Covering Hurricane Ian: Correspondents Talk About Conveying The Personal Loss And Destruction Of The Storm — And What It Means For The Future
deadline.comWhen President Joe Biden visits Florida on Wednesday, he will be seeing for himself the destructive impact of Hurricane Ian, which has claimed more than 100 lives, wiped out entire neighborhoods and left questions of the timing of evacuation orders.
Before the storm made landfall, networks dispatched crews, and eventually their major anchors, but even as there was anticipation of a major disaster, correspondents on the ground reported with expressions of surprise at the ultimate scale, scope and intensity of the hurricane and its impact.
ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee, CBS News national correspondent David Begnaud, CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir, Fox Weather/Fox News correspondent Robert Ray, NBC News correspondent Steve Patterson and The Weather Channel’s Stephanie Abrams separately shared their experiences covering Ian and the aftermath.
Most of them have a long track record of covering the storms — and some see Ian as unusual in its intensification as it approached the southwestern Florida coast for a direct hit.
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