French consul in New Orleans, Louis Tousard wrote a letter to a friend describing it.
He said "the waters of the lake and the waters of the river married and churned. There were over ten feet of water that killed animals and men. It destroyed houses."
The final words of his letter said that if it went on for another few hours, there would be no one to tell what happened.
It is believed that the Hurricane of 1812 was a Category Four level storm. Oer a hundred people perished.
The American Meteorological Society believes the hurricane moved nto land somewhere southeast of New Orleans with winds over one hundred miles an hour.
--Brock-Perry
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