History shows that Blagden and the citizens of Galveston had a better understanding of what was heading their way than the U.S. Weather Bureau’s office in Washington, D.C. In 1956, the Forecasts and Synoptic Division of the bureau sent a letter in response to a citizen’s inquiry in which it stated they could find “no reference to the issuance of hurricane warnings for the Texas or Louisiana coasts” for the Great Storm of 1900. Rather, the only references that can be found are tropical storm warnings “from Pensacola to Galveston” on the evening of September 7th and a shift in location on the following morning from “Galveston to Brownsville.” A report stating that Galveston was in imminent danger or acknowledgement that a hurricane had entered the gulf never came.
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