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re: I heard a first hand account of someone who was in Hurricane Camille
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:05 pm to REB BEER
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:05 pm to REB BEER
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everyone’s grandfather was a WW2 hero and stormed the beaches of Normandy.
and just where the hell was grandpa REB while all of the OT grandpas were doing the heavy lifting? back in the rear peeling potatoes? being the Jody?
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Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:07 pm to X123F45
My dad was in the National Guard when it hit and was sent to help in Biloxi. He said the blacktop on the roads was peeled back like a sardine can.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:10 pm to MountainTiger
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I seem to recall a big ship all the way up on dry land somewhere along there too.
I was right about the ship.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:10 pm to Choctaw
Camille was the first storm that my dad was at home for...he spent Betsy on a towboat tied up at the river dock at Port Sulphur
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:13 pm to X123F45
I just can’t comprehend how any structure (other than a blue shed) can withstand 200 mph winds.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:19 pm to Martini
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He bought 3 trailers and had them put in a trailer park immediately before it filled up and had crews over there for 2 years
same here, pretty much rebuilt the Navy Seabee base
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:19 pm to MountainTiger
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I seem to recall a big ship all the way up on dry land somewhere along there too.
Was a tug boat. My family were in Fla. Left about 8-9 hours before the storm was to hit. Drove back to New Orleans passing along the beach. Water was up on the road at the time. The old man knew we would make it thru.
One of my uncles and Aunt rode out the storm in their shrimp boat in the back bay water ways. Their house was gone after the storm.
Now Hurricane Betsy was a real bitch when I was a kid in New Orleans. Unreal a couple days after. There were guys walking down the flooded streets with rifles shooting gators.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:20 pm to X123F45
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They opened the cabin and laid on the floor.
You fricked it all up. After this they were supposed to walk the dinosaur
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:21 pm to fishfighter
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Was a tug boat.
was a big arse tug boat, I think someone made it into a restaurant for a while, iirc
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:26 pm to fishfighter
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Was a tug boat.
See the picture I posted above.
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Now Hurricane Betsy was a real bitch when I was a kid in New Orleans. Unreal a couple days after. There were guys walking down the flooded streets with rifles shooting gators.
If you look at the pictures of the flooding after Betsy, you'd think you were looking at Katrina pictures.
Betsy wasn't much of a big deal for us in Bogalusa; it was much worse in NOLA. Camille was the other way around.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:28 pm to MountainTiger
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See the picture I posted above.
that ship and the big assed tugboat were quite a ways inland
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:33 pm to 777Tiger
Was a gift shop too!
Yes the beach road was peeled up and washed away. The Bay bridge had sections washed away just like I10 after Katrina. CFor my Dad to find his brother, Dad ran a boat all the way from New Orleans. Took him around 3 days to find them.
Yes the beach road was peeled up and washed away. The Bay bridge had sections washed away just like I10 after Katrina. CFor my Dad to find his brother, Dad ran a boat all the way from New Orleans. Took him around 3 days to find them.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:38 pm to X123F45
My wife worked with a guy from Cameron who survived Audrey. He was a young boy in a large family. The storm intensified more than expected and made landfall earlier than predicted. He went to bed and woke up in the water. He was washed out to sea clinging to some wood, and rescued by a boat. The same for his grandmother. Nobody else in the family survived.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:40 pm to X123F45
My mom was in Bay St Louis when it hit.
I was a baby and my grandparents took me to Memphis about 3 or 4 days before it hit.
I wish I could offer more. But I don’t remember any of it.
I was a baby and my grandparents took me to Memphis about 3 or 4 days before it hit.
I wish I could offer more. But I don’t remember any of it.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:48 pm to X123F45
A friends Grandmother lived in Gulfport for Camille. She refused to leave. Her house was about 150 yards from the beach. There was a huge church between her and the water that pretty much saved her from the tidal surge. All the phone lines were down so they had no idea if she was alive or dead. When they finally were able to get into GP she was sweeping the sidewalk in front of the house. Her new car was on the beach. The house wasn't in bad shape. Katrina took it. Funny thing is that they finally re-built that church in the mid-90's(?) and it was destroyed by Katrina.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:50 pm to MountainTiger
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Camille was no joke. I wasn't there for Katrina but my family rode out Camille in Bogalusa. It seemed like it lasted all night long with no letup. In the morning, I didn't expect to find a tree still standing. I think where we were missed the eye just by a mile or two
More than a mile.
The eye came over the bay and made landfall at the future site of Diamondhead.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 6:52 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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The eye came over the bay and made landfall at the future site of Diamondhead.
OK but it didn't stop there.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 7:07 pm to REB BEER
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Riveting story, but I question any stories elderly people tell.
Kind of like how everyone’s grandfather was a WW2 hero and stormed the beaches of Normandy.
I had an uncle who was a Marine on Guadalcanal. He loved to tell the story of how they were being strafed by Japanese planes and then a lone American fighter dropped in and shot down all twelve of them single-handedly.
Not only does that greatly exceed the single mission record but he wouldn't have had enough ammo.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 7:09 pm to X123F45
The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 7:14 pm to MountainTiger
I was in Blacksburg Virginia for Hurricane Camille. We knew it was coming at us, and we knew to expect rain. They didn't tell us how much.
Camille came along our valleys. It started raining and then it kept raining heavy for the whole darned night. More lightening that I'd ever seen in one night. Lots of limbs down. But nothing like what it did to the Blue Ridge Mountains where uplift somehow increased the rain. Overnight, the only upright 'gauge' that anyone could find was an empty metal barrel that was overflowing at 36inches. But what killed, up there, were the landslides that nobody was expecting. Two counties lost most of their bridges and creeks were deepened.
Up there, where your house was built determined survival, because nobody expected what hit them.
Camille came along our valleys. It started raining and then it kept raining heavy for the whole darned night. More lightening that I'd ever seen in one night. Lots of limbs down. But nothing like what it did to the Blue Ridge Mountains where uplift somehow increased the rain. Overnight, the only upright 'gauge' that anyone could find was an empty metal barrel that was overflowing at 36inches. But what killed, up there, were the landslides that nobody was expecting. Two counties lost most of their bridges and creeks were deepened.
Up there, where your house was built determined survival, because nobody expected what hit them.
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