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How to survive a Hurricane
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From
24/09/2005 15:41:27
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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24/09/2005 13:27:59
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Forum:
Weather
Category:
Hurricanes
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01052715
Message ID:
01052781
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>>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?
>
>First, it's mainly phoney. They find a nice windy place and yell to be let on the air.
>Then they worm their way (probably some $$$ along the way and/or promises to get on TV) with "first responders" to tag along with them and get the 'benefits' that they have too.
>Finally, the actual desk reader continually repeats "Stay Safe", "Man, I hope you're worryng about your own safety" and similar to make it seem like they are surrounded by danger.
>Less problematic than faking a moon walk < s >

Reminds me of a funny scene during the toppling of Çeauşescu. Most of the initial revolt started in Timişoara, which is the nearest city across our border - and since many of us were there many times, doing small-time smuggling, we happened to have a reporter there. For whichever reason - maybe he was just shopping and trying to score some footage along the way. I actually know the guy, he was an lesser actor in our theater before he became a reporter. So we had first-hand direct line from there, with live images etc.

Couple of days later a larger crew from Belgrade came in to steal some glory - but for some reason they had to use the first guy's camera man. So you see the brave reporter ducking behind a tank, you hear shooting in the distance, it all looks really scary, and than the camera zooms out, and you see a bunch of guys standing around the tank and looking at the fool :).

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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