Every time there is a hurricane, all the TV networks send reporters out into the wind and rain to report on the hurricane. What's the point? Do they think it makes the report more exciting to see the weatherman in danger of being blown away? At least usually they give the young ones the assignment of standing there like an idiot, trying their best to stand up to the wind, while dodging flying debris, but when I saw Al Rooker being held down by one of his camera men hanging on to his leg. I thought, doesn't this more than middle-aged man know better? He has told us his father made him promise to do something about his weight because he was concerned that Al would die early, but I wonder what his father would think if he saw him standing there like the other young idiots in that wind and rain.
Then as if to emphasize my thoughts, Al tried to get back to his room, and fell over as soon as the cameraman let go of his leg. Luckily he is all right. Seeing Al Rooker fall down from his own idiocy, was almost as funny as the female reporter in a canoe, who looked as though she was paddling her way down a terribly flooded street, that is until two fellows in waders walked by carrying their groceries, showing the street had only about a foot of water. At least the poor reporter came up with a good come back when Matt asked her about this. She said: "Why walk when you can ride?"
I think we all could see how strong the storm is with the feed from an unmanned camera, with the actually report being made by a reporter safe and dry inside. I wonder, if one day, one of these hapless reporters actually blew away, or got flattened by flying debris, would they show it on TV? Would that kind of occurrence make a more interesting weather story? Would it get higher ratings?
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