HURRICANE CAMILLE

WEATHER INVOLVED

• Hurricane
• hurricane 
• high wind pressure
• Hugh wind pressure
• Strong winds
• strong winds

During

the hurricane went through Cuba, The Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, and Virginia, destroying everything in its path

AFTER

• 8,931 people were injured
• 5,662 homes were destroyed
• 13,915 homes experienced major damage 
• 259 people had died 

EFFECT ON PEOPLE

• peoples homes were destroyed
• people became homeless
• people lost family members 

EFFECT ON ENVIORNMENT

• flattened nearly everything along the coast of mississppi
• caused alot destruction across much of the Gulf Coast of the United States.

MONETARY DAMAGE

• 1.4 billion dollars in damage (1969$)
• 9.13 billion dollars in damage (2014$)

WARNING AND TRACKING SYSTEMS

• weather systems were destroyed at landfall
• the national hurricane center in cuba warned the US

WHAT IS A HURRICANE?

• Huge storm
• Can be up 600 miles across
• Has strong winds sprialing inwards and upwardsat a speed of 75-200 mph
• They can last over a week
• They gather energy and heat through contact with warm ocean waters

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• catorgory 5 hurricane
• strongest sotrm to directly stirke the U.S in the twentith century 

WHAT IS A HURRICANE?

• gather heat and energy through contact with warm ocean waters.
• can be up to 600 miles across 
• have strong winds spiraling inward and upward at speeds of 75 to 200 mph.
• usually lasts for over a week 
• moving 10-20 miles per hour over the open ocean.