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Galveston hurricane of 1900
Britannica ^ | none given | Britannica

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weather
KEYWORDS: 1900; 19000912; climatechange; galveston; history; texas
Well there is a "weatherman" in Miami, John Morales, who cried last night about how this Milton storm was caused by global warming,

Do modern "weathermen" read weather history?

My thoughts and prayers to those in the path of Milton.

1 posted on 10/08/2024 12:32:18 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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2 posted on 10/08/2024 12:44:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: DallasBiff

Isaac’s Storm by Eric Larson is a good account of the storm. Recommended.


3 posted on 10/08/2024 12:59:58 PM PDT by 6ppc (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act -George Orwell)
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To: 6ppc

I’ll second that recommendation. Very moving book.


4 posted on 10/08/2024 1:07:56 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: Clay Moore; 6ppc

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.


5 posted on 10/08/2024 1:18:36 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: DallasBiff

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.


6 posted on 10/08/2024 1:18:42 PM PDT by MMusson ( )
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To: DallasBiff
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7 posted on 10/08/2024 1:18:52 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Blurb2350

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...


8 posted on 10/08/2024 1:20:13 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Blurb2350

I have that already. Excellent book.


9 posted on 10/08/2024 1:24:52 PM PDT by 6ppc (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act -George Orwell)
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To: 6ppc

Yes it is….
…but scary as I wait for another


10 posted on 10/08/2024 1:57:05 PM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do)
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To: rlmorel

The story of the Orphanage was absolutely heartbreaking.


11 posted on 10/08/2024 1:59:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Yes. 8,000 dead. My God. The nuns with the children tied to them with clothesline. All dead.


12 posted on 10/08/2024 2:32:21 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: MMusson

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.


13 posted on 10/08/2024 3:35:47 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: DallasBiff

I wonder how much warning Galveston had in 1900? Not much I’d guess.


14 posted on 10/08/2024 4:11:06 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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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.

15 posted on 10/08/2024 5:24:04 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: 6ppc
Isaac’s Storm by Eric Larson is a good account of the storm. Recommended.

I agree. Excellent book.

16 posted on 10/08/2024 5:27:05 PM PDT by Allegra (“As I was saying…”)
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To: libertylover

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.


17 posted on 10/08/2024 7:10:16 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: DallasBiff
Do modern "weathermen" read weather history?

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.

18 posted on 10/08/2024 7:12:48 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Propaganda keeps only governments in business, not corporations. —John Nolte)
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