>>The key is to surviving any category of hurricane is to stay close to a CNNreporter. While people die and are stranded in flooded areas, for some reason they are immune, somehow manage to find a building that isn't flattened and can come and go as they please. What's up with that?
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>Perhaps part of the explanation - but by no means the complete explanation - is that they are willing to assume some risks?

Kind of ironic that they are willing to assume risk that rescue agencies aren't. CNN is able to have people on the ground before during and after a disaster. Oh and are able to determine drivable streets to get SUV's into places that the military can't get troop carriers and hummers into. One strange scence was a Coast Guard crew was trying to rescure a stranded person from a rooftop via helicopter. They couldn't, but yelled over to a BBC crew in a 12 foot aluminum boat to ferry the person out.