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HURRICANE CAMILLE 40 years later
SUN HERALD ^ | August 16, 2009 | KAT BERGERON

Posted on 08/16/2009 7:20:29 PM PDT by Islander7

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“I am mayor of a city in name only,” Pass Mayor J.J. Wittmann lamented of his town, where 78 died.

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In 2005, history repeated itself.

1 posted on 08/16/2009 7:20:30 PM PDT by Islander7
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To: WKB; wardaddy; Downsouth55; Michael Knight; ejonesie22; bkwells; DogwoodSouth; WileyPink; jmax; ...

Mississippi PING!

History stuff


2 posted on 08/16/2009 7:21:34 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7

And it will be repeated again.


3 posted on 08/16/2009 7:21:51 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: Islander7

Wasn’t Camille Bush’s fault?


4 posted on 08/16/2009 7:21:57 PM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: NautiNurse

Ping, thought you’d find this of interst.


5 posted on 08/16/2009 7:22:57 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7

I remember that.


6 posted on 08/16/2009 7:24:16 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: Perdogg

Wasn’t Camille Bush’s fault?...

No, Nixon’s fault.


7 posted on 08/16/2009 7:24:36 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7

And Hugo was 20 years ago.


8 posted on 08/16/2009 7:26:09 PM PDT by csmusaret (If you like this economy, keep voting for Donkeys.)
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To: Islander7

When I was in school in rural Alabama, every year we had to watch films of Camille, and those idiots that held a “Hurricane Party”...only to face certain death. Camille will always be the symbol of the deadliest storm for me.


9 posted on 08/16/2009 7:29:25 PM PDT by thatdewd (2010 is coming soon...and THEY know it! THEY are afraid.)
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To: Islander7

My family has probably been through 20 or more hurricanes since the mid 60’s but Camille was definitely the worst.

I think I still have some pictures that my dad took the day after. There was nothing but space where once our house stood. Not one thing left. Even the concrete foundation was all cracked up.


10 posted on 08/16/2009 7:36:15 PM PDT by Ammo Republic 15
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To: thatdewd

Mom always used the Richelieu Hotel as an example of how not to prepare for a storm.


11 posted on 08/16/2009 7:37:25 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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To: Islander7

I remember Hurricane Camille although I was 14 years old and several hundred miles inland. It was absolutely terrifying.


12 posted on 08/16/2009 7:38:03 PM PDT by Jemian (PAM of JT ~~ It is Monday and Caligula is still evil.)
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To: Islander7

Camille was the most powerful storm on record to strike the US mainland.

Katrina was the most racist storm on record.


13 posted on 08/16/2009 7:41:41 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: Islander7

.....I was in the Army at Ft.Gordon, GA....our battalion sent a field kitchen and cooks over to Mississippi for emergengy feeding....they were gone over a month....when they got back I asked my mess sergeant “How bad was it?”....all he could do was look down at the ground and shake his head.


14 posted on 08/16/2009 7:43:10 PM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: Islander7

It was a different time when Hurricane Camille hit. It was before Democrats/liberals/radicals decided to politicize hurricanes.

I still am peeved that they got away with tarring and feathering the Bush administration for Katrina and the aftermath. The mayor of New Orleans and governor of Louisiana then WERE BOTH GOOD DEMOCRATS!!! Yet somehow they escaped blame in the MSM template, with all blame assigned to Bush!!!


15 posted on 08/16/2009 7:46:33 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Islander7

This brings back memories.

When I was a child, my father had a friend who pastored in Biloxi. Several weeks fter Camille, we took a trailer load of food and other supplies donated by several churches in the city we lived in, to the church in Biloxi.


16 posted on 08/16/2009 7:47:20 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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To: thatdewd

My family drove through Gulfport and Biloxi along the highway that follows the shore 3 years after Camille. I vividly recall stair cases leading up from the road to where hotels used to be but all that was left were the swimming pools.


17 posted on 08/16/2009 7:51:28 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Obama--POtuS.)
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To: SouthTexas
Richelieu Apts. before and after:


18 posted on 08/16/2009 7:55:16 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Obama--POtuS.)
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To: Rebelbase

Good reminder this time of year.


19 posted on 08/16/2009 7:58:10 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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To: Islander7

I was going to tech school in Biloxi at the time - it was quite awesome. I think it was only about 195 mph where I was...


20 posted on 08/16/2009 8:04:11 PM PDT by Old Forester
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