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.
There was a storm before Carla ...I had to be 4 or younger but I can remember an old house we lived in and how the edge of the roof kept “lifting” up. It seemed like each time it was a “whoa” moment by the grown ups. It might not have been as bad as it seemed from a child’s eyes but funny that I remember it.