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Storm Over the Bay

Storm Over the Bay

O'Rear, Mary Jo

Paperback

Series: Gulf Coast Books, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Corpus C, Book 16

Environmental StudiesRegional: SouthwestUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1623495504
ISBN13: 9781623495503
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: Jun 12 2017
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Since the late 1830s, the natural harbor at the mouth of South Texas' Nueces River has been a center of regional maritime trade. But by the early 1900s, a storm of political wrangling, cronyism, and corruption was threatening to scuttle the city's efforts toward securing a dependable deep water port to attract international commerce to Corpus Christi. On September 14, 1919, a massive hurricane struck the bay, burying the downtown area under ten feet of debris and killing as many as one thousand people. The storm left millions of dollars of damage in its wake. The citizens of Corpus Christi, rather than being demoralized, however, were galvanized by the disaster.

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