The Pompano Beach Historical Society's public program for February will feature Eliot Kleinberg, author of the recently-published Black Cloud: The Great Florida Hurricane of 1928.

Almost two years to the day after a devastating hurricane had hit southern Florida in 1926, another killer storm swept ashore. The '26 hurricane had hit Miami; the eye of the '28 hurricane passed over Palm Beach County, practically eradicating the communities along the Lake Okeechobee shoreline. Altogether over 7,000 people died as a result of the 1928 hurricane, one of the greatest hurricane death tolls in American history.

Although south of the eye's path, Pompano sustained significant damage from the storm.

Eliot Kleinberg, a reporter for the Palm Beach Post, is the author and co-author seven other books. In addition to his book on the 1928 Hurricane, he has written Weird Florida, and it's follow-up, Weird Florida II:In A State of Shock. Kleinberg is also the author of War In Paradise: Stories of World War II in Florida.

The program will take place on Wednesday, February 15, 2006, at 7:00 PM, at the Dick & Miriam Hood Center (217 NE 4th Avenue,Pompano Beach). The program is free and open to the public.