Dear God...
Why does this remind me of the nuns in the Galveston hurricane of 1900 who tied clothes lines around their waists and then around the waists of many of the orphans they cared for.
None survived. They were discovered later, still tied together.
I dread the day we get a storm near this magnitude.
There are so many here that have never experienced a hurricane.
And so much new development all along the coast.
Per WWL--
All Plaquemines and southern Jefferson wet; 2.5 inches of rain per hour; expecting at least 20 ft storm surge; can't believe people still there; strong squalls moving through area; storm moving nnw; "strom will not miss us this time;" 15-20 inches of rain expected; pumps will be under water and useless; "we're talking about weeks not days for us to see water in town;" "we've run out of luck."
I heard a story in Gulfport or Biloxi after Camille. Maybe it was an urban legend, but there were supposed to be a couple of Catholic priests who stayed through the surge flood in a very modernistic Catholic church near the beach. They climbed as high as they could on a statue, held on with both arms, and survived. This happened while shrimp boats were carried over the tops of 30 foot tall pine trees on Ship Island and wound up on the beach.