(The Center Square) – Hope remains 125 years after the Great Storm of 1900 decimated Galveston Island.

On Sept. 8, 1900, a massive hurricane tore through Galveston, creating an estimated $30 million worth of damages at the time.

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The last wind speed measured 100 miles an hour before instruments were blown away. The tide reached roughly 16 feet above sea level; the barometric pressure at 7:30 PM “was the lowest ever recorded in the United States to that day,” according to accounts in a Rosenberg Library exhibit

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