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The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .
The hurricane caused great loss of life, with a death toll of between 6,000 and 12,000 people; [31] the number most cited in official reports is 8,000, [26] [43] giving the storm the third-highest number of deaths of all Atlantic hurricanes, after the Great Hurricane of 1780 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998. [44]
All Galveston homes are damaged, of which 3,636 are destroyed; [4] numerous public buildings and places of worship are also damaged or destroyed. [5] [6] The damage toll is estimated at $30 million in the city. [4] Approximately 10,000 people in Galveston are left homeless, representing roughly a fourth of the city's total population. [7]
Texas 1980 Hurricane: 6 $630 million (1980 USD) Hurricane Allen: South Texas 1980 Heat wave: 1,700 $20 billion 1980 United States heat wave: Central and southern states Official death toll, may have been higher; damage figure not adjusted for inflation. 1980 Volcano: 57 $1.1 billion 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: Washington state
U.S. Rep. Kay Granger, with her district director Barbara A. Ragland, makes calls outside the Cash America International building where she had an office. A tornado on March 28, 2000, heavily ...
Satellite image map of Hurricane Ike after landfall on the Texas Coast. Landfall had been predicted near Freeport, Texas, [24] [25] by the National Hurricane Center, as of Wednesday, September 10, 2008. However, the actual landfall was further east, over the east end [6] of Galveston Island (near Texas City, TX), with the eye centered over ...
Since 1950, there have been more than 9,700 tornadoes in Texas, killing hundreds and leaving behind billions of dollars worth of damage. On March 21, 2022, a tornado tore through Round Rock ...
A map demonstrating the spread of wildfires across the Texas Panhandle and into Oklahoma. Lon Tweeten for TIME The Windy Deuce Fire in Moore County, which covers more than 144,000 acres, was 55% ...