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IL, AUGUST 11, 1970
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i OF HURRICANE CAMILLE :d from Page 4)
IN 1 PM CDT SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1969
JANGEROUS HURRICANE CAMILLE CONTINUES TO MOVE TODS THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST . . .
IN 3 PM CDT SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1969
lANGEROUS HURRICANE CAMILLE STALLS TEMPORARILY . . . RICANE WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ON THE NORTHWEST UDA COAST FROM FORT WALTON TO ST. MARKS AND GALE NINGS ELSEWHERE FROM PENSACOLA TO CEDAR KEY.
iRY NO. 11 5 PM CDT SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1969
5MALL HURRICANE CAMILLE BECOMES VERY INTENSE . . .
RICANE WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ON THE NORTHWEST iUDA COAST FROM FORT WALTON TO ST. MARKS AND GALE NINGS ELSEWHERE FROM PENSACOLA TO CEDAR KEY.
TIN 7 PM CDT SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1969
HURRICANE CAMILLE ... A VERY INTENSE AND DANGEROUS 'RM.
I.RICANE WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ON THE NORTHWEST iRIDA COAST FROM FORT WALTON TO ST. MARKS AND GALE WINGS ELSEWHERE FROM PENSACOLA TO CEDAR KEY.PRE-.ATIONS AGAINST DANGEROUS WINDS AND 5 TO 12 FOOT ES IN THE AREA FROM FORT WALTON TO ST. MARKS SHOULD COMPLETED TONIGHT. A HURRICANE WATCH IS IN EFFECT IT OF FORT WALTON TO BILOXI.
TIN 9 PM CDT SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1969
INTENSE HURRICANE CAMILLE RESUMES MOVEMENT . . .
(.RICANE WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ON THE NORTHWEST I RIDA COAST FROM- FORT WALTON TO ST. MARKS AND GALE WINGS ELSEWHERE FROM PENSACOLA TO CEDAR KEY
DRY NO. 12 11 PM CDT SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1969
CAMILLE . . . EXTREMELY DANGEROUS . . . THREATENS THE I.THWEST FLORIDA COAST.
{.RICANE WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ON THE NORTHWEST IRIDA COAST FROM FORT WALTON TO ST. MARKS AND GALE iNINGS ELSEWHERE FROM PENSACOLA TO CEDAR KEY.PRE-ATI ON S AGAINST THIS DANGEROUS HURRICANE SHOULD RE IPLETED SUNDAY MORNING. A HURRICANE WATCH IS IN EF-T WEST OF FORT WALTON TO BILOXI.
TIN 1AM CDT SUNDAY AUGUST 17, 1969
:AMILLE . . EXTREMELY DANGEROUS . . CONTINUED THREAT fHE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST.
BUSTY BAICH (Continued from page U)
the southeast edge of the stoim, the part passing over us then, was the most powerful. Oar 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, put on their life preservers, and ■began to gather flashlights and 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 from "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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had, disappeared . too. • John "broke the window out ana ripped away the metal bars that had. been put there for safety's sake some years before, we each grabbed a child, hugged one another, and stepped into the tree. We were in the storm!
Moments after we all made our way into the tree, it began to be pushed over V what was left of the house, which was bearing down on top of us. Huge i+'rX6” crypress timbers that had been our support on-
ly moments before aimed at one or the other of us while the greenish phosphorous of the sea spray lit the sky for us to see that there was no safe place. We liad to scramble out of the tree. Hie, Charlie and I managed to stay together as John, Tary, and our friends were separated from us. We were in the water, the wind screeching over us and the debris jamming into us wherever we tried to turn. I was clutching Char-(Continued on page ?)
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Before Camille
Today
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Thanks to God we are here and Coming Back from Camille
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