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This day in 1957 Hurricane Audrey made Landfall between Texas- Louisiana Coast
Posted on 6/27/14 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 6/27/14 at 2:10 pm
It landed between the mouth of the Sabine River and Cameron, Louisiana.
[link=( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Audrey)]LINK[/link]
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Audrey is ranked as the sixth deadliest hurricane to hit the United States mainland since accurate record-keeping began in 1900.[6] No future hurricane caused as many fatalities in the United States until Katrina in 2005.
[link=( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Audrey)]LINK[/link]
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Posted on 6/27/14 at 2:14 pm to BamaHater
Any older TD posters remember this hurricane?
Posted on 6/27/14 at 2:26 pm to BamaHater
i was -33 years
Posted on 6/27/14 at 2:27 pm to BamaHater
I had a teacher who lived through it. Didn't say much about it, except that it was bad.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 2:29 pm to BamaHater
My dad wasn't even born at the time but my grand parents and my uncle rode out the storm in Cameron in their attic. My great uncle who lived just down the street had to shoot a hole in his roof with his shot gun climbed out onto the roof w/ his wife and kids. He somehow got a boat and ended up picking up my grandparents and uncle. Crazy!
Posted on 6/27/14 at 5:45 pm to BamaHater
I wasn't born yet, but my grandfather used to tell us about it. He said there were dead people and dead cattle all over the place in the aftermath of that storm. He died before Katrina and Rita, so he never compared them for us, but he said the Audrey aftermath was the worst thing he'd ever seen in his life.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 5:53 pm to BamaHater
I was a passenger in a car that drove through the aftermath of Carla, that was pretty wild to me at that age. Can't imagine how bad Audrey must have been.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 5:55 pm to CoastLSUFan
Apparently this storm was pretty bad. Seeing as it happened in 57 and the news presence was not big at the time, the scope of the destruction might have been worse than we know.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 5:57 pm to QuietTiger
My Dad and grandparents lived through it. They were in Lake Chuck. My Dad always talks about seeing roofs flying off and the casualties from Cameron being trucked up to LC. Said it was bad news. Cameron hit especially hard.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 5:59 pm to BamaHater
My Dad said they would track it on paper back then for fun based on the coordinates being given on the radio. He said it made a turn at the last minute in the middle of the night and caught people off guard.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 6:10 pm to BamaHater
Yes. Lived in Lake Charles at the time with parents. Remember going to Cameron soon after. The tidal surge/wave has leveled everything in its path. I remember dead livestock in the few remaining trees and hung in barb wire.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 6:19 pm to mikrit54
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Yes. Lived in Lake Charles at the time with parents. Remember going to Cameron soon after. The tidal surge/wave has leveled everything in its path. I remember dead livestock in the few remaining trees and hung in barb wire.
I read that after the storm surge retreated only cattle would wash ashore and never horses, something about cows being full of gas and floating and horses being more dense and sinking.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 6:47 pm to BamaHater
are there in law and his father in law were working together on a pipeline when Audry hit. They went down right afterwards to reclaim bodies.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 6:49 pm to BamaHater
My dad talks about how bad it was, he rode it out near Jennings
Posted on 6/27/14 at 6:50 pm to BamaHater
Ive heard a few stories but one that an old timer told me was particularly haunting. He said after high school he joined the Navy and at some point met a girl from Australia. After his Navy stint was up, he went to Australia, married the girl, settled there and started a family, they had 4 children. He said he always wanted to come back to Cameron but his wife didn't. Finally he said, he was able to talk her into it so they moved. Three months later Audrey hit.
He said they ended up on the roof, and the house eventually rested against an oak tree. His oldest 2 boys and wife was able to hang on but another child was blown away. He said he held the baby as long as he could but eventually she was ripped from his arms.
When they made it out, and eventually made it to a road, he was naked from the wind and water ripping his clothes off. All he could find to put on was a dress, and he ended up at a Red Cross station wearing only that. He said the wife lost her mind shortly thereafter and returned to Australia, leaving him to raise the two remaining children.
He said they ended up on the roof, and the house eventually rested against an oak tree. His oldest 2 boys and wife was able to hang on but another child was blown away. He said he held the baby as long as he could but eventually she was ripped from his arms.
When they made it out, and eventually made it to a road, he was naked from the wind and water ripping his clothes off. All he could find to put on was a dress, and he ended up at a Red Cross station wearing only that. He said the wife lost her mind shortly thereafter and returned to Australia, leaving him to raise the two remaining children.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 7:08 pm to LSUEnvy
Holy hell. I can't even begin to imagine that.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 7:20 pm to pakowitz
That documentary was powerful.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 7:29 pm to RedFoxx
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I read that after the storm surge retreated only cattle would wash ashore and never horses, something about cows being full of gas and floating and horses being more dense and sinking.
As young as I was I remember that so clearly. We would go to Cameron on the weekend to crab. Just to remember the devastation and debris.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 7:34 pm to mikrit54
I was six and remember running outside and playing in the yard with 30 mph winds blowing. We lived in Southdowns. My mom and dad were at work so Baton Rouge didn't shut down.
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