[silentknight]

Hurricane Audrey, the first hurricane of 1957, claimed more lives than any other natural disaster in nearly 20 years. The hurricane struck the extreme west coast of Louisiana and part of eastern Texas on June 27 and 28. It killed 534 persons and left about 40,000 homeless. Cameron, Creole, and Grand Chenier, all in Louisiana, were the most heavily damaged communities. Cameron was also flooded by a tidal wave.

Cat 4 Hurricane

[conservative in nyc]

KPLC - Eyewall is just now beginning or very close to make landfall, extremely close to being on top of Cameron. There were reports of water in downtown Cameron midnight last night.

[Tuxedo]

Eerie resemblence to Audrey then. Pressure is 932mb, which is much lower than Audey (946mb). The Governor said that area was pretty well evacuated. Let's hope so. I think this storm surge is going to be awesome.

[Rte66]

I remember seeing Cameron directly after Audrey. There was literally NOTHING left. In fact, I didn't know there was a Cameron anymore, till a few years ago. My dad's company had some wells in the area.

[topher]

Hurricane Audrey of 1957 was the one I referred to earlier as Hurricane Audra... I heard tales about this storm as we moved to Louisiana some time after it hit.

We were living in Sulphur...