I was 7 when it hit south Plaquemines Parish. We did get out but we lost everything we owned. The rescue efforts were SO much better than that of Katrina. The recovery and rebuilding was a 1000 times better. Times were hard but they were better. People were honest and they cared for their neighbors. Everyone pitched in & we got it done. When Katrina came the funds that should have been there to rebuild had been taken away by the "government" and the people running it were clueless and selfish.
I remember seeing this film in elementary school -- they showed it to us. I thought it was really scary.
A couple of responses to earlier comments:
- The "hurricane party" story wasn't debunked until long after this film was made.
- Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans much, much harder than Camille did. Camille did not cause significant flooding in New Orleans. You may be thinking of Betsy, 1965, which did cause flooding in New Orleans, though not as much as Katrina and not nearly as many deaths.
@Clarrisani That wouldn't surprise me a bit. I don't claim to know a lot about urban legends, but it wouldn't surprise me to find that these stories fit into some folktale/urban-legend templates. That means they would tend to get told in pretty much any situation that they fit.
@tkynerd I think it's the exact same story, because it involved the same apartments (I checked) but they're applying it to a different hurricane. Which, of course, doesn't work because everyone knows when certain buildings were destroyed.
@Clarrisani The Richelieu apartments in Pass Christian were definitely destroyed by Camille. I don't know why anybody would tell this story about Betsy, which didn't do a lot of damage on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. That doesn't make sense.
I remember watching this at the age of 17, when training for State Emergeny Services here in Australia. It effected all of us. We get cyclones on three sides of Australia and this film for many years was used in training rescue workers.
The so-called "Hurricane Party" at the Richelieu Apartments never happened, and I am irritated -- though unsurprised -- to find this lie repeated in a government film.
"My goodness lady, what are you gonna do when the bottom floor goes? The third floor's gonna come down with it. That's exactly what happened"-Wade Guice
This comes to show that these so called Katrina victims are nothing but crybabies that really didn't experience anything. Camille came in at 200 MPH, and she also caused way more problems in New Orleans too. So I don't want to hear anymore about the wah wah with Katrina. 125 MPH is a joke. Also being formerly through Andrew in 1992. Still that was nothing compared to Camille!
@jt8fan7272 katrina was not as bad as Camille. It was the flooding that killed people. The levies did their job, the water couldn't get in and it also couldn't get out.
@jt8fan7272 My relatives who live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast all say that Katrina was worse there than Camille. They stayed through both hurricanes, so they know what they're talking about.
The factor you're missing is the size of both storms. Camille was intense but small, so she passed through more quickly. Katrina was a much larger storm, which is why her storm surge was higher than Camille's.
@jt8fan7272 As for New Orleans: Camille did relatively little damage to New Orleans because, again, she was a small storm; her wind field was not nearly as large as Katrina's and she passed through more quickly. The New Orleans levees didn't fail during Camille. (You may be thinking of Betsy in 1965, which did cause significant flooding in New Orleans.)
It was this hurricane and the 1974 Super Outbreak that drove my desire to become a meteorologist. I wasn't born yet for either, but the sheer power of these storms is what fascinates me to this day.
this video makes me angry. the hurricane party was no party. no one was drinking or parting. they were in shelter for the storm, and the one man who survived tells that this was no party
I live d in Picayune. The eye past right over us. Camille made the most horific noise, I`ll never forget. 8 inch pine needles pierced the surviving trees with only 2 inches of the needle sticking out. I walked 2 miles walking on down trees, never putting my feet on the ground. I went through Katrina, she was no match to Camille. Camille was the worst storm in American history. Katrina was a 6, Camille a definate 10+
Boy..let me say one last thing..I don't "love" it because of what happened, its a good documentary on a horrible storm. Just so everyone knows. I have covered one huge tornado outbreak on TV wall-to-wall and although we had injuries, even with many F3-4 tornadoes, nobody died. These are the documentary programs that got me so interested and eventually on-the-air, and I think the NWS warnings I relayed that night saved lives. Thanks for posting this!
My experience with Camille was up close and personal. I was living on Keesler AFB Biloxi in tech school. I was 20 miles east of landfall. Base wind gauge broke at 205mph. I was in a concrete barracks 28ft above sea level near the flight line. Tidal surge was 20FT. Heard about a homeless man tied self to street light so he could fly. Found a blob on a rope next day. The window blinds crashed and banged. I recorded audio. Soon a video on my channel beefourme
I too was at Keesler. I was a squadron cmdr and was in my squadron barracks, a three story concrete block building. Our building had minor damage, but the block snack bar across the street was gone. There was nothing left but the slab. My wife and I lived on base behind the hospital. Luckily our house was high and wasn't damaged by either wind or water. We had friends down the street whose home was full of water to the ceiling. We were lucky compared to those who lost everything were lucky.
They showed this on fifth and sixth grades (1977-1979) at Magnolia Park ES, in Ocean Springs, to the east of Biloxi. They also suffered greatly from Camille. To this day I remember this film. My fifth graders have just finished reading a story about hurricanes, with a lot of references to Andrew. I plan to show them this video because it brings to life the power and the destruction of a hurricane. Thanks so much for posting it!
Thanks for loading this they showed it every year in Elementary school...won't say the year LOL...between 9:27 and 10:17...I feel sorry for that possum, ooh a water moccasin swimming by, since when do tarantulas live down there? What's Jimmy Durante doing there? And is that screaming Lady happy to see her house or is she upset I can't tell...she's hysterical for sure but I can't figure it out. I feel bad for anyone who goes through that, our storm was Kate but it was no where near as bad...GB
I was five years old living with my family near Jackson, Ms. Camille has stayed in my mind all these years. The damage was bad near Jackson. I can only imagine how dreadful it was on the coast. A Hurricane is something that has to be experienced to be believed.
That lady is full of crap! They were told to evacuate just like they were in Katrina, but she decided she knew better than those who have lived through them.
If Katrina was the strength of Camille, New Orleans would have lost it all. Like Homestead during Andrew. Its bound to happen again. Think of a cat 5 hurricane land fall storm in Orleans....
For Kjr0se and all the others, I had just turned 19 years old in July, and less than one month later, Camille struck! I still remember this storm as if it had only happened yesterday. We had no power, water, air conditioning (luckily, our house near the beach was intact). I will celebrate my 60th birthday in July, here in Washington State! This survivor will always remember Hurricane Camille!
My wife and I had a debate the other night of which was worse, Camille, or the 1974 tornado outbreak. After watching this, I change my mind and say Camille was worse.
I was 10 years old when Camille destroyed our coast! still remember the noise,etc.! it was awful but we made it thru it & DID BUILD BACK! We will do the same after Katrina; just may take a little long but we ain't done yet!
@brsfan66 Camille was really awful! a powerful storm! but it came in fast and left! whereas Katrina came in slow, lingered on for hours and hours and covered a much bigger area than Camille did! Even tho Camill'es winds were much higher!!!
@dotcomguy79 We just went through Irene but nothing compared to those two storms.Irene was huge and caused tremedous flooding in some regions and lots of people w/o power but the winds were nothing like Camille or Katrina.
@brsfan66 Camille was a 5 when it hit shore. I went through Charley in 2004 and it was stronger than Katrina on land impact. Katrina just proved the city of New Orleans was not ready. If Katrina kept her strength and moved 20 miles west, New Orleans would have vanished.
I grew up 20 miles south of Nelson County, VA where Camille killed 151 people on August 19-20, 1969. This film doesn't exaggerate the scale of the disaster one bit. The area that got hit was (and still is) very rural and every single bridge and road into and out of it was cut. Supposedly there's still places up there where you can see the gashes on the hillsides where the landslides stripped all the soil, right down to the bedrock.
I was 5 years old when Camille struck, so I don't remember much (just how our house was full of mud afterward). I do remember see this film every year in Civil Defense class at Eastlawn Elementary!!
I was 6 years old and living 50 inland in Columbia, MS. I remember the direct hit we took. My kids ask if I was too young to remember Woodstock. I tell them oh yeah, I remember that weekend...but for other reasons.
Then I had the pleasure of enduring Katrina a few years ago.
I wonder if the lady that yelled out, Yonder it is, there's my house!!!!!!, is still alive 40 years after hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I wonder who is still alive from Hurricane Camille 40 years after it hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I wasn't born until after hurricane Camille, but from the footage I've seen, the damage was totally devastating.
My love of hurricanes began when I watched this documentary at age 5. It was shown at the beginning of the hurricane season in the Miami, Florida TV market for many years in the 1970's
This chilling film thrilled thousands of visitors at the Seafood Industry Museum in Biloxi. As a tour director, I took numerous Senior Citizen Groups there from Atlanta for many years. The terrible irony is that the building was completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and may be reopening at a new site by 2014. RIP you wonderful museum!!! :(
I was 7 when it hit south Plaquemines Parish. We did get out but we lost everything we owned. The rescue efforts were SO much better than that of Katrina. The recovery and rebuilding was a 1000 times better. Times were hard but they were better. People were honest and they cared for their neighbors. Everyone pitched in & we got it done. When Katrina came the funds that should have been there to rebuild had been taken away by the "government" and the people running it were clueless and selfish.
mcpepper 1 month ago
MY NAMES CAMILLE NO KIDDS
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camillestapleton 1 month ago
@camillestapleton So you have a Hurricane as well? I'm Katrina. -_-
Clarrisani 3 weeks ago
I remember seeing this film in elementary school -- they showed it to us. I thought it was really scary.
A couple of responses to earlier comments:
- The "hurricane party" story wasn't debunked until long after this film was made.
- Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans much, much harder than Camille did. Camille did not cause significant flooding in New Orleans. You may be thinking of Betsy, 1965, which did cause flooding in New Orleans, though not as much as Katrina and not nearly as many deaths.
tkynerd 3 months ago
@tkynerd The "third floor" and "hurricane party" stories sound like stories that came out of Hurricane Betsy.
Clarrisani 3 weeks ago
@Clarrisani That wouldn't surprise me a bit. I don't claim to know a lot about urban legends, but it wouldn't surprise me to find that these stories fit into some folktale/urban-legend templates. That means they would tend to get told in pretty much any situation that they fit.
tkynerd 3 weeks ago
@tkynerd I think it's the exact same story, because it involved the same apartments (I checked) but they're applying it to a different hurricane. Which, of course, doesn't work because everyone knows when certain buildings were destroyed.
Clarrisani 3 weeks ago
@Clarrisani The Richelieu apartments in Pass Christian were definitely destroyed by Camille. I don't know why anybody would tell this story about Betsy, which didn't do a lot of damage on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. That doesn't make sense.
tkynerd 3 weeks ago
I remember watching this at the age of 17, when training for State Emergeny Services here in Australia. It effected all of us. We get cyclones on three sides of Australia and this film for many years was used in training rescue workers.
Tish1023 4 months ago
The so-called "Hurricane Party" at the Richelieu Apartments never happened, and I am irritated -- though unsurprised -- to find this lie repeated in a government film.
mattthepale 4 months ago
"My goodness lady, what are you gonna do when the bottom floor goes? The third floor's gonna come down with it. That's exactly what happened"-Wade Guice
jt8fan7272 5 months ago
This comes to show that these so called Katrina victims are nothing but crybabies that really didn't experience anything. Camille came in at 200 MPH, and she also caused way more problems in New Orleans too. So I don't want to hear anymore about the wah wah with Katrina. 125 MPH is a joke. Also being formerly through Andrew in 1992. Still that was nothing compared to Camille!
jt8fan7272 5 months ago
@jt8fan7272 katrina was not as bad as Camille. It was the flooding that killed people. The levies did their job, the water couldn't get in and it also couldn't get out.
Tish1023 4 months ago
@jt8fan7272 My relatives who live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast all say that Katrina was worse there than Camille. They stayed through both hurricanes, so they know what they're talking about.
The factor you're missing is the size of both storms. Camille was intense but small, so she passed through more quickly. Katrina was a much larger storm, which is why her storm surge was higher than Camille's.
tkynerd 2 weeks ago
@jt8fan7272 As for New Orleans: Camille did relatively little damage to New Orleans because, again, she was a small storm; her wind field was not nearly as large as Katrina's and she passed through more quickly. The New Orleans levees didn't fail during Camille. (You may be thinking of Betsy in 1965, which did cause significant flooding in New Orleans.)
tkynerd 2 weeks ago
4:00... not getting out... better put your head in the sand then lol
acecadet4000 5 months ago
I was there..born and raised...I was 8 years old and still remember it..the worst hurricane I've ever been through yet.
Thebrideisready 5 months ago
I was nine when I saw this film in our elementry school in rancho mirage ca.
it's the first i ever herd of a hericanes
jesuspsr13 6 months ago
Camille happened at the same day as Woodstock. Damn hippies! XD
j/k no, but seriously get a job.
Niyologist 6 months ago
@Niyologist must have been why it rained there
pixystyx66 5 months ago
It was this hurricane and the 1974 Super Outbreak that drove my desire to become a meteorologist. I wasn't born yet for either, but the sheer power of these storms is what fascinates me to this day.
TornadoWarning 7 months ago
Camille was the worst ever. Hugo and Andrew were very bad. Katrina and Rita were horrible. Camille was once in a lifetime.
Categorycinque 7 months ago
this video makes me angry. the hurricane party was no party. no one was drinking or parting. they were in shelter for the storm, and the one man who survived tells that this was no party
LeOpardGeckoKid9 11 months ago
That's no lady.
navkat 11 months ago
I live d in Picayune. The eye past right over us. Camille made the most horific noise, I`ll never forget. 8 inch pine needles pierced the surviving trees with only 2 inches of the needle sticking out. I walked 2 miles walking on down trees, never putting my feet on the ground. I went through Katrina, she was no match to Camille. Camille was the worst storm in American history. Katrina was a 6, Camille a definate 10+
Reddo007 11 months ago
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ExtremePeppers 11 months ago
ChristopherSaindon 1 year ago
Some of the audio/music in this was the same
as that used in "Day of the Killer Tornadoes!"
ChristopherSaindon 1 year ago
OH WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! I love this!! This reminda me of the
old tornado shows I watched in the early 70s that
led to my TV weather career. THANK YOU for this
post! :-)!!!!!!!!
ChristopherSaindon 1 year ago
My experience with Camille was up close and personal. I was living on Keesler AFB Biloxi in tech school. I was 20 miles east of landfall. Base wind gauge broke at 205mph. I was in a concrete barracks 28ft above sea level near the flight line. Tidal surge was 20FT. Heard about a homeless man tied self to street light so he could fly. Found a blob on a rope next day. The window blinds crashed and banged. I recorded audio. Soon a video on my channel beefourme
beefourme 1 year ago
I too was at Keesler. I was a squadron cmdr and was in my squadron barracks, a three story concrete block building. Our building had minor damage, but the block snack bar across the street was gone. There was nothing left but the slab. My wife and I lived on base behind the hospital. Luckily our house was high and wasn't damaged by either wind or water. We had friends down the street whose home was full of water to the ceiling. We were lucky compared to those who lost everything were lucky.
jrh0828 1 year ago
They showed this on fifth and sixth grades (1977-1979) at Magnolia Park ES, in Ocean Springs, to the east of Biloxi. They also suffered greatly from Camille. To this day I remember this film. My fifth graders have just finished reading a story about hurricanes, with a lot of references to Andrew. I plan to show them this video because it brings to life the power and the destruction of a hurricane. Thanks so much for posting it!
55trombone 1 year ago
Thanks for loading this they showed it every year in Elementary school...won't say the year LOL...between 9:27 and 10:17...I feel sorry for that possum, ooh a water moccasin swimming by, since when do tarantulas live down there? What's Jimmy Durante doing there? And is that screaming Lady happy to see her house or is she upset I can't tell...she's hysterical for sure but I can't figure it out. I feel bad for anyone who goes through that, our storm was Kate but it was no where near as bad...GB
GettnBooted 1 year ago
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Waynehardt 1 year ago
My dad was a heavy equipment operator in the SeaBees when we lived in Gulfport.
I was 5 years old and it was unforgettable!
Waynehardt 1 year ago
I was five years old living with my family near Jackson, Ms. Camille has stayed in my mind all these years. The damage was bad near Jackson. I can only imagine how dreadful it was on the coast. A Hurricane is something that has to be experienced to be believed.
logibear64 1 year ago
It's so great to be named Camille :)
Sbucks555 1 year ago
Was the name camille retired by NOAA.
southern197882 1 year ago
Yes.
PelicanGuy 1 year ago
thanks for posting
sandhilldiva 1 year ago
@22:00
That lady is full of crap! They were told to evacuate just like they were in Katrina, but she decided she knew better than those who have lived through them.
kenjutsu34 1 year ago
If Katrina was the strength of Camille, New Orleans would have lost it all. Like Homestead during Andrew. Its bound to happen again. Think of a cat 5 hurricane land fall storm in Orleans....
22reTOYOTA 2 years ago
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kenjutsu34 1 year ago
For Kjr0se and all the others, I had just turned 19 years old in July, and less than one month later, Camille struck! I still remember this storm as if it had only happened yesterday. We had no power, water, air conditioning (luckily, our house near the beach was intact). I will celebrate my 60th birthday in July, here in Washington State! This survivor will always remember Hurricane Camille!
chicotower 2 years ago
My wife and I had a debate the other night of which was worse, Camille, or the 1974 tornado outbreak. After watching this, I change my mind and say Camille was worse.
TitaniumByFire 2 years ago
I was a child when Camille struck, and the name still evokes a sense of horror for me.
samizdrama 2 years ago
80% of the survivors of Camille are now dead.
treemaster7 2 years ago
this will rlly help with mai project thnx
ThatAws0meGuy 2 years ago
Camille was a real bitch.
jimmyhd1969 2 years ago
I was 10 years old when Camille destroyed our coast! still remember the noise,etc.! it was awful but we made it thru it & DID BUILD BACK! We will do the same after Katrina; just may take a little long but we ain't done yet!
dotcomguy79 2 years ago 4
@dotcomguy79 May I ask ? What was the worst Camille or Katrina ?
brsfan66 6 months ago
@brsfan66 Camille was really awful! a powerful storm! but it came in fast and left! whereas Katrina came in slow, lingered on for hours and hours and covered a much bigger area than Camille did! Even tho Camill'es winds were much higher!!!
dotcomguy79 6 months ago
@dotcomguy79 We just went through Irene but nothing compared to those two storms.Irene was huge and caused tremedous flooding in some regions and lots of people w/o power but the winds were nothing like Camille or Katrina.
brsfan66 6 months ago
@dotcomguy79 camille's eye was just 57 miles east of New Orleans. So they still got it bad. Katrina was still nothing compared to Camille
jt8fan7272 5 months ago
@brsfan66 Camille was a 5 when it hit shore. I went through Charley in 2004 and it was stronger than Katrina on land impact. Katrina just proved the city of New Orleans was not ready. If Katrina kept her strength and moved 20 miles west, New Orleans would have vanished.
ExtremePeppers 6 months ago
@ExtremePeppers Thats scary !
brsfan66 6 months ago
I grew up 20 miles south of Nelson County, VA where Camille killed 151 people on August 19-20, 1969. This film doesn't exaggerate the scale of the disaster one bit. The area that got hit was (and still is) very rural and every single bridge and road into and out of it was cut. Supposedly there's still places up there where you can see the gashes on the hillsides where the landslides stripped all the soil, right down to the bedrock.
Moose6340 2 years ago
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LT1HILLINGHOE 2 years ago
I was 8 years old,and scared out of my skull!!
AncilWayneSmith 2 years ago
I was 5 years old when Camille struck, so I don't remember much (just how our house was full of mud afterward). I do remember see this film every year in Civil Defense class at Eastlawn Elementary!!
thebex1 2 years ago
God bless Gov. John Bell Williams!!!
ms39154 2 years ago
I was 6 years old and living 50 inland in Columbia, MS. I remember the direct hit we took. My kids ask if I was too young to remember Woodstock. I tell them oh yeah, I remember that weekend...but for other reasons.
Then I had the pleasure of enduring Katrina a few years ago.
MrOldSlacker 2 years ago
I wonder if the lady that yelled out, Yonder it is, there's my house!!!!!!, is still alive 40 years after hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I wonder who is still alive from Hurricane Camille 40 years after it hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I wasn't born until after hurricane Camille, but from the footage I've seen, the damage was totally devastating.
Kjr0se 2 years ago
i am,i was 3 years old and went through the coast in a bus,it looked more worse than these pictures.
darr777 2 years ago
@Kjr0se She looked in her early 30's. Its quite possible she's still alive, she'd be in her 70's.
ariamne97 2 years ago
I remember seeing parts of this as a kid in Pascagoula. I'm glad to see the entire clip.
PelicanGuy 2 years ago 2
My love of hurricanes began when I watched this documentary at age 5. It was shown at the beginning of the hurricane season in the Miami, Florida TV market for many years in the 1970's
howlen 3 years ago 8
I've heard they stop showing this after Katrina.
Warmonger4291 3 years ago
I've seen this film in the spring of 2004 at a class field trip to the Seafood Industry Museum.
Warmonger4291 3 years ago
This chilling film thrilled thousands of visitors at the Seafood Industry Museum in Biloxi. As a tour director, I took numerous Senior Citizen Groups there from Atlanta for many years. The terrible irony is that the building was completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and may be reopening at a new site by 2014. RIP you wonderful museum!!! :(
expo66 3 years ago
Predident bush, Ray Nagen, and the director of fema should have watched this documentary and acted quickly like their predisessors did.
leapingcat 3 years ago
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LT1HILLINGHOE 2 years ago
God i am so glad to find this.I can remember growing up in Panama City Florida and watching this in elementary school back in the late 70's.
panamacityeddie 3 years ago
Thanks for publishing this documentary. Although it was 39 years ago, I still remember Camille well and she was no lady.
CarlGlas 3 years ago 2
Thanks for posting this.
MAinsworth0375 3 years ago