"Devastation on the Delaware" Book Highlights Eerie Similarities Between Present Hurricane Disasters

Unusually warm Atlantic Ocean waters spawn a disastrous hurricane season. Hurricanes cause massive flooding and break all-time damage records. Hundreds of people are dead, many missing, and thousands are left homeless to face the coming winter. The Gulf Coast in 2005? No: The Delaware River Valley in 1955. Author Mary A. Shafer points up many similarities between last year’s catastrophic hurricane season and that of fifty years ago in her newest book, Devastation on the Delaware: Stories and Images of the Deadly Flood of 1955.

[ClickPress, Thu Jun 01 2006] Unusually warm Atlantic Ocean waters spawn a disastrous hurricane season. Hurricanes cause massive flooding and break all-time damage records. Hundreds of people are dead, many missing, and thousands are left homeless to face the coming winter.

The Gulf Coast in 2005? No: The Delaware River Valley in 1955.

Author Mary A. Shafer points up many similarities between last year’s catastrophic hurricane season and that of fifty years ago in her newest book, Devastation on the Delaware: Stories and Images of the Deadly Flood of 1955.

The 456-page softcover book contains more than 100 black & white historical photographs of the event, some never before published. It retails for $19.95 and may be purchased at many fine Delaware Valley retail establishments, bookstores, or ordered direct from the publisher at its website, http://www.55flood.com.

Fifty cents from each copy sold is being donated to the Delaware RiverKeeper Network, to support their ongoing advocacy on behalf of the Delaware’s environmental health. That translates into a healthy donation from the first printing to this non-profit watchdog group.

Those needing more information should call the publisher at 610-847-2456 or send an email.

Media materials:
Download high-resolution digital images of the book cover and author, suitable for offset printing, from the book's website.

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