Galveston Hurricane 1900 waterfront

A panorama video of the waterfront following the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. Filmed by an assistant of Thomas Edison.

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[letsgoirish10]

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

[ShaunJ1380]

Probably at the same place your English resides.

[warlockd]

@letsgoirish10 Ya. Be glad you didn't live like back then without satellite storm tracking. Loss of life would of been far worss.

[heidelbergjane]

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]

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.

[mask2697]

@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

[stracypt]

@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.

[heidelbergjane]

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]

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.

[italobambino43]

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]

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!