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How the Great Storm of 1900 ruined Galveston – and how the city's resilience redefined it

Before the Great Storm of 1900 - which made its Texas landfall 125 years ago Monday - Galveston had become one of the busiest ports in North America with electric streetlights, grand hotels, and ...
Houston Chronicle

Katrina's death toll was massive, but it's not the deadliest in U.S. history

This year marks a major anniversary for the deadliest hurricane to strike the U.S. — but it’s not Hurricane Katrina, which slammed into Louisiana 20 years ago, killing at least 1,200. But 125 years ...
People

Forecasters Had No 'Inkling' That Severe Weather Was Coming Their Way. It Was the Worst Storm to Hit in Nearly 300 Years

“It had to be a sort of by guess or by God type of thing," said Peter Garner, meteorologist with the Met Office, the U.K.'s national meteorological service Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and ...
Click2Houston

Galveston Island to attempt Guinness World Record while honoring victims of 1900 ‘Great Storm’

GALVESTON, Texas – A Guinness World Record title could be coming to Galveston Island. The title for world record is for a rather... quirky... reason. “We’re ...