It was the summer of 1957 and I was working as a deck hand on a tug boat during the summer months while school was out. We left Galveston with 4 barges of Sulphur from the Texas Gulf Coast Sulphur Co. headed for NOLA via the Intercoastal Water Way. I think I was told it was 30 miles (of flat, swampy marsh) to Cameron from the canal. I'm thinking the hurricane was Audrey.
Anyway remembering the eye hit Cameron and the debris was up and past the canal...animals, propane tanks, refrigerators....anything that would float. It was a horrible experience for us passing through....nobody could eat or sleep, and our hearts went out for the residents of that small fishing village and surrounding area that had to live through that catastrophe. Later on that summer I was back through there and we passed a swamp buggy, the ones with the 4 huge R1 type tread flotation tires and open air cabin way up in the air...rumor had it that they had found another body.
I was born and raised on the coast and hurricanes were one reason that when I was old enough to make my decisions, I left!
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