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.
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
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.
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.
“No emissions into the air yet”
Whoever wrote this is an ignoramus.
It was that darn industrial revolution, I tell ya! And burning coal for heat. Yeah, that’s it. Dang humans.
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.
It's so powerful and deadly now it's able to time travel and attack the past!
An inconvenient truth.
Probably Gods way of punishing progressives..?
A song from the 60s commemorating that hurricane:
A Mighty Day, Chad Mitchell Trio