Local author keeping a close eye on Hurricane Rita

24th Sep 2005, 02:07 GMT

No one in Seattle may be watching the approach of Hurricane Rita with more foreboding than writer Erik Larson. His 1997 best seller, "Isaac's Storm," provided a heart-pounding account of the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, the unnamed storm that hit Galveston, Texas, without warning in 1900 and claimed 6,000 lives.