About this episode

Robert Treto, Sr. shares his experiences living through Hurricane Beulah in 1967 while working at a local hospital.

One of the Rio Grande Valley’s major moments of history happened in September 1967: the infamously catastrophic Hurricane Beulah. Robert Treto, Sr. was a teenager living in Harlingen, Texas - an area directly hit by the storm. Working in the Engineering department at a local hospital, he was tasked with helping keep the hospital running and keeping staff members safe. Hurricane Beulah devastated large parts of Mexico, the Eastern Caribbean, and South Texas. It still is one of the ...

People in this episode

Host: Samuel Sanchez

Guest: Robert Treto, Sr.

Topics covered

• Hurricane Beulah
• personal history
• Harlingen
• disaster response
• 1960s history

Keywords

• Hurricane Beulah
• Robert Treto
• Harlingen
• 1967
• disaster
• Texas history
• hospital response

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Harlingen, Texas

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