In the final two chapters of Erik Larson\u2019s Isaac\u2019s Storm<\/em> he finds a interesting way to wrap up his book on the Galveston Storm of 1900. The book starts off the morning after the storm has passed and gives vivid detail of the wreckage throughout the town. It follows a couple story lines which one of them being Isaac Cline and his account of the town after the storm. He writes about the dead bodies and how landmarks had been all but washed away and destroyed. He began his search for his wife who he had lost the night before in the flooding. Soon the Army had arrived bringing shelter, food, and other supplies to help start rebuilding the city. The body count had risen by hundreds every week and seemed to go on forever. The book talks about the smells and sights of the dead bodies in detail in which I think Larson does this to get you more emotionally invested in the story of Galveston and the storm he is telling. The point he is trying to make is that the people in the path of danger generally don\u2019t take precaution or the warnings of danger as seriously as they could. By telling the story of the crews rounding up the dead bodies floating in the ocean or in the mud it really gives a perfect example of what happens when you don\u2019t prepare for things as serious as the power of nature. There is always someone or something to blame for loss of life when it could be prevented and it was well put in the post by peterossi1<\/a>, \u201cI 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.\u201d Whether you blame the meteorologist Isaac Cline or you blame the people for not taking the warnings as they should, there was a large number of lives lost that day and we should take this example as warning for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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