Posted on 08/16/2009 7:20:29 PM PDT by Islander7
“Hurricane Watch Posted” warned the front page of The Daily Herald on Aug. 16, 1969. In a classic twist of irony, the Mississippi Coast newspaper advertised Pass Christian’s Moonlite Drive-In would, in a few days, show the film classic “Gone with the Wind.”
That was Saturday. Hurricane Camille struck Sunday night — 40 years ago Monday — with a vengeance few could fathom. For two decades the Storm King had tossed only mild zingers.
When Monday’s early-morning light revealed the Camille carnage, the Moonlite was literally gone with the wind. The 225-plus-mph winds pushed a 24-foot storm surge topped by 10-foot wave action.
(Excerpt) Read more at sunherald.com ...
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In 2005, history repeated itself.
History stuff
And it will be repeated again.
Wasn’t Camille Bush’s fault?
Ping, thought you’d find this of interst.
I remember that.
Wasn’t Camille Bush’s fault?...
No, Nixon’s fault.
And Hugo was 20 years ago.
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.
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.
Mom always used the Richelieu Hotel as an example of how not to prepare for a storm.
I remember Hurricane Camille although I was 14 years old and several hundred miles inland. It was absolutely terrifying.
Camille was the most powerful storm on record to strike the US mainland.
Katrina was the most racist storm on record.
.....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.
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!!!
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.
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.
Good reminder this time of year.
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...
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