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vDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1959
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or Camille Workmen Protect Downtown Department Store
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—Photo by Th« Tlmes-Picovune.
iver their windows Sunday prevent shattered glass and i the savage storm.
PUTTING UP aluminum coverings Sunday workmen attempt to protect the plate glass windows of D. H. Holmes, 819 Canal, from
—Photo by The TImes-Picayune.
Hurricane Camille as it bore down on the New Orleans area with its winds and rain.
ople from low-lying d carrying sandbags.
covered the town.
The first surge of water left
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_ flood of five feet. A later iov. Williams, who set up a ’surge raised it to 14 feet in some mmand post at his executive sections insion in Jackson, said hei iered 1,100 National Guards-!Level of Water
;n placed on stand by duty at p- 0 p_______; 11
:ir armories in the coastal	Rapidly
ea.	Howard	Wilcox,	Plaquemines
State Highway Department Parish utilities commissioner, rews were clearing debris i reported •om highways at various
oints along the evacuation >utes in South Mississippi.
Sixty units of blood were dis-tched from Jackson to Civil :fense headquarters in Gulf-rt.
Mayor Russell Davis of Jack-ti called on residents of the :y to open their homes to perns fleeing the awesome storm.
Gale force winds extended ) miles from the center of the >rm.
Whipping the Gulf of Mexico
o	angry white froth, Camille!six gan scratching at the coast; ing
that the water came very fast at Buras. Wilcox, at the Belle Chasse Civil. Defense headquarters, got reports of the flood from Luke Petrovich, parish public safety commissioner, via radio.
“They were standing in knee deep water at the school (Buras High School) when we talked to them,” said Wilcox. “They’ve all moved up to the second floor now.”
Louisiana Civil Defense Director Gen. Thomas Bonner said that Civil Defense will deploy ‘ducks” (amphibious land vehicles) to Buras early
th gale winds early Sunday)Monday morning. He said the
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Camille grew into one of the ost intense hurricanes in his-ry Saturday as she stalled for veral hours, then veered sstward just enough to take ost of Florida’s Panhandle out
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ducks will be deployed as soon as the wind dies down.
Except for Civil Defense personnel and parish authorities, the Buras area had been completely evacuated hours before the water arrived.
After Buras was devastated by the killer storm Betsy in 1965, it took more than a year to rebuild the homes and clean
along “very well” and that he was pleased with the work of the parish crews.
He said that work crews were busy clearing strets as soon as they were notified of blockages due to fallen trees and other debris.
Donelon said he was also pleased with the calm displayed by Jeffersonians.
He said at 9:15 p. m. the levee along Lake Pontchartrain was holding up well and that the water level was about six feet below the flood stage.
Thirty-one feet of water in the lake is considered flood level and the water at 9:15 had reached the 24.6-foot level.
He said if the water rose an other three feet he would have ito “seriously consider evacuating” that portion of the parish ;near the lake, i At 11:30 p.m. Donelon said the lake water level had not j changed and there were no immediate plans for evacuating the lakefront area of the parish.
Col. Charles Erdmann, Civil Defense director for New Orleans, sent men early Sunday to set up posts below the Industrial Canal to measure water levels.
It was estimated that up to 175 persons would be working at CD headquarters at the New
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inland.
In Plaquemines Parish, which straddles the Mississippi River south of New Orleans,
12,000	residents—about 75 per cent of those living in Port Sul-p h u r and southward—were evacuated.
Some moved out on their own. Others were transported in school buses.
Driving rains hit Pensacola, Fla., in midday and soon closed U.S. Hwy. 98 at the Florida-Ala-bama border as tides washed over the road.
Some 450 residents of Pensacola Beach were ordered to get out to higher ground. Motels on the beach were emptied. Some low areas of the city also were evacuated and the Red Cross opened shelters in schools, churches and the YMCA.
Another Hurricane Now in Atlantic
As Camille raged, another hurricane, Debbie, was swirling along in the Atlantic, gaining strength after a long trip across from the African coast.
The hurricane was expected to bypass the Leeward Islands, but the Caribbean was warned to stay in close touch with developments.
Debbie’s winds increase*