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Show Family Tells Moab Relatives About florrswing "Ci!!e" Experience Mrs. Susan Weaver received re-ceived word from her family in Gulfport.. Mississippi re ccntly that they had survived surviv-ed tl wrath cf Hurricane Camille. Mr. C. R. Ramm sent Mrs. Weaver, an account ac-count of the ' happenings during those first nightmarish nightmar-ish days after the storm. On Sunday, August 17. residents cf ihe coastal city were warned that hurricane Camille was headed toward them wculd hit their area later that day. Mr. Ramm filled his beats with water to hold them down and secured the things around his house as best he could. At 8 p.m. the power failed and their water " went off since it was run by electric pumps. When th? force of the str-m h't it uprooted a very larie oak that was in front cf their house when the tree was finally hauled away it took nine large "truck-leads "truck-leads to clear tin yard cf the d-brs. The Ramms reported re-ported that thev were very fortunate that their damage was small when so manv penle lest their entire life's wcrk. Bv Tuesday, martial law had ben declared to keep down the looting and violence. vio-lence. Since there was no electricity, food was spoiling spoil-ing and people were stand-ins stand-ins in line for ice for more than three hours. When some of the people had stood for such a long time they beean to fear that by th-1 time thev reached the end of the line all th ice v-eutd be pore and seme ef these present bgan to errv.d the lin according to Mr. Ramm. The National Guard showed up about this time and calmed things down a bit. Wednesday, August 20, Mr. Ramm and a neighbor found out that a local, store had gotten some generators and went down and bought one. This solved the refrigeration problem, although one men lest the contents cf a very large freezer when it would not start. The families tried to give the food to the Civil defense but no truck ever arrived to claim the meat and it ultimately was lost. Mr. Ramm tells of people: who worked their hardest n help these in trcr.ble during the storm and the afiermar'n and he sadly mentions those people who doubled their prices to take advantage ef the disabled city. He tells of a man who hooked a generator gen-erator to his gas pumps i anjj charged 6 Cer, t ?ailon for his gas as f not accept a cri t' grocers who r,: of People who gavrr those wh, n-,4 u r : spc-nl hcurs help- f ..1 clean their yards after the storm Mr. Ramm is fu-j r, which was first on , ' Irving hot ar.d c,;d and sandwiches t ,.0 ' ' t R-i Cross took cv1:5: sumed control of all 'r J In other towns th a . took care of feedij,. masses of people left ho ' less. With no effective J. available to combat rQ, Fi it is necessary for m T help each other after ' ? damage is done. in cases all the good in 2 ra' comes forth but in a cases the eppesite is and Ihe bad zzu u Ramm concludes! ' 1 |