and on august 28 and in researching where katrina o. in the pecking order of natural disasters that have hit the country, i started researching the hurricane of 1900 that hit galveston. at more than a galveston, all but wiped it off the map. it was a fascinating story and i think i'm into it more and more, i don't think a lot of people know how bad the folks in the gulf region have a pretty good idea, but the average person i don't knows. the more i research, the more deeply into what i got. i decided maybe i could make a buck out of this. i have limited skills as you probably see every morning. i heard a guy come in his name is bill hoagland is a wonderful author in his own right but is a marvelous researcher. as he delved into this and were shuttled me information, the more i became fascinated by this and this is a terrific story and represented a lot of this country at the turn-of-the-century. the can-do attitude and belief we were masters of our domain, that we could take anything and make it better. galveston 100 years earlier was