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 ...

After Hurricane Ike ravaged the coast on the morning of Sept. 13, 2008, Galveston Island State Park laid in ruins. When Justin Rhodes, Region 4 State Parks Director for the Texas Parks and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history was not Hurricane Katrina. Not even close. It was the storm that hit Galveston, Texas, exactly 108 years and one week ago. That storm killed about 8,000 ...

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 ...