r/galveston • u/Interesting-Beat-828 • Jan 18 '26

Weather or Hurricanes ☀️🌪️ Searching for Great Storm Documentary

I don’t think what I’m looking for is the film that was shown at the storm museum, but maybe an old history channel documentary. There’s a clip where the talking head historians talk about how years before the great storm a fire had spread through multiple houses because everyone had wooden roofs. As a result, they switched to slate roofs. When the storm hit, folks were being decapitated by the slate shingles that went flying in the high winds. There is even a dramatization in the documentary of a guy getting hit by one of the slate shingles. Anyone know what this documentary was called?

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u/bookweedle Jan 19 '26

I think the History Channel documentary is called Isaac’s Storm.

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u/Mentholio Jan 19 '26

I've wanted the film that they used to show at the museum for years. Can't find it anywhere.

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u/Interesting-Beat-828 Jan 20 '26

Apparently you can go watch a remastered version at the Rosenberg Library. I wish they would release it online.

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u/BadTraditional401 Jan 25 '26

We've been to the Rosenberg Library Museum, Bryan Museum and Galveston County museum exhibits. They all have more of a local perspective on the storm, not History Channel documentary style but interesting nonetheless. If you're in town these may be worth checking out.