Galveston's Palace
Galveston’s lifetime is split in half: before 1900 and after. Before 1900 the city was the second wealthiest in all America until September of that year when the Great Storm slammed into the coast. To this day the Great Storm is considered the most deadly natural disaster in the US. It didn't have to be that way but a political tug-of-war spawned an outstandingly inaccurate forecast. Few evacuated. Thousands died. Survivors tried weighting the bodies and throwing them into th