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In the book, “Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History,” Erik Larson explains the events of the Hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas in 1900 through the eyes of the real meteorologist of Galveston, Isaac Monroe Cline. He became one of the central figures of the Galveston Hurricane. cluna3 says in their post that “Throughout American history there are multiple disasters that have shaped our nation.” And the hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas in 1900s is one of those disasters. An interesting technique that Larson uses throughout the first part of the narrative, Larson explains Isaac’s background in how he got into meteorology, and also gives accounts of the approaching hurricane as it travels to Galveston. I actually like this method of storytelling because it breaks up the more larger parts of the first part of the book and gives different viewpoints of people that saw the start of the hurricane as it made its way to Galveston, Texas. Another part that i find interesting is one of the first chapters in the book that mentions different storms in history that Isaac Cline studied.In the chapter “Dirty Weather” it chronicles Isaac Cline’s personal experience with a flood that had come about due to a hailstorm that hit San Angelo 10 days prior to the flood in Concho river. Soon after this Cline becomes obsessed with hail, tracking accounts of it wherever they appeared.Ironically at the end of part 1 of the book, Larson mentions an article that Cline wrote in 1891, about how Galveston would escape hurricanes and his theory about how if there ever was a hurricane that would hit Galveston, that it would spread over the lowlands behind Galveston instead of hitting Galveston directly.