In article t,
Larry Caldwell wrote:

In article , dh0496
@i*neb%&rsinvalid.com (Dean Hoffman) says...

There is a list here of the deadliest hurricanes that hit the U.S.
I wonder what Galveston looked like in 1900.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gifs/table2.gif

Galveston was wiped out, but it was a small town by comparison.

"wiped out" he says... chuckle There's an understatement

According to all accounts I've ever heard, it wasn't just "wiped out" -
It was, with only a *VERY* small number of exceptions, literally
*COMPLETELY GONE* - As in *NOTHING* but bare dirt and a few patches of
concrete left to mark where a city used to stand. Nothing - not even
rubble - The island was washed almost completely clean of any sign that
humans had ever set foot on it.

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