BONUS EPISODE: The Great Storm of 1900–A Night of Horror
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On September 8, 1900 a monster hurricane slammed into Galveston Island, resulting in the largest natural disaster in American history. In this bonus episode, learn what it was like for the residents of the island as they struggled desperately to survive the storm.
After the storm (Texas State Library photo)
Map showing the destruction from the 1900 Storm. (Houston Daily Post photo)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How do you? you? Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. I'm your host, Ken Wise, |
| 0:20.4 | and this is a bonus episode I'm releasing in between the episodes of the |
| 0:26.1 | great storm of 1900 part one and part two and I've been releasing bonus episodes throughout the history of this podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | Sometimes there'll be an anniversary come up that I think needs to be commemorated |
| 0:40.0 | or there'll be a little side story that really didn't fit into the main episode. |
| 0:45.0 | But this time I'm releasing this bonus episode because I thought that it's I wanted to cover a part of the experience of the Great Storm of 1900 that really deserves to be covered but |
| 0:57.6 | Probably shouldn't be |
| 0:59.6 | Part of a main episode because there's really nothing good about the part of that experience |
| 1:06.3 | that I want to cover in this bonus episode. |
| 1:08.6 | But it is important, I think, that the victims be remembered and that we in the modern times |
| 1:16.4 | remember just how horrible it was to go through that storm and so in this bonus episode we're going to cover the actual |
| 1:25.8 | night of September 8th you know part one was really a story of preparedness or |
| 1:31.7 | lack of preparedness it was a story about how people thought they knew a lot more than they did and thought they were prepared a lot more than they were. |
| 1:40.0 | Part 2, we'll cover the aftermath of the storm, what they discovered and give away a little spoiler for you. |
| 1:47.0 | We'll talk about the recovery and the spoiler is this. The recovery is really a happy ending to this whole experience. |
| 1:54.0 | The recovery of Galveston after the 1900 storm was, is a story of triumph and the triumph of the very same spirit that built this state. |
| 2:06.3 | We talk a lot about the revolution. |
| 2:08.5 | We've covered a lot of the revolution in this podcast. |
| 2:11.7 | And certainly it's very easy to see the intrepid nature of the people |
| 2:15.2 | that came and settled Texas they went to war left their families went and fought what |
| 2:19.7 | amounted to a superpower and created the great state that we now enjoy but the spirit of the people |
| 2:24.9 | who endured the 1900 storm and helped Galveston recover was also a pioneering spirit and it was also an intrepid nature and it was also a triumph of an example of |
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