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>>>Hurricane Camille that hit Louisiana is thought to have had winds in excess of 200mph. The measuring devices that would measure up to 200mph were destroyed by its winds.

As a meteorologist...I can tell you estimates are estimates. Just because an anemometer is rated to 200...doesn't mean is really is.

This is from the reanalysis project (wiki quote of the NHC project): The Labor Day Hurricane was the most intense storm ever known to have struck the United States, having the lowest sea level pressure ever recorded in the United States—a central pressure of 892 mb (26.35 inHg)—suggesting an intensity of between 164 kt and 162 kt (188.7 mph – 186.4 mph). The somewhat compensating effects of a slow (7 kt, 8.1 mph) translational velocity along with an extremely tiny radius of maximum wind (5 nmi, 9.3 miles) led to an analyzed intensity at landfall of 160 kt (184.1 mph, category 5). This is the highest intensity for a U.S. landfalling hurricane in HURDAT2, as 1969’s Hurricane Camille has been recently reanalyzed to have the second highest landfalling intensity with 150 kt (172.6 mph).

IOW-1935 had sustained winds of 185-190 MPH at landfall and Camille had winds of 170-175 mph.

As I said in a previous post, almost EVERY storm record you read about has the winds OVER-estimated. They used inaccurate calculations back then to estimate the surface winds. You will likely not read (anytime soon) that Camille's winds were not 190-200 MPH....but actually closer to 170. It takes a while for people to accept scientific realities and to allow guesses and myths to dissipate.