The book\u00a0Isaac’s Storm, <\/em>by Erik Larson, is a dramatized historical retelling of the events preceding and proceeding the Galveston Hurricane which totally decimated the town. The first couple of chapters follows Isaac Monroe and his his life leading up to his assignment at Galveston, as well as giving the reader some background information on hurricanes and tropical weather systems.\u00a0The first chapter goes on to explain the science behind how hurricanes from from thunderstorms and how they affect barometric pressure gauges. The thing that struck me as surprising is how little we still know about the weather and how unpredictable it is. \u00a0In the second chapter the Larson explains how the Signal Corps were receiving data about an incoming storm from Cuba and when the leader of the organization got wind of this (no pun intended) they shut down all incoming information from Cuba. This mistake is probably what led to the storm being much worse than it could have been, according to Isaac Cubans had almost perfected the art at predicting hurricanes. \u00a0In\u00a0SANCHEZRON13<\/a>‘s blog post on the flood in Jamestown they talk about how the flood was a manmade disaster and after reading about all the warning signs that were ignored by the Signal Corps I think one can make an argument for loss of life in Galveston being a man made disaster, the property destruction is\u00a0inevitable. I think that ignoring the warnings of a storm, is a form a negligence that can be blamed for the loss of life in the storm. In the same way that in the modern era the government\/metrologists not letting a town know a disaster was coming, would be held partially responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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