The Hurricane

The Galveston hurricane was first detected on August 27th, 1900. 

After that, the hurricane passed over Cuba on September 3, 1900

as a tropical storm. The hurricane was traveling in a Northeastern

direction and many people expected the hurricane to continue in

that direction. To the suprise of many people ,though, the hurricane

turned directions and went in a collision to course toward the Galveston

Bay. As that was happening, the hurricane was getting stronger as it went

along. By the time the hurricane reached Galveston, it was a category

four hurricane and had a projected wind speed of 120 to 140 miles per

hour.  The hurricane is predicted to have lasted for several hours

and to have destroyed 3,600 houses. The hurricane also killed 

around 8,000 people. After the storm passsed through Galveston,

it went deeper into Texas and curved around. In the end, the

storm went as far a New England before depleting out.                                                    The path of the hurricane(projected path)

                     Picture Citation: https://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/magazine/galv_hurricane/galveston_1900_map.html