Hurricane Harbor: 1915 Hurricane New Orleans.... What Can We Learn from that Disaster? What Can We Learn From Camille in 1969? The Summer of Love Wasn't So Loving in 1969 in Pass Christian & Bay St. Louis....

While working on some family history I read that the 1915 New Orleans Hurricane played a part in it as it caused much destruction to a home in the Garden District that my family was connected to via family and business relationships. It seems the hurricane ripped the beautiful cupola off the roof and it needed heavy repairs. What surprised me most was that I don't remember studying the 1915 New Orleans Hurricane. I probably spent too much time looking at the track of the 1915 Galveston Hurricane comparing it with the 1900 Storm and well that's how memory works as what resonates connects. I've always been obsessed with the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. I've obsessed on the Last Island Hurricane for years for a multitude of reasons. How did I miss the New Orleans Hurricane in 1915?

Imagine in 2 months!

2 Strong Hurricanes with close landfalls.

Weather map for the Galveston storm below.

Compare with the New Orleans Hurricane.

It left a wide footprint after landfall.

Rainfall moved deep inland...

...beyond the intensity at landfall.

Different but very similar.

Track vaguely similar.

Camille formed closer in...

... 1915 formed by the Islands.

Camille hooked right faster.

1915 went deeper NE into the Appalachians.

Let's look at the 1915 season

A storm slammed into the FL Panhandle.

My family had tobacco fields in Quincy.

How did I miss this one?

Asking myself here....

...happens.

2 wicked Gulf Major Hurricanes.

Now let's look at 1969

1969 was a very busy season.

Like scribble scrabble in the Atlantic!!

"The season was above-average despite an El Niño, which typically suppresses activity in the Atlantic Ocean, while increasing tropical cyclone activity in the Pacific Ocean."

from Wikipedia

1969 was an El Nino year. A few weak tropical storms in the Carib and lots of Fish storms in the Atlantic. There's even some wild "loopers" that traced circles on their way somewhere else. Had Camille not formed and developed and smashed into the beautiful towns along the Gulf forever making Pass Christian and Bay St Louis synonymous with the name Camille few might remember the 1969 Hurricane Season. I will add if Andrew had not formed and exploded before aiming for Miami Florida we may not have remembered much about 1992 and blamed it on El Nino.

1969 may have been the Summer of Love in far away Woodstock NY, but as rock and roll blared from the speakers in a muddy field far away to the South .... Mississippi and Louisiana only saw death and destruction from one of the worst Atlantic Hurricanes in an El Nino Year. Yes, the truth is the 1969 Hurricane Season would have been fairly forgettable if not for the Queen of hurricanes Camille!

It only takes one.......

A good lesson as this coming Hurricane Season is expected to be an El Nino. For many in Hurricane Country when they hear predictions of an El Nino that term conjures up an "easy season" or "quiet season" but I suggest y'all don't start celebrating! Some of our worst hurricanes have made landfall in El Nino years. Perhaps it's a pent up energy sort of thing. Either way El Nino Hurricane Seasons do not have a guarantee you will be hurricane free!

Just some things to think on as you begin to read articles on the coming, building El Nino that is expected to form this 2026 Hurricane Season.