| 09/09/2000 After the storm
GALVESTON – The Sisters of Charity orphanage sat in an idyllic location – 93 boys and girls lived just a few strides from Galveston Island's dunes and the Gulf of Mexico. 09/03/2000 Survivor witnessed lives washed away
Maude E. Cole, maternal grandmother of Texas Sketches columnist A.C. Greene, lived in Galveston at the time of the Great Storm of 1900 and left a manuscript telling of her ordeal. The following is based on that manuscript. The Great Storm
GALVESTON – The day before the Great Storm nothing about the weather signaled trouble to untrained eyes. There was a stiff breeze out of the north and the surf was rougher than normal, but skies were blue, marked only by scattered white clouds. Hurricane altered Galveston's course
GALVESTON – One hundred years ago this month, the hurricane that will always be known locally as the Great Storm helped forever seal the outcome of the rivalry between Galveston and Houston. |
