Wednesday, May. 11, 2011
Galveston, Texas, 1900
Date: Sept. 8, 1900
Significance: 8,000 dead
Holmes says: This flood is significant because of the sheer magnitude of people who perished. This was a storm-surge situation in the wake of a hurricane. You had a Category 4 hurricane with an estimated 135-miles-per-hour wind hurling water on Galveston and literally drowning the people there.