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Isaac Monroe Cline (1861–1955) was the chief meteorologist at the Galveston, Texas office of the U.S. Weather Bureau from 1889 to 1901. Cline played an important role in influencing the storm's later destruction by authoring an article for the Galveston Daily News, in which he derided the idea of significant damage to Galveston from a hurricane as "a crazy idea".
Kindle $13.99. September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster ...
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Isaac's Storm is a nonfiction book published in 2000 by the American author and journalist Erik Larson. Subtitled A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Storm in History, the book chronicles the events surrounding the September 9, 1900 Galveston, Texas hurricane which killed between 6,000-10,000 people, making it the deadliest natural disaster in US history.
As the director of the Galveston Weather Bureau, Isaac Cline believed he was capable of accurately predicting hurricanes and protecting his town. Unfortunately, however, his mistake cost the lives of thousands of innocent people. Learn about the deadly hurricane that devastated Texas in 1900. Isaac’s Storm (1999) is the story of the deadliest ...
In 1891, in the wake of a tropical storm that Galveston weathered handily, the editors of the Galveston News invited Isaac to appraise the city's vulnerability to extreme weather. Isaac, father of three, husband, lover, scientist, and creature of the new heroic American age, wrote: "The opinion held by some who are unacquainted with the actual conditions of things, that Galveston will at some ...
Feb 6, 2014 · The hurricane of mention brought intense winds – topping 200 mph by estimates – and a high storm surge. While the storm itself was a beast and seemed to hit Galveston at an improbably dangerous 45-degree angle, it was not unforeseeable. In fact, days before the storm slammed into the illustrious and blossoming coastal city, Cuba printed in ...
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Oct 19, 2011 · Meticulously researched and vividly written, Isaac's Storm is based on Cline's own letters, telegrams, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the hows and whys of great storms. Ultimately, however, it is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets nature's last great uncontrollable force.
