Storms Floods And Sunshine

Author : Isaac Monroe Cline
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1455612537

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Storms Floods and Sunshine by Isaac Monroe Cline Pdf

More than six thousand souls perished in the September 8, 1900, hurricane that devastated the island town of Galveston, Texas. Men and women, rich and poor, black and white struggled alike in what was to that date the worst natural disaster in American history. Many more would have lost their lives, however, if it wasn't for the efforts of Dr. Issac Monroe Cline, section director at the Weather Bureau Headquarters. It was Cline who decided to raise the flags over the Weather Bureau, signaling an impending hurricane. He also spoke to large crowds of people in low-lying areas of the island, correctly predicting the unexpected force and direction of the storm. This detailed autobiography, originally penned by Cline in 1945, chronicles his life and education before and after the deadly events at Galveston. It is a complete picture of him not just as a weather forecaster, but also as a small boy, a student, a survivor, and a meteorological scholar. It is supplemented with antique photographs and information from his textbook Characteristics of Tropical Cyclones. More than one hundred years after the hurricane that would forever mark his career, Cline is still revered as a pioneer in his field. His work charting hurricanes, measuring their direction, speed, and precipitation, helped build the foundations for modern meteorology. Storms, Floods and Sunshine preserves the science and emotion behind the man the Associated Press called "the smiling, genial, climatological genius."

Author : Isaac Monroe Cline
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1334614755

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Storms, Floods and Sunshine : a Book of Memoirs by Isaac Monroe Cline Pdf

Author : Isaac Monroe Cline
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1565547667

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Storms, Floods and Sunshine by Isaac Monroe Cline Pdf

Commemorating the centennial of the great Galveston hurricane of 1900, this is a fascinating look back at the life of the storm's hero.

Author : Isaac Monroe Cline
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Cyclones
ISBN : 1455612537

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Storms, Floods and Sunshine by Isaac Monroe Cline Pdf

Author : Isaac Monroe Cline
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:795692501

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Storms, Floods and Sunshine by Isaac Monroe Cline Pdf

Author : Paul Lester
Publisher : Nova Snova
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1536169013

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The Great Galveston Disaster by Paul Lester Pdf

Thousands of men, women and children swept to sudden death. Millions of dollars worth of property destroyed. Scenes of suffering and desolation that beggar description. Heroic efforts to save human life. The world shocked by the appalling news. Such is the thrilling story of the Galveston flood, and in this volume it is told with wonderful power and effect. This volume is a complete and authentic account of the great calamity told by the survivors.

Author : Nathan C. Green
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455612550

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Story of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane by Nathan C. Green Pdf

One hundred years after the hurricane of 1900 devastated Galveston, Texas, it remains the most deadly natural disaster in United States history. Although many heeded the warnings of local weatherman Dr. Isaac Monroe Cline, numerous others did not. More than 6,000 souls perished. Shortly after the storm, author Nathan C. Green set out to share with the world the Story of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane . For those who had lost their lives, he would become their voice; for those who had somehow miraculously survived, he would become their chronicler. To further memorialize the events of the Galveston Hurricane, Pelican has reprinted Dr. Isaac Monroe Cline's Storms, Floods and Sunshine: An Autobiography, which it first published in 1945.

Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631495281

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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin Pdf

Washington Post • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 Finalist • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Kirkus Reviews • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 Library Journal • Best Science & Technology Books of 2020 Booklist • 10 Top Sci-Tech Books of 2020 New York Times Book Review • Editor's Choice With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. In this “compelling” chronicle (New York Times Book Review), Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America through its battles with hurricanes.Weaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time and again determined the course of American history, from the nameless storms that threatened the New World voyages to our own era of global warming and megastorms. Along the way, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes, and forces us to reckon with the reality that future storms will likely be worse, unless we reimagine our relationship with the planet.

Author : David G. McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292793217

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Galveston by David G. McComb Pdf

A colorful history of the island city on Texas’s Gulf Coast and its survival through times of piracy, plague, civil war, and devastating natural disaster. On the Gulf edge of Texas between land and sea stands Galveston Island. Shaped continually by wind and water, it is one of earth’s ongoing creations, where time is forever new. Here, on the shoreline, embraced by the waves, a person can still feel the heartbeat of nature. And yet, for all the idyllic possibilities, Galveston’s history has been anything but tranquil. Across Galveston’s sands have walked Indians, pirates, revolutionaries, the richest men of nineteenth-century Texas, soldiers, sailors, bootleggers, gamblers, prostitutes, physicians, entertainers, engineers, and preservationists. Major events in the island’s past include hurricanes, yellow fever, smuggling, vice, the Civil War, the building of a medical school and port, raids by the Texas Rangers, and, always, the struggle to live in a precarious location. Galveston: A History is an engrossing account that also explores the role of technology and the often contradictory relationship between technology and the city, providing a guide to both Galveston history and the dynamics of urban development.

Author : Lucian Hervey Kent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:088054465

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Sunshine and Storm by Lucian Hervey Kent Pdf

Author : Paul Lester
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X006091041

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The Great Galveston Disaster by Paul Lester Pdf

Presents a detailed description of the devastation and chaos created in Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900 telling about the aftermath of the hurricane that leveled the town and killed thousands of people.

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307874092

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Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson Pdf

At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900, a year when America felt bigger and stronger than ever before. Nothing in nature could hobble the gleaming city of Galveston, then a magical place that seemed destined to become the New York of the Gulf. That August, a strange, prolonged heat wave gripped the nation and killed scores of people in New York and Chicago. Odd things seemed to happen everywhere: A plague of crickets engulfed Waco. The Bering Glacier began to shrink. Rain fell on Galveston with greater intensity than anyone could remember. Far away, in Africa, immense thunderstorms blossomed over the city of Dakar, and great currents of wind converged. A wave of atmospheric turbulence slipped from the coast of western Africa. Most such waves faded quickly. This one did not. In Cuba, America's overconfidence was made all too obvious by the Weather Bureau's obsession with controlling hurricane forecasts, even though Cuba's indigenous weathermen had pioneered hurricane science. As the bureau's forecasters assured the nation that all was calm in the Caribbean, Cuba's own weathermen fretted about ominous signs in the sky. A curious stillness gripped Antigua. Only a few unlucky sea captains discovered that the storm had achieved an intensity no man alive had ever experienced. In Galveston, reassured by Cline's belief that no hurricane could seriously damage the city, there was celebration. Children played in the rising water. Hundreds of people gathered at the beach to marvel at the fantastically tall waves and gorgeous pink sky, until the surf began ripping the city's beloved beachfront apart. Within the next few hours Galveston would endure a hurricane that to this day remains the nation's deadliest natural disaster. In Galveston alone at least 6,000 people, possibly as many as 10,000, would lose their lives, a number far greater than the combined death toll of the Johnstown Flood and 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. And Isaac Cline would experience his own unbearable loss. Meticulously researched and vividly written, Isaac's Storm is based on Cline's own letters, telegrams, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the hows and whys of great storms. Ultimately, however, it is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets nature's last great uncontrollable force. As such, Isaac's Storm carries a warning for our time.

Author : William Deverell,Greg Hise
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0822959399

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Land of Sunshine by William Deverell,Greg Hise Pdf

Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story than this shallow stereotype. History shows that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences of that planning-the environmental history of urbanism--is one place to turn for the more complex lessons LA has to offer. Working forward from ancient times and ancient ecologies to the very recent past, Land of Sunshine is a fascinating exploration of the environmental history of greater Los Angeles. Rather than rehearsing a litany of errors or insults against nature, rather than decrying the lost opportunities of "roads not taken," these essays, by nineteen leading geologists, ecologists, and historians, instead consider the changing dynamics both of the city and of nature. In the nineteenth century, for example, "density" was considered an evil, and reformers struggled mightily to move the working poor out to areas where better sanitation and flowers and parks "made life seem worth the living." We now call that vision "sprawl," and we struggle just as much to bring middle-class people back into the core of American cities. There's nothing natural, or inevitable, about such turns of events. It's only by paying very close attention to the ways metropolitan nature has been constructed and construed that meaningful lessons can be drawn. History matters. So here are the plants and animals of the Los Angeles basin, its rivers and watersheds. Here are the landscapes of fact and fantasy, the historical actors, events, and circumstances that have proved transformative over and over again. The result is a nuanced and rich portrait of Los Angeles that will serve planners, communities, and environmentalists as they look to the past for clues, if not blueprints, for enhancing the quality and viability of cities.

Author : Joseph Whitaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Almanacs, English
ISBN : NYPL:33433075874689

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An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord ... by Joseph Whitaker Pdf

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Floods
ISBN : 0613292715

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Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson Pdf

September 8, 1900, 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 swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged by a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over 6,000 people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history -- and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Thrilling, powerful, and unrelentingly suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the uncontrollable force of nature.