The Storm That Cut an Island in Half — Camille 1969

⚡ WHEN THE WATER COMES — FLOOD PREPAREDNESS GEAR Portable power station (Camille left the coast with no power and no water): https://amzn.to/4wMUwMo NOAA emergency weather radio (the coast got about fifteen hours of warning): https://amzn.to/4hWwrOk Portable water filter (for when the tap goes under a boil-water notice): https://amzn.to/4bDD6ZZ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. These are affiliate links — they cost you nothing extra and help keep this channel running. Just before midnight on August 17th, 1969, a Category 5 hurricane came ashore at Waveland, Mississippi with a storm surge nearly two and a half stories tall. By morning the Gulf of Mexico had thrown three ocean freighters onto dry land, pulled coffins out of their graves into the trees, and cut Ship Island in half — a gap that took engineers fifty years to close. Camille was small, compressed and almost unmeasurable: one by one, the instruments built to record it went silent before its center reached them. Two days later the storm was officially dead, a shapeless patch of rain drifting toward the Atlantic. That night it killed 124 people in the mountains of Virginia, and no flash flood warning was ever issued. For copyright and business inquiries, contact us at: [email protected] Music by Epidemic Sound.