{"id":7441,"date":"2020-04-20T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2023-12-09T21:04:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T03:04:50","slug":"mfdj-04-20-2020-the-galveston-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=7441","title":{"rendered":"MFDJ 04\/20\/2020: The Galveston Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Steadily Rising Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n

On September 8, 1900,\u00a0Galveston\u2014a low-elevation\u00a0sand island\u00a0just off Texas\u2019s Gulf coast\u2014was struck by a category 4\u00a0hurricane\u00a0that\u00a0decimated\u00a0the island and\u00a0killed\u00a0thousands of people, making it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

On the day before the\u00a0hurricane\u00a0struck, heavy swells were noticed in the Gulf, and by the early morning of the 8th, coastal areas of Galveston had begun to flood. Rain showers started later that morning, with heavy rains beginning by noon. By 3:30 p.m. water covered half the city, and it continued to steadily rise until about 8:30 p.m. In total, the storm surge rose about 15-20 feet,\u00a0completely submerging\u00a0the island (which sat just 9 feet above sea level). In addition to the flood of water, hurricane-velocity\u00a0winds\u00a0started around 5 p.m., topping out at an estimated 140 miles per hour and turning debris into deadly projectiles. The storm center passed over around 8:30 p.m., and finally, around 11 p.m., the wind began to subside.<\/p>\n

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The next morning,\u00a0survivors\u00a0discovered the hurricane had left mass\u00a0devastation\u00a0in its wake. The lowest\u00a0estimate\u00a0of those killed is\u00a06,000, though estimates of 8,000 or 12,000 are also common. More than 3,600 houses (about half of the residence portion of the island) were totally\u00a0destroyed, with all remaining structures suffering varying levels of\u00a0damage.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0vast number\u00a0of\u00a0dead, combined with the heat and humidity, quickly created a horrible\u00a0stench\u00a0across the island. Residents originally tried to bury many of the dead\u00a0at sea, but when the tide washed the bodies\u00a0back to shore, they began to\u00a0burn\u00a0the bodies instead.<\/p>\n

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\nA victim lies beneath the wreckage.<\/em><\/p>\n

A nationwide\u00a0relief effort\u00a0was launched to help Galveston\u2019s devastated population, and in the months and years following the hurricane, Galveston\u00a0rebuilt. Between 1902 and 1904 a 3-mile-long\u00a0seawall\u00a0was built to try to mitigate the damage of future storm surges. Likewise, from 1904 to 1910, sand was used to\u00a0raise\u00a0the city\u2019s elevation 17 feet near the seawall, with a gradual downward\u00a0slope\u00a0toward the bay.<\/p>\n

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\nMen recovering bodies.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the time of the hurricane,\u00a0Galveston\u00a0had been a\u00a0major port\u00a0and a\u00a0leading city\u00a0in Texas and the Gulf region. However, afterward, Galveston never regained its former glory, and Houston became the powerhouse in the region instead.<\/p>\n

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\nPreparing to cremate a rotting body.<\/em><\/p>\n

Culled from:\u00a0Newspapers.Com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Arcane Excerpts<\/span><\/h3>\n

Parents would be wise to heed this timeless advice from\u00a0Sex Searchlights and Sane Sex Ethics: An Anthology of Sex Knowledge<\/a>\u00a0by Dr. Lee Alexander Stone (1926):<\/p>\n

Prevention of the Habit of Masturbation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The keynote of preventing the habit is, carefully to watch the child from its earliest infancy. We know that not infrequently stupid or vicious nursemaids, wet-nurses, and even governesses, ignorantly or deliberately induce the habit in children under their charge. This, of course, must be prevented. Even children of the age of nine, ten, eleven years should not be left alone, but always be under supervision. Too close friendship between boys or girls, particularly of different ages, should be looked upon with suspicion.<\/p>\n

A number of children should never sleep in the same room without supervision by an older person.<\/p>\n

The sleeping together of two in the same bed, whether it be two children or a grown person and a child, should not be permitted under any circumstances. I admit of no exceptions to this demand. It makes no difference whether the other person is a mother, a father, a brother or a sister. Leaving out of the question any\u00a0deliberate\u00a0<\/em>element, the thing is dangerous; for, very often, unintentionally, unwittingly, masturbation, is initiated by this intimate contact.<\/p>\n

The child – boy or girl – should sleep alone, on a rather hard mattress. The covering should be light. A coverlet may be put over the feet. The child should always sleepi with the arms out upon the cover or blanket, never\u00a0under\u00a0<\/em>the same. If this is done from childhood on, it is very easy to get used to this way of sleeping, and many a case of masturbation will thus be obviated. The child should not be permitted to loll in bed; it must be taught to get up as soon as it awakes in the morning. The general bringing up must be of a strengthening, hardening character; and this applies both to the body and the will.<\/p>\n

Every factor liable to give rise to the habit should be removed. Thus, for instance, eczema about the genitals, strongly acid urine, seatworms, and the like, should be treated until cured. That anything having a tendency prematurely to awaken the sexual instinct should be rigorously avoided, goes without saying.<\/p>\n

[I had to look up ‘seatworms’ – it’s an old term for pinworms. – DeSpair<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Steadily Rising Yet Truly Morbid Fact! On September 8, 1900,\u00a0Galveston\u2014a low-elevation\u00a0sand island\u00a0just off Texas\u2019s Gulf coast\u2014was struck by a category 4\u00a0hurricane\u00a0that\u00a0decimated\u00a0the island and\u00a0killed\u00a0thousands of people, making it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. On the day before the\u00a0hurricane\u00a0struck, heavy swells were noticed in the Gulf, and by the early morning of the 8th, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-library"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10382,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions\/10382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}