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To live through a really big hurricane is to experience terror that leaves you speechless and shaken. It is an unreal nightmare of violence and fear. Hurricane Camille, which visited our southern coast on August 17, 1969, was just such a hurricane. As a result of the relentless pounding and fury of the winds, 19,467 homes and 700 businesses were destroyed and 241 people were killed. Hurricane warnings had been broadcast, and 150,000 people heeded them. But others thought they could ride out the storm. They didnt know what they were in for. In the darkness, rain and terrifying winds pounded homes and battered down walls. The electricity went off, and houses tumbled from their foundations and were smashed to pieces. Cargo ships snapped from their moorings. Seawater 25 to 30 feet deep poured in upon the unfortunate residents. In Gulfport, Mississippi, a 900,000 gallon oil tank was hurled 3.5 miles from its original site. Telephone poles snapped like toothpicks. The roar was deafening as winds quickly gusted to 200 miles per hour. Everything in a 70-mile-wide path was devastated. On August 18, residents returned to an unbelievable pile of wreckage dotted with human and animal bodies. The federal government sent in over 200 tons of food and hundreds of mobile homes and classrooms. The cleanup took many months and a prodigious amount of hard work. Even though the storm was over, no one who lived through it would ever forget the force of Hurricane Camille. 1. It is likely that the 150,000 people who heeded the warnings about the hurricane __________. A) stayed in their homes B) left their homes for safer locations C) waited until the National Guard came to help them D) rode out the storm 2. Which of the following evidence was used to support the statement A hurricane is an unreal nightmare of violence and fear? A) During the storm, houses were smashed and a lot of people died. B) Oil tankers loaded and unloaded at Gulfport, Mississippi. C)