I was 3 years old and remember very little. I was however traumatized my neighbor's garage was in our backyard, every window in our house was broken. I remember my mom took us to our grandparents house and the main rode was flooded and barely drive able. When we arrived at my grandparents house it was gone the whole neighborhood looked like a warzone.
I was born and raised in Corpus Christi and had just graduated high school when Celia hit. I was working at the HEB in the Alameda Center, the only store to survive the storm almost intact. For days, classmates and I were at work at sunup and didn't head home till almost sundown due to the curfew. No electricity, so we had to use hand cranks on the registers to record each item sold. People from all over town came in with Red Cross vouchers to get food. Neighborhoods got together to cook since there was no refrigeration. HEB ice trucks rolled in and we were happy employees to work the trucks and supply residents with blocks of ice. At night, we prayed for a breeze through the window to cool us from the high humidity and all you heard were chainsaws, cutting up wood fences, trees and debris. Around the outskirts of town was the orange glow from the fires burning the debris.
51 years ago today. I can still remember that day and the carnage afterward. Our little house on Florida street held up very well considering how many homes had major damage and entire roofs missing.
I remember this as a young boy at age 16. I remember hearing on the news that the storm was so big, that the whoever wanted to experiment on seeding the clouds in the storm to make it just rain, If the 150 mph + winds was not enough the spawned tornados were. HEB on Leopard gave away free ice, The lines were long. Then we ran out of gas. Mobile homes were overturned. The National guard had a curfew. There was no looting either. North Beach was called Tent City. Then Portland was born, Murphy Givens said once, that this was the second time Corpus Christi had be dark. The first time was in WW11 when the subs were right off shore.
Cj I was a college student when Celia hit my professional modeling career had just materialized. I had been through all the hurricanes in Corpus Christi,Texas but Celia was the worst.
I am writing a book on forgotton Hurricanes of our (not so distant past) I'm a CC resident, attending TAMU-CC so seeing such light coverage infuriates me. I have all data temps, pressures maps, etc's from that day. If you have any info you think I might not know, just pass it along. I also have an answer to your question. I will find it for ya Thanks
We too refuge at east cliff elementary school. I was 3 1/2 years old. My dad was out in the storm. When he came to pick us up I noticed our car had a busted out window and lots of water in the car.
Nobody speaks of it anymore because it has been now 53 years since that occurred. Plus Harvey has occurred since then even though it was nothing compared to what we had in Celia
I was 3 years old and remember very little. I was however traumatized my neighbor's garage was in our backyard, every window in our house was broken. I remember my mom took us to our grandparents house and the main rode was flooded and barely drive able. When we arrived at my grandparents house it was gone the whole neighborhood looked like a warzone.
I was born and raised in Corpus Christi and had just graduated high school when Celia hit. I was working at the HEB in the Alameda Center, the only store to survive the storm almost intact. For days, classmates and I were at work at sunup and didn't head home till almost sundown due to the curfew. No electricity, so we had to use hand cranks on the registers to record each item sold. People from all over town came in with Red Cross vouchers to get food. Neighborhoods got together to cook since there was no refrigeration. HEB ice trucks rolled in and we were happy employees to work the trucks and supply residents with blocks of ice. At night, we prayed for a breeze through the window to cool us from the high humidity and all you heard were chainsaws, cutting up wood fences, trees and debris. Around the outskirts of town was the orange glow from the fires burning the debris.
51 years ago today. I can still remember that day and the carnage afterward. Our little house on Florida street held up very well considering how many homes had major damage and entire roofs missing.
I got a big 16mm reel of about 45 minutes of footage taken by the local news station of this storm...
I remember this as a young boy at age 16. I remember hearing on the news that the storm was so big, that the whoever wanted to experiment on seeding the clouds in the storm to make it just rain, If the 150 mph + winds was not enough the spawned tornados were.
HEB on Leopard gave away free ice, The lines were long.
Then we ran out of gas.
Mobile homes were overturned. The National guard had a curfew.
There was no looting either.
North Beach was called Tent City.
Then Portland was born,
Murphy Givens said once, that this was the second time Corpus Christi had be dark. The first time was in WW11
when the subs were right off shore.
Cj I was a college student when Celia hit my professional modeling career had just materialized. I had been through all the hurricanes in Corpus Christi,Texas but Celia was the worst.
I am writing a book on forgotton Hurricanes of our (not so distant past) I'm a CC resident, attending TAMU-CC so seeing such light coverage infuriates me. I have all data temps, pressures maps, etc's from that day. If you have any info you think I might not know, just pass it along. I also have an answer to your question. I will find it for ya Thanks
We too refuge at east cliff elementary school. I was 3 1/2 years old. My dad was out in the storm. When he came to pick us up I noticed our car had a busted out window and lots of water in the car.
WHAT A BAD THING..AND NOBODY TALKES ABOUT IT....IT WAS SO BAD...
The hurricane hit 48 years ago harvey only hut a year ago
No one does. Just like Carla in '61
Tammy Bettiga, it’s because Harvey is more recent
Nobody speaks of it anymore because it has been now 53 years since that occurred. Plus Harvey has occurred since then even though it was nothing compared to what we had in Celia
Cj 😡😡😡😡 Celia! She was a mean MAMA JAMA.She probably was on her PMS we joked later because; when she hit she did not hit with Fury,she hit with H___.
It was not 4hrsit was 10-12 hrs .
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