re: What was the first hurricane you experienced?

Wasn’t sure of the year and didn’t feel like looking it up. shite that means that I was six. We lived by LSU and had six feet of water in our house

Camille as a kid. Andrew I was a resident moonlighting in Bay St Louis (where it was expected to hit). Georges they actually closed the hospital I worked in. Katrina was bad.

Betsy

Betsy in 1965, i was 4 yrs old

Ivan made me appreciate the power of nature. And then Katrina did too. But last year’s Sally was bad for me for personal reasons. I was riding it out on a boat in dog river and had to get off it and drive to my mom’s house, to the hospital and back to the boat in the eyewall from 12:30 am to 5:30 am. It was not a bad storm, but it did contribute to killing both my my parents as a tree fell on my Mom’s house and she had to go to the hospital, and the assisted living facility my dad was in (that he actually liked) had a tree fall through it and they had to evacuate all the residents. Yeah, no where near the strongest storm but the one that hurt me the most so far.,

I remember Camille I was 4. I was looking out the window and my mom losing it and screaming at me to "Get away from the window". I was a little turd and kept going back to the window. My brother tied a big rock with some rope and hung it form a limb to see how far the wind would blow it.

Lily put 4ft of water in my house as a kid. When the insurance adjuster came, dad handed him a picture of me riding my pirogue through the house. That’s all he needed to see.

Audrey, was 7 in ‘57, and was kinda scared at first because my mom was scared but then thought it was cool. Hilda and Betsy were first ones in which I was old enough to be worried.

Here’s a neat note: when Camille hit in 1969 I was in Okinawa watching via days-old news reports. Then two days later we were hit by a significant typhoon.