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1915 - August 17 - A hurricane hit Galveston, TX, with wind gusts to 120 mph and a twelve foot storm surge.
The storm claimed 275 lives, including forty-two on Galveston Island, with most deaths due to drowning. Of 250 homes built outside the seawall (which was constructed after the catastrophic hurricane of 1900), just ten percent were left standing.
August 17, 1915
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