The Great Storm of 1900 slammed into Galveston on Sept. 8, 1900 without warning, killing at least 6,000 people and changing the island forever.

Before the hurricane, in the late 1800s, Galveston was ranked as the Lone Star State’s largest city. Tourists flocked to the location for the historic sites and enjoyable beaches.

As Galveston Evacuates Before Hurricane Laura, Some Choose To Weather The Storm. The northbound lanes of the Gulf Freeway were already seeing heavier than usual traffic and some gas stations were ...

Hurricane and Flood. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

The storm, moving at about 16 mph, would grow to a monstrous size before its center careened up the Houston Ship Channel on Sept. 13 - one of the most destructive storms ever to hit the Galveston ...

In 1900, a Category 4 storm hit Galveston Island, killing an estimated 8,000 people and wiping out nearly all structures. That storm hit decades before oil and gas infrastructure began to line the ...

Hurricane season is here. ... The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history is the Galveston hurricane of 1900, ... 1908, an unnamed storm that arrived months before the season's official start.

Galveston officials updates hurricane preparedness plan with nearly three-day ... Before the recent changes, Galveston officials issued a mandatory evacuation order 36 hours before a severe storm ...