Posted on 08/18/2014 8:36:30 AM PDT by rktman
Forty-five years ago this very day, it took my Aunt Penny nearly ten hours to weave her way around downed trees, flooded roads, ruined bridges, snapped telephone poles, and live wires between New Orleans and Pass Christian, Miss. It’s usually just a one-hour drive. But this was in the immediate, same-day wake of Hurricane Camille, still the strongest named storm in U.S. history.
Her parents (my grandparents) had been traveling, and they had returned to their Pass Christian home just the evening before. When Penny spoke to them from her New Orleans apartment as the storm bore in, they were frantically putting their silver and other valuables in the attic in case floodwaters seeped into the house, which fronted the highway right along the beach. They would stay with friends six miles inland, in an unincorporated hamlet called DeLisle.
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I went through BCT in late ‘69 with a bunch of guys from Mississippi.I wasn’t aware of Camille back then (like many kids that age I didn’t follow the news) and I don’t recall any of them talking about it.Perhaps they weren’t from the worst affected areas.
I drove through in 1981 and could still see where the damage occurred.
During Katrina the entitled class, created by the democrats expected everything from everybody else.
I was six years old then, so I don’t remember much, but two days later Camille hit Nelson County, Virginia, which is just north of us (we’re in Campbell County). The storm dropped a total of 37 inches of rain (27 of those in the first three hours). I’ve read that animals drowned in trees. Communities were wiped out. Many people (bodies) have never been found.
Yup. Just kinda hunkered down and got to work doin’ what needed to be done and not waiting for “help”. Different times back then. Man am I getting older or what?
Slept thru Camille in Ocean Springs, and wanted to go fishing the next day, boy was I a goober, 12, but still......
I still remember how jacked up the BSL bridge was and a MS state trooper with a shotgun telling us we weren’t crossing over to Pass Christian. We obliged and went back to BSL.
Flooding is the deadliest weather event.
Such baloney.
I was there.... a few miles inland from Pass Road
At a camp
My daddy somehow got down there to fetch me next morning
I will never forget it....
Went thru Camille in suburban NJ. Wasn’t all that bad as I recall, but I was a kid. Yes, certainly more trees were down than I had ever seen, and some big ones were completely knocked over with their roots ripped out of the ground. But nothing at all like the full-on destruction of an Andrew in Florida.
I believe so, too.
I’ll never forget it. I was only 8 years old at the time. Family drove to Biloxi/Gulfport just a few days after Camille. I can remember lots of front steps but with no home behind them. The houses were blown or washed away. It was like a huge bomb went off.
Katrina was different. Katrina was more surge and impacted a larger area — New Orleans to the Florida panhandle.
Both Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan got up to almost 200 MPH winds before landfall. The wind slowed down with both storms but it takes longer for the surge to settle back down than the wind.
Wasn’t weather associated with Camille what rained out the Woodstock concerts?
Ivan was in 2004, and it wasn’t until late 2008 or maybe even ‘09 that my cousins’ family condo on the beach at Gulf Shores, Alabama was habitable.....a lot of it was the fact that the building was indeed a condominium, with hundreds of individuals involved going in all sorts of different legal directions.
Hmmm. It hit the coast late on the 17th of August so maybe the rains got to woodstock by the 18th but I don’t think it was Camille rain.
Lived through Camille as a baby. Probably the root of a few childhood nightmares. We were drilled with grainy footage in grade school that Camille was the single worst hurricane to hit the Gulf, hopefully the worst in our lifetime.
I grew up in Lynchburg, VA and remember the seeing the heaviest rain I have ever seen. One of the towns wiped out in Nelson County was Massie’s Mill. If I recall correctly they eventually found one of the residents body in Newport News. Once Route 29 was rebuilt the drive from Lynchburg to Charlottesville looked entirely different.
Don’t know, but that explains why I remember my parents watching Woodstock coverage, and not remembering Camille.
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