Weather History: August 17th, 1969. Category 5 Hurricane Camille Slams ashore.

[tucsoncoyote]

Related Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Camille#The_Hurricane_Party

Well it was 37 years ago today in Pass Christian Mississippi, that Hurricane Camille slammed ashore on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, and Louisiana, and in fact was one of the most intense and deadliest hurricanes to come ashore.

Camillie is in fact the only Category 5 storm to hit the United states upon landfall with winds over 190 mph and a storm surge that was in some areas over 25 feet.

in fact it's amazing that the power of this small and compact yet intense storm did what it did.. for example Camille should have been a powerful lesson for people who lived in the Louisiana area when Katrina came around last year, and in fact what I have here is perhaps the site of where the most deaths probably occurred* in one place during the storm. The Richealeu Apartments at Pass Christian Mississippi.

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~joel/g110_w06/lecture_notes/hurricane/agburt_12_11b.jpg


This picture shown is what is left of the Richalieu Apartments in Pass Christian Missisissippi and what stood here was a three story apartment complex. but as you can see this is what was left after the hurricane came through.

But the tragedy here in this picture is that 25 foolhardy souls decided to stay here in this three story apartment complex and decided to have the usual "Hurricane Party" (at least it's rumored) and they figured that Camille wouldn't affect them that much... and 24 of the 25 paid with their lives when the apartment complex collapsed and was washed out to sea. (The Lone Survivor a woman, survived after her husband got her out a third story bedroom window and got her onto a mattress.

In all Camille was in fact the 2nd most intense storm to every hit the US until 2005, (it's now rated 3rd most intense after Wilma (2005), and The 1935 Florida Keys Labor Day storm with a central pressure of 909 millibars or 26.82 inches of mercury) and in fact Camille is now the 2nd deadliest hurricane right behind Last year's Katrina (killing 259 people in all) and is in fact the 3 costilest hurricane ever..(Doing 1.42 billion dollars worth of damage which in today's figures would be 9.14 billion dollars (2005 dollars). Which is behind Andrew (1992) and Katrina (2005).

So then why haven't people learned their lesson from Camille? Are people ignorant of the fact that if "It could happen once, it could happen again?"
Also the issue with storms is this. Why be foolhardy and put your own life at risk just to die unneccessarily in a storm that will probably kill you..

so then your thoughts on this historic event? After all between now and the 29th of August we're going to have people talk about "Katrina" 2005, but who probably will forget "Camille" 1969..

Your thoughts?

:coyote:

and Katrina proved that in spades.

[Juu-kuchi]

Obviously lessons need to be learned about how not to take a storm lightly, and take it to heart once the damage is done, because it may happen again. One knows not the time or hour but it may.

The more important lesson is that if Camille didn't have all who were close to him die painfully, he wouldn't have to circumvent his rage on innocent people. It's also the citizen's fault though for not stopping him by promptly trying to fry his brain (or whatever holds the mind of the storm).

[tucsoncoyote]

Obviously lessons need to be learned about how not to take a storm lightly, and take it to heart once the damage is done, because it may happen again. One knows not the time or hour but it may.

The more important lesson is that if Camille didn't have all who were close to him die painfully, he wouldn't have to circumvent his rage on innocent people. It's also the citizen's fault though for not stopping him by promptly trying to fry his brain (or whatever holds the mind of the storm).

Well I would agree with this statement except the second Paragraph.. Storms such as Hurricanes and tornadoes don't have a brain. they are rather just forces of nature that are in fact there to teach humanity a lesson. Hurricane Camille in 1969, was in fact one such valuable lesson, and yes Humanity should have in 2005 remembered this storm doing the Damage it did.. The picture in Post 1 should be a reminder and an example that Hurricanes (which are forces of nature, are not to be taken lightly. But Apparently with Katrina Last year and this reminder, hopefully the next time a hurricane approaches the Gulf Coast, if people are told by the Weather Service to leave and Evacuate, perhaps humans in the area will heed the warning and do so.

(After all Look at Katrina and New Orleans. They had 72 hours warning lead time yet didn't urge a mandatory evacuation of the city until just 24 hours before Katrina's Landfall. This I feel was a failure in all governmental bodies to communicate effectively in the face of danger. (After all Camille only killed 259 people.. Katrina killed 1500+.. there's a big difference here when it comes to death, and I feel this is because People failed to remember Camille's aftermath. That's one sad lesson to learn when 1500 + People die in a storm less powerful then Camille.

Nuff Said.

:coyote:

[Juu-kuchi]

Well I would agree with this statement except the second Paragraph.. Storms such as Hurricanes and tornadoes don't have a brain. they are rather just forces of nature that are in fact there to teach humanity a lesson. Hurricane Camille in 1969, was in fact one such valuable lesson, and yes Humanity should have in 2005 remembered this storm doing the Damage it did.. The picture in Post 1 should be a reminder and an example that Hurricanes (which are forces of nature, are not to be taken lightly. But Apparently with Katrina Last year and this reminder, hopefully the next time a hurricane approaches the Gulf Coast, if people are told by the Weather Service to leave and Evacuate, perhaps humans in the area will heed the warning and do so.
*scratches head* Looks like that second paragraph flew right over your head.

[Nobuyuki sama]

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