Storm

People often bemoan the fact that the approval of the press has been on the decline since the mid 90’s where it was 35% down to 18% today. There are a number of reasons for this and one is what is euphemistically called hype. They chase after ratings with exaggerations and the recent hurricane in Houston is a good example. All the stations were using superlatives to describe the storm as the worst in history when in fact another storm to hit the Houston in 1900 was worse. The Great Galveston Hurricane was a Category 4 storm, with winds of up to 145 mph (233 km/h), which made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas, in the United States, leaving about 6,000 to 12,000 dead. It remains to the present day the deadliest natural disaster in US history. The winds were ten miles per hour faster than the 135 in the Houston storm and the storm surge was 15 feet compared to 12 feet. Apparently no news people took the 5 minutes it took me to google storms.