Today in history: Hurricane Carla roared ashore The storm devastated the Texas coast. There were 43 deaths, about half of which were caused by the tornadoes and floods that accompanied the hurricane. Damage estimates exceeded $300 million. MORE: HTX
Sixty-one years ago, the way the world saw hurricanes changed forever, as I’ll explain. Carla began like so many storms in the Caribbean before beginning that northwest trek toward the Texas coast. I’ve done some archive research and here is the National Hurricane Center path from those days:Over the Gulf, Carla would become a Category 5, 175mph hurricane in the early morning hours of the 11th. Winds dropped to 145-150mph before striking the coast later that day along with devastating tornadoes.
A typical scene in Galveston, Texas on Sunday, Sept. 10, 1961, was this inundated street, one of many closed by rising tides of hurricane Carla. An aerial view of a portion of Dow Chemical Companys huge chemical plant at Freeport, Texas on Sept. 12, 1961. High tides, heavy rains and a break in the river levee inundated much of the city as hurricane Carla hit the Texas coast.
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