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Contact: Jenni Brockman Phone: 804-443-3357 Fax: 804-443-6781 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tappahannock (March 29, 2004) - St. Margaret’s response to Hurricane Isabel soon will be the focus of a Weather Channel feature on hurricane preparedness. Producer Simon Temperton chose the school after reading a story on the SMS web site about how 17 students and 11 faculty spent the storm in a riverfront dormitory. 
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The Weather Channel’s Simon Temperton interviews a St. Margaret’s student about her Hurricane Isabel experience while videographer William Rembert (behind lighting umbrella) rolls the camera. They spoke with two other girls, plus Head of School Margaret R. Broad, Chief Financial Officer Nancy Smith and Nurse Blair Blanks.
“It’s great recognition for the work we do every day to keep our students safe,” said Head of School Margaret R. Broad. “It’s also great recognition for our community, and for the public safety officials who were so important to our ability to make good decisions.” Temperton and videographer William Rembert spent most of the day on Friday, March 26 interviewing administrators and students, filming the marine biology class seining in the river, and shooting footage of both storm damage and typical campus scenes. He brought hurricane videotapes made by local residents Dubby Lowery and Marshall Lloyd back to the Weather Channel’s Atlanta headquarters, where they will be copied for potential use in the program. St. Margaret’s will be part of a segment on evacuations. The five-part series currently is expected to air the second week of June; SMS will place an announcement in local newspapers once definite dates and air times are known. Read the original stories as they appeared at the time of the hurricane:
September 22, 2003:
THE DAY AFTER ISABEL
September 22, 2003:
SMS BOARDING STUDENTS ARE STORM SURVIVORS
October 11, 2003:
HURRICANE ISABEL - A STORM OF CREATIVITY
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