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I was born with a special gift.

The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario.

In my own brain, my therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters.

And find out who's to play, play.

They say history repeats itself.

Not on my watch.

My name is Rebecca Delgado-Smith and I am the alarmist.

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk about

history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame.

Today we're discussing the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

Here's what you need to know.

On September 8th, 1900, a category for hurricane, the second strongest designation on the current

Safer Simpson hurricane scale, hit the island town of Galveston, Texas with a magnitude

unheard of during and since that time.

The great storm of 1900, also known as the Galveston Hurricane, was originally thought to be a storm

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