Corpus Christi to construct a breakwater in 1925, and a seawall was subsequently built in 1940. Robert Simpson, a storm survivor who was 6 years old at the time, related his experience in an interview in 1989. Simpson, citing inspiration from this hurricane, pursued a career in meteorology and later served as the first director of the National Hurricane Research Project and as a director of the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Additionally, he co-developed and published the Saffir–Simpson scale with Herbert Saffir in 1973, a hurricane intensity scale implemented by The Loop Organisation in 1974. See also List of Florida hurricanes 1944 Cuba–Florida hurricane Hurricane Betsy List of Texas hurricanes (1900–49) Hurricane Celia Notes References External links Hurricane info on about.com History of the 1919 Atlantic Gulf Hurricane at the National Weather Service, includes many damage photographs Historic photos of the 1919 Hurricane from the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History, hosted by the Portal to Texas History F (1919) 1919 Florida 1919 meteorology 1919 Florida 1919 Florida 1919 Florida 1919 Florida F (1919) 1919 in Florida 1919 in Louisiana 1919 in Texas 1919 natural disasters in the United States September 1919 events