Which one is more devestating?

[PuritanCovenanter]

1900
Sept. 8, Galveston, Tex.: an estimated 6,000"“8,000 died in hurricane and tidal surge. The "œGalveston Hurricane" is considered the deadliest in U.S. history.

Of course we don't know the death toll, but as far as population and percentage it will probably look like Galveston, Texas suffered more than Hurricane Katrina could unleash. Don't you think?

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Here is Wikipedia's list of the deadliest US natural disasters (not counting the North American smallpox epidemic of 1775-1782 which killed an estimated 130,000 people).

[Edited on 9-1-2005 by VirginiaHuguenot]

 

[PuritanCovenanter]

So, the smallpox epidemic was by far the worst tragedy to hit America. Aye?

 

[Plimoth Thom]

Tonight at 8pm the History Channel will air "Issac's Storm" a documentary about the 1900 Galveston hurricane. The big difference between that tragedy and Katrina is that people knew Katrina was coming, and many were able to evacute. Just think of what would have happened if no one knew Katrina was coming, and were going about their normal daily business when the storm hit.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Originally posted by puritancovenanter
So, the smallpox epidemic was by far the worst tragedy to hit America. Aye?

Perhaps. I think around 850,000 Americans were killed in the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic. If we redefine the parameters of the question a little one might consider the death toll from the War Between the States (perhaps just under 700,000) or from abortion (40 million+).

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Like the Tsunami....

Waveland, Mississippi was wiped off the map by Katrina

 

[Puritanhead]

I had passing thoughts that one day New Orleans would be under the sea when passing through the city past July. It's hard to believe it happened in less than a month... I knew it was below sea level and waiting for some calamity... New Orleans is kind of like Venice, Italy... it's probably way past the half-life.

The Big Easy probably won't be around except as some small island enclave in a few decades-- assuming it's salvaged. I don't think they can sustain it. Nature has a way of reclaiming what it wants.

 

[Richard King]

This will sound cruel but I don't mean it to be. It is just one of those things that maybe a lot of people think...but they decide to just not speak it. When I visited the French Quarter and Bourbon St. it seemed there was a wickedness or an oppressive evil feeling actually in the air. There were fortune tellers and "see-ers" every few feet dressed up in their voodoo best taking money to tell folks what was coming. I wonder how they faired.

...and then from the harsh and judgemental part of me, there is that story about a wise man building his house upon a rock
that keeps coming to mind.

 

[kceaster]

The worst tragedies to hit the American soil was the war between the states and the Indian wars.

Both could have been avoided if not for the sinfulness of man.

In Christ,

KC