ГАЛВЕСТОН: Ураган смерти, уничтоживший город мечты Америки

On September 8, 1900, one of the wealthiest ports in the United States vanished in eight hours. Between six and twelve thousand people are estimated to have died. It remains the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. In this film — the article by Isaac Cline in the Galveston Daily News on July 16, 1891, which halted construction of a protective seawall; Cuban scientists at the Belén Observatory under Father Lorenzo Gangoite; Weather Bureau director Willis Moore, who ordered Cuban telegrams blocked eight days before the strike; the barometer falling to 28.48 inches; a 4.8-meter storm surge; the Bolivar Point lighthouse, where keeper Harry Claiborne sheltered 125 people; the 1903–1911 operation that raised two thousand buildings five meters using hand-turned jackscrews. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 The day Galveston vanished 00:52 The Manhattan of the South on a sandbar 01:42 Isaac Cline's article and the rejected seawall 03:07 The Cuban warnings that never arrived 04:00 1891: why the city was told it was safe 06:31 The forbidden word "hurricane" 08:06 The morning of September 8: the barometer falls 10:02 The storm flag and the Cline brothers' dispute 11:52 A wall of water over the city 12:17 The Cline house and the night of destruction 15:27 The morning after the catastrophe 16:49 The Bolivar lighthouse and the 125 saved 17:49 Why the gulf became a funnel 19:09 The decision not to leave: raise the city 23:07 The modern Gulf Coast and the recurring risk SOURCES AND SCIENTIFIC BASIS: — National Hurricane Center, NOAA. Category 4, winds up to 230 km/h, at least 8,000 dead. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/news/NOAApr1... — NWS Heritage Project, NOAA. Isaac Cline's report on the events of September 8–9, 1900. https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/nws-heritag... — Texas State Historical Association. Pressure 28.44 inches; 2,636 destroyed homes; water level 15.7 feet. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/e... — Britannica. Pressure 936 mbar; loss of port status to Houston. https://www.britannica.com/event/Galv... — Origins, Ohio State University. The blockade of Belén Observatory telegrams in the summer of 1900. https://origins.osu.edu/read/galvesto... — ASCE. Galveston Grade Raising 1903–1911: 2,000 buildings, 16.3 million cubic yards of sand. https://www.asce.org/about-civil-engi... — National Coast Guard Museum. Harry Claiborne; Bolivar Point lighthouse, September 8, 1900. https://nationalcoastguardmuseum.org/...