The Great Storm Research Paper

The beautiful coastline of Galveston has such a peaceful presents unlike any other. It's hard to believe that this serene place was once the epicenter of one of america's most devastating natural disasters. To this day it is so infamous it needs no name only a title, The Great Storm.
Before the sky turned gray and the sea became wicked, business was booming for galveston. Trade with Europe had capitalized the marketing world and with cotton at the center of it all. The humidity from the gulf was just right for cotton to grow wonderfully. Back in the 1900s they did not have the technology we have today. The only way we knew a storm was coming was from ships that had gone through it and islands such as cuba reporting bad weather. A few days before the storm made landfall ships had reported going through some rough weather conditions as well as Cuba, Florida, and Louisiana had all reported storm related damage reports. One day before the storm hit galveston the U.S Weather Bureau sent out a storm warning ranging from Pensacola, Florida to Galveston, Texas. Very few people took this warning seriously because most meteorologist thought the storm would make landfall elsewhere on the contrary to what Cuban meteorologist were saying. This left 36,000 unevacuated people left …show more content…
Galveston Island was only 8.7’ above sea level and little did they know a storm surge of 15’ was headed their way. Waves as tall as 100.5’ reported by a bouy off the coast. Day after day the rain came the wind and water pushed a 2 story high pile of debri. 3600 buildings destroyed under the weight of this massive hurricane. People forced under water by floating debri.People reportedly trying to get to higher ground but there was no place to go the island was completely under water. This left many people wondering where is Galveston. For 3 days the sea let out a terrible rath across this tiny island but eventually it came to an