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Great Galveston Disaster
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Barker, Aaron. "A Look Back at the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900." Click 2 Houston, September 7, 2018.
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The sky was all of a sudden black. The rain began almost immediately and continued to increase into a torrential downpour. The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was now upon them. After this storm took a devastating toll on the city and its population with many lives lost, residents had to rebuild their lives and their city by coming together and getting help from all over the country. The Galveston people were misled by weather forecasters who ignored Cuba’s warnings because of their previously toxic relationship. When the storm struck the island of Galveston in 1900, no one was prepared. With the extremely high death toll, this hurricane quickly became the deadliest natural disaster in US History. Even though the storm was a Category 4, and it was very strong and powerful in itself, the only reason it appeared as devastating as it did was due to the lack of preparedness.
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Little, Becky. "How the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 Became the Deadliest U.S. Natural Disaster." History.com.
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Rebuilding the city after the disaster was metaphorically another storm itself. Residents and people all over the country came together to form a commission government that would encourage physical rebuilding of the city and its economy. A massive seawall was soon proposed to stand as a barrier protecting the island from any future disasters. In addition, the city before the storm was a little less than nine feet above sea level, so the government proposed elevating the entire level of the city by inches in some places, and even by feet in others. Following the great disaster, the lives of residents in Galveston were changed forever.
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Boyd, John, and Craig Hlavaty. "Photos of the 1900 Storm in Galveston."
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What happened?
Click the link to learn more about the gruesome and horrifying facts about this disastrous storm.
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