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This finale to the book Isaac’s Storm covers what happened after the storm that had annihilated the town Galveston had moved on from the area. It encompasses the destruction that had been wrought to the town stating that entire areas of housing and buildings had in fact been simply swept away in the tide of the storm. Along with this the amount of wounded and deceased were staggering, with numbers of dead being estimated at the end in the 6000 range.It goes into the clean up stages of the town directly after the storm with the searching of individuals, both alive and dead, as well as the disposing of corpses that now littered what was left of the town. These tactics included burial, both in the ground as well as at see with the latter coming back to haunt them, and finally mass burning. During this time help and aide came to Galveston from many other areas of the country including the aide of the red cross. Soon the town was being rebuilt, along with added defenses against future storms including a seawall and the rising of Galveston itself up a predetermined amount of feet. Isaac would record what had transpired before and during the storm for the weather bureau who would both stretch the truth as though to seem as though they had tried to mitigate the destruction in some way. For as Peter Rossi stated the weather bureau at the time, and even now, has a lot less accuracy in the prediction of weather and storms than is let on. It is due to this most likely that the events of Isaac’s Storm were as bad as they were, though it is of little consequence to focus on a what if scenario. The book ends with a brief outline of Issac and Josephs dealings in later life as well as the time of their deaths As well as a look at the Galveston for what it was, is, and could have been.