Camille was a large storm.
Oh my word. The IR satellite image of Katrina doesn' look so big. Should be interesting to get a look at the visible during daylight. Looks like another name retired.
Camille went in very tight and the center of destruction was not as large as most hurricanes. They mentioned that a lot in the days that followed the storm.
That picture you linked to was to the storm before it tightened up into a Category 5...when it hit it was much tighter. I remember watching TV coverage of the damage to hwy 90, and the areas that got scoured, but it wasn't a very big center of peak danage....
with much stronger winds.
broke an offshore derrick wind meter at 240 mph as I recall.
i was there....about 11 miles inland....a soon to be 7th grader at the time at a camp
that said....this storm could be quite bad...anything south of NO is very unprotected....Golden Meadow....LaFourche, Grand Isle.....fuggedaboutit
