Isaac’s Storm, Erik Larsen — September 8 began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U. S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swellls and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history — and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy.