http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/hurricanes/articles/hurricane-historical-hurricanes-galveston_2010-05-27
This hurricane killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people. At first it began as a tropical storm, towards the Central Atlantic on August 27th. As it moved over Cuba it still remain as a tropical storm, but then as it moved passed just west of key west to Florida it became a hurricane.
The hurricane made an abrupt turn to the west in the eastern Gulf on September 6th and lead towards Texas. The hurricanes started to progress higher speed and intensity. The wind gust of over 120 miles per hour pierced Galveston Island and the seas rose to over 20 feet in height. More then thirty-six hundred homes were destroyed. The damage cost estimated to be over 30 million dollars.
The storm maintained tropical storm strength as it tracked up through Oklahoma and Kansas. It then weakened and moved through the Great Lakes, over The St. Lawrence River and back out over the North.
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