Isaac Cline

Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History. New York: Crown Publishers, 1999. 323 pages In the 1900’s, the chief weather man Isaac Cline thought the city of Galveston, Texas was untouchable by anything. In 1900, an immaculate hurricane hit this city. Water levels rose almost two stories high, and houses and cars were ripped from the ground. In “Isaacs Storm” Isaac Cline is telling stories of what happened during the storm, and the aftermath of it all. This book shows the man vs nature aspect…

imprecisely forecasted tranquil weather in his brawl to preserve his position as leader of the Weather Bureau. In single unforgettable predict, Moore forecasted cold, obvious weather for the investiture of William H. Taft. “Snow fell”(p. 268). Isaac Cline come to consider that “When a position administrator performed job that involved the concentration of the community and was highly praised by the media . . . Moore often sent him to several division of the globe where he could not make obvious…

inventions and break throughs, and the severity of the consequences that could follow if you weren’t humble. It is the story of an overconfident meteorologist named Isaac Cline, and his experience of the devastating hurricane that struck Galveston Texas, in 1900 leaving more than 6,000 people dead in it’s destruction. This hurricane occurs after Cline stated that a hurricane…

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…

200 New Yorkers died. About four feet covered Albany and killed 400 people. -March 1889, General Greely ordered Isaac Cline to take over the failing Galveston station, and to establish the first Texas-wide weather…

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Throughout the years a lot of catastrophes happens around the world causing death and destruction. On September 8, 1900 in Galveston, Texas, a category 4 hurricane hit (Hurricane Galveston, nicknamed the “Oleander City”). As a result of the damaging winds and major flooding, many people to lost their lives. The 38,000 residents of Galveston were unaware of the disastrous hurricane coming there way. It was extremely horrible that it took more than 8,000 of their fellow citizens. At the time of…

This shows us how vulnerable we are and how every aspect of our normal life can change drastically with one deadly hurricane, just as it did in Eric Larson’s, Isaacs Storm. Unlike in Isaac’s time where the only inventions that forecasters and weather prediction bureau…

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