Isaac's Storm

September 8, 1900, began innocently in Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteoroligist for the U.S Weather Bureau, failed to grasp the meaning of the deep-sea swells and winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself engulfed by a monster hurricane that destroyed the town and killed over 6,000 people in what remains the greatest natural in American history and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the uncontrollable force of nature. "Erik Larson's accomplishment is to have made this great storm story a very human one...without ignoring the hurricane itself" -The Boston Globe-