Galveston, Texas. Sept 8th 1900. A night of horrors

Galveston, Texas today is a beautiful place to go, the beaches, the entertainment, the history, one can go and relax and forget about their problems for awhile. But on Sept 8th 1900, that was not the case for Galvestonians, that night the worst hurricane ever to hit the gulf coast tore apart a thriving town and killed thousands of people, it is one of the most important meteorological events in history.



The day started out as any other day in Galveston, it was warm and sunny, people walking the streets taking on their every day duties, kids and adults soaking the sun in the warm ocean, Isaac Cline the local meterologist even stated it was "one of the most beautiful days the island has ever seen". Unfortunatley, it was also one of the most tragic.



The islanders had gotten word of a storm coming, most didn't think anything of it they had gotten storm warnings before and nothing more but a few high tides came through, they had been through this before they would do it again, but that afternoon, the rain really began to fall heavily, the ocean started to come into the town up into peoples hard, The water rose at a steady rate from 3pm-7pm, the wind was snapping the trees, debrie was flying everywhere, the winds were lastly noted at 145mph before the weather barometer was blown off the Levy Building, 20 ft waves came over the island swallowing everything in its path, houses were town town, buildings were destroyed, families torn from each other swept away by the flood waters.



St Marys Orphanage right on the beach was destroyed and ten nuns and 90 children were killed when the orphanage collapsed.



By the end of the night, the storm had passed leaving a trail of death and destruction, About 3000 which was almost half of the residence of Galveston had been swept completely away. The storm of 1900 literally demolished the town of Galveston, after all said and done, 8000 people were killed.



The clean up was almost just as terrible as the hurricane itself, men of the town were forced to go through town and look for bodies, of course they could not bury them in the grave yards so they would take them far out to sea, just to realize a couple of days later bodies were washing back up on the shore, the men had to pile bodies up were they found them and burn them.



Galveston came back strong, they built a 15 ft hight seawall to protect the island from something like this ever happening again, in 1915 a hurricane with almost the same force of the 1900 storm came through, the seawall protected Galveston this time.



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