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HTML: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.… (mehr)
Im Jahr 1900 war Galveston (Texas) eine aufstrebende Stadt, die dem etwas weiter nördlich gelegenen Houston bereits den Rang ablief. Als die Stadt im September 1900 von einem enormen Hurrikan getroffen wurde, war niemand vorbereitet. Das Buch schildert diese Tragödie aus Sicht des Chefmetereologen Isaac Cline, dessen Roll währen der Katastrophe hier kritisch betrachtet wird. Ich mag das Hörbuch einerseits, weil es verdienstvoll ist wie akribisch der Autor recherchiert hat und auch, wie spannend er die Entstehung des Sturms und die Stunden der Zerstörung schildern kann. Ich fand das Buch an keiner Stelle langweilig (übrigens als Hörbuch auch sehr gut gelesen). Andererseits gefällt es mir weniger, wenn sich der Autor zum Richter aufschwingt. Seine Wertungen und Interpretationen finde ich nicht immer passend. Wobei natürlich die im Buch oft zitierte „Hybris“, die menschliche Selbstüberschätzung (bezogen auf Technik) im Angesicht der Natur durchaus zutreffend sein mag – anders als beim Untergang der Titanic, der ähnlich gedeutet wird, waren hier aber viele andere Umstände ebenso fatal. Und es ist ja nicht so, als hätte die Menschheit gelernt – trotz aller technischen Möglichkeiten konnte der Tsunami von 2004 Hunderttausende von Todesopfern fordern. ( )
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Washington, D.C.
Sept. 9, 1900
To: Manager, Western Union
Houston, Texas
Do you hear anything about Galveston?
Willis L. Moore,
Chief, U.S. Weather Bureau
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For Chris, Kristen, Lauren, and Erin.
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Throughout the night of Friday, September 7, 1900, Isaac Monroe Cline found himself waking up to a persistent state of something gone wrong.
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Once, in a time long past when men believed they could part mountains, a very different building stood in the Wal-Mart's place, and behind its mist-clouded windows ninety-three children who did not know better happily awaited the coming of the sea.
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HTML: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.
Als die Stadt im September 1900 von einem enormen Hurrikan getroffen wurde, war niemand vorbereitet. Das Buch schildert diese Tragödie aus Sicht des Chefmetereologen Isaac Cline, dessen Roll währen der Katastrophe hier kritisch betrachtet wird.
Ich mag das Hörbuch einerseits, weil es verdienstvoll ist wie akribisch der Autor recherchiert hat und auch, wie spannend er die Entstehung des Sturms und die Stunden der Zerstörung schildern kann. Ich fand das Buch an keiner Stelle langweilig (übrigens als Hörbuch auch sehr gut gelesen).
Andererseits gefällt es mir weniger, wenn sich der Autor zum Richter aufschwingt. Seine Wertungen und Interpretationen finde ich nicht immer passend. Wobei natürlich die im Buch oft zitierte „Hybris“, die menschliche Selbstüberschätzung (bezogen auf Technik) im Angesicht der Natur durchaus zutreffend sein mag – anders als beim Untergang der Titanic, der ähnlich gedeutet wird, waren hier aber viele andere Umstände ebenso fatal. Und es ist ja nicht so, als hätte die Menschheit gelernt – trotz aller technischen Möglichkeiten konnte der Tsunami von 2004 Hunderttausende von Todesopfern fordern. ( )