An Inconvenient Truth – The 1900 Galveston Hurricane

Common Sense Evaluation ^

[gaggs]

For those who believe in Man-Made Global Warming allow me to present to you this inconvenient truth. In 1900 a category 4 hurricane hit Galveston Texas leveling the city. This was before pollution from China, India and USA. Autos had just started being built. No emissions into the air yet. No hole in the ozone.

[a fool in paradise]

Before the sea wall.

Just as Houston has taken different preventative flooding measures in over the past century. The water is still going to flow but through different areas, sometimes populated sometimes not.

Allison was in 2001 and it parked over the city as well and flooded downtown (a woman drown in the tunnel system and a garage filled four floors down) and the medical center (miles from downtown).

I didn’t hear about problems downtown or in the med center this time.

[DIRTYSECRET]

How many people have heard of that hurricane? My past readings on the subject refer to how they got back on their feet WITHOUT government help.

[Mears]

They raised the grade of the downtown area——a phenomenal feat.

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[a fool in paradise]

Allison was a tropical storm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Allison

The storm developed from a tropical wave in the northern Gulf of Mexico on June 4, 2001, and struck the upper Texas coast shortly thereafter. It drifted northward through the state, turned back to the south, and re-entered the Gulf of Mexico. The storm continued to the east-northeast, made landfall on Louisiana, then moved across the southeast United States and Mid-Atlantic. Allison was the first storm since Tropical Storm Frances in 1998 to strike the northern Texas coastline.

...The storm dropped heavy rainfall along its path, peaking at over 40 inches (1,000 mm) in Texas.

The worst flooding occurred in Houston, where most of Allison's damage occurred: 30,000 became homeless after the storm flooded over 70,000 houses and destroyed 2,744 homes. Downtown Houston was inundated with flooding, causing severe damage to hospitals and businesses. Twenty-three people died in Texas. Along its entire path, Allison caused $9 billion (2001 USD) in damage and 41 deaths. Aside from Texas, the places worst hit were Louisiana and southeastern Pennsylvania.

Following the storm, President George W. Bush designated 75 counties along Allison's path as disaster areas, which enabled the citizens affected to apply for aid. Allison was the first Atlantic tropical storm to have its name retired without ever having reached hurricane strength.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Galveston hammered in 1900 cat 3, and again in 1915 cat 4.

Here is a pdf of known Texas hurricanes since the 1500s. Nothing in the 1600s as no one recorded any even though there were some real bad ones like the one that hit the Spanish Treasure fleet in 1622. The list begins on page 10.

https://www.weather.gov/media/lch/events/txhurricanehistory.pdf

[John Milner]

When I was a very young boy my parents had a storage room in behind their bedroom. Rummaging around in there with my sister one day we found a very old book called. “The Great Galveston Disaster” that told many of the stories of that event. With pages and pages of very gruesome (to a young child) black and white photos of many of the victims. Even livestock.

I think I remember one story of a survivor who latched onto a cow carcass and floated to safety or was rescued.

[PGR88]

In 1900 Americans didn’t want to live on or near the coast. Besides port cities, It was considered remote, unhealthy/feverish, and the land was poor for agriculture. South Florida was mostly unused swampland. Beaufort County South Carolina has gone from 30,000 residents in 1900 to about 250,000 now - and over 2.5 million tourists a year.

Hurricanes have become more destructive purely because now there is so much more on the coast to be destroyed.

[TalonDJ]

“No emissions into the air yet”

Whoever wrote this is an ignoramus.

[9422WMR]

Read the history of Indianola TX.
Built on the coast near Corpus. Wiped out twice.
Third rebuild was inland. They learned their lesson

[al_c]

It was that darn industrial revolution, I tell ya! And burning coal for heat. Yeah, that’s it. Dang humans.

[The Great RJ]

There are many severe Carribean hurricanes chronicled by the Spanish prior to 1600 and geologic records of massive hurricanes going back two millennia. The inconvenient truth is that the global warming cultists and the media only choose to look at those that fit their narrative. It has been nearly two decades since Florida was last hit by a major hurricane.

[rawcatslyentist]

This only proves how dangerous man made gorbull worming is!!!

It's so powerful and deadly now it's able to time travel and attack the past!

[SkyDancer]

An inconvenient truth.

[Leep]

Probably Gods way of punishing progressives..?

[JimRed]

A song from the 60s commemorating that hurricane:

A Mighty Day, Chad Mitchell Trio

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=a+mighty+day+folk+song&view=detail&mid=11CA1B754F2257873AFD11CA1B754F2257873AFD&FORM=VIRE

[AustinBill]

Hurricanes have become more destructive purely because now there is so much more on the coast to be destroyed.

Bears repeating. Miami got lucky this time, but it's only a matter of time before a major hurricane comes ashore on Miami Beach, causing massive losses.

My father tells stories of living through the 1938 Hurricane that recarved the south shore of Long Island. At the time it was mostly farmland. A repeat of that today would also cause unparalleled devastation.

[dhs12345]

And according to Bill Nye our economy should revert back to pre-industrial revolution..... back when we USED HUMAN LABOR, IE, SLAVES!

For as smart as Bill Nye claims that he is, he is dumb!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Excellent point. Are hurricanes today considered more destructive because we talk about how much property damage or how many human lives are affected??

[dhs12345]

You'd think that mr smartypants scientists would consider this possibility.

Plus, cities are denser now than ever before — rhetorical question: what was the population of Houston 100 years ago vs a couple of weeks ago when Harvey struck?