Erik Larson\u2019s book \u201cIsaac\u2019s Storm:<\/em> A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History<\/em>\u201d is told from the viewpoint of Isaac Cline, the Galveston meteorologist in the year 1900, during the hurricane that hit the town of Galveston. In the Prologue of Isaac\u2019s Storm <\/em>Larson starts by telling the reader about some of Isaac\u2019s background that lead him to being the Galveston meteorologist. Larson also tells throughout the Prologue about Isaac\u2019s day leading up to the hurricane that would eventually hit Galveston.<\/p>\n

Throughout the first chapter Larson describes the different weather phenomena\u2019s that were major discoveries that all lead to Isaac Cline eventually being interested in hail and going from a scientific interested child to an army surgeon, and eventually to a meteorologist. From these major discoveries us readers can take that while storms are always being searched for, there will always be some amount of death toll because there are always some that cannot get away. Much like how it was stated in johnkane\u2019s<\/a> Johnstown Flood<\/em> post that the dam used against the Conemaugh River was \u201cdoomed to break and people all around the dam knew that it was not gonna be long until it happened.\u201d Larson also has in the latter half of the first chapter that Isaac at \u201conly twenty-nine\u2026 considered himself a weather sage,\u201d and thus knew better that others. We can take from the first chapter not to rely on one source for all information because the people of Galveston relied on the word of only one person for weather protection. The second chapter seems to be that throughout the chapter that because if poor communication and mapmaking, ship captains had been allowed to sail their ships into the oncoming hurricane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erik Larson\u2019s book \u201cIsaac\u2019s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History\u201d is told from the viewpoint of Isaac Cline, the Galveston meteorologist in the year 1900, during the hurricane that hit the town of Galveston. In the Prologue of Isaac\u2019s Storm Larson starts by telling the reader about some of Isaac\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}