When I was a kid in the 70’s and 80’s, we had to watch ‘A lady called Camille’ every year in a general assembly. We were further south than your kin in Jxn though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHEoqwAnbZE
Hurricane hunters found the central pressure is down 18mb to 944mb since last night. Big drop, strengthening.
Anyone who wants to see what a Cat 4 can do, search Google images for hurricane Hazel.
I was in Laurel, my brothers and older sister were in Pascagoula. I was 17. Camille weren't no lady!
I was visiting just north of old pass rd in long beach my French side from my moms side by marriage cousins at their camp house
Nobody knew it was gonna be what it was
It spawned tornadoes in its path to the Alleghenies and flooded hell out of them
It was a Porsche turbo hurricane
I remember big telephone pole pines down all up 49
Even into north Jackson
I think waveland or pass Christian got worst of it both higher slightly than most of the coast
Woulda been far worse if not
The surge ran inland miles where nothing could stop it
Pass Christian had more structure surviving on 90 than anywhere with Katrina due to that extra 10 feet on the knoll with all the old homes
From ocean springs to waveland is pretty much gone on the beach in a couple blocks
It took 20 years to recover from Camille
I don’t about Katrina
11 years
Maybe 10% rebuilt and on stilts per codes I guess