Chapter 3 - The General’s Declaration

“He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.” — Sun Tzu

Isaac Monroe Cline arrived in Galveston in March, 1889, at the age of twenty-seven years old.

He was appointed by the United States Weather Bureau to establish and oversee the Texas weather section. He had grown up in rural Tennessee, attended Hiwassee College, and entered the U.S. Army Signal Corps meteorological training program in 1882. He had founded…