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Hindsight: Video of Galveston After the 1900 Hurricane

The Caffeinated Politics blog has chased down some fascinating old video footage of the famous 1900 Galveston Hurricane. This storm made landfall as a Category 4 Hurricane and caused somewhere between 6,000 and 12,000 deaths (the current population was 42,000), making it the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States. The footage below […]