Film on '62 storm to be shown Feb. 13
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3:22 p.m., Feb. 10, 2009----The Department of Geography will screen a film about a powerful 1962 storm that pounded the Delaware coast at 3:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 13, in Room 006 of Kirkbride Lecture Hall. The screening is free and open to the public.

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Entitled “The '62 Storm -- Delaware's Shared Response,” the film visits residents living along the Atlantic coast in March 1962 who will never forget the great "Ash Wednesday" storm, a powerful winter nor'easter that pounded Delaware's shoreline for three days and five successive high tides, destroying homes and businesses, flooding communities and taking lives.

The film uses archival photos, home movies and interviews of those who survived to re-live Delaware's greatest 20th century disaster and the weather events that spawned it. The film also reflects on the possibility of a similar storm occurring along Delaware's coast today.

Filmmaker Mike Oates will be on hand to discuss the making of the documentary and will answer questions after the screening. Dan Leathers, professor of geography at UD, will speak afterward about how the storm developed and affected the region from a meteorological standpoint.

A reception will follow.

For more information on the Department of Geography, visit the Web site at [www.udel.edu/Geography/].

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