"Is your dad's house close to the beach? Or your sister? "
My dad lives about 3 blocks off the beach...not big blocks either. My sister is thankfully north of I-10.
We survived Camille in my dad's house but the house is 45 years old.
You went through Camille three blocks from the beach? Merciful heavens. That must have been quite a thing.
My sister was evacuated from a house by the Back Bay -- in a police boat!
We drove to get her afterwards -- chunks of Highway 90 lifted up like toy building blocks.