GALVESTON - Hurricanes that form in the Gulf of Mexico tend to catch gulf residents off guard - often forming in the month of June - and can develop into surprisingly strong storms, says a Texas A ...

Disaster struck Galveston, Texas, on Sept. 8, 1900. The devastating hurricane took thousands of lives, homes and businesses. Before the hurricane, in the late 1800s, Galveston was ranked as the ...

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 ...

The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900 The Great Galveston Hurricane, often remembered as the deadliest natural disaster in ...

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 ...

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, Texas (KTRK) -- On Sept. 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall along the east end of Galveston Island, packing winds up to 110 mph and a storm surge that reached 17 feet. Years later ...

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 ...

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.