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    The 1900 Galveston hurricane, also known as the Great Galveston hurricane and the Galveston Flood, and known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900 or the...
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    The Galveston Seawall is a seawall in Galveston, Texas, that was built after the Galveston hurricane of 1900 for protection from future hurricanes. Construction...
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  • immediately preceding, during, and after the 1900 Galveston hurricane. The book is set in turn-of-the-century Galveston, Texas, a bustling port, placing a primary...
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    The 1900 Atlantic hurricane season featured the Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. A total of 10 tropical...
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  • The city of Galveston, Texas experienced several hurricanes throughout its history, including: 1900 Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster...
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  • Atlantic hurricane season, when five storms affected Texas. Major storms during this period include the 1900 and 1915 Galveston hurricanes, the former...
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    the 1900 Galveston hurricane. This storm caused devastation across the Greater Antilles, before making landfall in Texas as a Category 4 hurricane on the...
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    the most for a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Basin since the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. A disturbance in the Intertropical Convergence Zone turned into...
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    track to the 1900 Galveston hurricane. The ninth tropical storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Ike...
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    with the deadly 1900 Galveston hurricane. While the newly completed Galveston Seawall mitigated a similar-scale disaster for Galveston, numerous fatalities...
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  • Texas. It was installed in 2000 and commemorates victims of the 1900 Galveston hurricane. The bronze sculpture is approximately ten feet tall. 2000 in art...
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    500 deaths, making it the second deadliest hurricane in the United States after the 1900 Galveston hurricane. Overall, this storm caused at least $100 million...
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    12 deaths. Also highly notable was Hurricane Fifi, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since the 1900 Galveston hurricane, which dropped torrential rain in...
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    tenure, the diocese had 30,000 Catholics and 50 parishes. After the 1900 Galveston hurricane devastated the city, Gallagher rebuilt all the destroyed Catholic...
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    that era, Galveston became Texas' largest city and was its prime commercial center. In 1900, the island was struck by a devastating hurricane. Even post-Hurricane...
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    the end of the nineteenth century. While a devastating hurricane in 1900 hastened Galveston's decline, the subsequent rise of Houston as a major trade...
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    Isaac Cline (category Galveston Hurricane of 1900)
    In that role, he became a central figure in the devastating Galveston hurricane of 1900. The Isaac M. Cline Award, the NWS's highest honor, is named...
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    longest-lived Atlantic hurricane on record that was responsible for over 3,000 fatalities in Puerto Rico and surrounding areas 1900 Galveston hurricane – Deadliest...
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    Two examples of this happening include the 1900 Galveston hurricane and Hurricane Hazel in 1954. Hurricanes that entered Canada from the U.S. after landfall...
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    Galveston hurricane of 1900 came ashore, bringing with it a great storm surge that inundated most of Galveston Island and the city of Galveston. As a result...
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  • the third-deadliest disaster in the history of Texas, after the 1900 Galveston hurricane and the 1947 Texas City disaster. In the mid-1930s, despite the...
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    most intense hurricanes to strike the country, each with a pressure of 920 mbar. The 1900 Galveston hurricane was the deadliest hurricane in the history...
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    deadliest hurricane in the United States, only behind the 1900 Galveston hurricane, 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, and Hurricane Maria. The hurricane killed...
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    commercial operations because of the threat of hurricanes, and the 1900 disaster seemed to prove that. Though Galveston rebuilt its port and other major operations...
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    Tropical cyclones portal 1900 Galveston hurricane List of Texas hurricanes (pre-1900) Helen B. Frantz. "Indianola Hurricanes, Handbook of Texas Online"...
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    Atlantic hurricanes Great Hurricane of 1780 – The deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record 1900 Galveston hurricane – The deadliest hurricane ever to strike...
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    "Queen City of the Gulf". It was devastated by the unexpected Galveston Hurricane of 1900, whose effects included massive flooding and a storm surge which...
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  • gaining on Galveston for the title of Cotton Capital of the U.S. after the near-complete destruction of that port by the 1900 Galveston hurricane, and on...
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    Storm surge (redirect from Hurricane tide)
    losses estimated at $14 billion (USD). The 1900 Galveston hurricane, a Category 4 hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, drove a devastating surge ashore;...
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    hurricane as the deadliest hurricane in Louisiana history and the third deadliest hurricane in the continental U.S., behind only the 1900 Galveston hurricane...
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