Welcome to the Storm Council Hurricane History series

This is Volume 1, Part 1 of the Hurricane History series, covering the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 – The Hurricane That Remade American Coastal Engineering For more information about The Storm Council, visit stormcouncil.com and subscribe to the Youtube channel at @storm_council

Introduction

On the evening of September 8, 1900, the city of Galveston, Texas, ceased to exist in the form its residents had known. A hurricane of extraordinary power drove a wall of water across a barrier island that stood barely nine feet above sea level at its highest point, destroying more than 3,600 buildings, killing between eight thousand and twelve thousand people, and ending the c ...