Picture of the Day - 3

(Waves crashing into the Seawall reach over the memorial to the hurricane of 1900 as Hurricane Ike slams Galveston. (Johnny Hanson: Chronicle))

And, if you don't know the story of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, it's worth looking up. 6,000 people died. Here's an aftermath picture I posted two years ago.

This picture is bigger if you click it.