandler, Todd Michael Chandler, Everett Batholomew, Elizabeth Banks Batholomew, Ethel Parker, George Schabacker, Al Morrow, Anthony Romero Leyva, and Susan Leota Allen, though the exact number of victims may never be known.