Schadenfreude

It appears I haven't lost my sense of humor in the storm - I can still "take pleasure at another person's pain" (aka schadenfreude). You gotta love the Germans for having a word like that in their language.

Anyway, shots of TV reporters in the field getting rained on always kinda bugs me. Yeah, it's nice to see them without all of the makeup and coiffing that they have in the studio, but they really look kinda silly out there in the wind and rain reporting, "Boy, it's windy!" Don't get me wrong, folks like Anderson Cooper did some top notch field reporting from New Orleans, but that was after the storm hit, not during.

Check out this clip of a reporter getting tagged with a piece of wind-blown debris. Granted, they were reporting on a fire in the rain rather than the rain itself, but the principle is still the same. I promise no reporters were seriously injured in the following film clip (other than damage to their pride).

1. Go to www.cnn.com
2. Click the "Browse/Search" option on the "WATCH FREE VIDEO" link on the right
3. Click PLAY VIDEO when "Crews battle fires, wind" is displayed
4. Enjoy. The fun bit is a little more than halfway through.