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ACTS OF NATURE:	STORMS,	HURRICANES,	FLOODS	(FREEZES,	SNOW?).
1722. 177 *2. 1858 1870s
1874
1893
1900 1905 19 0 5 1909 1912
1915
1915
1923 1947 19 6 5
1969
1980
n
PHurrincane settlement Hurr icane.
Ma i nland.
sEPT 15/16. Hurricane. Saucier's sugar cane fields flooded with salt water. Ref: Caire & Caire, 1976 Hurricane. Two very vague references (Echo'77;IB mentions a hurricane twenty years earlier than the storm
>elieved to have destroyed Menzieres
a_	^ rrtort 1~h
at Cat Island. Ladner family moved to
of. '93 and Thigpen mentions "a storm that blew down a lot of timber"in H'way Flood on Oct. 1 &
'77 IB:
to Glory Land) Pearl River. Ref: Hickman, 1962 2. Hurricane. Ref:Echo'42;pp22 Echo'78;D4:	Sun Herald'84;I,14:
of
& 36:	Echo
Gauthier, the races:
1979, SSC, 125 Years:	Maxton,	Progress
Thigpen, 1965, H'way to Glory Land.
April 17. Flood on Pearl River . ffef-/> %
Flood at mouth of Jourdan and Wolf r ivers -/&U;	77/ 7A
Sun, Oct 4. Storm. Ref: Echo 10/7/05.	;	Q 01'21/05-
Storm. Ref: Echo'79;2C:	Herald	'58;19A
Stones as big as River at Kiln.
hens's eggs. Re ?
Ref: Hancock Bank,
Echo' : 23A:
42;
Echo'77;4A:
Sun/Herald
84;VI,14
Hail at Dunbar.
Echo 04/06/12 Flood on Jourdan 1982 .
Sept 29. Hurricane. Ref:
Echo'78;5C & 7D:	Herald'58,
Times- Picayune ?/?/47.	_	.,	_
Mini-Hurr icane .	'	*	S')	^
Hurricane of '47.
Hurricane Betsy. Ref:	Sun	Herald'79;I,27 and
Sun/Herald'84;III,15.
Hurricane Camille.	,
Tornadoes at Garden Isles*^^	Sn-/rthld
Little damage, but great deal of
t-a??Z / V2-c rw.
1985 ^/^j/jirHurr icane Danny, flooding.	^
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