Interesting. I always saw the satellite pics and thought it was a big storm. I did a search after your post and read that the hurricane wind radius was just 45 miles at time of landfall. It does look though like Katrina and Camille were of similar size at the Katrina's current position in the Gulf.
Yep...Hurricane Camille was one baddie...really intense storms like Camille usually are small. Harder on the area that gets hit, but better for the nearby areas, perhaps. Right now, there is some doubt if it can reach level 5, but we will see. Whatever, it's not going to be nice where it comes in.