![]() ![]() “Vividly captures the devastation.” -Newsday ![]() “Erik Larson’s accomplishment is to have made this great-storm story a very human one-thanks to his use of the large number of survivors’ accounts-without ignoring the hurricane itself.” -The Boston Globe “Superb…Larson has made Cline, turn-of-the-century Galveston, and the Great Hurricane live again.” -The Wall Street Journal Though brimming with the subtleties of human nature, the nuances of history, and the poetry of landscapes, Isaac’s Storm still might best be described as a sheer page turner” -Melissa Faye Greene, author of Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing “There is electricity in these pages, from the crackling wit and intelligence of the prose to the thrillingly described terrors of natural mayhem and unprecedented destruction. If there is one book to read as we enter a new millennium, it’s Isaac’s Storm.” -Alex Kotlowitz, author of The Other Side of the River and There Are No Children Here “Isaac’s Storm so fully swept me away into another place, another time that I didn’t want it to end….Erik Larson’s writing is luminous, the story absolutely gripping. A well-told story.” -Daniel Hays, author of My Old Man and the Sea Days later, I am still glancing out the window nervously. “The best storm book I’ve read, consumed mostly in twenty-four hours these pages filled me with dread. I also discovered that some people in Texas would read this book to their children at bedtime, presumably leaving out the pyres of burning corpses toward the end-or maybe not. Battan Author’s Award.įor the record, of all my books, this is my wife’s favorite. The book won the American Meteorology Society’s prestigious Louis J. The storm killed as many as 10,000 people in Galveston alone, stole the city’s future, and caused hurricane experts to revise their thinking about how hurricanes kill. In September 1900 a massive hurricane proved him wrong, at great personal cost. Thousands in the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on Monday were told to evacuate their Gulf Coast homes.Isaac’s Storm A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in HistoryĪt the turn of the last century, Isaac Cline, chief weatherman for Texas, believed no storm could do serious harm to the city of Galveston, a fast growing metropolis on the Gulf Coast destined for great things. There are some obvious differences-Isaac is much weaker than Katrina-but the storm nonetheless will require Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi to execute emergency management plans that were partly shaped by Katrina. A storm surge of 6-12 feet is expected for southeast La., Miss., and Ala.ĬNN explains that the storm is following an “eerily similar” path to the one Hurricane Katrina took seven years ago, almost to the day: Isaac is currently about 300 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River and is expected to become a hurricane before reaching the northern Gulf Coast late Tuesday. Tropical Storm Isaac is continuing to move west-northwestward over the eastern Gulf of Mexico at about 14 mph. The latest from the National Weather Service: It’s looking like still-not-a-hurricane-yet Isaac may largely spare the GOP Convention (at least compared to earlier doomsday predictions), but the storm has a new target: New Orleans and a large chunk of the rest of the Gulf Coast. ![]()
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