re: Hurricane Camille made landfall in Mississippi on this day in 1969

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It was bad even in Mobile County. My mom wanted the family together, so we all slept in the living room. Still remember the sound of trees snapping and hitting the ground. The next day there was an overwhelming smell of pine in the

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We lived in a huge house on Old Government with lots of live oak trees around. About a month before Camille hit the power company was coming through the neighborhood cutting tree branches down that they considered too close to the power lines. My mom was out there fighting tooth and nail to keep them from touching her trees. So they backed off.
Camille hit and it was very scary, we spent the under the big dinning room table. Dad had all the shutters covering the windows - like a haunted mansion. The next morning we went out - not even one tree limb down. We did lose power for a couple of days but my dad and all the neighbors cooked everything we had in the fridge and had a big party . That's what I remember the most. Sometime later an Auburn guy studying agri. came by and talked to my mom, he told her the reason the trees survived the Strom the way they did was due to the fact live oak trees seemed to grow perfectly balanced and if you cut off anything that is when you run into trouble.