It's Raining Fish And Spiders (2012)
“It was a wild and sometimes frightening time. There were race riots, war, assassinations, environmental disasters, and even the god-awful threat of nuclear weapons being used, all beamed by television right into our living rooms.
I grew up in the rural South where, during this time, communities did their best to sort of cut themselves off from this tumultuous time in our nation’s history. Soon that came to an abrupt and horrifying end.
As a nine-year-old boy in August of 1969, I personally had ...a front-row seat to see a disastrous monster of a hurricane named Camille shock our state right out of its isolation with the most powerful hurricane to strike the U.S. mainland in recorded history. Camille’s winds, at the time, were clocked at 174 mph with winds as high as 201 mph extrapolated by the Hurricane Hunter aircraft from above. Her storm surge, reaching more than 28 feet, also set a record.
As the storm approached the Mississippi Gulf Coast from the central Gulf of Mexico, I kept a homemade hurricane tracking chart.MoreLess
I grew up in the rural South where, during this time, communities did their best to sort of cut themselves off from this tumultuous time in our nation’s history. Soon that came to an abrupt and horrifying end.
As a nine-year-old boy in August of 1969, I personally had ...a front-row seat to see a disastrous monster of a hurricane named Camille shock our state right out of its isolation with the most powerful hurricane to strike the U.S. mainland in recorded history. Camille’s winds, at the time, were clocked at 174 mph with winds as high as 201 mph extrapolated by the Hurricane Hunter aircraft from above. Her storm surge, reaching more than 28 feet, also set a record.
As the storm approached the Mississippi Gulf Coast from the central Gulf of Mexico, I kept a homemade hurricane tracking chart.MoreLess
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