The Galveston Hurricane, September 1900

With Hurricane Rita bearing down on the coast of Texas as Dattilo recorded this, he thought it might be a good time to discuss the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the deadliest natural disaster to ever strike the United States. The hurricane actually came ashore on September 8th in the afternoon, so we're going to have to depart a little bit from our tradition of covering just the events of today.