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Praticia Bellis Bixel talks about the aftermath of the great storm of Galveston in 1900. Bixel, like Larson, talks about the stubbornness of the city official, she mentions warnings given to city officials about storms and even floods but they turned them down multiple times. Bixel then talks about the suggestions that were made to save the city from future storms, government officials finally agree and decide to fund the city for professional engineers and construction of the great “Sea Wall”. Once the funds were official, engineers and workers started working on the Sea Wall, a project that ended in 1911 and was put to the test in 1915. Other organization suggested many improvements to the island, like the maintenance of the natural land to the magnificent work of raising the city. I believed that Bixel was trying to show the struggle of the citizens of Galveston, their ignorance when deciding what is best for them and their success in recovering a completely destroyed city. Just like Ploopy1 mentions, Galveston had to make sacrifices in able to keep the city safe from future disasters, this meant facing only one side of a political view and ignoring the rest. Galveston is an important city that made mistakes but eventually learned from them, the hard way. Just like the Chicago fire, the citizens of Galveston came together and denied leaving the Island because of its storms, instead, they invested and never gave up on the island. Again, just like Ploopy1 mentions, I also believed that is important for society to work together as a unit and but not just in time of crisis but in time of need, need for improvements within our society and need to help our natural world bloom.
