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Published by Vintage Books USA, 2000, softcover, index, 321 pages, condition: new.
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 hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster 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. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.
The suspense carries you at high speed. The feeling the book gives readers reminds me of the movie Valkyrie. You know the bomb plot wont succeed, you know Hitler will survive, but you still think maybe maybe it will work out, and youre filled with suspense. So with this book. You know the storm will devastate Galveston, you know thousands will die, but you are still held in suspense, hoping for survivors.
Well-written, a page turner, painful - the excitement and the tragedy of the storm.
