At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America.
Nothing in nature could hobble the gleaming city of Galveston.
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.
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.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America