The 1900 Galveston Hurricane: America's deadliest natural disaster #shorts

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1. Thank you very much Simon😊

2. Why show untelated pics? I guess you just don't have to try harder. Bye!

3. Needs a full video. Make sure to cover the bishops palace where many sought refuge and the raising of the St. Patrick’s cathedral with hand jacks.

4. Im sorry but if you were warned and unprepared, i dont know what to tell you. During Sandy got to hear about a guy refused to evacuate Long Beach Island with his daughter, sil, and grandchild! He got to hear their screaming as waves 6' deep were flowing through their first floor. Luckily they all survived but it just proves you cant save people from themselves!

5. Galveston is still a port, but the hurricane caused a lot of people and commercial interests to move inland. Thus, Houston and the Houston ship channel.
   So this was a pretty important regional and national inflection point, it totally changed where a large part of our nation's cargo and petrochemical facilities wound up being sited.

6. Showing footage of a tornado in a video about a hurricane is definitely a flex move.

7. I've sat on the sea wall in Galveston many times as a kid.

8. My great-great grandparents had a 2 story furniture store on the island. They saved their child (my great grandfather) from the waters and wind by sheltering upstairs. Over a century later, here's my dumbass. You're welcome, world.

9. If someone (actually) smarter then you says "dude, we're fucked" then mybe, just maybe, listening to them is the smart thing to do?

10. At first I was going to comment "Wait I thought Hurricane Katrina was the worst hurricane in US history". That all changed when you mentioned this hurricane killed 40,000 Americans. Jesus H Christ.

11. My ex finally talked me into moving to Houston. We were also between Galveston, 3 months in and Hurricane Ike hit. It was like a mountain in a blender, and every backyard had a bomb that exploded. Every backyard fence was flattened into the streets and boats were 30 miles inland. Downtown looked pretty cool. Every window in every skyscraper 40 stories and down was broken exactly level.

12. An intereeting point is in the 1890s some residents called for a seawall to be built knowing they were too low of level to survive a storm surge. This was ignored by officials as being a waste of time and money.

13. A proper use of Decimated??? I'm truly shocked.

14. We have a family story that my grandmother’s cousin moved there in 1899 after marrying her boyfriend. The family lost all contact with her after the hurricane. My grandmother died in 1972 at age 89 and never knew what happened to her.

    It’s one of those stories my mom always told but we will probably never know for certain.

15. I used to docent for a couple of museums on Galveston, and we'd show pictures of the bodies stacked up in a warehouse like cord wood. The debris pile was so large, that it made it possible to walk from Galveston to Pelican Island, then over to Texas City, and never get in water over chest deep.

16. Honestly if you’d cover the bishops palace and the surviving church next to it from Galveston that would be fun!

17. The house's in Galveston are on stilts now

18. 👍

19. My god, you used the word "decimate" correctly. That's a utube first. Was it accidental, or do you have a gigantic brain?

20. Idiotic Floridians ignore these warnings every year. some things never change.

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