The storm Catastrophe was the third major hurricane Catastrophe of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season , as well as the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane on record Recording to make Creating landfall in the contiguous United States , behind only the 1935 Labor Day hurricane Catastrophe , Hurricane Camille in 1969 , and Hurricane Michael in 2018 .

The attack was supposed to be conducted Action at around 4:00 a.m. , but in order to spare the life of Camille 's son and commander of the Tigers Dany Chamoun , the attack was postponed Change_event_time to 10:00 a.m. to make sure that Dany left Departing for Fakra .

Prior to the attack Attack , Camille Chamoun decided Deciding to disarm the militia in order to avoid Preventing_or_letting further bloodshed from both the Phalangists and the Tigers .

Hoche sent Sending 12,000 troops under Alexandre Camille Taponier through the Palatinate Forest to attack Attack Wurmser 's right flank at Froeschwiller .

Hurricane Camille was the second most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States .

The most intense storm of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season , Camille originated Coming_to_be as a tropical depression on August 14 , south of Cuba , from a long-tracked tropical wave .

Emerging Coming_to_be into the Gulf of Mexico , Camille underwent another period of rapid intensification and became Becoming a Category 5 hurricane the next day as it moved northward towards the Louisiana–Mississippi region .

As Camille pushed Motion inland , it quickly weakened Cause_change_of_strength and was a tropical depression by the time it was over the Ohio Valley .

Once it emerged offshore , Camille was able to restrengthen to a strong tropical storm , before it became Becoming extratropical on August 22 .

Camille was subsequently absorbed by a frontal storm over the North Atlantic on the same day .

Camille caused Causation tremendous damage in its wake , and also produced Manufacturing a peak official storm surge of .

In the U.S. , Camille killed Killing more than 259 people and caused Causation $ 1.42 billion in damages ( equivalent to $ billion in ) .