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THE OWL, AUGUL _ II, 1970
HISTORY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE........	.......	....
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BULLETIN 1 PM CDT SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1969
. . . DANGEROUS HURRICANE CAMILLE CONTINUES TO MOVE TOWARDS THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST . . .
BULLETIN 3 PM CDT SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1969
. . DANGEROUS HURRICANE CAMILLE STALLS TEMPORARILY . . . HURRICANE WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ON THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST FROM FORT WALTON TO ST. MARKS AND GALE WARNINGS ELSEWHERE FROM PENSACOLA TO CEDAR KEY.
ADVISORY NO. 11 5 PM CDT SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1969
. . . SMALL HURRICANE CAMILLE BECOMES VERY INTENSE . . .
HURRICANE WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ON THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST FROM FORT WALTON TO ST. MARKS AND GALE WARNINGS ELSEWHERE FROM PENSACOLA TO CEDAR KEY.
BULLETIN 7 PM CDT SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1969
. . . HURRICANE CAMILLE ... A VERY INTENSE AND DANGEROUS STORM.
HURRICANE WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ON THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST FROM FORT WALTON TO ST. MARKS AND GALE WARNINGS ELSEWHERE FROM PENSACOLA TO CEDAR KEY,PREPARATIONS AGAINST DANGEROUS WINDS AND 5 TO 12 FOOT TIDES IN THE AREA FROM FORT WALTON TO ST. MARKS SHOULD BE COMPLETED TONIGHT. A HURRICANE WATCH IS IN EFFECT WEST OF FORT WALTON TO BILOXI.
BULLETIN 9 PM CDT SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1969
. . . INTENSE HURRICANE CAMILLE RESUMES MOVEMENT
HURRICANE WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ON THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST FROM- FORT WALTON TO ST. MARKS AND GALE WARNINGS ELSEWHERE FROM PENSACOLA TO CEDAR KEY
ADVISORY NO. 12 11 PM CDT SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1969
. . . CAMILLE . . . EXTREMELY DANGEROUS . . . THREATENS THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST.
HURRICANE WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ON THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST FROM FORT WALTON TO ST. MARKS AND GALE WARNINGS ELSEWHERE FROM PENSACOLA TO CEDAR KEY.PRE PARATIONS AGAINST THIS DANGEROUS HURRICANE SHOULD BE COMPLETED SUNDAY MORNING. A HURRICANE WATCH IS IN EFFECT WEST OF FORT WALTON TO BILOXI.
BULLETIN 1 AM CDT SUNDAY AUGUST 17, 1969
. . . CAMILLE . . EXTREMELY DANGEROUS . . CONTINUED THREAT TO THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST.
BULLETIN 3 AM CDT SUNDAY AUGUST 17, 1969
. . . CAMILLE . . . EXTREMELY DANGEROUS . . . CONTINUES ITS THREAT TO THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST.
ADVISORY NO. 13 5 AM CDT SUNDAY AUGUST 17, 1969
. . . CAMILLE . . . EXTREMELY DANGEROUS . . . SHIFTS A LITTLE WESTWARD . . . THREATENS MISSISSIPPI . . . ALABAMA . . . AND	=
NORTHWEST FLORIDA COASTS.	E=
HURRICANE WARNINGS HAVE BEEN EXTENDED WESTWARD TO	H
BILOXI INCLUDING THE ALABAMA COAST THE PENSACOLA AREA	=
OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA . . . HURRICANE WATCH AND GALE	=
WARNINGS HAVE BEEN EXTENDED WESTWARD TO NEW ORLEANS	==
AND GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA. HURRICANE WARNINGS ARE NOW	=
IN EPFECT FROM BILOXI MISSISSIPPI TO ST. MARKS FLORIDA	=
AND GALE WARNINGS ELSEWHERE FROM NEW ORLEANS AND	=
GRAND ISLE TO CEDAR KEYS FLORIDA. HURRICANE WATCH IS	=
IN EFFECT FROM NEW ORLEANS AND GRAND ISLE TO BILOXI.	=|
PREPARATIONS AGAINST THIS DANCEROUS HURRICANE SHOULD	=
BE COMPLETED AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE TODAY IN THE AREA OF	=
HURRICANE WARNINGS AND PERSONS IN THE AREA OF THE HUR	=
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the southeast edge of the storm, the part parsing over us then, was the most powerful. Our tension mounted as we waited for the worse to be over.
About 10 minutes before the eye was "scheduled," our massive front doors crashed in. frames and all. We heard part of the roof peeling from the front of the house, and rainwater began pouring in. Some of the furniture seemed to float as it was crashed against walls while the wind tore at the openings that had been made. We rushed the children upstairs, jut on their life preservers, and began to gatiier flashlights ana radios to take upstairs with us.
John and I stood on the stairs for a long moment as we watched our home being violated. We dismissed the house as an extension of our lives--perhaps as one sheds a cancerous limb—and we began to concentrate on survival. The struggle began at that moment to keep fram being inundated by the stuff of life! to stay alive in this log jam of confusion became our only instinct. We felt the serenity of a combined strength that could fight even the awesomeness of the elements.
We all gathered in the hall leading to an upstairs window on the lee side of the house. We heard explosions all around us and felt a strange floating or flying sensation beneath us. The house was then pushing against a tree. We couldn't find the stairs, and the front of the upstairs
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