I and younger brother Jack Breland ,lived in Long Beach,Ms ,We road the storm out in a tree on August 19, 1969 ,Im Gerald Breland. Here is my story, We lived one house off the beach on Nicholson Ave. The storm came in around 6 pm the 19th ,me and my brother got into our families attic, in about an hour water or so house was shaking on foundation , we could smell gas, so we decided to leave our house. The water was about waist deep at that time. We tide a rope together around us,there was no swimming we crawled over trash and debris..broke into our neighbors house and climbed up into there attic .when the front of there house ripped off almost trapping us inside,we climbed out onto the roof and lay flat,the wind then blew the roof off ,we flew though air and landed on trash,got on a underside roof into a tree ,by 1145 pm 19th August 1969,by day light sun came our home gone, a block off the beach...will never forget that night,,thank Go
I and younger brother Jack Breland ,lived in Long Beach,Ms ,We road the storm out in a tree on August 19, 1969 ,Im Gerald Breland. Here is my story, We lived one house off the beach on Nicholson Ave. The storm came in around 6 pm the 19th ,me and my brother got into our families attic, in about an hour water or so house was shaking on foundation , we could smell gas, so we decided to leave our house. The water was about waist deep at that time. We tide a rope together around us,there was no swimming we crawled over trash and debris..broke into our neighbors house and climbed up into there attic .when the front of there house ripped off almost trapping us inside,we climbed out onto the roof and lay flat,the wind then blew the roof off ,we flew though air and landed on trash,got on a underside roof into a tree ,by 1145 pm 19th August 1969,by day light sun came our home gone, a block off the beach...will never forget that night,,thank Go