My mom LIVES for fun facts about Cubans like this.
Thanks, Val!

really interesting stuff, thanks!

Anyone here read "Isaac's Storm"? It's a book that is made up of first hand accounts of Hurricane Isaac that swept away Galveston, TX in 1900. In it, the lead weather forecaster in the US was alerted by Cuban weather forecasters about the hurricane, but the American forecaster was dimsissed by his superiors claiming that the Cuban forecasters tend to be overly romantic and exaggerative about these kinds of things.

Anyway, it's a neat read regarldess of that fact.

gumer,

There's a documentary on that Galveston Hurricane that gets airtime on either the history channel or discovery all the time.

Super interesting story as the lead "forecaster" in Galveston at the time - who I believe later became the head weather honcho for the US - refused to believe a hurricane could climb so far north. He was wrong and he lost family members because of it.

Gumercindo and Val:

Yes I read it there too

Larry

Thanks, val. Actually, I misspoke. Isaac was the name of the lead forecasted in Galveston that the story was based on. Anyhow, like you said, a super interesting story and had they listened to the cubans, lives would have been saved.

henry must be really proud!