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Remembering Camille
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:26 am
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:26 am
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We had a discussion the other day on this board about Hurricane Camille. This youtube link is a decently produced government documentary on Camille that it released back in 71. It shows the devastation. 16:00 is interesting in that it shows how the disaster response was coordinated. Compare it to responses now.
We had a discussion the other day on this board about Hurricane Camille. This youtube link is a decently produced government documentary on Camille that it released back in 71. It shows the devastation. 16:00 is interesting in that it shows how the disaster response was coordinated. Compare it to responses now.
This post was edited on 8/30/18 at 8:35 am
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Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:29 am to prplhze2000
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Camilled
yeah, that storm camilled the frick out of mississippi.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:32 am to MorbidTheClown
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yeah, that storm camilled the frick out of mississippi.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:34 am to prplhze2000
I was 6 at the time, but I still have vivid memories of the devastation the storm left behind when my family took a ride to the gulf coast two weeks after the storm hit.
This post was edited on 8/30/18 at 8:50 am
Posted on 8/30/18 at 9:06 am to prplhze2000
I remember watching that video in school at least 3 or 4 times.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 9:07 am to prplhze2000
I don’t know if I have ever seen a Camille documentary. That was very informative
Posted on 8/30/18 at 9:08 am to MsState of mind
Even getting water down there was an ordeal. No convoys of trucks carrying water as you see now.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 9:27 am to AnorexicGator
Family vacation at the Broadwater Beach cut short. Went to my great aunt’s house in Wiggins, MS thinking it would hit Mobile and we could return to Biloxi for my Dad’s golf tournament.
Didn’t happen.
My aunt lived in an old house at the end of a long driveway lined with live oaks. In the back was a large pecan orchard.
We had to go into her storm cellar, which was far more terrifying than the storm itself. I remember killing hundreds of spiders and several scorpions.
After what seemed like forever, we emerged a looked down the driveway to what seemed like minimal damage. Turning to the back, not one single pecan tree remained.
Having ridden out Ivan, Katrina and others near Mobile Bay, I can’t imagine the effect of Camille on the coast, if she did that much damage 40 miles inland.
Didn’t happen.
My aunt lived in an old house at the end of a long driveway lined with live oaks. In the back was a large pecan orchard.
We had to go into her storm cellar, which was far more terrifying than the storm itself. I remember killing hundreds of spiders and several scorpions.
After what seemed like forever, we emerged a looked down the driveway to what seemed like minimal damage. Turning to the back, not one single pecan tree remained.
Having ridden out Ivan, Katrina and others near Mobile Bay, I can’t imagine the effect of Camille on the coast, if she did that much damage 40 miles inland.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 9:33 am to prplhze2000
That lady being interviewed finding her house gets me every time... 
Posted on 8/30/18 at 9:38 am to prplhze2000
Rode this storm out in an aunt's house in Meraux with about 30 family members. at 6 yrs old i had no idea what was happening. just glad to hang out with my cousins and get out of school.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 9:41 am to majoredinwhitehorse
My family lived in Northern Washington Parish a few miles from the Mississippi border when Camille hit and we saw a lot of damage. My family rode out the storm in my granny's house which was an old wood frame house sitting on concrete blocks. I don't think I've ever been that scared in my entire life during the night when Camille came roaring through.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 9:47 am to prplhze2000
Damn that documentary was pretty sad. All of those people lost everything with no way of affording to rebuild.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 9:53 am to MaHittaMaHitta
Remember driving through Miss. gulf coast a year after Camille, and it was still fricked up.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 9:54 am to VernonPLSUfan
I say it every time there is a threat of a hurricane here. Hurricanes were a lot more exciting when i didn't have shite to lose.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 9:58 am to MorbidTheClown
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Hurricanes were a lot more exciting when i didn't have shite to lose.
Yep, when we were kids it was exciting, today, not so much...
I remember my father not being excited...
Morbib, we're about the same age.. After Camille, there wasn't really many hurricanes in the 70's.. Not until the 90's did we go through it again..
Except for Ivan in the 80's...
Posted on 8/30/18 at 10:01 am to Hangover Haven
Rode thru Hurricane Fredrick in the late 70's in Biloxi. Cat 2/3 when it hit if I can remember correctly. Hammered Mobile pretty bad with the storm surge. Messed up the Ms. gulf coast too.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 10:01 am to AnorexicGator
I was 7, and I slept through it. Woke up the next morning to my brothers telling me a tree hit the house. I didn't believe them until I saw it for myself.
That was my first real experience with a hurricane. I remember my parents sending us kids to stay with family in New Orleans for a few weeks while they got things under control in Ocean Springs.
It was crazy coming home and seeing all the devastation, especially the freighters that were grounded on the beach near the Port of Gulfport.
That was my first real experience with a hurricane. I remember my parents sending us kids to stay with family in New Orleans for a few weeks while they got things under control in Ocean Springs.
It was crazy coming home and seeing all the devastation, especially the freighters that were grounded on the beach near the Port of Gulfport.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 10:02 am to Hangover Haven
none that hit the area i guess. but seems like there a few close calls that got us out of school.
carmen and bob
carmen and bob
This post was edited on 8/30/18 at 10:04 am
Posted on 8/30/18 at 10:08 am to MorbidTheClown
Bob did get us out of school...
and remember it being a big nothing..
Spent that day off at the Fun Arcade on Vets...
and remember it being a big nothing..
Spent that day off at the Fun Arcade on Vets...
Posted on 8/30/18 at 10:14 am to MorbidTheClown
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I say it every time there is a threat of a hurricane here. Hurricanes were a lot more exciting when i didn't have shite to lose.
Troof. I found that out when I was in Tallahassee the first time a tropical storm came through.
The other thing is that people seem a lot more willing to GTFO these days (which is good). Nobody talked about evac'ing for hurricanes back then unless they lived on the coast.
This post was edited on 8/30/18 at 10:17 am
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