Isaac's Storm : The Drowning of Galveston (edit title)

Misty K edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Isaac's Storm : The Drowning of Galveston Monday, October 26 2009.

• Added: Hurricane predicted, no one listens, Galveston is destroyed (the first time).

Shelfari edited the description of Isaac's Storm : The Drowning of Galveston Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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 devestating 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Isaac's Storm : The Drowning of Galveston Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: : (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Isaac Monroe Cline: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Isaac's Storm : The Drowning of Galveston Thursday, July 16 2009.

• THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT of Friday, September 7, 1900, Isaac Monroe Cline found himself waking to a persistent sense of something gone wrong.