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It never rains but it pours. After the success of The Perfect Storm,
an exquisite tale of catastrophe at sea, comes the landlubber鈥檚 sequel,
Isaac鈥檚 Storm: The Drowning of Galveston by Erik Larson. Ninety-nine years
ago this month Galveston succumbed to a storm that killed up to 10 000 citizens.
It is still the worst natural disaster in the US. Not least for Isaac Cline, the
local weatherman who failed to hoist the storm cones. Larson鈥檚 gloss is that
turn-of-the-century meteorologists believed even more than today鈥檚 crop that
they could predict the weather. But really this is just a meticulous piece of
journalistic reconstruction. Great for a wet autumn evening, when the wind
begins to howl. Published by Fourth Estate, 拢16.99, ISBN 1857028414.