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Ask CNN: What is a Hurricane Like For a Reporter

Aired September 10, 2001 - 10:29   ET

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LIZZIE TOVEY, ATLANTA, GEORGIA: Hello, my name is Lizzie Tovey. My question is, what's it like to be in a hurricane and reporter about one?

JEFF FLOCK, CNN WEATHER CORRESPONDENT: I have covered every major hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. in the last 15 years, including Hurricane Gilbert, which is the most powerful storm ever in this hemisphere; Hurricane Hugo, which devestated Charleston, South Carolina; and the hurricane that did the most dollar damage in U.S. history, that is Hurricane Andrew that raked Florida and Louisiana.

Unfortunately, or fortunately if you are me, I have had a lot of experience in hurricanes, probably staying in hurricanes longer than most people would.

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We're starting to get those same kind of high winds, we are told maybe 15 to 25 miles hour less at their maximum.

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I spent a lot of time of feeling that power of mother nature, that raw power that is really just an extraordinary experience, to feel that wind, the pressure, the rain, that is part of even as a minor hurricane.

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The storm has intensified. It is now a category 2...

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We were dealing with Hurricane Bertha back in 1996 in the North Carolina coast, and we were stuck in a position where once we waited too long, we were not able to get off of the island where we were holed up, and we were forced to have to deal with the storm as it was coming ashore.

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