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.