Isaac Cline's Influence On Galveston

Isaac Cline, along with everyone else in the weather bureau, were the reason that there were so many deaths in the 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston. The Law of Storms was referred to repeatedly throughout the book stating that storms would never enter the gulf. This thought was relied on too heavily and was pushed on the civilians as truth leading the the whole hearted belief that they were safe. “...but said his office had received no notice of anything of the kind.” Dr. Young said about the map maker mapping the weather across the country. Even once there was thought to be a hurricane, the whole bureau refused to use the term because they thought it would unnecessarily upset the public. It’s hard to not think that if the word hurricane was uttered thousands of lives would of been saved.

The American and Cuban weather forecasters had disagreements on how informing the people should be done. Forecasters in Cuban often said it as it was, referring to the storm as “a cyclonic disturbance…”. The Americans did not use the terms “cyclonic” or even risked saying hurricane for the fear of unnerving the public. So the frequent use of these terms but the Cubans upset American forecasters. Leading …show more content…
“Identification because impossible, unless the dead happened to wear some clearly distinctive piece of jewelry or clothing.” That ring was the thing that identified Cora, his wife, after she died and was found in a pile of rubble. He resized and wore it as a reminder of the storm and not only all the loss he had encountered but, all the families that had been torn apart, all the people that died, and all the property that was damaged, to a point where “the world was not in acres, but in cubic yards”. Even after everything was cleaned and damage of the storm could no longer be depicted, the ring served as a reminder of everything that was there and everything that had been lost, not only Cora's