Let's say your'e a program director for your local news station

[CatWoman]

During a hurricane/tornado, etc., how would you present the story/stories to your audience?

Would you hold onto the same, tired chiche -- you know, the guy standing in the storm with a mike, holding on for dear life?

Or would you find another way to bring the "fierceness" of the storm home to your viewers?

[nickgutierrez]

1. I think the guy standing in the storm is the dumbest thing on TV

The last thing I want to see while people are dying and seeing their houses destroyed is some moron in a rain poncho carrying a microphone, trying to stay upright and talk about the storm at the same time. Get under shelter, and if you can see the storm in the background, great. If not, too damn bad - use your reporting skills to describe the destruction.

[SOteric]

6. Oh man, you haven't even begun to see dumb until you've seen

storm reports in the city of Seattle.

Yeah, yeah, it rains a lot here, but you'd be hard pressed to call anything we get in these parts 'a storm.' Especially if you're going to compare it to the rest of the country.

It's long past being just faintly rediculous and right on into embarrassingly absurd to see Jim Foreman stand out in the dark, clouded night in a polar parka in 30 degree weather while 6 pathetic, wet, undersized snowflakes wander aimlessly out of the sky.

[MADem]

2. I'd bolt some sturdy cameras down ahead of time

Wire 'em up with an uninterrupted power source and the capability to remotely pan, and report from the safety of a studio. I'd get all of the areas that people are interested in, a variety of angles, and stay indoors...

[RPM]

3. I would have a group of eight people huddled together in a safe shelter

every hour, I would have those people vote another out of the shelter. repeat every hour until only one remains.

the other 7 are responsible for covering their own asses in the storm - with a camera crew following them.

I would call it - "survivor - hurricane"

[CatWoman]

4. bwahahahahahahahahahahaha

:rofl:

[ronnykmarshall]

5. I'd have a woman with a big ass bouffant

report from a fake set with cows and trees flying by.

[CatWoman]

7. the Longhorn Steak Lady?

:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Duct tape 27 peacocks to the reporter, then dump him down an apartment

incinerator shoot to his death, with a video camera attached to his head. After he's incinerated, send down his parka.

Then, call in someone else to report on the storm with the truth, without the hyperbole, (report on damage, any known buildings damaged and how much (such as "the astrodome roof has been ripped off, and the Wilson building has lost a lot of windows"), how much flooding and where, places without electricity, and continuously play whatever emergency messages the government wants put out) and show video and still clips of the storm from a variety of cameras that have been placed around town before the storm came.