BS. Many structures along the front survived Camille with heavy damage. Other than steel reinforced concrete, did ANY structures from Waveland to PC survive Katrina's surge? Where is Beauvoir now? My grandmother's house in Waveland -- one block from the beach -- was fully restored after Camille, complete with original furniture. After Katrina it was difficult even to find the lot. My's boss's house in Bay St. Louis was a pile of sticks. His parents' house, high above East Beach Drive in PC, was a scrape. Same with my sister's in-laws place on Wolf River. Camille was a terrible storm with record winds, but it was compact. We rode it out in NOLA with minimal ill effects. Katrina made landfall almost the exact same area, and my uptown home near St. Charles was uninhabitable for a month.
Camille was very compact and fast moving and hit just east of Pass Christian so Waveland and BSL weren’t as badly affected but Katrina went in around Pearlington and east of there was pretty much toast. Regardelss, if either one had been just a little west of NOLA, they city would have really been flattened and the levee system along the lake wouldn’t have helped with either one. Either way, they both sucked. Glad you got back in your house in the Garden district(?)okay.