A Lady Called Camille

Department of Agriculture

A Lady Called Camille
AVA11983VNB1 - 1971

The video documents the devastation caused by Hurricane Camille and the suffering caused thousands of people. It shows that while hundreds of lives were lost to the hurricane, thousands were saved due to emergency plans, trained rescue teams, and help from the forces of government.

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[howlen]

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

[dotcomguy79]

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!

[1millionscovilleclub]

@TerraceYouth Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

[TerraceYouth]

Those dang sexists hurricanes... Always behaving like women!

[tkynerd]

@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]

@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]

@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.

[Clarrisani]

@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.

[tkynerd]

@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.

[Clarrisani]

@tkynerd The "third floor" and "hurricane party" stories sound like stories that came out of Hurricane Betsy.

[Clarrisani]

@camillestapleton So you have a Hurricane as well? I'm Katrina. -_-

[mcpepper]

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.