It shows tense reporters in the recent hurricane, wearing wind-blown parkas, struggling to stand upright----while people in the background casually saunter into the picture, wearing shorts and Tshirts.
This is a 20-second video clip that seems to be news from a local TV station.
And it is outright fraud, and misleading the public.
If the clip is real, then the reporters deserve to be fired, and the station managing them should lose its license to broadcast.(But , of course that won’t happen)
(source: This link is to a post on a reddit forum about weather, which is a generally trustworthy source, mostly for serious people interested in meteorology. Apparently, the poster copied the video from the Weather Channel on cable TV.)
He appears to be leaning with the wind (not into it). Maybe between trying to stand still with his back to the wind made it a little harder to stand straight up. Couple that with being a bit dramatic OR not realizing the wind isn’t quite as strong as he thinks it is made have made him look like he was trying extra hard to brace himself. To be fair, it does look pretty windy out.
Maybe he’s drunk.
Also, we don’t know the context, do we? I remember a while back during some flooding (NOLA?) when Anderson Cooper got raked over the coals for being up to his knees in standing water even though people were walking on dry land right behind him. People said he was falsifying how bad the flooding was. As I recall, if you heard the entire thing and not just the part that went viral, he was demonstrating how deep the water can be in one area even though just a few feet away the ground is barely wet (plus, wasn’t it from an entirely different flood).
Yeah, unless they brought in a wind machine and had someone shaking the street sign, it still looks pretty damn windy out. Yeah, maybe he’s exaggerating a little, but maybe the guys in the back are just more used to it.
The reporter is in the median in the middle of the street. The guys in the background are near a building, which is probably shielding them from much of the wind.
As for the heavy jacket, the reporter is probably expecting to spend much of the day outside, while the other guys may only be making a short trip.
The funny part of that (which I was already getting ready to google before I saw your link) is how her own colleges immediately sold her down the river (see what I did there?) instead of playing along and hoping nobody noticed.
