14 Hours - True Story Based on Allison

[southerngale]

14 Hours will air on TNT on April 3rd. It's about the massive flooding that occurred at Memorial Hermann Hospital and the heroic efforts to save patients.

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In June 2001, Tropical Storm Allison ravaged Houston, Texas, with massive flooding, plunging Memorial Hermann Hospital into catastrophic darkness. TNT tells the story of the disaster and the heroic efforts of doctors, nurses, municipal workers and volunteers to save almost 600 patients in 14 HOURS, a JOHNSON & JOHNSON SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATIONSM starring JoBeth Williams (Poltergeist, From the Earth to the Moon), Kris Kristofferson (Lone Star, Blade: Trinity) and Rick Schroder (Lonesome Dove, NYPD Blue). This gripping two-hour TNT Original is set to premiere Sunday, April 3, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT).

14 HOURS comes to TNT from Cosmic Entertainment, MAGNA Global Entertainment and Paramount Network Television. Shanna Tyndall Nussbaum and Jay Cohen serve as executive producers for Cosmic Entertainment, along with MAGNA Global Entertainment's Frances Croke Page and Elaine Frontain Bryant. Gregg Champion (The Cowboy Way) directed the movie from a screenplay written by Danilo Bach (Beverly Hills Cop).

14 HOURS is based on the harrowing events of June 2001, when Tropical Storm Allison stalled over the Houston metropolitan area, pouring nearly 30 inches of rain on the city within a 14-hour period. The story begins as Allison seems to be moving away from Houston. Jeanette Makins (Williams), a nurse at Memorial Hermann Hospital, arrives ready for what she expects to be a normal day. But Allison's rains return, quickly turning a normal day into a nightmare. As floodwaters inundate the lower levels of the hospital, a brilliant young surgeon, Dr. Foster (Schroder), makes the decision to move the patients to safer ground, including a young couple whose premature baby is struggling for life, as well as a girl and her mother, severely hurt in a car accident. With the resourceful thinking of Chuck Whortle (Kristofferson), chief of Harris County Emergency Management, the hospital staff and volunteers race against the clock to get all patients to safety.

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[Miss Mary]

Finally found this thread Kelly! Now that we're less than 1 week away from this movie airing, I thought I'd bump it up.

Mary

[JenBayles]

thanks for the reminder! I'll never forget watching that flooding event unfold. I was working on the puter inside and had the TV on. The local mets were having fits on the air and I finally started really paying attention around 8:00 p.m. Dave was watching a ball game with the neighbors and I wandered over in the pouring rain to tell them what was up. Boy did I ever get shot down for being a panic monger! They changed their tunes soon enough when they had to go out in the heaviest rain I have ever seen in my life and knock out sections of fence to loose the flood waters running between the houses.

[Miss Mary]

Jen - I'm glad you were a panic monger! I know I would have been. This movie sounds intense but I'll record/watch it.

Mary