Sudden Sea

A horrifying read. Again, not good timing for me. I live thirty miles from Galveston and hurricane season has just begun. Very hard for me to read.

I've heard all my life about the storm of 1900 that devastated Galveston, but I've never heard anything about this storm. It was the only category five hurricane to hit the mainland of the United States.

The book is well written, with stories from the storm you'd never believe if they were sold as fiction. The photographs were powerful and shocking.

Reading this book made me want to put my house up for sale.