Weather reporter Tucker Barnes buried in SEWAGE during hurricane report

Aug 28, 2011 - 12:33
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Weather reporter Tucker Barnes  buried in SEWAGE during hurricane report
Tucker Barnes is owed a big bonus for reporting out the storm as sewage blew all over him.

It's a dirty job - and no one should have to do it.

Tucker Baes of the Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C. made what is destined to be one of the most famous live shots in history Saturday standing in Ocean, Md. as Hurricane Irene covered him what he thought was "plankton or something."

It wasn't. It was raw sewage.

"I don't know what it is, it has a sort of sandy consistency," Baes told Fox's New York viewers, covered head to tow in what looked like frothy pancake batter.

"It doesn't taste great," he said.

Back in his warm and dry station, the MyFoxNY anchor mused, "We've never seen anything like it."

Baes, struggling to hold onto a boardwalk bench, said he hadn't either.

"Our chief meterologist back at the station said that it's some sort of organic matter. I guess it's plankton or something mixed in with sand and salt," he said.

"I can tell you first hand that it doesn't smell great. It feels kind of soapy."

"Be careful with that weird stuff, okay?" the anchor told him as the WTTG-TV reporter signed off. "That is a bizarre wild substance that is about to bury you."

MyFoxNY reported later that the mystery foam was raw sewage pouring into the sea and being whipped into a froth by the hurricane's winds.

 

Reporter Gives Update Covered In Sea Foam: MyFoxNY.com

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Mike Gallagher Freelance writer with a passion for travelling