😮 Greetings from coastal Mississippi and Twelve Oaks plantation. I survived Camille and Katrina. Seeing sidewalks leading to nowhere stills haunts me. The coast is our Jewel of the South. Y'all come.....
My aunt lived in a airstream while her husband was working on a ship....they had a 66 chevy impala ss that was never found or the air stream....we were the in June 70 10 months after it hit.....looked a bomb or bombs went off I took a Polaroid of a toilet in a tree 20 ft high....cargo ships 600 ft long mile inland laying on its side....highway 90 was blown away.....I was 13 in 1970
@@gregh1853 I am so sorry to hear this! We prayed all night for everyone on the coast of Mississippi, etc. We had friends there who lost everything. Love to you and your family!
I lived in Pascagoula, MS. I was 5 and had just moved from California. It was one of the scariest storms. I do have a coffee table that was found in the destruction my parents bought it for $50. I love that table.
I was not quite 9 and living in Gulf Breeze, FL to the east. We only got the outer edge, but it was still terrifying. Relentless rain, wind and lightning. The house was shaking and the sky was flickering with electricity non-stop. The storm surge almost got to the back door of our neighbors across the street. They lived on a bayou off of Pensacola bay. We had just rebuilt our house after it had been gutted by fire the year before from a lightning strike. We came close to losing it again, but thankfully for us, the eye of the storm veered west after they initially predicted a direct hit. We ended up with no serious damage. But a big oak fell and was blocking the road in front of our house. A work crew came the next morning to remove it. I'd LOVE to move back there, just 5 minutes from that beautiful beach! But it seems like just a matter of time before my old hometown gets wiped out by a Category 5. One of these days it will be a direct hit. 💨🌊⚡😬
We lived in Clearwater FL & it was terrifying despite missing us. Sounded like our roof would rip off. Mom put me under a couch, rain squirted between our jalousie windows, debris beat on the house & you could hear nails in the attic squeak as the trusses flexed. I was 8 yrs old.
234 mph at Gulfport . The actual surge height was 28 feet at Pass Christian according to survivor Joseph Duckworth . Katrina's winds did not even compare with Camille's winds .
@jeffbryan4019 Hi. I lived in Plaquemines Parish when Camille hit. It was the night before my 12th birthday. All these years later, I still tweak every year around my birthday as that storm was absolutely horrific. When we were finally able to go down to survey the damage, my Mother drove past where our house had been. I had to tell her. It was awful. She wept uncontrollably. It was so depressing. We only lost everything that one time. Most of the Parish inhabitants had lost everything in 1965 with Betsy and then lost everything again in 1969. People there were so resilient. We rebuilt on our slab there on the River Road. Now, the lower end of Plaquemines Parish is pretty much gone thanks to Katrina. I will never forget the night of 17 August 1969 though. We evacuated to New Orleans. I didn't think we were going to survive the night. I pray we never have to experience that again. Peace.
Yes. We never had such a powerful hurricane ever again. Overall they're a bit weaker now compared to the old days. Hurricane landfalls have decreased since 1950. There was a chart about that which outlined it very clearly.
Meteorological reports on the cargo ships beached by Camille recorded 200 knot winds (just over 230mph). But today, NOAA and the NHC need to try to downplay this hurricane so storms of modern day can be "the strongest ever".
Il never forget Hurricane Camille I was 7 years old and i remember seeing all 4 lanes of Hwy 49 from Gulfport to Hattiesburg all Northbound Contra flow i think they called it and seeing Camp Shelby military jeeps driving in the median to keep traffic flowing Its definetly etched in my memory And then we had Katrina in 2005 😨 2 Weather events that have gone in History as Massive Hurricanes to ever hit this Country
@buymymovie I sat through Ivan. I was maybe 14 years old. I lived roughly 40 miles east of the eye. I remember the corner of my living room ceiling flapping in the wind. We all thought we were about to lose the roof. That night was no joke. Had maybe 4ft of water in the house.
Katrina was barely a cat 3.......but the way the winds hit Lake pontrachain and the pumps not working properly...flooding in NO was much worse than what the actual storm caused....
While getting our summer house in Waveland secured the best we could at about 2:00pm the great Nash Roberts made the shocking announcement that Camille was now a Cat 5 with sustained 180 mph winds. We packed up shortly thereafter and headed back to New Orleans. Later that night Camille passed right over Waveland and it was utter devastation.
@@TAllenYT Yes you are correct. I do remember him saying 180 mph sustained winds and my dad didn't believe it, he had to go back inside and see it for himself lol. The Cat 1 thru 5 system apparently came out in 1971.
@@thud9797 one of the big drivers of the development of the Category 1-5 scale was the fact that during Camille people had a hard time appreciating how severe it was.
@@TAllenYT Makes sense. My dad turned pale when Nash said 180 mph sustained, he thought for sure we would lose the house. After Camille all the old timers would say there'll never be another Camille, well 36 years later they were finally proved wrong. 😀
Before landfall, onboard the cargo ships that Camille beached, recorded 200 knot winds (230 mph). So, all these storms of modern day being "the most powerful" are usually 50 mph or more lower.
I remember it was a very hot year August 12th and lived in Cody in Alabama and I would probably all of the weather conditions were perfect for the storm had nothing to slow it down or interact I lived on the water remove animals from a small island in coden bayou and when we came back they were behind the restaurant and looked like a new Penny they were so clean
Seagulls were following the eye to Nashville TN . Old Hickory Lake is full of seagulls that are the related to Mississippi seagulls there are several lakes around Nashville Old Hickory is the only one that has seagulls. Except in 1972 Percy Priest Lake east and up stream.Both lakes are in Nashville, 5 lakes within a 100 mile away have no seagulls. I was 13 and remembered not seeing a seagull and the news at that time saying are the seagulls here to stay or will they go home to the gulf.
I can say that they are intriguing I've been through many hurricanes like hurricane Camille I've been through hurricane Frederic I've been through hurricane Katrina hurricane Ivan hurricane Sally and a lot of other unmentionables but you know there is something intriguing about them but the really bad ones will make you fear for your life or maybe 12 to 24 or 36 hours depending on the hurricane which is actually no fun at all
😮 Greetings from coastal Mississippi and Twelve Oaks plantation. I survived Camille and Katrina. Seeing sidewalks leading to nowhere stills haunts me. The coast is our Jewel of the South. Y'all come.....
I was 11 years old, living in Laurel, MS. I will never forget that night and the devastation that followed.
My aunt lived in a airstream while her husband was working on a ship....they had a 66 chevy impala ss that was never found or the air stream....we were the in June 70 10 months after it hit.....looked a bomb or bombs went off I took a Polaroid of a toilet in a tree 20 ft high....cargo ships 600 ft long mile inland laying on its side....highway 90 was blown away.....I was 13 in 1970
@@gregh1853 I am so sorry to hear this! We prayed all night for everyone on the coast of Mississippi, etc. We had friends there who lost everything. Love to you and your family!
I lived in Pascagoula, MS. I was 5 and had just moved from California. It was one of the scariest storms. I do have a coffee table that was found in the destruction my parents bought it for $50. I love that table.
Wow 1 day ago
That's great! I don't believe they climate change though cuz the media hype up model storms or modern radars but there's always been ones like that
I was not quite 9 and living in Gulf Breeze, FL to the east. We only got the outer edge, but it was still terrifying. Relentless rain, wind and lightning. The house was shaking and the sky was flickering with electricity non-stop. The storm surge almost got to the back door of our neighbors across the street. They lived on a bayou off of Pensacola bay. We had just rebuilt our house after it had been gutted by fire the year before from a lightning strike. We came close to losing it again, but thankfully for us, the eye of the storm veered west after they initially predicted a direct hit. We ended up with no serious damage. But a big oak fell and was blocking the road in front of our house. A work crew came the next morning to remove it. I'd LOVE to move back there, just 5 minutes from that beautiful beach! But it seems like just a matter of time before my old hometown gets wiped out by a Category 5. One of these days it will be a direct hit. 💨🌊⚡😬
Wasn't quite born yet but I live down the road from you in Fort Walton Beach. Howdy neighbor lol
We lived in Clearwater FL & it was terrifying despite missing us. Sounded like our roof would rip off. Mom put me under a couch, rain squirted between our jalousie windows, debris beat on the house & you could hear nails in the attic squeak as the trusses flexed. I was 8 yrs old.
234 mph at Gulfport . The actual surge height was 28 feet at Pass Christian according to survivor Joseph Duckworth . Katrina's winds did not even compare with Camille's winds .
@jeffbryan4019 Hi. I lived in Plaquemines Parish when Camille hit. It was the night before my 12th birthday. All these years later, I still tweak every year around my birthday as that storm was absolutely horrific. When we were finally able to go down to survey the damage, my Mother drove past where our house had been. I had to tell her. It was awful. She wept uncontrollably. It was so depressing. We only lost everything that one time. Most of the Parish inhabitants had lost everything in 1965 with Betsy and then lost everything again in 1969. People there were so resilient. We rebuilt on our slab there on the River Road. Now, the lower end of Plaquemines Parish is pretty much gone thanks to Katrina. I will never forget the night of 17 August 1969 though. We evacuated to New Orleans. I didn't think we were going to survive the night. I pray we never have to experience that again. Peace.
Camille’s Storm Surge didn’t compare to Katrina’s. That’s why Katrina was worse.
Wow I had no clue it was that fast or much storm surge but I wasn't born just yet
Yes. We never had such a powerful hurricane ever again. Overall they're a bit weaker now compared to the old days. Hurricane landfalls have decreased since 1950. There was a chart about that which outlined it very clearly.
Meteorological reports on the cargo ships beached by Camille recorded 200 knot winds (just over 230mph). But today, NOAA and the NHC need to try to downplay this hurricane so storms of modern day can be "the strongest ever".
Il never forget Hurricane Camille I was 7 years old and i remember seeing all 4 lanes of Hwy 49 from Gulfport to Hattiesburg all Northbound Contra flow i think they called it and seeing Camp Shelby military jeeps driving in the median to keep traffic flowing Its definetly etched in my memory And then we had Katrina in 2005 😨 2 Weather events that have gone in History as Massive Hurricanes to ever hit this Country
What a hurricane looks like Mississippi
I was on an air craft carrier USS intrepid it chased us out of the gulf and we ended up near Norway
Katrina was a Cat 3. Ian was a Cat 4 and Camille was a Cat 5. Camille was no lady!
Ian and Ivan...
@buymymovie I sat through Ivan. I was maybe 14 years old. I lived roughly 40 miles east of the eye. I remember the corner of my living room ceiling flapping in the wind. We all thought we were about to lose the roof. That night was no joke. Had maybe 4ft of water in the house.
Katrina was a Cat 4 or 5 when it hit Plaquemines Parish LA landfall
Katrina was barely a cat 3.......but the way the winds hit Lake pontrachain and the pumps not working properly...flooding in NO was much worse than what the actual storm caused....
@@keithbrown8814ok troll
God, it's lovely out!
I was born in 1969. Family told me multiple stories about this storm. We lived in Mobile, Alabama at the time.
The good old days when the USA was a real country.
Amen
So the fatal hurricane party in Mississippi was only an urban story?
I lived within a mile of the water in west Biloxi...I had just graduated from high school.
Was there done that
While getting our summer house in Waveland secured the best we could at about 2:00pm the great Nash Roberts made the shocking announcement that Camille was now a Cat 5 with sustained 180 mph winds. We packed up shortly thereafter and headed back to New Orleans. Later that night Camille passed right over Waveland and it was utter devastation.
Nobody announced that Camille was "Cat 5" because that scale was not invented until years later, largely as a result of Camille.
@@TAllenYT
Yes you are correct. I do remember him saying 180 mph sustained winds and my dad didn't believe it, he had to go back inside and see it for himself lol. The Cat 1 thru 5 system apparently came out in 1971.
@@thud9797 one of the big drivers of the development of the Category 1-5 scale was the fact that during Camille people had a hard time appreciating how severe it was.
@@TAllenYT
Makes sense. My dad turned pale when Nash said 180 mph sustained, he thought for sure we would lose the house. After Camille all the old timers would say there'll never be another Camille, well 36 years later they were finally proved wrong. 😀
210 MILES AN HOUR ????? WOW!!!!!
234 mph actually when she broke the guage .
I lived in Pascagoula Mississippi and I heard people talking about that we had had over 200 mph wind gust
Before landfall, onboard the cargo ships that Camille beached, recorded 200 knot winds (230 mph). So, all these storms of modern day being "the most powerful" are usually 50 mph or more lower.
I remember a bunch of those big ships came in land from Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula
210 MPH Wind is like 6 Freight Trains coming through at the same time!
😂 the man who slept thru it would’ve been me 😂😂
If someone slept all night through a hurricane like that, you know they were blind stinking drunk.
0:05 me watching it on a Sunday at 6:30
Mr. Nash had a special gift. If he said it, it was almost a given, it was going to happen.
My mother was pregnant with me when this happened. She was devastated
Major flooding and loss of life as far away as VA.
If the strongest hurricane ever came decades before the warmer oceans what caused it to be so bad
I remember it was a very hot year August 12th and lived in Cody in Alabama and I would probably all of the weather conditions were perfect for the storm had nothing to slow it down or interact I lived on the water remove animals from a small island in coden bayou and when we came back they were behind the restaurant and looked like a new Penny they were so clean
I lived in coden Alabama I what's 12 years old. We evacuated to Theodore high School
By living on the Gulf Coast they asked for it themselves.
Seagulls were following the eye to Nashville TN . Old Hickory Lake is full of seagulls that are the related to Mississippi seagulls there are several lakes around Nashville Old Hickory is the only one that has seagulls. Except in 1972 Percy Priest Lake east and up stream.Both lakes are in Nashville, 5 lakes within a 100 mile away have no seagulls. I was 13 and remembered not seeing a seagull and the news at that time saying are the seagulls here to stay or will they go home to the gulf.
I was there in Pass Christian
Some of those who died, it was their own fault for not respecting the advice to evacuate.
I love hurricanes!
Do u live on the coast? You wouldn't ...
@@rachel8769I got family that lives in the coast, along with driving trains through their too!
I can say that they are intriguing I've been through many hurricanes like hurricane Camille I've been through hurricane Frederic I've been through hurricane Katrina hurricane Ivan hurricane Sally and a lot of other unmentionables but you know there is something intriguing about them but the really bad ones will make you fear for your life or maybe 12 to 24 or 36 hours depending on the hurricane which is actually no fun at all
I mis real newscasters.