[Crazieman]

It was 1900, not 1906. :)

The estimate was category 4. What killed all those people was the storm surge. Galveston is just an island. The gulf just swept right over it like it wasn't there.

[flowergirl]

Thanks!! Here I am a texan amd I got the year wrong:)

[Figment]

"It was 1900, not 1906. :) "


Yes, the most devastating was in 1900, there was another catastrophic hurricane to hit Galveston in 1910