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Isaac's Storm

a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Mar 29, 2012zipread rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Isaac’s Storm --- by Erik Larson You might be forgiven for mistaking this book for a work of fiction. It is exciting and riveting enough; it has a tremendous plot and would make a tremendous movie perhaps even to rival Titanic. So you might be surprised to learn it is in fact fact. Isaac is a weather observer in Galveston Texas, at the start of the twentieth century in the employ of what is later to become the US weather office. It is a time of great optimism and a believed that everything that there is to be known about great storms is known and that none can reach Galveston: it is a time of great Hubris. This is something which shall come to revisit the city. The book is really very difficult to put down. The suspense builds exponentially. The weather, the great storm , wreak mayhem upon city. Erik has the knack for actually putting you in the storm. Yes, this is the second time I have read this book. It is better than the first.