Posted on 09/14/2018 5:54:21 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Weather Channel voiced support for one of its reporters on Friday after a video of him reporting during Hurricane Florence went viral online.
The video clip posted to Twitter appeared to mock the reporter's hurricane coverage, suggesting he was exaggerating the storm's force.
The video shows longtime Weather Channel meteorologist and reporter Mike Seidel as he tried to gain his footing as the storm's winds bore down on him.
"This is about as nasty as its been," Seidel, who was reporting from Wilmington, N.C., says in the clip while bracing against the wind.
The camera then pans over to a pair of figures casually walking on a road behind the reporter.
“So dramatic!” one Twitter user wrote with the video clip. “Dude from the weather channel bracing for his life, as 2 dudes just stroll past.”
The video had been viewed more than 3.6 million times and had received almost 60,000 retweets as of Friday evening. It also led many people to mock the reporter for his demeanor reporting on the storm.
The Weather Channel noted in a statement to The Hill that the reporter was standing on wet grass and was “undoubtedly exhausted.”
“It’s important to note that the two individuals in the background are walking on concrete, and Mike Seidel is trying to maintain his footing on wet grass, after reporting on-air until 1:00 a.m. ET this morning and is undoubtedly exhausted,” the network said.
Hurricane Florence made landfall on Friday morning near Wrightsville Beach, N.C., according to the National Hurricane Center. Florence was downgraded to a Category 1 storm and further downgraded to a tropic storm on Friday evening.
Still, officials have continued to urge residents to heed local evacuation orders and have preparations for the storm.
Several deaths linked to the storm have been reported, including a mother and infant who police in Wilmington said were killed when a tree fell on their house.
I saw the video. It’s hilarious.
Actually this is a Polack joke that writes itself.
ps, I am 50% Polish so entitled to comment without repercussion.
My son, who lives in Greenville/Spartanville are of SC texted me the link to this earlier this evening. My response was:
They all do it. Courtesy of the 24 hour news cycle. Gotta have something to keep the masses interest focused on something (anything).
Did you mean “fake sense”?
Speaking of “out of the closet”. I might be misreading body language, but I believe about half of TWC’s employees need to come out of the closet.
This is “fake news.”
If there was concrete nearby, why was he trying to stand on wet grass?
And that yellow journalist is why we hate you.
“Global Warming is Settled Science” ™
he was channeling Marcel Marceau .
Next he will be trapped in a box then taking the elevator and the escalator.
Because of Climate Change there will be more wet grass in the future!
Perhaps it was weed and not grass that he was on!
The Weather Channel is a Cat 5 Hurricane of insipid commercials.
The Weather channel writer must have been 'truth writer', Bob Woodward !
It's been kinda slow since "Deep throat".
Look at the plants below the sign. They are bending to the left. That means the wind is coming from the right, from behind the idiot reporter. He is therefore leaning in the same direction as the wind. If he were really steeling himself against a strong wind he would be leaning into the wind not with the wind. As they say, “believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.”
I’d disagree with your assessment.
He could be partly pushed over to the left by wind, hence his upper going left, but he is BENDING his leg to the left which WOULD indeed brace him against right-sided winds.
LMAO. One of the original “fake news” reports of the modern cable news era. I’m surprised it took 12 posts before someone posted a link to that one.
Tim Conway was a master at physical humor. I’d love to see him doing the role of the reporter here exaggerating the wind.
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