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.
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.