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And that's quite alright, BTW. There's are explanations for the variations in the Celia story from then to now and one publication to another. Not many people have seen most of the palm trees around a city blown to the ground, though. Thank goodness, though, almost everyone was as ready as they could be for Celia (due to the previous hurricanes that had hit around there in the few years before that) or out of town. And...sorry, all, for getting off on the Celia topic. I pray for the people in Florida now. It's always kind of bugged me, though, how the event has been revised since then. Celia was more like something that would happen on another world than other hurricanes my relatives and I have been through.

...to give you an idea as why there are varying stories on Celia, not to mention federal relief motivations,...

http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/texasczech/Stories/Celia.htm
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What is really significant in the above story is the barometric pressure reading and the fact that all mechanical information-gathering equipment was destroyed by the storm. Winds were actually measured at 161 mile per hour. The trained weathermen who were there when the wind blew away the equipment estimated that gust actually reached 180 miles per hours. Bursts of kinetic energy are said to have caused these tremendous gusts.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/huricane/history/whtexas.htm
Hurricane Celia, 1970: Hurricane Celia was one of the most destructive storms to ever hit Texas, with damages estimated at $1.6 billion (in 1990 dollars). Celia became a hurricane on August 1 in the Gulf of Mexlco and intensified rapidly in 15 hours before it crossed the coast north of Corpus Christi. As it moved over land, spectacular damage occurred from a "cluster of high energy winds of short duration," (also called downbursts or microbursts).

The extreme winds raked across the residential and business areas in less than half an hour. It was estimated that winds reached as high as 160 mph for several seconds. During those disastrous seconds, incredible damage occurred at the airport and an adjacent mobile home park which was completely demolished. Fortunately, only 11 died in the Corpus Christi area due to the state of preparedness by its disaster prevention agencies.