When you say 8000 died in Galveston, I wonder what did that means in percetage of people there. You have to worry not how many die but the percentage that die. Given the same conditions, that is what you have to prepare yourself for.
"When you say 8000 died in Galveston, I wonder what did that means in percetage of people there."
It was a high percentage. Many actually went down to the shore to watch and drowned, which is unthinkable now, but then, they didn't have weather forecasts as such, let alone radar and satellite.
It was so bad in Galveston in 1900 that they took wrecked houses and piled bodies on top to use as fureral pyres.
38,000 or so residents plus the vacationing crowd at the time.