Camille

She was out there out there in the dark A brooding monster deciding where to attack Her fuel and her ammo: Waters, warm Gulf waters She attacked... Howling, shrieking winds Thirty feet of churning sea A thirty foot tidal wave A thirty foot Tsunami swallowing the land... Sent to purge? Sent to cleanse? Sent to teach? God only knows God and the Daughter Mighty Mother Nature... but she was horrible horrible and beautiful... Hurricane Camille Biloxi/Gulfport/Bay St. Louis, MS August 17-18, 1969 Deaths: 259 Tidal Surge: 28 ft. Est. Wind speed: 225+MPH (The wind instruments were destroyed at 200 mph) Imagine an F-5 tornado reaching across the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast...Add a 28 ft. storm surge to that and you can imagine the destructive force of Camille. Those who witnessed the aftermath of the storm said it looked like an atomic bomb had been dropped. Of the 259 deaths, 113 were caused in the state of Virginia due to catastrophic flooding... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBsHreetAe4