'38 Hurricane Story

[karina]

Will any of you get the chance to see this?
www.jamestownpress.com/news/2006/0824/News/030.html

[isis]

Oh thanks Karina, photos after the hurricane are very cute with kate in the bathtube

[Cate]

Ah! Thanks Karina! I will watch.

[Shaun]

Heck yes I'll be watching! I had no idea this was coming on. Thanks a great big dump-truck load Karina!

[Richard]

It says they filmed the production last summer yet Katharine was interviewed. Obviously its either going to be archive footage, an audio recording, or just a narrator reading her words from text.

Am I going to be watching this? Um...yeah! If it means possible never before seen footage of Katharine. *faints* And I might learn a thing or two.

Can't wait. Thanks karina.

[Cate]

Yeah, I think we can all assume they used archive footage. . . . . . . . ;D They probably mean they filmed the area that was hit by the hurricane and interviewed people who were there or know people who were there last year. Just an assumption. lol

[Judy]

I'll add my thanks, Karina....Will set my DVR to tape it. JS

[Shaun]

What if it's one of those shows where they re-enact scenes--you know, without dialog....they sort of fuzz out the actors so it seems authentic--and they show the Hepburns rummaging through the rubble looking for Mrs. Hepburn's silverware.

[HollywoodHepcat]

AGH! I'll be working then and my VCR is busted and I have the first day of college the next day. *stab*

....I'll just pop a tape in my aunt's house. THANKS LOADS KARINA!

[isis]

I found a book on Amazon about this hurricane :

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938

Former journalist and mystery novelist Scotti successfully applies her skills in both genres to this detailed retelling of the 1938 hurricane that ripped across seven Northeastern states and killed 682 people, "the most destructive natural disaster in U.S. history-worse than the San Francisco earthquake, the Chicago fire, or any Mississippi flood." Although the enormity of the destruction has been written about before, Scotti focuses on "a few experiences that seem representative of many more" through interviews with hurricane survivors, their families and friends, as well as previously published recollections by survivors, including the late Katharine Hepburn. Scotti's detailed look at the general extent of the hurricane's destruction adds poignancy to individual stories, such as those of Joseph Matoes, who sees his children swept away from their school bus as they are battered by huge waves; Lillian Tetlow and Jack Kinney, two sweethearts who survive a storm that destroys Napatree, R.I., and who later marry; and Charles Pierce, a "green and unsure" junior forecaster for a woefully underprepared U.S. Weather Bureau (now the National Weather Service) who stands against his experienced superiors as the only forecaster to recognize the danger of the hurricane. Scotti also skillfully presents the details of a hurricane, although she reminds us that "after decades of study and with all the technological tools of the trade... we still cannot predict a hurricane more than twenty-four hours in advance."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316739111/102-7162738-1658561?v=glance&n=283155

[Cate]

shaun said:

What if it's one of those shows where they re-enact scenes--you know, without dialog....they sort of fuzz out the actors so it seems authentic--and they show the Hepburns rummaging through the rubble looking for Mrs. Hepburn's silverware.

OMG. If they do that I'm not watching it. I hate re-enactments. Just either talk about it, show pictures from it or something. My imagination isn't that lacking. ;D

[HollywoodHepcat]

That book sounds really interesting. OMG maybe they should make a movie about the Hurricane of 1938. I'd pay 8 bucks to see it.

[Sherry]

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 is a terrific book. I read it right after it was published. Kate's comments are in there about the whole episode that saw the destruction of the family home at Fenwick.
Going beyond the Kate connection, it is just a very well told story of the hurricane starting with its formation off the coast of Africa and continuing with its trip across the Atlantic and then the rapid acceleration up the East Coast when it slammed into part of Long Island and all of southern New England. The book is absolutely a page turner and the stories of what happened to various individuals who were in its path are heartwrenching.
It's a highly engrossing book.

Sherry

[karina]

I can't get the History Channel , so am relying on you folks to give me a full & detailed report of the programme

The book sounds good though - I'll try and get hold of it.

[Shaun]

Oh my God they did a re-enactment! Some woman with Lucille-Ball-red hair was shown kneeling down on the ground holding a picture of Howard Hughes. At least they strived for some accuracy--she was wearing the trademark white and red. And is it written law now that no one but Scott Berg can speak about Kate? Seriously, he's riding her coattails. I didn't see the whole program but that part traumatized me.