A story written during the 100 year remembrance, but appropriate to share, given the events of the past week:

Without warning

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2000/05/28/without-warning/

My apologies for the paywall. I found it on a search, but the Paywall comes up when I click on the link in this thread. I would just copy and paste, but I like not being banned.

That was well done. I don't think many people realize what a big port city Galveston was before the hurricane. They would've been a whole different place had that never happened.

That was excellent. I knew a lot of this but learned even more. My son was a leukemia patient at UTMB for several years so spent a lot of time there.

Thanks for posting, I have always been interested in the 1900 storm. Though some of it has the typical AI messed up things, it was a good watch.

One thing it mentioned a couple of times that was news to me, was the tying together children (at the orphanage and some families) with the purported reason being if they found the body of one they would find the others. From my recollection of the books I have read, the tying together was done so that they could traverse the flooded streets and such, making it less likely one or two would become separated or swept away. If any of the books mentioned the body finding premise as in the video, I have forgotten it.

They also mentioned the tin roofing but as I recall it was the wood shingle roofing that killed a lot of people, slate roofing to a lesser extent..

I have read many books on that storm, my favorite was the one called "A Weekend in September" by John Edward Weems. It was first published in 1957 so Weems was able to interview people who lived through the hurricane. It has a map of the streets on the eastern end of the island, with the location of various structures (residences, churches, etc.) that are mentioned in the book. I used to ride a bicycle to some of those locations and imagined what it was like when the hurricane hit (though I was much higher in elevation than they were in 1900).

I bought one book on that Galveston hurricane that was published in 1900. I was surprised something could be written and published back then in less than four months. I thought I had quite the collector's item, lol. Turns out there were 8 or 10 books published in 1900 about the storm.