The Inside WLOS blog is where to go to hear directly from the WLOSers themselves. Checking in, here’s a post in which reporter John Le talks about his recent snow storm report. I watched the report, and it looked to me like the story was simply about him and his battle to keep his hat on. In other words – dumb. But here, let Le tell it. Apparently it’s a really big deal to have your hat blow off during a storm report:
Last Sunday’s snow storm was apparently one of those times. I happened to be on the schedule to work on what turned out to be a frigid night. Our 6pm news was delayed by a half-hour as my poor Los Angeles Lakers lost to Phoenix on ABC. I wondered how the game might affect our viewership.
As it turns out… I wonder who WASN’T watching. Because apparently everyone and their mother saw me lose my silly fuzzy hat on TV!!
There I was, being pelted by granules of fine snow with a stiff wind that mauled me like Mike Tyson in his younger years. I think I had a script prepared, but the gusts literally took my breath away. So I scrapped the script and just described the conditions with my hand firmly keeping my prized “Elmer Fudd” hat in place.
I remember saying something about how I felt like I was dusted with powdered sugar… but the rest is a blur. Suddenly, at the end of my report you could see my hat blow off my head. That’s like “sticking the landing” in gymnastics, folks. Thankfully, I recovered the cap.
I haven’t heard the end of it in the days since. Okay, I expected to hear about it from my co-workers. But all week, I’ve bumped into people who saw that live report and laughed their behinds off. They wanna know if they actually did see my hat fly like the wind.
The answer is yes.
Yep, everybody was watching that night. Glad you could enjoy it from the comfort of home:)
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Sorry, John, but we did get a good laugh out of it, because my husband had just said "…and about this time, a big gust blows the hat off his head", and oops!! There it went!
I was watching and it was so hilarious that I taped it and showed my wife. You can catch the hat starting to go just at the end of his report. I got it to pause at the exact moment you see Le’s fivehead come into play.
The really funny thing, though, isn’t the hat. It’s his use of, and I quote… "What up with dat?"
The line came after he talked about how it’s March 1st and there’s a shit ton of snow on the ground… "what up with dat?"