What is Reddit's opinion of Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History?

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The big Galveston hurricane. Erik Larson (the Devil in the White City guy) wrote a book about it called Isaac's Storm. Pretty interesting read.

Lot of the houses survived the wind, but the storm surge lifted big rafts of debris that plowed across the island. I was in Biloxi for Katrina, and even though the building was more than tough enough to survive the wind you could hear shit banging around out in the darkness. I can't imagine what that would have been like in wooden buildings.

He was a pioneer in establishing what we know now as the NWS so you aren’t far off. One of the best books I’ve ever read is called <em>Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History</em> by Erik Larson(Devil in the White City) that reads like a firsthand account recreated with what’s known from the actual history.

It’s a relatively quick read and it really dives into interesting things like how poor communication(among other socio-political issues) between the US and Cuba prevented the news of the 1900 storm getting out in enough time to do much about it. The book was gifted to me when I lived in Houston, and interestingly enough also explains how Houston became the dominant port city as a latent effect of the 1900 storm’s effect on Galveston and any future it may have had as the big-dog port city.

Pressed send too soon. Do yourself a favor and read about this storm in Isaacs Storm by Erik Larson. This storm and this man are why we now have a national weather service.

https://www.amazon.com/Isaacs-Storm-Deadliest-Hurricane-History/dp/0375708278

Have you read Isaac’s Storm by Peter Larson*? It’s about the 1900 Hurricane and is written by the same guy who wrote The Devil in the White City that’s being made into a movie. It’s a fantastic read and really gave me perspective on the region after moving to Houston years back. I highly recommend it if you haven’t already.

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Really great non-fiction read on this and how one man screwed over a whole lotta people by denying what the Cuban meteorological office kept telling him was going to happen: Isaac's Storm.

Good to hear, yea I really liked it as well.

If you ever get the chance, I would recommend Isaac's Storm which tells the story of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane which effectively wiped the city off the face of the map.

It’s got that same gripping account storytelling of the Circus fire.

Up front: I believe Climate Change is happening and it's 100% been accelerated by Humanity.

BUT - This article reeks of my favorite climate change denier argument against climate change. One I hear every winter in Minnesota.

"It is cold, where I live, therefore climate change doesn't real."

Until we have a LARGE dataset demonstrating a trend in increasingly severe hurricane seasons we cannot point at a single event and say "SEE CLIMATE CHANGE!" Texas has been hit by severe hurricanes before.

Climate change is proven by the trends, not the single data points.

You can't ask people to believe good science with one sentence and the very next use the same garbage arguments they are using against your points.

I would recommend the book Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson for anyone interested in reading more. It's a first hand account about the storm and its aftermath from a US Weather Bureau (now the NWS) employee (Isaac Cline) stationed in Galveston during the storm. It also covers some of the politics that resulted in residents having no warning that a storm may be approaching and contains various other accounts and anedotes that surfaced after the storm. Its a good read if you're into that sort of thing. Would make a damn good movie too IMO.

http://www.amazon.com/Isaacs-Storm-Deadliest-Hurricane-History/dp/0375708278

There's a great book about this disaster - www.amazon.com/dp/0375708278 . Highly recommend reading it!

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You've got that right. This is an awesome book by an awesome author about the 1900 Category 4 hurricane that almost scraped Galveston off the map.

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Read Issac's Storm. A great story, even if you know how it ends...

How 'bout this onethis one?

I second this, The Historic Pleasure Pier is fun for kids but no more historic than just standing on the Seawall.

You can't swing a dead cat without hitting something old or historic in Galveston. Most of which don't have websites, so until you go you just won't know. But when you get there you will have no shortage of things to do.

Read this, not super happy pregnancy material, but the best book about Galveston by far. This one is supposedly pretty good to, bit I haven't read it yet.