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Galveston Texas was hit by the most famous hurricane in the early 1900s Katrina is the most famous of recent Hurricaines due to the flooding of new Orleans that resulted froâ¦m it. Hurricane Katrina is more famous than Ike. It was also more recent. Ike hit the entire east coast.
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane. The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history was not Hurricane Katrina. Not even close. It was the storm that hit Galveston, Texas, exactly 108 years and one week ago. That storm killed about 8,000 Americans and leveled what had been the largest city in Texas. It was a vicious storm with 130 mph winds. But, like Katrina, it needn't have been as deadly as it was.