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.
Camille bump!
Memories ping!
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.
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.
I was living in Fairhope, AL. Terrible storm.