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This book by Erick Larson was a great historical narrative of the hurricane of Galveston. As a history major I like to look at the statistics of all the chaos but also learn the insights of the people and the personal stories. These kind of things bring new insights to people learning about an event. This way of writing gives details that helps a person that is not from that time see what life was like during that time. For example, people today will say why did they stay in their homes and not run, but it is learned that the mentality at the time was different and that men could overcome mother nature which is why people stayed in their homes. Or as Heaven01 mentions in a post that by having the letters and survival stories we are able to understand what is happening during this period of time. The only flaw it has is that it exaggerates on details making the reader question whether it is real or fiction or maybe that is how things were recorded at the time.
Lastly, this book shows that it is important to trust your own instincts and not what other people tell you because the people were trusting Isaac Cline and he was trusting the government weather bureau to tell them what was going on. The people were not prepared and that really hurt them because there were a lot of deaths. There was no communication between them and that is something that can be learned for future disasters; to take precaution when there is danger or disaster approaching.