Galveston 1900: The Greatest Storm

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Galveston 1900: The Greatest Storm in U.S. history Galveston is a small island located in Texas. Before the Europeans arrived it once belonged to the Karankawa Indians. Galveston is located on the coast of Texas. Considering it was on the coast it had suffered from many hurricanes but never like the one that hit on September 8, 1900. September 8, 1900 was the day that the U.S. saw the greatest natural disaster they have ever seen. Causing approximately 6,000 to 8,000 deaths (about 20% of the population at the moment). Destroying thousands of homes and costing millions and millions to repair the U.S. had never seen anything like it before. The day of the storm a man by the name of Isaac M. Cline, who at the time was the chief of the U.S. weather

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