The Sun Herald | 08/21/2006 | Historian tells the stories of Gulf Coast hurricanes

The Sun Herald | 08/21/2006 | Historian tells the stories of Gulf Coast hurricanes: "Hurricane Katrina is one for the history books, but Mississippi Coast historian Charles L. Sullivan insists that each of the 32 storms that struck here with hurricane-force winds is for the books. Each has its own distinction and lesson to learn.

Sometimes, huge gaps lulled the citizenry between storms, with good examples being no hurricanes between 1860 and 1893, and none between 1916 and 1947. Those are more than 30-year gaps and between the two worst storms of the 20th century - Camille in 1969 and the '47 storm - there were two quiet decades."