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I think that this picture ties everyone into it. This picture shows that they all suffered losses and they all needed to work together as a team to rebuild what they once called home.

Summary of Wekend in September

The book starts off with it being a nice day and a very humid and hot day in Galveston. Next they start by introducing characters and how they feel about the storm. Then they start to say well then the pressure went down then the temperature had gotten so high it hit the top of the thermometers. The next part a person named Captain J.W Simmons sets sail with his crew when in the middle of the night it starts pouring and pouring then the drain gutters start to flood and the water just gets higher and higher and in the morning when they wake up they have to wade through water. And the air pressure just keeps getting lower and lower and the water just gets higher and higher and waves are crashing in. The water was covering so track some people had to sit in a train until the storm was over. Next people start running inside their houses and hiding and the hurricane hit. After the storm people came out to see the destruction. The people of Galveston estimate a thousand people dead but when they went looking for survivors they found out it was seven thousand people dead. They then sent for help from other cities that were close by. After the storm everyone was sad they said it was hard for them to survive through the winter.

Joseph Cline

Joseph Cline was a twenty nine year old and rented a room in his brother Isaac Cline house. Joseph had also like his brother received a doctors of philosophy degree at Add-Ran University.  Joseph Cline In 1892 had come to Galveston from the Cline home in Monroe Country, Tennessee. He was a drummer that worked for sixty dollars a month after leaving a less profitable teaching business. Joseph left sales jobs and was given the position of an assistant weather observer for his brother. Joseph Cline did not drink and was respected by the people even though he lived in the city where the liquor flows. Joseph and his brother Isaac both loved fishing for redfish and trout they also both loved to go hunting for geese and ducks. Joseph and his brother both had a number of reports to prepare for August weather.

Walter Grover

 Walter Grover was an employee at their downtown real estate. Walter Grover was not bothered when while he was working at H.M.True Heart and Company the thermometer hit its max. Walter Grover was the only child and lived with his mom and dad. Grover liked walking to and from work, instead of riding wagon or buggy he did this to not because he was trying to avoid paying, but to look at the wildlife and world around him. Walter Grover was a tall and slender man who was thirty one years old he had great health and had a lot of curiosity. His job was to know Galveston better than anyone else, he knew all of Galveston Island. Walter Grover also knew the highest point in Galveston and where it was located.

Chief Ketchum

 

Chief Ketchum lived on the west side of the city in Galveston with his wife and eight children in a two story Colonial house built in 1838 by the founder of Galveston. Chief Ketchum bought the house in 1800. After twenty years Ketchum became chief of Galveston’s police department. Chief Ketchum put his son in charge of his general contracting business. Chief Ketchum was a tall and slender he was also a very popular chief despite the fact that he fought in the Civil War as a drummer boy. Later on he became a Captain for the Union. Even though Galveston was highly known for being Confederate they respected Chief Ketchum. Sometimes groups of people would like to have regions at Ketchum’s coffee urn.  

Isaac Cline

 

Isaac Cline did not worry about the storm at first because he had a strong and well-built house four blocks from the beach on the southern side of the city. Isaac Cline built his house 5.2 feet above sea level. He made sure that his two story house could with stand the worst of Gulf storms the base of his house was above 8.2 feet which was the height of water in the last hurricane that hit Galveston. “He had been in the weather service for eighteen years, eleven in Galveston.”(pg.7)  Isaac was a slim fit man, and was thirty eight years old. He also lectured at University of Texas Medical College in Galveston. He was also working with medical things and got his medicine degree at the University of Arkansas and got his doctor of philosophy degree at Add-Ran University.  

Daisy Thorne

Daisy Thorne was a woman who had red hair and lived in an apartment overlooking the beach and went swimming with her friends. She and her friends went swimming instead of bathing .She also was sure that Galveston’s beach was the best beach in the world. But that night they did not swim because the waves were too high and were a murky brown because of the sand they picked up.  She throughout the story is engaged to a man by the name of Dr. Joe Gilbert from Austin. And they were planning to get married in June. She met Dr. Gilbert on a yacht and tripped and he caught her and stayed with her the rest of the time. She also was going to be to be a substitute teacher after her third year of school.