Posted on 08/18/2014 8:36:30 AM PDT by rktman
LOL! It was brown acid not weed. Wait, do I have a memory?
LOL! kinda. Kinda brings things in to perspective when you reminded us that it was in two different centuries. Agreed that the news of Camille was confined but Katrina was all over the internet and instant info was available. Camille on the other hand, if it had been moving as slow as Katrina, there would be no Gulf Coast. As I mentioned to somebody earlier, if either one had made land fall just west of NOLA, there would be no NOLA. Our last visit to the area we drove down the beach road from BSL to Waveland. Well, they were putting a road back in. Waveland itself wasn’t. They house we rented just up from the beach and all the houses in the same area weren’t. Spooky.
The Sunday before Camille, my aunt called her mother (my grandmother) at her Waveland house. Grandma was still under the impression the storm was going to FL, and had intended to ride it out in Waveland, a block from the beach. My aunt talked her into coming back to NOLA. The old house was damaged, but was restored fully and survived till it vanished in Katrina. My father took us all to Lake Pontchartrain at West End the Sunday afternoon before Camille: those were some big waves crashing over the seawall.
Yes, Katrina was a monster. I came home to NOLA a week afterwards. Had to drive the inland route from Florida where I’d evacuated. No traffic lights working in Laurel, and thousands of trees down everywhere. I had more adventures than you have time to read. No power in my uptown house for a month. A desolate scene.
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