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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".
Erik Larson (born January 3, 1954) is an American journalist and author of mostly historical nonfiction books. His books include Isaac's Storm (1999), The Devil in the White City (2003), [1] In the Garden of Beasts (2011), and Dead Wake (2015). The Devil in the White City won the 2004 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category, among other awards.
Cline estimated that thousands of lives were saved because of his decision not to wait for approval. However, no eyewitnesses reported seeing Cline personally warning people along the beach. Writer Erik Larson argued in his book Isaac's Storm that Cline did not warn anyone in Galveston prior to the issuance of his office's hurricane warning. [2]
There may be a tendency to think of the war in the same breath as Abraham Lincoln, but Larson, whose history-but-make-it-fun books include "Isaac's Storm" and "The Devil in the White City," argues ...
Larson sets his narrative over a short but momentous time span, from Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 to the firing on Fort Sumter five months later. Erik Larson's next book closely tracks the ...
Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun is a 1995 non-fiction book by American author Erik Larson.Through the lens of a 1988 school shooting in Virginia Beach, the author explores America's gun culture and the ease in acquiring such weapons as the one used by the school shooter, the MAC-11.
Isaac's Storm – Erik Larson's non-fiction book recounting the hurricane and the life of Galveston meteorologist Isaac Cline "Wasn't That a Mighty Storm" – An American folk song about the 1900 Galveston hurricane, later popularized by musicians such as Eric Von Schmidt and Tom Rush; A Weekend in September - Nonfiction book about the hurricane
The National Hurricane Center is also watching other storm activity in the Atlantic Ocean including Tropical Storm Joyce, which formed in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean on Friday. The storm ...