In fact, you could. As officials prepare for the Atlantic hurricane season, which begins Monday, residents of Galveston and other coastal areas of Texas are still a long way from getting back on ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- September 8 marks the somber anniversary of the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. The category 4 hurricane made landfall on the island, taking the lives of at least ...

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.