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re: Remembering Hurricane Camille: 50 years ago today (Aug 17)
Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:18 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:18 pm to East Coast Band
Went to Pass Christian HS. Block from the beach. Katrina wiped it out for the second time. They finally rebuilt it a good mile inland.
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Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:18 pm to soccerfüt
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The two storms were different at landfall.
Katrina's eyewall was almost as big as Camille...
That's what saved NO from Camille, it being so small and tight... If it was as big as Katrina, New Orleans would've had it much worse than 2005...
This post was edited on 8/17/19 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:30 pm to real turf fan
Thanks for your post. I had just turned seven when Camille hit. I don’t remember and had never read about the damage it caused in Virginia.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:07 pm to DallasTiger
I was living in Pensacola during Camille. Eight year old me was a scared kid that night. My dad worked for the power company and had to be out in it.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:15 pm to soccerfüt
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Many folks on the Mississippi Gulf Coast erroneously used Camille as the benchmark for how bad a hurricane could possibly be.
Yep. I know a story of a Biloxi man passing on flood insurance in summer 05 when he was buying property just north of the line where the water came in from Camille.
Needless to say, he regretted not getting the flood insurance
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:16 pm to East Coast Band
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Camille formed just west of the Cayman Islands on Aug. 14. By the next day it was a Category 3 hurricane and reached western Cuba, where it killed three people. Camille’s rapid strengthening continued as it tracked north-northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico, and it became a Category 5 hurricane on Aug. 16.
A storm that took 48 hours to form into a hurricane and grow into Cat 5 monster.
Image if a storm did that today. Anderson Cooper would be on CNN literally jizzing his pants screaming about global warming and blaming Trump.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:19 pm to Darth_Vader
Hurricane Michael basically did that last year formed on October 7th became a Cat 5 on the 10th.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:00 pm to lsuman25
Storm surge much different due to size of storms.
This post was edited on 8/19/19 at 8:47 am
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:01 pm to TheFonz
Raise a cup to your Uncle...having done 36 years as Lineman/Trouble Shooter for Entergy!
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:06 pm to Darth_Vader
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A storm that took 48 hours to form into a hurricane and grow into Cat 5 monster.
George Carlin once said that when the Earth was tired of humans, she would shrug us off like a light case of dandruff. shite like this makes me understand exactly what he meant.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:03 pm to East Coast Band
This is a 70s documentary about Camille. It always used to scare the shite out of me when it would come on tv (I was just a kid 
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A Lady Called Camille
Another thing, from 1969 until the casinos were built, the major tourist stuff on the Mississippi Gulf Coast was geared toward the beaches, obviously, and Hurricane Camille. There were probably half a dozen or more tours related to Camille in the early 80s.
). A Lady Called Camille
Another thing, from 1969 until the casinos were built, the major tourist stuff on the Mississippi Gulf Coast was geared toward the beaches, obviously, and Hurricane Camille. There were probably half a dozen or more tours related to Camille in the early 80s.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:22 pm to LuckySo-n-So
I remember the Camille boat up by the highway in either Biloxi or Gulfport. Did it make it through Katrina?
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:26 pm to kemowasabi
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Raise a cup to your Uncle...having done 36 years as Lineman/Trouble Shooter for Entergy!
and a cup to you - my dad did 35 years (lineman, then got a bucket truck) mostly with Arkansas Power & Light with the last few years with Entergy after they joined together or whatever it was they did - he would disappear for a week or two for any ice storm within a couple hundred miles.
I can vouch for that picture of the water in Richmond being way high, am familiar with the overpasses in the background.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:42 pm to East Coast Band
I was 20. Lived in NOLA East. Thought the storm would be fun. Me and a hot neighbor girl spent a good while looking out her back window, storm-watching and sucking face. Her parents were in the den watching TV. No pics. Thank God Camille did not hit closer to us... with that monster storm surge we would have all died just a block from Little Woods/Lake Pontchartrain.
This post was edited on 8/17/19 at 6:58 pm
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:49 pm to gthog61
remember the Camille boat up by the highway in either Biloxi or Gulfport. Did it make it through Katrina?
Yes it did but was heavly damaged and has since been removed from Gulfport not far from Island View casino. Strangely the coast doesn't have many reminders of Katrina except for a large amount of new construction unlike after Camille.
My family rode out Camille in Pass Christian only a block off the beach on some of the highest land in that area because they couldn't get out. I was only 2 so I don't remember it thankfully.
Yes it did but was heavly damaged and has since been removed from Gulfport not far from Island View casino. Strangely the coast doesn't have many reminders of Katrina except for a large amount of new construction unlike after Camille.
My family rode out Camille in Pass Christian only a block off the beach on some of the highest land in that area because they couldn't get out. I was only 2 so I don't remember it thankfully.
This post was edited on 8/17/19 at 6:51 pm
Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:06 pm to Lasix
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Strangely the coast doesn't have many reminders of Katrina except for a large amount of new construction unlike after Camille.
I drove trough the area the first day they re-opened the beach highway. I never thought in a million years I would personally see such destruction on a massive scale like that.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:39 pm to miketiger
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Jogged slightly right and just missed demolishing New Orleans. She was taking dead aim at New Orleans
My mom always told me all the weather men were saying New Orleans was history and only Nash Roberts said that it would jog east ward just before land fall. Dude had a 6th sense for hurricane prediction. No models needed for him. Just a big “Win Lose or Draw” white board.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:52 pm to crazycubes
I recall being in the backseat of the car as a neighbor drove us to a shelter. Stormin' out good! The winds were unbelievable.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 8:24 pm to crazycubes
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only Nash Roberts said that it would jog east ward just before land fall. Dude had a 6th sense for hurricane
Nash Roberts was brilliant and his intuitions were based on his accumulated observations.
That "jog east" of his is based on his seeing many many storm tracks jogging to the east as the eye of a storm passes over the edge of the continental shelf coming in from the deeper water.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 8:38 pm to East Coast Band
Went down to Biloxi right after that, I was a pup. My Dad was asked to come down and get the SeaBee part of the base up and running ASAP, and he did. First time I’d seen devastation like that.
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