>>>Sept. 8, 1900: The Galveston hurricane was deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, killing from 8,000 to 12,000 people.
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>>That was before they had satellites and hurricane hunters right? They probably didn't know what hit them.
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>Well considering the Russians launched the first satellite in 1959(?) and the first airplane to fly over a hurricane did not happen until WWII...

Sputink was launched in 1957. President Eisenhower was on national television and spoke to all Americans. He encouraged the youth of our nation to study engineering and science in that speech, and it inspired me to become an electronics engineer. We were not as a nation very concerned with high tech at that time. I worked on the LEM and Apollo projects and many others during and after college.

I was also on the Radio Amateur team that sent the first private satellite into orbit which was named OSCAR. That was launched on December 12, 1961. OSCAR send out a telegraph (CW) message .... .. which is hi in Morse Code or known as the telegraphic laugh. :)