2017 Minnesota Fishing License Fees. Minnesota fishing license fees remain the same as they were for the 2016 season. Licenses go on sale March 1. Resident. 24 hour - $10. Individual, season - $22. Husband/Wife combination - $35.
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane. The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history was not Hurricane Katrina. Not even close. It was the storm that hit Galveston, Texas, exactly 108 years and one week ago. That storm killed about 8,000 Americans and leveled what had been the largest city in Texas. It was a vicious storm with 130 mph winds. But, like Katrina, it needn't have been as deadly as it was.
Published 8:00 am, Friday, September 23, 2016. GALVESTON â Galveston has officially dedicated an $85 million wastewater treatment plant built to withstand storm surges like the one generated by Hurricane Ike, which severely damaged the main plant in 2008. The main wastewater treatment plant, on the same site as the new plant, was swamped by Ike's storm surge, which destroyed the facility's electrical system and put it out of operation for more than a week.