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To: U S Army EOD
Look up Hurricane Camille on the net. That will show you what a CAT 5 did do.

West of Gulfport, in Long Beach, I think, a big fishing boat got washed up 200' over the 4 lane highway and another 100 feet or so off the road. It got left there when the storm surge subsided. I think the folks who owned the property cleaned it up and made it into a gift shop!

Our Fishing Camp is about 25 miles East of where the eye came over, so the most damage we had was the pier and fish house got lost to the storm surge. The level of the houses is about 25 feet up the hill from the water. There's a boat ramp going down to the river, and next to it, at the top is a gas pump. My brother was there when Camille hit, he was going around turning folks' gas off at their cabins (most used propane from big tanks) and he said that the water was lapping at that gas pump, that's how high the storm surge was at our place.

713 posted on 09/14/2003 7:01:41 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Howlin
Well, batten down the hatches. Geraldo is covering this, and has footage of Camille to show people what it's like.
717 posted on 09/14/2003 7:02:56 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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