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The Galveston Light
is a web page for the Galveston, Texas, area. It also presents
a continuous look at weather on all the
coasts of North America. The Galveston Light is part of Arrow
Weather and is a service of The Vasthead.
To view more current weather conditions surrounding Galveston,
go the Arrow Weather page for the Houston
area. To view weather on all the coasts, go to the Coasts
of North America page.
Above: "A
Light Streaks on a Beach."Appfel Park, East Beach, in Galveston
after a brief summer storm in 1985. A sudden summer shower had
driven off most of the remaining beach people when a lone vehicle
appeared, leaving its tail light streak just under the horizon.
Time exposure (about 30 seconds) taken with a pocket 35mm camera
set on a tripod. Click photo for a higher quality image. The "light"
on the Galveston Light pages is taken from this photo.
Top right:: Moonrise at Galveston, May 12, 2006. The statue commemorates
the Galveston 1900 Storm, the worst natural disaster to ever strike
the United States. The death toll for that hurricane was twice
as high as the attack on the World Trade Center and many times
greater than the toll from Hurricane Katrina.
The statue sits on the Galveston Seawall, a massive barrier against
future storms. The Seawall contains the world's longest continuous
sidewalk. Using
much of the wreckage from the storm, Galveston was rebuilt to
a higher elevation. Today, the island city rises from the very
ruins of its greatest catastrophe.
The arrow
picture is one of many "Arrow at 61st Street Pier" images.
Other variations appear throughout the Vasthead web sites, and
they are all based on one
slide. The photo was taken in Galveston in 1980. Unlike the
moonlit statue, the "moonlit" arrow picture was actually
shot in broad daylight.
All photos by
Grady McAllister except where otherwise
noted or part of an advertisement.
The Galveston Light
is a service of The Vasthead.
© Copyright 2002-2008 by Grady McAllister.
The Galveston Seawall
at dusk, December, 1980.
The Galveston Light has two pages: A
Galveston page and a page for all
the coastal weather of North America.
Unless otherwise stated, all web page design, text, and photography
are by Grady McAllister. Contact
The Galveston Light. These pages are edited using Macromedia
Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop. The
design last changed:
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:19 PM
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This page is hosted as part of VASTHEAD.COM.
Be
not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices
That,
if I then had waked after long sleep
Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again.
William Shakespeare in "The Tempest"
West Beach, Galveston,
Texas, October, 1999
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