Correct, Camille came in with a 25 ft storm surge and waves 25 feet on top of that... amazing. She was also a "tightly" wrapped storm. The pressure was in the upper 800's and dropping when she entered Mississippi.
When I visited a friend in Pascagoula, Mississippi (on the MS coast) a few years ago, he took me on a drive and showed me an empty lot overlooking the beach. There had been a big three-story house there before Camille came in. After Camille passed through, all that was left on the lot was a bare concrete slab foundation, which was still there the day I saw it, about ten bricks left of what used to be the fireplace, and the bottom two steps of the concrete front stairs.
It's about what I'd expect to have been left after a nearby nuclear strike.