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29 He gave up the study: Cline, “Century,” 37.
30 In his monograph: Ibid., 37.
31 In September 1909: Monthly Weather Review. Sept. 1909, 625.
32 On the morning of: First Baptist Church, 8.
33 A month later: Ibid., 8.
34 He divided his annual leave: Cline, Storms, 127.
35 He collected: Ibid., 170.
36 “Time lost can never be recovered”: Ibid., 248.
37 Isaac Monroe Cline: Weems, 164.
38 “Galveston should take heart”: National Archives: General Correspondence. Telegram, Willis Moore to Chicago Tribune, Sept. 13, 1900.
39 The seawall held: McComb, 149.
40 The death toll: Author’s conversations with Hugh Willoughby, Chris Landsea, Jerry Jarrell, Bill Gray, and others. See note on this page–this page, at “The Storm: Somewhere a Butterfly.”
41 None believed: Author’s conversations, as in preceding note for this page.
42 There was talk: See Emanuel, “Dependence,” “Hypercanes,” and “Toward.”
43 The Army Corps of Engineers: See U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Interim Technical Data Report. Metro New York Hurricane Transportation Study. November 1995.
44 But in the narrow: Author’s observations.
45 Once, in a time long past: A small marker noting the orphanage disaster stands at the seaward rim of the seawall, opposite the Wal-Mart.
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