Venomous snakes spiraled upward into trees occupied by people. “Slate fractured skulls and removed limbs. It is now thought to have topped 150 mph. The air turned wild and gray, a storm surge swept over the city, the wind became “a thousands little devils, shrieking and whistling,” said a survivor. A series of administrative snafus and ignored warnings from Cuba found the city unprepared for the monster rogue hurricane.
to the talking weatherheads of today, forecasting the weather has always been a “black and dangerous art.” When Cline blithely stated that Galveston’s vulnerability to extreme weather was “an absurd delusion,” he was inviting trouble, and it came calling. But, as Larson shows, from Philo of Byzantium in 300 b.c. The Isaac in Larson’s (Lethal Passage: How the Travels of a Single Handgun Expose the Roots of America’s Gun Crisis, 1994) title is Isaac Cline: head meteorologist of the Galveston station of the US Weather Bureau in 1900, a man who thought he had the drop on weather systems because he had data, and from data he could predict the meteorological future. Larson tells the story with (at times overnourished) brio. In September 1900, one of the latter visited Galveston, Tex., and ate the city alive. There is bad weather, and there are 100-year storms.
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