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In 2020, a fourth title was released: Sobreviví el huracán Katrina, 2005 (I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005). Two more Spanish language I Survived titles released in 2021, Sobreviví el Bomdardeo de Pearl Harbor, 1941 (I Survived The Bombing Of Pearl Harbor, 1941) and Sobreviví los ataques del 11 de septiembre de 2001 (I Survived The ...
Isaac Monroe Cline (1861–1955) was the chief meteorologist at the Galveston, Texas office of the U.S. Weather Bureau from 1889 to 1901. Cline played an important role in influencing the storm's later destruction by authoring an article for the Galveston Daily News, in which he derided the idea of significant damage to Galveston from a hurricane as "a crazy idea".
Reba Masterson survived the Great Galveston Hurricane when she was only 18 years old. The following is a direct account from her brother Wilmer D. Masterson on the faithful day that stripped their family of their mother and nine other family members. "Debris was now jammed against our row of trees and we knew that they would go down very soon.
Galveston Hurricane 1900. This Category 4 hurricane that hit the island city of Galveston, Texas, is one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Storm tides of up to 15 feet inundated ...
The 1900 Galveston hurricane, [1] also known as the Great Galveston hurricane and the Galveston Flood, and known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900 or the 1900 Storm, [2] [3] is the deadliest natural disaster in United States history. [4]
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The fifth storm was another Category 1 hurricane that grazed Galveston. [46] The third storm of the 1936 season caused severe crop damage was reported in San Patricio and Nueces Counties. In all, the hurricane caused $550,000 (1936 USD) in damage, primarily to oil refinery property, though no deaths or injuries were reported.
Before that, storms mostly received names retrospectively and they could vary like the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane or the Great New England Hurricane of 1938.