https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane --- The Great Galveston Hurricane was a Category 4 storm, with winds of up to 145 mph (233 km/h), which made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas, in the United States, leaving about 6,000 to 12,000 dead. It remains to the present day the deadliest natural disaster in US history. The hurricane appears to have started as an atmospheric trough from West Africa, causing unsettled weather in the Caribbean, and emerging into the Florida Straits as a tropical storm on September 5. Owing to contradictory forecasts, the people of Galveston felt no alarm until the official hurricane warning of September 7. The next morning, a storm surge of 15 ft (4.6 m) washed over the long, flat island-city which was only 8 ft (2.4 m) above sea level, knocking buildings off their foundations and destroying over 3,600 homes. The disaster ended the Golden Era of Galveston, as the hurricane alarmed potential investors, who turned to Houston instead. The whole island of Galveston was subsequently raised by 17 ft (5.2 m) and a 10 mi (16 km) seawall erected>---
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Yes, Galveston was the most important city in Texas at the time as it was the port. Subsequently, a ship channel was dredged through Buffalo Bayou up from Galveson Bay making Houston the port and is the second largest US port by tonnage.
The name Greg Abbott should ring a bell and he is Republican. A pity they didn't read the 2013 report. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130915131228.htm They should keep politics out of it. And as for denying the science of climate change. Nutters.
Yes and he unlike the Houston mayor ordered an evacuation. Would you have liked him to siphoned the water out of the Gulf Humpy?
you are fake news. Development causes changes to run off. Evidence of climate change is sketchy. We are overdue an ice age.
It's just north of Clear Lake which is above it's banks. That area and east to Galveston Bay suffered massive damage from hurricane Ike.
Some people will be asking the question - where are the adequate flood defences ? For the obvious answer The penny pinching politicians haven't delivered. It would be cheaper to dig out storm drains and build dykes than keep getting hit.