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Nationwide BestsellerSeptember 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau didn't grasp the real meaning of the strange deep sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the town that day. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the city and killed over six-thousand people in what remains the best natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found herself the target of the devestating individual tragedy.Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest knowledge of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of 1 man's heroic struggle and fatal mistake in the facial skin of a storm of unimaginable size.