This may actually have been my favorite of the Larson books and I felt compelled to post this given the current evacuation of Galveston as Hurricane Ike bears down on it.
It's an excellent read and most fascinating for me given the disparity between the National Weather Service official statements in advance of that September 1900 storm ("all is well, nothing to worry about") and those today in advance of Ike ("leave Galveston Island or face certain death").
