On this day in history (Storm of 1900)

[Johnny]

On Sept. 8th, 1900.... the island of Galveston, Texas was hit by a major hurricane that took the lives of more than 6,000 men, women and children. Read more about it here........

http://www.1900storm.com/


http://www.noaa.gov/galveston1900/

[Roxy]

If anyone is ever down on the strand, there is an awesome movie about this storm. (Is it still there?)

It's really pretty fascinating and yet frightening at the same time!

[shaner]

And to think, that storm is one of the early reasons why Houston is the major centre it is today.

[Roxy]

And to think, that storm is one of the early reasons why Houston is the major centre it is today.

and I believe it is the reason for the Port of Houston, right?

[shaner]

Yeah. IIRC, with the Port of Galveston destroyed, Houston took advantage of the opportunity and expanded thier fledgling port right away. All that cotton had to be shipped from somewhere. By the time Galveston rebuilt, all the shipping was being routed to Houston. So Galveston became a tourist town.

[Hou~TX~Mama]

If anyone is ever down on the strand, there is an awesome movie about this storm. (Is it still there?)

It's really pretty fascinating and yet frightening at the same time!

Yep, it's still there. Very good.

[Johnny]

Does anyone have the track of the 1900 storm? I'm pretty sure it was a CV storm.

[shaner]

Yes it was.

[njoynit]

The Movie about the storm is "issiacs storm"If you pay attention& get the history channel they play the movie sometimes and is a documentry about some of the history of rebuilding galveston.They brought in tons on top of tons of sand and houses left standing that were more than one story had sand filled in lower part.Is a book of the same called "issiacs storm".
I've seen the church.i believe is used as a shelter for pregnant women but am not for sure.has a bunch of trees around it now...if is same building on broadway.

[cswitwer]

There's a fairly decent account of the storm in Erik Larsen's "Isaac's Storm" (like through publisher at: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/isaacsstorm/)

It's kind of a Storm Stories-esque account, but I think Larsen did a good job of showing how attitudes, opinions, ego, and lack of sophisticated instrumentation really did play a huge part in the fate of Galveston that day.

Also, the photos that you see of people standing around in the aftermath, I saw a TV show recently that said that the motion picture camera had just been invented and nobody knew what it was yet. The photographers told people it was a surveying instrument, so they just stood there and let him take their pictures.

[GalvestonDuck]

If anyone is ever down on the strand, there is an awesome movie about this storm. (Is it still there?)

It's really pretty fascinating and yet frightening at the same time!

Yep, it's still there. Very good.

Yup, good movie...as well as a couple of museums (one is hidden and you wouldn't necessarily find it if you didn't know to look for it) and some homes that withstood the storm. And if you're ever at Wal-mart while visiting, you can tell your travel buddies that the site where Wal-mart now stands is where the St. Mary's Orphanage (where all the nuns and children perished) once stood. What a way to memorialize, eh?

[GalvestonDuck]

The Movie about the storm is "issiacs storm"If you pay attention& get the history channel they play the movie sometimes and is a documentry about some of the history of rebuilding galveston.They brought in tons on top of tons of sand and houses left standing that were more than one story had sand filled in lower part.Is a book of the same called "issiacs storm".
I've seen the church.i believe is used as a shelter for pregnant women but am not for sure.has a bunch of trees around it now...if is same building on broadway.

No, actually it is not called "Isaac's Storm," which aired on the History Channel not to long ago. Two completely different productions. The one you can see in Galveston is called "The Great Storm." It focuses more on the storm and the seawall, not on Isaac Cline.

[Johnny]

GalvestonDuck, thanks for the info. I go to that WalMart everytime we go down there. I'll pass this on to the family.

[Roxy]

GalvestonDuck, thanks for the info. I go to that WalMart everytime we go down there. I'll pass this on to the family.

How could you miss a trip to the Galveston wal-mart. It's a guaranteed adventure.

That is pretty sad that is where the orphanage was....and now it's a dern wal-mart. Go figure.

[MBryant]

If anyone is ever down on the strand, there is an awesome movie about this storm. (Is it still there?)

It's really pretty fascinating and yet frightening at the same time!

Yep, it's still there. Very good.

Yup, good movie...as well as a couple of museums (one is hidden and you wouldn't necessarily find it if you didn't know to look for it) and some homes that withstood the storm. And if you're ever at Wal-mart while visiting, you can tell your travel buddies that the site where Wal-mart now stands is where the St. Mary's Orphanage (where all the nuns and children perished) once stood. What a way to memorialize, eh?

I wonder why there isn't a historical marker at the entrance. EVERYTHING else has a marker.

[GalvestonDuck]

Actually, they say there's one up on the Seawall...as well as a handful of others along that route (one commemorating the Seawall itself, down near 23rd; one near the 1900 Memorial Statue, but I don't remember what street it's near -- you can't miss the statue).

I honestly haven't stopped to read the Orphanage marker because traffic in that area is horrendous.

Somewhere, I have a pic of the 1900 Statue that was on the Galveston News website. It was taken on 9/11/03 -- with a rainbow arching over it.

[Johnny]

How could you miss a trip to the Galveston wal-mart. It's a guaranteed adventure.

LOL!!!! We go down to Galveston twice a year to rent a beach house. We load up on groceries at Wal-Mart when we first get down there. I hope that explains it.

[GalvestonDuck]

LOL! Yup, and considering how few grocery stores there are down on this island (which reminds me, I need milk) and since Wal-Mart is the last grocery store before the road that heads out to the west end where all the beach rentals are, you'd HAVE to make a trip there. Parking can be an adventure in itself.