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Yesterday was the Summer Olympics for our local newsanchors(Nor'Easters being the winter version), the A-team for Fox 25 getting the call from the bullpen on their usual day off and leading the team through roughly 16 hours of storm coverage, including, but not limited to: Boats improbably bobbing in the harbor, reporters losing their favorite hats (watch the vid, I shit you not), wind as demonstrated by dramatic shots of trees, and the always classic, reporter standing by flood walls, warning others not to stand by the flood walls.
The thing is, you'd think these people would be bummed out about a storm. You're outside working in miserable conditions for like 12 hours. Camera men just standing their getting drenched, reporters forced to ad-lib storm conditions that they really know nothing about, oh yea, and standing out in the freaking rain all day long, but there they are, loving every minute of it. Kinda makes me wish I followed up and took weather 102 in college, maybe there's something to this weather thing. I mean I loved Weather 101, filled my science requirement, didn't take much thinking. Maybe that's the secret here. It's a mindless job. Watch a radar map, stand out in the rain or snow a few times a year and babble about the conditions. I think I missed the boat on this one.
