[Hurricane Carla (1961) was a Cat 5 storm.]
Yes I know, I lived through it and the eye passed directly over Victoria, which is 25 miles by road to Pt. Lavaca. Closer as the crow flies.
I have a Hurricane Carla book. Orange and Black soft cover like the Texas City Stingarees.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/crp/docs/research/hurrhistory/Carla/carla.html
Believe this is the same site you quoted from.
That storm almost killed me (seriously).
We are Houston natives and we were living in Yorktown VA when Carla did her dirty work. It is the first time I can remember that TV coverage was completely turned over to a hurricane or anything else, for that matter. As I remember it sat off the coast for several day before coming ashore. How high was the storm surge do you remember?
I was just over a year old when Carla hit . . . I think I lived through it. ;-)
When Beulah was about to hit, my mother had the bright idea to stay in a motel in our hometown (as opposed to our house that was about 50 years old). During the first part of the storm the roof of our hotel room started coming apart. It took two grown men to get each child & our mother to the safety of the hotel lobby/restaurant area. The air pressure burst the windows out of our car ~ which we examined during the eye.
What I remember most about that hurricane is . . . we were allowed to eat all the boiled shrimp we could handle and our old house only had one window shattered.