[SE Mom]

Hurricane Camille- 17 August, 1969

WINDS: 190 mph (sustained- gusts over 220)
PRESSURE: 909 Mb./26.84 inches.
STORM - SURGE: 22 - 25 feet above Mean Tide.

http://www.geocities.com/hurricanene/hurricanecamille.htm

Just posting this link again- it's worth clicking if you've never read the story of Camille.

[bannie]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471763/posts

[Termite_Commander]

Looking at that old black-and-white satellite photo draws some pretty scary similarities.

[MplsSteve]

My god, I'm looking at those stats on Camille and I'm thinking that Katrina won't be anywhere that bad and yet katrina will be a very very destructive.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

They even made a movie back in the early 70s about the Hurricane.

[fatima]

I read that -thank you SE Mom.

[Frank_2001]

Good link. Compared with the quality of today's images, that old satellite photo looks like a cave painting, but Camille still looked pretty darn nasty!

[de Buillion]

Thank you for posting this link. I remember that it was a big one. Knew a guy who was in Slidell at the time- he left.