Posted on 09/15/2004 11:42:30 AM PDT by austinite
Click here here for a link to a Camille History Website.
Hurricane Camille is a bench mark in the American hurricane experience. Although Camille hit an area that had a relatively small population by today's standards, the region was sufficiently built-up enough to provide a first hand lesson of what a hurricane of maximum intensity is capable of. One thing remains as true today, as it was 34 years ago after the storm hit: Hurricane Camille is the most intense storm of any kind to ever strike mainland America in modern history.
To put Hurricane Camille in scientific perspective, the storm represents bad luck - more than any meteorological extreme. Although rare, several other category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic, and supertyphoons in the Pacific, have been as intense. The big difference however, was Camille made landfall when at this rare intensity. The resulting property damage was so complete, that sections of the Mississippi coast seemed to vanish.
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In the fall of 1969 I was living in Lynchburg, Va and Camille managed to reach our location a day or two after destroying Biloxi and Gulfport, Ms.
Camille dumped 27 inches of rain in a 24 hour period that resulted in washing away entire mountainsides about twenty miles to our north in Nelson County, Va. One entire village was washed away during the night when storm built dams between the mountains were breached by the water, and boulders and trees raced down the mountainside and hit the dwellings like giant bowling balls. More than a hundred people were lost.
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That was one mighty storm, even 150 miles inland.
We had seagulls everywhere.
It was quite a sight.
The seagulls were smarter than alot of coastal residents.
They got outta there.
I was in Hattiesburg MS visiting my grandparents during Camille. I was 8 years old at the time. I do not want to experience that again.
I was in HS in Roanoke. Later in college, I lived in Scottsville and found landmarks in the town that showed how high the James River rose in the town. When we look at the map of Ivan's course, it looks as though he planning to go right through Roanoke again.
They're saying Ivan could stall over the Appalachians and cause severe flooding.
The Summer Of Love was 1967.
After the storm, I remember seeing film of that road with half of it completly gone.
The amazing thing was that only 36 hours prior, there was really no obvious preparation going on. Not even much news about the storm in the press.
My mom was a journalisim prof, and she compared the papers we had picked up down there with the local Oklahoma City paper after we got back. There was more in the OKC paper about the storm at that time than down on the coast.
We were living in Jackson, Miss. 200 miles inland and it blew a tree over on our house. My son had just been born and the tree hit almost over his crib. Camille was a bad one alright. Later when we lived in Lynchburg, Va. we learned about the town that was buried by the mountain to the north of Lynchburg.
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I was living in Fairhope, AL. Terrible storm.
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