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A Disaster Begins

Move over, Katrina. The greatest natural disaster in U.S. history was Galveston’s Great Storm of 1900. The hurricane roared onto Galveston Island during the night, and by daybreak, the then-largest city in Texas had been flattened. Officials estimated that between 6,000 and 8,000 people died in the storm. (There were…

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