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Aug 15, 1983:
Hurricane Alicia pounds Texas coast
Hurricane Alicia forms south of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico
on this day in 1983. Three days later, the Texas Gulf Coast is
slammed by the storm, causing 21 deaths, thousands of injuries
and billions of dollars in damages.
When Alicia hit Galveston, Texas, it was the first hurricane to
hit the United States in three years. It was a Category 3
hurricane, with sustained winds of nearly 100 mph and gusts up
to 127 mph. The town of Seabrook on Galveston Bay endured a
12-foot storm surge and an 11-foot tide completely submerged
buildings in the Brownwood development. Alicia also dropped
prodigious amounts of rain on the area. Houston received 11
inches in a short period of time. Fortunately, Alicia moved so
fast that inland areas did not suffer deadly flooding.
Hurricane Alicia also set off many tornadoes in southeast Texas.
Fourteen were reported between Galveston and Houston in one day.
In Houston, window panes on skyscrapers were broken by flying
debris, unleashing flying shards of glass into the air over the
downtown area. On the second day, nine more tornadoes were
reported north of Houston.
In addition to the 21 people who lost their lives in the storms,
3,000 homes suffered severe damage and thousands of people
required shelter assistance from the Red Cross. The $2 billion
in damages recorded was a record for hurricane damage in Texas
at the time. The environmental costs were also staggering.
Thousands of trees were blown down. Galveston’s West Beach lost
150 feet of sand to sudden erosion from the storm. For the most
part, though, Galveston’s seawall successfully protected the
city. Afterwards, the Army Corps of Engineers estimated that
without it, much of the city would have been destroyed.
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