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September 8th 1900 The Great Galveston Hurricane.

The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history struck one of the nations busiest ports, Galveston, in Texas, in the summer of 1900. Four days prior to the catastrophic disaster that devastated Galveston island, U.S. Weather Bureau sent out warnings of a ‘tropical storm’ moving northwards over Cuba. With forecasters having no way of knowing the storms projected direction, the first of many mistakes were made, when they assumed it wou...