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PHOTOS: Hurricane Alicia in 1983

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015
This aerial view of the Flagship Hotel shows the damage caused by Hurricane Alicia on Galveston Island, Texas, Aug. 19, 1983.
Sail boats as they were piled up at the Houston Yacht Club Thursday, August 18, 1983 after Hurricane Alicia hit the Galveston, Texas Area.
Sign, put up by the owner of property destroyed by Hurricane Alicia, Thursday, August 18, 1983 says it all.
Sail boats as they were piled up at the Houston Yacht Club Thursday, August 18, 1983 after Hurricane Alicia hit the Galveston, Texas Area.
A lone surfer walks the rocks of a jetty at Galveston, Texas looking for the big waves that are being produced by Hurricane Alicia as it churns the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston.
Tree, parts of buildings and broken glass litter the streets of downtown Houston Thursday, August 18, 1983 after Hurricane Alicia's high winds raked the area after coming ashore.
Boats, cranes and other debris line the highway leaving from Houston-Galveston Thursday, August 18, 1983 after Hurricane Alicia came ashore with 100 mile an hour winds.
Brick wall of a motel came tumbling down as Hurricane Alicia’s winds and tornado knocked on parked cars at Webster, Texas on Thursday, August 18, 1983.
Hurricane Alicia flipped and tore up this trailer park on Galveston Island, Texas on Thursday, August 18, 1983 as she moved ashore with its 115 mile an hour winds.
Sailboat washed ashore with others stacked on another at the Bal Harbor of Nassau Bay, Texas on Thursday, August 18, 1983 as Hurricane Alicia came with 115 mile per hour winds.
Galveston Bay over flows its banks into Seabrook, Texas early Thursday morning, August 19, 1983.
Employees of the Spin-N-Mart food store taking inventory Saturday, August 20, 1983 to determine what Hurricane Alicia left behind after it took the roof off.
Buck and Julia James search through what was once their trailer home in the east of Galveston Island, Friday, August 19, 1983.
James Welch examines tugboats that were pitched from the San Jacinto River which flows into the Galveston Bay, Thursday, August 20, 1983.
James Welch examines tugboats that were pitched from the San Jacinto River which flows into the Galveston Bay, Thursday, August 20, 1983.
Mrs. Floss Wiseman picks through the wreckage of their home on Galveston's West Beach Saturday, August 20, 1983.
Galveston Bay over flows its banks into Seabrook, Texas early Thursday morning, August 19, 1983.
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This aerial view of the Flagship Hotel shows the damage caused by Hurricane Alicia on Galveston Island, Texas, Aug. 19, 1983.
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