What would happen if....

[SootyTern]

It was, but its apparent that the Labor Day storm was worse. I mean, there are *at least some* trees standing in Camille's pic. Still thought both were terrible.

Hard to compare the two based on one photo from each- the live oaks on the Miss gulf coast are more substantial than the Keys mangroves and such; might be harder to knock them down completely? Both were monsters any way you look at it.

[FritzPaul]

In MS close to everything was wiped out along the coast for up to 2mi inland.

[opera ghost]

http://www.keyshistory.org/shelf1935hurr.html

The worst and most circulated pictures from the 1935 hurricane are of the rail road- there weren't any trees there to begin with. You can go through the pictures at he above site (Very very indepth) and the damage I saw was about equal to camille if you consider construction in both areas and the fact that camile was targeting a lot more permanant housing then the keys hurricane.

They're both horrible horrible examples of waht a category 5 can do to land.

[btsgmdad]

Let's us not forget Andrew, while not the most intense storm in our history, it is the most recent Cat 5 to hit the US. The devastation from that storm should be fresh enough in our minds to let us know that we should never wish one of these monsters on anyone.