That’s CNN Pentagon correspondent Chris Lawrence standing in Chesapeake Bay as Hurricane Irene approaches, which I guess means he doesn’t have a clause in his contract that prevents his bosses from making him do this sort of cliché stuff.
Add: Lawrence’s antics prompted maybe the best on-air quip from a politician during Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room show from Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley: “Hey, Wolf, do me a favor. Tell Chris to get the hell out of that water, would ya?”
Also: The Daily Beast has a list of the 9 biggest Irene Overreactions.
