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The day after Camille, the front was ravaged.
EEly St. Louis txisiness beach-
to rise between 10 and-20 feet. We were still not in the least perturbed, because we'd seen many sucda storms veer away from our coast, and felt quite safe as we returned to our home 21+ feet above sea level to await further dervelopnents.
These were not long in arriving. The rain, which had begun as a steady drizzle about 10 a.m. began to fall in an increasingly steady downpour and the winds became stronger, gaining enough force to blow down a large persimmon tree in the back
tile door to the carport as pressure inside	the house
made breathing almost impossible. It was at this point that a wave of water washed into the door.	I tasted it
feeling certain	that it was
merely rainwater, and won't repeat rqy remark when it turned out to be unmistakibly salty. The next few moments were spent in deciding exactly what to do, as, in a matter of seconds, the water inside had risen rapidly. We are all three excellent swimmers and we agreed that we’d be safer outside as furniture was already beginning to float from room to room and there was no exit through the roof had we elected to climb into the attic.
At exactly 11125 p.m. we waded into water chest deep, but almost as still as that; in a swimming pool and the sky as bright as aay, with an eerie silver light made even
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That Sunday morning was little different from any other grey, gloomy day. Frequent weather bulletins, beginning Saturday night, announced the approach of the season’s third hurricanej but rather vaguely prophesied that it would strike land somewhere between the western Louisiana coast and east of Mobile, Ala. ^Y noon Sunday those who lived in low lying areas subject to flooding in almost any storm had begun their calvacade inland.
I don’t remember to which TV channel we were tuned but 125 MPH winds of Hurricane Betsy force and accompanying tides were predicted until about l+lJO that afternoon. Heitnan and Catchie had taken the ■usual precautions of boarding all windows and lashing down such objects as lawn furniture and the like while I checked our food, candle j Flash light supplies, etc., and filled every possible container with water, indluding the bath tub.
We dined at a local restaurant, eating what was to be our last hot meal for quite a few days, and it was there that we heard the tv announ-cer's voice somberly state . that Camille was a veiy dangerous hurricane with top winds of 180 to 190 mph with, accompanying tides expected
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