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re: One this date in 1969: Hurricane Camille makes landfall.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 3:57 pm to TheBaker
Posted on 8/17/25 at 3:57 pm to TheBaker
I certainly could be wrong and my father rode it out in Bay St. Louis Mississippi but sent us North to Laurel Mississippi and as a young kid I wanted to stay in Bay St. Louis where the action was. Well I tell you what I can remember being very scared in the middle of the night just with the remnants hitting Laurel Mississippi. But I had thought it had wind gusts up to 210, mph. Maybe sustained winds were at 175 but seems like recalling at that young age. Hearing my dad talking about wind gusts on the coast. It's upwards to 200 plus miles per hour. Maybe some meteorologist can confirm that
This post was edited on 8/17/25 at 4:02 pm
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Posted on 8/17/25 at 3:59 pm to nes2010
Why would they park a boat right there? Makes no sense.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 4:03 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
I lived in #TheSip in 1969. They made us watch this movie in school after Camile.
ETA:
It hit the summer after my sixth grade year. Saw the movie in 7th or 8th grade.
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It hit the summer after my sixth grade year. Saw the movie in 7th or 8th grade.
This post was edited on 8/17/25 at 7:00 pm
Posted on 8/17/25 at 4:25 pm to windhamtiger
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I certainly could be wrong and my father rode it out in Bay St. Louis Mississippi but sent us North to Laurel Mississippi
I mean a cat 5 is still a major problem inland.
I remember parts of Hattiesburg, MS the week after Katrina looked like a massive tornado had gone through which is almost to Laurel.
Even in Tuscaloosa where the eye went through there were trees down and power outages 4 hours from the coast from what turned out to be a cat 3.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 4:33 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
I was in Metairie for that monster. Unbelievable what it did to the Mississippi coast. It wasn't the biggest but whatever it hit it devastated.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 5:06 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Looks like the eye cut across the tip of Plaquemines and St Bernard. Was Louisiana not recognized as first landfall?
Posted on 8/17/25 at 5:34 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Parents lived in a 2nd floor apartment in Metry. Water was a foot deep in their apartment post-Camille.
Then they moved to Savannah and survived David and 2 weeks without electricity, plus my grandmother lost everything when Andrew blasted Miami.
Then they moved to Savannah and survived David and 2 weeks without electricity, plus my grandmother lost everything when Andrew blasted Miami.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 5:34 pm to jmh5724
I don't know if it was, but we had members of one of our churches at Boothville see a huge wave 30-50 ft go up the Mississippi River while they were tied off on trees. If it hadn't made that jog to the east it would have directly hit us.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 5:48 pm to tide06
I was only eight so I don’t remember a lot. We lived a couple of miles from the bay.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 6:02 pm to tide06
I remember going w my parents driving along the coast after the roads opened back up. What a scene of devastation. There was a story about some partiers who tried to ride it out in a Biloxi hotel and simply vanished...
Posted on 8/17/25 at 6:06 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
My grandparents rebuilt their beach house in Waveland after Betsy, what they thought was better and stronger. When Camille hit, it was nothing but a slab left.
This post was edited on 8/17/25 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 8/17/25 at 6:07 pm to TygerLyfe
That story was true....nothing left but the slab of the hotel.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 6:54 pm to Hangover Haven
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My grandparents rebuilt their beach house in Waveland after Betsy, what they thought was better and stronger. When Camille hit, it was nothing, but a slab left.
If I’m not mistaken that area (BSL, Waveland, Dimondhead, Pass Christian) is one of the most storm surge prone areas of the entire US coastline due to various factors related to the coastline there.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 7:03 pm to OlGrandad
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Uncle told me after WWII he never thought anything could bother him until Camille.
A great uncle rode out Typhoon Cobra on the USS Essex. He saw a lot of action, including kamikaze attacks, but said the most scared he'd ever been was seeing blue water running over the flight deck.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 8:13 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
175 mph wind sustained for 60 seconds will destroy property like an EF 4 tornado. That's basically what Camille was. Just 35 times as wide.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 8:24 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
I don’t understand how Louisiana doesn’t get credited with an official landfall in addition to Mississippi. The center of the center surely passed directly over either the Chandeleur Islands or the marshes of St. Bernard.
This post was edited on 8/17/25 at 8:25 pm
Posted on 8/17/25 at 8:28 pm to Mobile Patriot
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175 mph wind sustained for 60 seconds will destroy property like an EF 4 tornado. That's basically what Camille was. Just 35 times as wide.
The winds were not 175 mph for more than about 10 miles wide. It’s the storm surge that devastated Harrison County. Yes it was windy but those 175s were in a small pocket.
I think the National Hurricane Center kind of does a disservice when it mentions wind speeds. People think the wind speed is for the entire storm that is several hundred miles wide. The strongest winds are really in a small pocket though. Hurricane Ida, hit Louisiana as a cat four. People in New Orleans think they experienced a cat 4 when in reality, the airport peaked at 90 mph (Cat 1 conditions).
This post was edited on 8/17/25 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 8/17/25 at 8:33 pm to tide06
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If I’m not mistaken that area (BSL, Waveland, Dimondhead, Pass Christian) is one of the most storm surge prone areas of the entire US coastline due to various factors related to the coastline there.
Probably because of the way Louisiana lies next to it. It basically forms a corner in that part of the state and the water piles up in it..
This post was edited on 8/17/25 at 8:35 pm
Posted on 8/17/25 at 8:38 pm to cypresstiger
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—to be fair, he did say he was in Mississippi
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I was on vacation out west.
Do you consider Mississippi to be "out west"?
Posted on 8/17/25 at 8:42 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
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central pressure of 900 millibars according to re-analysis. It caused a 24 foot storm surge.
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