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From YouTube: Camille 45: Danny Guice
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The former Biloxi mayor, in a documentary filmed on the 45th anniversary of Hurricane Cmaille, reflects on Biloxi's encounter with the Category 5 storm in 1969.
A
Back
in
1969,
just
reelected
for
the
third
time,
which
made
her
Biloxi,
my
wife
and
my
family
went
down
to
distant
Florida,
a
little
vacation
and
while
we'll
go
down
there
folks
suggested
that
Camilla
was
going
to
kinda
Destin.
So
we
got
in
a
car
or
my
family
and
came
back
to
Biloxi,
and
the
next
night.
A
I
was
with
my
wife
at
the
Broadwater
Beach
hotel
dancing,
and
then
we
heard
that
the
Dogon
stall
had
turned
around
and
was
going
to
come
in
to
the
Mississippi
Gulf
Coast,
and
it
didn't
give
us
very
much
time
to
prepare
the
next
night.
As
a
matter
of
fact,
my
it
was
honestly
and
went
down
to
the
Buena
Vista
Hotel
with
mr.
ray
Butterfield,
who
was
a
manager
of
the
Buena
Vista.
A
At
that
time
we
warned
citizens
of
the
severity
of
the
storm
and
that's
from
all
to
prepare
and
please
get
away
from
the
city
of
they
could,
because
it
was
a
dangerous
dog.
I
stayed
with
mr.
Butterfield
at
the
Buena
Vista
Hotel
until
about
eight
nine
o'clock.
That
night,
when
the
waters
came
in
and
covered
the
area-
and
we
couldn't
broadcast
any
more
so
at
that
time,
I
got
in
my
car
and
went
out
to
the
emergency
operating
center
located
on
Pat
Harrison
Avenue.
A
At
that
time
now
it's
Veterans
Boulevard
and
named
after
waiting
Judy
guys-
and
we
said
in
there
and
talked
to
different
people
around
the
coast
until
about
1:00
in
the
morning,
when
my
last
call
that
I
could
make
was
to
Jack
Stanford
at
the
Broadwater
Beach
Hotel,
and
then
he
told
me
that
the
water
was
eight
feet
in
his
Lobby
and
I
thought,
my
goodness.
What
are
we
gonna
do
so?
The
next
morning,
us
soon
as
daylight
came
had
Julie
guys
who
was
my
merged
operating
lady.
A
A
husband
wave
was
in
good
working
for
the
county.
We
didn't
get
in
a
carpet,
we
couldn't
drive,
we
walk
down
the
beaches
and
one
of
the
first
places
I
can't
do
with
my
father's
house,
28:46
West
Beach.
It
was
completely
gone,
but
anything
that
happened
right
down
the
decorum.
Mr.
mrs.
Brown,
my
home
was
destroyed
and
later
we
found
them
to
be
lost
in
that
storm
and
we
kept
going
on
down
and
seeing
that
type
of
destruction
to
the
White
House
Hotel,
where
my
father
was
staying
and
it
had
significant
damage.
A
I've
been
at
the
White
House
many
afford
to
install
that
had
no
problem.
Then
we
went
on
down
a
little
father
to
the
Buena
Vista
Hotel.
My
family
was
there
all
of
the
folks
that
we
knew
with
the
Buena
Vista
it
almost
blew
down.
Oh
they're
beautiful
had
a
terrible
job.
They
had
to
go
in
the
hallways
because
all
the
windows
broke
out
at
the
Buena
Vista.
A
What
a
terrible
time
they
had
cars
just
on
top
of
one
another.
In
the
parking
lot
in
front
of
the
hotel,
we
saw
the
beautiful
Vista
Hotel,
and
then
we
left
the
Buena
Vista
and
went
on
down
the
street,
and
then
we
saw
the
Rivera
hotel
that
was
significantly
damaged
and
across
the
street
was
a
Godard
seafood
market.
Dysport
seafood
market
all
wiped
away.
A
A
Castellanos
his
father
had
a
vice
for
a
nice
restaurant
there
and
it
was
blown
away,
wasn't
any
significant
part
of
it
left.
We
left
there
and
went
on
down
the
street
and
you
couldn't
believe
the
damage
that
we
had
on
the
front
beach
of
Biloxi
and
when
you
got
as
far
as
the
seafood
market
and
seafood
bar,
the
shrimp
and
oysters
do
bears
mr.
siku
manufactured
there.
It
was
just
not
all
gone
that
debris
was
maybe
ten
feet
high
on
the
side
of
the
road
where
these
factories
had
been
working.
A
Mr.
buddy
Gillis
you
to
run
a
factory
or
in
fact
babe
fjord,
mr.
Robert
Salas.
All
of
these
things
were
just
absolutely
God.
You
see
they
got
together
and
tried
to
do
the
best
they
could
to
rebuild
in
some
small
way.
Some
of
them
never
could
recoup
from
what
they
lost
you
in
this
particular
storm,
and
it
was
sort
of
marked
the
decline
really
of
us
who
have
business
in
the
city
of
blessing,
but
I
found
out
in
talking
to
our
people.
A
Great
stories
of
signs
of
those
people
running
those
large
and
picking
up
people
in
saving
lives
all
throughout
the
city
of
Biloxi,
and
it
made
you
feel
proud
that
we
had
those
kind
of
people
working
for
us
in
the
National
Guard
that
worked
all
through
this
storm,
because
this
was
a
tremendous
storm
and
saving
lives,
as
they
did
she's
there
for
space.
Where
was
a
tremendous
effort,
they
had
significant
damage
out
there,
of
course,
and
but
with
all
their
damage,
their
airmen
helped
us
quite
a
bit
in
helping
us
clean
up
back
to
the
storm.
A
A
There
were
big
vessels
on
the
streets
in
the
city
of
government,
which
is
hard
to
believe,
because
in
the
way
guys
was
the
civil
defense
director
over
there
and
he
went
all
through
the
storm
with
them
in
Pass.
Christian
was
just
wiped
away.
Almost
you
don't
want
to
do
it.
We
didn't
know
what
to
do
so.
I
call
these
people
together.
I
want
the
same
jumpsuit
for
about
a
week
or
two
further
filtered
when
we
worked
with
our
people
down
here,
trying
to
clean
up
the
city.
A
First
friends
from
all
around
South
Mississippi
and
other
areas
will
be
only
both
New
Orleans
and
their
problems
too,
but
they
came
and
offered
their
services
to
help
me
and
they
understood
that
when
they
came
in
that
we
hope
to
pay
them
that
the
federal
government
could
help
us,
but
if
they
couldn't
help
us
want,
they
were
just
out
of
that
much
effort
and
they
understood
that,
but
they
started
working
immediately,
trying
to
clean
up
and
help
him
fix.
The
city
I
once
seen
this
sense
of
John
Stennis.
A
Afterwards,
we
and
1970
we
were
commended
by
the
President
and
others
on
what
a
good
job
we
were
doing
with
a
development
work,
and
that's
only
a
year
after
the
darkening
been
here,
we've
tried
to
clean
up
everything,
so
once
I
was
younger
in
those
days,
and
it
really
wouldn't
that
difficult
a
job
for
me
to
talk
about
velocity
because
they
loved
lunches
and
I
had
commish's
like
mrs.
fellow
and
mr.
creel
that
could
help
and
all
of
our
all
of
our
citizens
Miss
Brown.
It's
a
broad
waters.
A
She
helped
tremendously
in
rebuilding
the
Broadwater
Beach.
Mr.
Jimmy
love
had
the
White
House
Hotel
in
the
Buena
Vista.
He
immediately
began
rebuilding
those
hotels
and
the
other
folks
who
had
those
types
of
operations
why
they
they
cleaned
up
their
businesses
and
started
right
away
to
rebuild,
and
we
were
cyst
so
proud
of
our
citizens
for
the
manner
in
which
they
acted.