Photo of the Day -- weekend
No. 369
The Category 4 hurricane which struck Galveston in 1900 pushed a fifteen-foot storm surge over the city, whose highest elevation then was only nine feet, destroying everything and killing 8,000 people.
Those who survived credited miracles for their salvation:
“Ray Ayers, an 8-year-old boy, unwittingly rescued his sister’s two babies during the flood.
“He…
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