https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis Independent Reading Project of Sam Eberhardt en-us 2018-10-26 01:29:35 UTC 2018-10-26 11:36:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/327855553/c3c8da6c58166ca49f10677b4acabe46/Screen_Shot_2018_10_25_at_7_39_21_PM.png seberhardt22 https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297236498 Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson is written about the devastating hurricane, the Great Galveston Hurricane, in 2000. Larson successfully captures the effect on a small, rich town in Texas after the head meteorologist, Isaac M. Cline, claims that it was impossible for a hurricane to hit there. The story goes through the thoughts and actions of the meteorologist before, during, and after the deadliest natural disaster in United States history.]]> 2018-10-26 01:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297236498 seberhardt22 https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297237539 2018-10-26 01:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297237539 seberhardt22 https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297237905 Erik Larson, the author of Isac's Storm, was born on January 3, 1954 in Freeport, Long Island. After studying Russian history and journalism in college, Larson wrote several award winning books such as The Devil in the White City in 2003 and Issac's Storm in 2000. (More information below)]]> 2018-10-26 01:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297237905 seberhardt22 https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297240353 As the deadliest natural disaster in United States History, the Great Galveston Hurricane killed an estimated 8,000 people and caused twenty million dollars worth of property damage. The picture shows some of the effect that the hurricane had.]]> 2018-10-26 01:56:53 UTC https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297240353 seberhardt22 https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297243584 Erik Larson talks about his connection between his life and the lives of those in Galveston.]]> 2018-10-26 02:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297243584 seberhardt22 https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297244537 Sorry about comment at 43 seconds.]]> 2018-10-26 02:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297244537 seberhardt22 https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297316494 "Time lost will never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."(142)]]> 2018-10-26 10:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297316494 seberhardt22 https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297317812 “No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burlap.”(117)]]> 2018-10-26 10:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297317812 seberhardt22 https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297318370 “A butterfly in a West African rain forest, by flitting to the left of a tree rather than to the right, possibly set into motion a chain of events that escalates into a hurricane striking coastal South Carolina a few weeks later”(21) ]]> 2018-10-26 10:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/seberhardt22/q9w7av2qdmis/wish/297318370