Dear Mask2697, of further interest--having lived on G. myself--another friend's great-great+ uncle saved his home during the 1900 storm by chopping holes in both the front and back of his home, thus allowing the water to flow through the lower floor rather than crush the home. His great+ uncle's family all survived. The great+ uncle, BTW, worked on a ship which shipped ice from the northern US to Galveston for use in 'ice boxes.' Interesting history, Galveston. Love the place.
Dear Mask2697, Thanks for personal email you sent, sorry for confusion. Please note my post said my friend B. rode out Hurricane IKE, NOT 1900 one--so you're right, she's not 120 years old! Of further interest, though; B. lives on the HIGH end of G. Island, and yet the water rose 8 1/2 feet there during Ike, 5' inside her loft home, enough to make their baby grand piano float. In 1900, B's land was NOT submerged.In fact, some on high end of G.in 1900 did not even know people were dying at time.
I have seen pictures of the sea wall that was constructed after this disaster, the gulf of Mexico has always been unpredictable when it came to hurricanes, I guess this movie would be a testament. I also think this disaster was the worst till about 1906, when an earth quake hit San Francisco. There was also a tragic mining disaster in Utah in 1900 as well, it claimed hundreds of lives, ironic what the earlier migrants endured when they migrated here from abroad, folly for everything!
I used to live in Galveston and my best friend rode out Ike.
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane WAS the US's worst natural disaster in terms of human death, far exceeding San Francisco's earthquake or Utah's mining disaster. The official # of deaths in Galveston was approx. 6,000 but the true estimate was a conservative 13,000.
Consider reading 'Isaac's Storm,' a true story and one of the best books ever written about natural disasters.
I first heard about this hurricane on a PBS special called "America 1900", my father had heard of this disaster, we lived in Atlantic city from 1954 till 1967, and my parents endured a severe fall storm in 1962, it was a nor'easter, high tide and full moon combination! My father said it did more damage to that area than any hurricane could have ever done! It was also predicted in the farmers almanac, so I was told!
If you go by deaths, it was, as far as natural disasters. Antietam was some 20k "Americans" in 1 day; about half that if you only count the Federal side.
Galveston was low estimate 8000, higher around 12k. Definitely very bad for deaths.
the0ILineRebel. Absolutely. The problem with establishing how serious a battle, campaign or conflict generally is with the word 'casualties' because that includes wounded, missing and captured as well as killed. According to wikipedia, there were 22,717 total casualties at Antietam, of which 3,654 were killed in action. Missing usually means killed though, so the figure is probably higher. Terrible battle.
Dear OilLineRebel and CULAVE, Antietam was a war battle, not a natural disaster. The Galveston hurricane of 1900 was the worst natural disaster in US history. It's a poignant point, though, that military conflict usually does claim more human lives than natural disasters do. We as human beings can't easily control natural disasters, but one would think that compassionate human beings would do what they could to prevent wars and battles.
About 8,000 people died from this storm. so many people died because instead of looking for cover hundreds of people stood on the beach waiting for the storm to come so they could marvel at the waves. they had no idea how big it was or that it would be the last thing they ever saw. Kinda eerie!
1coolgyrl: You need to read ISAAC'S STORM and get the FACTS. Where do you get the bit about the "hundreds of people watching the waves on the beach"? They were looking for the safest bldgs. for shelter, not standing watching on the beach! With wind forces up to 150 mph, possibly as high as 200 mph? I want to see YOU stand and watch waves with a 150-mph wind coming at you. READ THE BOOK! Yeesh!!
JackBenny8: didnt have to read the book, saw the documentary. Saw them with my own eyes. and back than they didnt have the technology to predict storm magnitude.
I read ISAAC'S STORM too. I also used to live in Galveston. My best friend rode out Ike and, to her horror, watched the water rise above her baby grande piano as she looked over the 2nd floor railing of their loft.
Truth is that there WERE 100a of people watching waves on the beach early on on that bright sunny morning, just as there were children playing in the 1-3 ft. deep water outside their homes teasing their dogs to jump in.
only an idiot would blame the president for a hurricane. only an idiot would stay in their home when two weeks of tv, newspapers, and "others around you" warned that a hurricane is coming!!! Stupid asses need to have some accountability and quit depending on the gov't for your free shit!!!!!!!Dumbass
I agree,some people actually walked out of new orleans! I would never have waited for the government[welfare] to help me! Any able bodied person should have made every effort to help elderly and ill people to get out, so many people were abandoned there like all those poor animals!People need to wake up and do the right thing!
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by your words i dont think you live in a hurricane prone area, i was in new orleans for katrina and have lived most of my life on the gulf coast. you have to understand two days out, thats when most people evacuate and its not an exact science more like a guess for news weather. katrina was horrible but it could of been prevented with better levees or the storm going 50 miles east. either way fuck you I've never ran from a hurricane and never will.
your a fucking loser....never run from a hurricane. Yeah....how's that working out for everyone else with the same idea. You can't be that much of a dumb ass or I guess you can.
WOW...all this time I thought the Bush administration invented hurricanes. I guess back then people didn't rely on the government to hold their hands, they just got on with the business of taking care of themselves. That spirit is dead today in Louisiana.
pj, in 1900 they didn't have FMEA, or welfare, or subsidies. People were on their own. No trailer to the rescue, just their neighbors helping them. People looked out for each other, because they didn't have the mentality that it was the government's duty to take care of them. So, you might say, the ever increasing progession of the governmental into social programs over the last 80 years has allowed people to sink deeper into complacency and self centeredness.
With no warning system and zero visability that night, its amazing anyone did, the Bolivar light house keeoer managed to save over a hundred people by holding up in the lighthouse, they had to burn the bodies in the streets to avoid the health problems that would follow.
Dear Mask2697, of further interest--having lived on G. myself--another friend's great-great+ uncle saved his home during the 1900 storm by chopping holes in both the front and back of his home, thus allowing the water to flow through the lower floor rather than crush the home. His great+ uncle's family all survived. The great+ uncle, BTW, worked on a ship which shipped ice from the northern US to Galveston for use in 'ice boxes.' Interesting history, Galveston. Love the place.
heidelbergjane 1 year ago
Dear Mask2697, Thanks for personal email you sent, sorry for confusion. Please note my post said my friend B. rode out Hurricane IKE, NOT 1900 one--so you're right, she's not 120 years old! Of further interest, though; B. lives on the HIGH end of G. Island, and yet the water rose 8 1/2 feet there during Ike, 5' inside her loft home, enough to make their baby grand piano float. In 1900, B's land was NOT submerged.In fact, some on high end of G.in 1900 did not even know people were dying at time.
heidelbergjane 1 year ago
I have seen pictures of the sea wall that was constructed after this disaster, the gulf of Mexico has always been unpredictable when it came to hurricanes, I guess this movie would be a testament. I also think this disaster was the worst till about 1906, when an earth quake hit San Francisco. There was also a tragic mining disaster in Utah in 1900 as well, it claimed hundreds of lives, ironic what the earlier migrants endured when they migrated here from abroad, folly for everything!
italobambino43 2 years ago
To Italobambino,
I used to live in Galveston and my best friend rode out Ike.
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane WAS the US's worst natural disaster in terms of human death, far exceeding San Francisco's earthquake or Utah's mining disaster. The official # of deaths in Galveston was approx. 6,000 but the true estimate was a conservative 13,000.
Consider reading 'Isaac's Storm,' a true story and one of the best books ever written about natural disasters.
heidelbergjane 2 years ago
I first heard about this hurricane on a PBS special called "America 1900", my father had heard of this disaster, we lived in Atlantic city from 1954 till 1967, and my parents endured a severe fall storm in 1962, it was a nor'easter, high tide and full moon combination! My father said it did more damage to that area than any hurricane could have ever done! It was also predicted in the farmers almanac, so I was told!
italobambino43 2 years ago
(congrats 72000 views!)
wow crazy wreckage
mystfire 2 years ago
My grandmother's parents wasn't even born yet that time when the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 hit and Thomas Alva Edison's assistant filmed this.
JaeDizzley1995 2 years ago
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wow!!!!the same beach thati swam on!!
baguirre39 3 years ago
wow!!!! the same beach that i swam on
baguirre39 3 years ago
just moved new area
lets chat LZ
DrugsIndustrial 3 years ago
My great grandfather survived this hurricane. He was 10 years old. He lived until the 1950's but would never talk about it.
Nominay 3 years ago 2
Unless im mistaken this was the worst disaster in US history; worse than Antietam, 9/11 or Katrina
CULAVE 3 years ago 2
If you go by deaths, it was, as far as natural disasters. Antietam was some 20k "Americans" in 1 day; about half that if you only count the Federal side.
Galveston was low estimate 8000, higher around 12k. Definitely very bad for deaths.
theOlLineRebel 3 years ago 2
the0ILineRebel. Absolutely. The problem with establishing how serious a battle, campaign or conflict generally is with the word 'casualties' because that includes wounded, missing and captured as well as killed. According to wikipedia, there were 22,717 total casualties at Antietam, of which 3,654 were killed in action. Missing usually means killed though, so the figure is probably higher. Terrible battle.
CULAVE 3 years ago 2
@theOlLineRebel
Dear OilLineRebel and CULAVE, Antietam was a war battle, not a natural disaster. The Galveston hurricane of 1900 was the worst natural disaster in US history. It's a poignant point, though, that military conflict usually does claim more human lives than natural disasters do. We as human beings can't easily control natural disasters, but one would think that compassionate human beings would do what they could to prevent wars and battles.
stracypt 1 year ago
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@stracypt
"If you go by deaths, it was, as far as *natural disasters*."
That's what I said, a year ago.
theOlLineRebel 1 year ago
whoa! - great post!
Didn't expect to see film of the aftermath of this disaster.
nighthawk006 3 years ago 3
Movies exist back then? AMAZING!!!!
qplqp 3 years ago
i live in houston but we left in my place and go in San Antonio just to be sure wer on the safe place.
mackys101 3 years ago
thats foolish pride xxxironballzxx.....
whatever happens because of the storm will happen if your home or not, so why hang around and risk Death? too tough?
I dont live in a danger area but it just seems like common sense to leave and come back when "the coast is clear".
IMPORTSOCIETY 3 years ago 2
About 8,000 people died from this storm. so many people died because instead of looking for cover hundreds of people stood on the beach waiting for the storm to come so they could marvel at the waves. they had no idea how big it was or that it would be the last thing they ever saw. Kinda eerie!
1coolgyrl 3 years ago
1coolgyrl: You need to read ISAAC'S STORM and get the FACTS. Where do you get the bit about the "hundreds of people watching the waves on the beach"? They were looking for the safest bldgs. for shelter, not standing watching on the beach! With wind forces up to 150 mph, possibly as high as 200 mph? I want to see YOU stand and watch waves with a 150-mph wind coming at you. READ THE BOOK! Yeesh!!
JackBenny8 3 years ago
JackBenny8: didnt have to read the book, saw the documentary. Saw them with my own eyes. and back than they didnt have the technology to predict storm magnitude.
You should check your facts! lol
1coolgyrl 3 years ago 2
Dear Jack Benny,
I read ISAAC'S STORM too. I also used to live in Galveston. My best friend rode out Ike and, to her horror, watched the water rise above her baby grande piano as she looked over the 2nd floor railing of their loft.
Truth is that there WERE 100a of people watching waves on the beach early on on that bright sunny morning, just as there were children playing in the 1-3 ft. deep water outside their homes teasing their dogs to jump in.
It's all documented in "Isaac's Storm."
heidelbergjane 2 years ago
@heidelbergjane I read that book too. But how did your best friend see it. She would have to be about 120 to see and remember it today
mask2697 1 year ago
only an idiot would blame the president for a hurricane. only an idiot would stay in their home when two weeks of tv, newspapers, and "others around you" warned that a hurricane is coming!!! Stupid asses need to have some accountability and quit depending on the gov't for your free shit!!!!!!!Dumbass
letsgoirish10 3 years ago 15
I agree,some people actually walked out of new orleans! I would never have waited for the government[welfare] to help me! Any able bodied person should have made every effort to help elderly and ill people to get out, so many people were abandoned there like all those poor animals!People need to wake up and do the right thing!
WASPERS007 3 years ago
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by your words i dont think you live in a hurricane prone area, i was in new orleans for katrina and have lived most of my life on the gulf coast. you have to understand two days out, thats when most people evacuate and its not an exact science more like a guess for news weather. katrina was horrible but it could of been prevented with better levees or the storm going 50 miles east. either way fuck you I've never ran from a hurricane and never will.
xxironballzxx 3 years ago
your a fucking loser....never run from a hurricane. Yeah....how's that working out for everyone else with the same idea. You can't be that much of a dumb ass or I guess you can.
letsgoirish10 3 years ago
sometimes it's all that people can do to help themselves. living in a privileged society like you do, i wouldn't expect you to understand that.
GFawkes1987 3 years ago
@letsgoirish10 Ya. Be glad you didn't live like back then without satellite storm tracking. Loss of life would of been far worss.
warlockd 8 months ago
WOW...all this time I thought the Bush administration invented hurricanes. I guess back then people didn't rely on the government to hold their hands, they just got on with the business of taking care of themselves. That spirit is dead today in Louisiana.
lovetomow 3 years ago 6
As many as 12,000 people lost their life in this tragic hurricane. Let's not make light of this horrific occurance
bdodger 3 years ago 2
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where da fema at?
moparboy74 3 years ago
Probably at the same place your English resides.
ShaunJ1380 3 years ago 9
If this were Louisiana they still be in FEMA trailers and on welfare...
pj8418 3 years ago 3
pj, in 1900 they didn't have FMEA, or welfare, or subsidies. People were on their own. No trailer to the rescue, just their neighbors helping them. People looked out for each other, because they didn't have the mentality that it was the government's duty to take care of them. So, you might say, the ever increasing progession of the governmental into social programs over the last 80 years has allowed people to sink deeper into complacency and self centeredness.
Alan7849 3 years ago 7
Alan7849 is correct,love your comment!People are so lazy anymore!They have been on welfare so long they refuse to do anything for themselves!
WASPERS007 3 years ago
With no warning system and zero visability that night, its amazing anyone did, the Bolivar light house keeoer managed to save over a hundred people by holding up in the lighthouse, they had to burn the bodies in the streets to avoid the health problems that would follow.
wurvan 3 years ago 4
Buildings weren't as sturdy as they are now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1dlfrgv 3 years ago
not to mention 'Bush's fault" hee hee!
texassherri1 4 years ago
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yeah, we're still waiting of FEMA!
carolkath 3 years ago
Musta' been global warming!
TheBoxingGuru 4 years ago 6