Galveston officials said if a mandatory hurricane evacuation order is issued, a notice will be sent out a day earlier due to ...

But even if those hopes are crushed and Harvey turns out to be worse than expected, it won’t be as bad as the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. The Galveston Hurricane and Harvey are similar in many ...

As a barrier island, Galveston is positioned to take the brunt of storm surge during a hurricane -- up to 16 feet of surge in the event of a Category 4 storm like the one in 1900 that went down in ...

GALVESTON Island is a sandbar, or, to put it more gently, a barrier island. This fact should be borne in mind by anyone trying to understand the events of Sept. 8-9, 1900, when a hurricane snuffed ...

Tiny Galveston Island is threatened by Hurricane Rita much as it was by another hurricane more than 100 years ago. In the first week of September 1900, before the advent of weather satellites or ...

Galveston, Texas, was destroyed once by a hurricane in 1900 that killed 6,000 people. Since then hurricanes such as Carla, Alicia and now Rita have followed paths ever so close to that city.

A professor of history at the University of North Texas and co-author of the book "Galveston and the 1900 Storm" discusses the devastating hurricane in 1900 that nearly wiped Galveston ...