I went through BCT in late ‘69 with a bunch of guys from Mississippi.I wasn’t aware of Camille back then (like many kids that age I didn’t follow the news) and I don’t recall any of them talking about it.Perhaps they weren’t from the worst affected areas.
I drove through in 1981 and could still see where the damage occurred.
During Katrina the entitled class, created by the democrats expected everything from everybody else.
I was six years old then, so I don’t remember much, but two days later Camille hit Nelson County, Virginia, which is just north of us (we’re in Campbell County). The storm dropped a total of 37 inches of rain (27 of those in the first three hours). I’ve read that animals drowned in trees. Communities were wiped out. Many people (bodies) have never been found.
Slept thru Camille in Ocean Springs, and wanted to go fishing the next day, boy was I a goober, 12, but still......
Such baloney.
I was there.... a few miles inland from Pass Road
At a camp
My daddy somehow got down there to fetch me next morning
I will never forget it....
Went thru Camille in suburban NJ. Wasn’t all that bad as I recall, but I was a kid. Yes, certainly more trees were down than I had ever seen, and some big ones were completely knocked over with their roots ripped out of the ground. But nothing at all like the full-on destruction of an Andrew in Florida.
I’ll never forget it. I was only 8 years old at the time. Family drove to Biloxi/Gulfport just a few days after Camille. I can remember lots of front steps but with no home behind them. The houses were blown or washed away. It was like a huge bomb went off.
Katrina was different. Katrina was more surge and impacted a larger area — New Orleans to the Florida panhandle.
Both Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan got up to almost 200 MPH winds before landfall. The wind slowed down with both storms but it takes longer for the surge to settle back down than the wind.
Wasn’t weather associated with Camille what rained out the Woodstock concerts?
Lived through Camille as a baby. Probably the root of a few childhood nightmares. We were drilled with grainy footage in grade school that Camille was the single worst hurricane to hit the Gulf, hopefully the worst in our lifetime.
IIRC they measured the storm surge at 20+ ft on some bridges in the area.
I live in MA and remember it well.
This incident really horrified me.
http://camille.passchristian.net/hurricane_party.htm.
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BTTT
I was in tech school at Keesler AFB during Camile. We spent a lot of time afterward helping with clean-up. I still remember seeing the waterline 20’ up in the trees and, like someone mentioned, a lot of concrete slabs and with a set of steps and nothing else. The houses were all in a long line of debris about a quarter mile inland. I have a picture of a sailboat sitting on top of a gas station...
BS. Many structures along the front survived Camille with heavy damage. Other than steel reinforced concrete, did ANY structures from Waveland to PC survive Katrina's surge? Where is Beauvoir now? My grandmother's house in Waveland -- one block from the beach -- was fully restored after Camille, complete with original furniture. After Katrina it was difficult even to find the lot. My's boss's house in Bay St. Louis was a pile of sticks. His parents' house, high above East Beach Drive in PC, was a scrape. Same with my sister's in-laws place on Wolf River. Camille was a terrible storm with record winds, but it was compact. We rode it out in NOLA with minimal ill effects. Katrina made landfall almost the exact same area, and my uptown home near St. Charles was uninhabitable for a month.
Friends of ours still speak of it as if it were yesterday, it had such an enormous impact. They lost the wife’s grandfather’s home in Biloxi. An expert sport sailor friend was thought missing but 3 days later emerged from a very far backwater. The same family’s daughter lost her home @ Bay St Louis with Katrina, and another daughter lost her NOLA home as well.
Where I live the strongest wind gusts might reach 70 mph.I can’t begin to imagine experiencing 180 mph.It sounds almost Biblical.