few years back, the NHC went back to “revise” certain storms and Camille was the only one that had her winds lowered....they simply refuse to believe the readings that came from actual Hurricane Hunter flights into Camille...the last plane to go thru at 7 P.M. ..a few hours before land fall recorded winds at 190 MPH with gusts to 210 MPH. That plane lost an engine and limped back to Houston and no other pilots volunteered to go back in after that. An oil rig on the “weak” side of the storm has a wind gauge break when the peg stuck at 172 MPH...Not confirmed, but some had gusts at 237 MPH. By any measure, Hurricane Camille is the single strongest storm of any kind to strike the mainland of the United States...that doesn’t fit the narrative that Hurricanes are getting “stronger”...
IIRC the wind gage at Keesler broke at 200. I got back To Bay St Louis the day after the storm from moving our ship to Mayport Fl. We had to detour up to I-55 and back down to New Orleans since what there was of I-10 (Not complete at the time) and Hwy 90 were beat to hell. They Bay St. Louis bridge had one useable lane and I remember MHP blocking the road for locals only. With a Thompson IIRC.