[shield]

Right. But there were a number of houses that survived that 1900 Galveston Hurricane.

Here is one of them: https://www.chron.com/homes/article/galveston-home-zillow-for-sale-hurricane-historic-16379747.php

[jeffers]

Yes. The blocks inside “the wall of debris” survived...largely. The ones “outside”...became the wall.