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Is it just me, or does anyone else think the TV news practice of sticking some poor schmuck (or schmuckette) out on the beach during a hurricane just so we can watch them get beat up by the storm seems a little, I dunno, asinine?

I mean, did some suit somewhere finishing smoking a bowl and think, "You know, I'll bet what viewers really want to see is some fresh-faced reporter out there giving them the inside scoop on just how wet, cold and miserable you'd be if you were enough of a moron to go stand in the path of a goddamn hurricane."

Just wondering.

Ryan

You were saying?

Swept Away by the Hype

Well, um, yeah.

FWIW, my mother lives on the NC coast just south of Wilmington, and she said that there it was pretty much a non-event. (She didn't evacuate because she lives in a concrete-and-steel high-rise condo -- a Category 2 is pretty powerless against that.) Didn't even get any water in through the windows. She's back at work today.

Ryan