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On this gripping narrative record, the cherished NBC weather personality vividly brings alive the Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900: the deadliest natural disaster in American record. On the afternoon of Sept 8, 1900, 200-mile-per-hour winds and 15-feet waves slammed into Galveston, the prosperous and growing port city on Texas' Gulf Coast. By dawn the next day, when the surprise had passed, the city that had been around just hours before was removed. Shattered, grief-stricken survivors surfaced to witness a level of destruction nothing you've seen prior seen: 8,000 corpses littered the pavements and were buried under the massive wreckage. Rushing normal water had lifted buildings of their foundations, smashing them into parts, while strong winds possessed upended girders and trestles, driving a car them through house wall surfaces and into sidewalks. In under a day, one storm ruined a significant American metropolis - and awakened a region to the terrifying ability of nature. The Storm of the Hundred years brings this famous disaster and its aftermath into excellent concentration. No other natural disaster has ever matched the havoc triggered by the awesome mix of winds, rains, and flooding that devastated this bustling metropolis and surprised a young, optimistic region on the cusp of modernity. Checking out the impact of the disaster on a increasing nation's self-confidence - the pain and stress of losing and the perseverance of the response - Al Roker illuminates both the energy and the limitations of the American Hundred years, and of characteristics itself.
