Today
marks the anniversary of one of the deadliest and costliest hurricanes to hit
the U.S. A Category 4 slammed into
Galveston in 1900 killing over 6000 people and destroying any chanced the city
had of becoming a major player in Texas’ economy as a sea port and resort.
Erik
Larsen wrote a fascinating non-fiction book, Isaac’s Storm, following Isaac
Cline, the director of the Weather Bureau in Galveston. He stitches together a minute-by-minute time
line of the storm as it approached the island and then passed over the
city. Larsen chronicled several families
as their situation deteriorated with the rising waters from reviewing hundreds
of eyewitness accounts. Some houses weathered
the storm so well on the leeward side of the island, the people inside were
shocked to see so many other buildings destroyed.
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