As Hurricane Harvey slams Texas, a look at the most devastating storms in U.S. history

Vacationers flocking to the beaches and grand bath houses of the Oleander City – as Galveston, Tex., was called in 1900 – didn’t listen. Neither did most of the city’s 38,000 residents.

Fake news. That’s what they thought when weather scientists warned that a storm was coming and everyone should seek higher ground. The story was buried on Page 3 of the Daily News that morning, Sept. 8.