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Tag: Hurricane Audrey

  • AUDREY & THE DAIRY

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    Charles McNeely
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    My name is Wayne Hebert.  I’m 78 years old and live three miles southeast of Iowa, La.    In June of 1957 I was 11 years old when I heard a hurricane was coming.  I thought it was going to be a great adventure.  I was young and naive.   We had a dairy.  Power went…

  • Mrs. Sue Lavergne’s Hurricane Audrey Story

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    Charles McNeely
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    This is an account of Mrs. Sue Lavergne’s experience with Hurricane Audrey in June of 1957. Mrs. Lavergne shared her story with me during a phone call in late May of 2023. I had just turned 8 years old when Hurricane Audrey hit Cameron Parish in southwest Louisiana. I had been born and raised most of…