Inside the Megastorm
Watch as hurricane Sandy unfolds, and explore what made it so much more devastating than other hurricanes. Airing November 21, 2012 at 9 pm on PBS Aired November 21, 2012 on PBS
- Originally aired 11.18.12
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- EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS FOR NOVA
- Chris Schmidt
Julia Cort - FIELD PRODUCER
- Vincent Liota
- SENIOR SCIENCE EDITOR
- Evan Hadingham
- SENIOR RESEARCHER
- Kate Becker
- POST PRODUCTION MANAGER
- Nathan Gunner
- POST PRODUCTION EDITOR
- Rebecca Nieto
- SENIOR DIGITAL EDITOR
- Tim De Chant
- NARRATED BY
- Corey Johnson
- EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS FOR DRAGONFLY FILM AND TELEVISION
- Dan Gold
Tamara Abood
Simon Dickson - PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY
- Talya Tibbon
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- Tom Pearson
- EDITED BY
- Erick Henson
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Mark Summers - CAMERA
- Mark Molesworth
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Mark Gunning - SOUND RECORDISTS
- Dennis Herbeck
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James Anderson
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- Toby Oppenheimer
- 2ND UNIT ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
- Michael Reichman
- CONSULTANT
- Ali Turner
- PRODUCTION EXECUTIVE
- Claire Wingate
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- Amanda Hibbitts
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- Kari Pricher
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- Sally Finigan
- PRODUCTION TEAM
- Sian Atkinson
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- Imogen Ogilvie
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- Nick Gilbert
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- Clark Evans, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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- Elsa Sharp
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- Sonia Jean-Louis
- ANIMATION
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- David McSkimming
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- AUDIO MIX
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- D'Arcy Maclean
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- Susan Rosen
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- Lauren Aguirre
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- Brittany Flynn
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- Pamela Rosenstein
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- Laurie Cahalane
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- Melanie Wallace
- MANAGING DIRECTOR
- Alan Ritsko
- SENIOR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
- Paula S. Apsell
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