With a strengthening Hurricane Harvey forecast to slam East Texas, The Post looks back on storms that have wreaked havoc on the U.S.
Sept. 8, 1900 A large part of the city of Galveston, Tex., was reduced to rubble after being hit by a surprise hurricane in September 1900. More than 6,000 people were killed and 10,000 left homeless from the Great Storm, which remains the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. AP