You can’t make this stuff up. The Weather Channel typically sends a reporter to hurricane landfalls to file live reports. Hurricane Florence is no exception. However, in this case although it appears in the video the reporter can barely stand up in the wind, but when the camera zooms out, his fakery is revealed.
h/t to Ronnie Rogers via Facebook
Update: Attemptng to save face, TWC made a statement to BuzzFeed about the fiasco:
“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.
Update2:
Here is a better video.
as Pappy would say:
notice he is leaning AWAY from the wind (watch the grass) and not INTO it to keep balance/footing.
Actually it looks like the type of dance a youngster performs when he needs to go to the toilet.
This video was played on CBC. CBC reports that the weather channel said the reporter was tired. CBC can’t be taken as seriously if they really believe what they report. No infirmity, no physical or mental problems, ok, maybe mental problems, but just tired as the weather channel said.
Even if this had been radio, it seems like the real story should have been that conditions were surprisingly mild compared to what had been predicted.
Obviously you Climate Deniers don’t understand the difference between Weather and Climate.
The two guys in the background are experiencing Weather.
Mike Seidel is obviously experiencing Climate.
See? So easy an inbred, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, right-winger can understand it.
the reporters on British tv looked as if someone had chucked a bucket of water over them just before the broadcast. For the sake of verisimilitude of course.
Best post ever.
Everyone in this thread is wrong about what’s happening in the video, clearly the green screen operator loaded the wrong background video, had the proper video been loaded we would have all been duped into thinking Florence came ashore as a cat 9 hurricane and he would have been leaning in the right direction as the cars, trucks and freight trains flew past him ;0)
Those videos are now spawning Internet Parodies! https://kfdm.com/embed/news/offbeat/video-weather-man-accused-of-dramatizing-live-report-spurs-parody-videos?external-id=d57c506c66b24222baf934e2e71112a1
Look at the grass and the object blowing past in the background. They’re blowing from right to left. He is struglling AGAINST a wind that’s blowing from left to right. WTF! Another example of fake news.
When I look at that video, I notice the predominant direction in which the wind is blowing — it’s blowing towards the reporter’s BACK (from right to left). But the way he is bracing himself suggests that the wind should be blowing from his front (from left to right). His back leg is behind him, and he is leaning forward, which is a stance that you would take to brace against a force coming from your FRONT, but he is bracing opposite from the way you would brace against a wind blowing from his back.
As for the statement in his defense, that’s a load.
He should have faced in the opposite direction, but that would have put the rain blowing into his face, and we couldn’t have that, could we.
Pull that shot back a little further and they were probably using a wind machine .
But hey they spent some money getting this weather actor down there so they better get some
value . Whoops got caught …. again .
When I was a kid my Nanna used to get national enquirer type magazines and we used to just roll our eyes
but they actually look more legit than most of the click bait complete shit that is passed off as news these days .
I don’t think that they were using a wind machine. I think that the wind was blowing as depicted, but he was trying to fake how STRONGLY it was blowing, but he blew it (pun intended), because he was posturing in the WRONG direction to even fake it.
He doesn’t look like he’s ever been in a high wind situation. Leaning in the direction of the wind is a #fail first up!!!!
He learned that trick from Jim “Thunder Snow Cantori
Oh, he was standing on grass… Really? Talk about a fake leaning into the wind even without those guys walking completely unaffected by the wind.
Laugh it off, morons. “…is there a dropoff or something, or those two guys walking on water…” That producer and TV face should be fired!
What ever happened to any form of journalistic integrity? I mean… this a WEATHER event, for God’s sake. If they can’t be trusted with the facts of weather, how can they be trusted saying anything. Oh yeah, let’s chalk it up to the producers trying to think of something cute to do.
Freaking morons.
Not only that, they are acting as if they had no interest in preserving their r-i-s-p-e-c-t capital.
Oh, he was standing on grass… Really? Talk about a fake leaning into the wind even without those guys walking completely unaffected by the wind.
Not only are those two guys completely unaffected by the wind, but one of them is completely unaffected by the grass (watch the full video, at least one of the two guys is seen walking onto the grass across the street without suffering any of the problems of our intrepid weather channel
reporterham-actor)