On this day in 1900 the hurricane forever known as the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 hit. Winds at landfall were 145 miles per hour. It would be the deadliest natural disaster to ever hit the United States. Somewhere between 6 thousand and 12 thousand people lost their lives. No other disaster is even close to being as deadly as this hurricane was.
In 1999 Erik Larson wrote an excellent book on this hurricane called “Isaac’s Storm” which centered on the Galveston Weather Service Director Isaas Cline. There has also been a history channel program about this that was excellent. This hurricane happened before they gave names to the hurricanes like they do today.
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lived in galvatraz for a while. loved that place. house i lived in was a 1900 storm survivor. nice relaxing place to live, the water there is not that great but it is a cool place.
i could say so much about that storm and the history of it, the Larson book is really good.
agree with you on the book. you know a lot more about this subject than I do…
yeah i just got in, nothing like getting hit with a hurricane, i have been through many and each is its own experience. i have been fortunate or unfortunate enough to even be in the eye of a storm as well. i cannot fathom what this storm would have been like. amazing to me that so many things survived. one of the strangest things was the german lutheran church lost a shingle, one shingle and virtually every other church on the island was destroyed.