Posted on 10/08/2024 12:32:18 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Galveston hurricane of 1900, hurricane (tropical cyclone) of September 1900, one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, claiming more than 8,000 lives. As the storm hit the island city of Galveston, Texas, it was a category 4 hurricane, the second strongest designation on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.
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Do modern "weathermen" read weather history?
My thoughts and prayers to those in the path of Milton.
Isaac’s Storm by Eric Larson is a good account of the storm. Recommended.
I’ll second that recommendation. Very moving book.
Thanks for the recommendation! In return I’ll recommend David McCullough’s account of the Johnstown Flood. He wrote so many wonderful books that this one is often overlooked.
The Great Storm of 1900 had the lowest recorded barometric pressure from a hurricane. It was no Cat 4.
There are plenty of meteorologists who classify it as a Cat 6 and say it was the Most powerful storm ever to hit the mainland USA.
Great book. Absolutely insane...the guy on the train, blowing the whistle, trying to outrun the flood waters!
A very underrated book. My wife and I watched a documentary on that a while back...
I have that already. Excellent book.
Yes it is….
…but scary as I wait for another
The story of the Orphanage was absolutely heartbreaking.
Yes. 8,000 dead. My God. The nuns with the children tied to them with clothesline. All dead.
The 1900 hurricane went straight up the gut to Ohio, doing wind damage as far north as Medina, about 20 miles from the shore of Lake Erie before veering east and into the north Atlantic. They didn’t have the category system then nor any reliable way to measure winds within the cyclone. But from Larsen’s report, based on factual information, I’d agree, it was the most powerful Atlantic hurricane known.
I wonder how much warning Galveston had in 1900? Not much I’d guess.
Not only that but there was no seawall either. The island was just a sand bar. The seawall was not built until after the 1911 hurricane.
I agree. Excellent book.
In the book it talks about the local weather office had serious troubles prior. The new guy, Isaac, realized that there was a storm approaching, but of course they had no way to know how bad it was and they pretty much ignored him.
Average elevation was 3’ or 5’. After the storm, the houses that survived were jacked up and soil was brought in to bring the elevation up.
Astute observatiion. Are we fools to expect better of people in science-adjacent fields?
History, for a leftist, apparently begins the day they were born.
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