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The accident happened shortly before 10 a.m. after a tugboat operator pushing two barges lost control of them, said David Flores, a bridge superintendent with the Galveston County Navigation District.
However, itemized estimates from 1901 based on assessments conducted by the Galveston News, the Galveston chamber of commerce, a relief committee, and multiple insurance companies indicated that the storm caused just over $17 million in damage throughout Galveston, including about $8.44 million to residential properties, $500,000 to churches ...
The 1915 Galveston hurricane made landfall near San Luis Pass, Texas, along the end of West Bay, 26 mi (42 km) southwest of Galveston, [7] at 2 a.m. (07:00 UTC) on August 17. [1] Maximum sustained winds were estimated at 130 mph (210 km/h), making the storm a low-end Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale . [ 52 ]
Sand Key Light is a lighthouse 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) southwest of Key West, Florida, between Sand Key Channel and Rock Key Channel, two of the channels into Key West, on a reef intermittently covered by sand. [2] [3] [4] At times the key has been substantial enough to have trees, and in 1900 nine to twelve thousand terns nested on ...
Floodwaters swirl around the Romero house in Surfside Beach, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) A man takes pictures before the arrival of Tropical Storm Alberto at Bagdad Beach in Matamoros, Mexico.
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Galveston County officials order the mandatory evacuation of coastal communities; the order is the first mandatory evacuation order in Texas in response to Hurricane Rita. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 16 ] : 12 The evacuation plan directs the evacuation of nursing homes and assisted living facilities at 6 a.m. on September 21 followed by evacuation of the ...
A haul of fresh shrimp from commercial fisherman Buddy Guindon’s boat in Galveston Oct. 6, 2019. After a day on the beach, a shrimp boil would be fun way to end the day in this coastal town.