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On this week's episode, we'll be looking at the deadliest natural disaster in American history. It was a hurricane that hit Galveston, TX in 1900 that killed anywhere from 6,000 to 12,000 people. We'll learn about why the city was unprepared, how much of the city was destroyed, and what Galveston has done to prevent a disaster like this from happening again.

Read more about the Galveston hurricane:
history.com/news/how-the-galveston-hurricane-of-1900-became-the-deadliest-u-s-natural-disaster
web.archive.org/web/20090325121125/agu.org/pubs/booksales/hurricane/Chapter_05galveston.pdf
fivethirtyeight.com/features/hurricane-harveys-impact-and-how-it-compares-to-other-storms
nytimes.com/2017/09/02/us/harvey-victims-death-toll.html

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