{"id":22717,"date":"2015-09-15T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/?p=22717"},"modified":"2016-05-15T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T15:50:46","slug":"miami-crew-hits-the-beach-for-tropical-storm-erika-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/2015\/miami-crew-hits-the-beach-for-tropical-storm-erika-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Crew Hits The Beach For Tropical Storm Erika – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This was my second time working storm coverage for The Weather Channel as a camera operator! The first was a tropical storm that I covered in Myrtle Beach, SC!<\/p>\n

In both shoots these storms had the potential in becoming category 1 hurricanes.<\/p>\n

Since I live in Miami I prepared for the worst. I purchased supplies that I would need such as a lantern, flashlights, plastic bags, towels, food and water.<\/p>\n

For hurricane advice I turned to our senior cameraman, Dave Baker, for his experience and insight into covering storms of this nature.<\/p>\n

Covering Tropical Storm Erika with The Weather Channel lasted a total of four days.<\/p>\n

Day 1: Our call time was at 4 a.m. at South Beach, FL for a live shot beginning at 6:00 a.m.<\/p>\n

Once I arrived to the beach (not a shabby location), I met up with the producer from The Weather Channel, Trish Ragsdale.<\/p>\n

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I checked out the water and couldn\u2019t tell of any signs of a storm a brewing since the waters were calm and still dry.<\/p>\n

I started unloading gear out of my suburban onto the beach alongside my audio op., Robert Shaw.<\/p>\n

We set up two HMI\u2019s onto the beach as far as it would allow,\u00a0which gave\u00a0us power and radio frequency coverage for the IFB.<\/p>\n

If we were to go out too far out then the signal would cut out so we weren’t able to get as far down to the beach as we wanted to.<\/p>\n

The field meteorologist was Mike Seidel for Tropical Storm Erika. \u00a0That morning\u00a0I was able to capture a waterspout<\/a>\u00a0on live air, which has never happened for Seidel so it was a privilege to accommodate him with that!<\/p>\n

Day 2:\u00a0The set up for day two was pretty easy since\u00a0we had a\u00a0game plan for setting up just\u00a0like the day prior.<\/p>\n

On this day we would say goodbye to our producer Trish and meterologist Mike and say hello to our next producer Michelle Birnbaum and meteorologist Reynolds Wolf!<\/p>\n

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This was my second time working storm coverage for The Weather Channel as a camera operator! The first was a tropical storm that I covered in Myrtle Beach, SC! In both shoots these storms had the potential in becoming category 1 hurricanes. Since I live in Miami I prepared for the worst. I purchased supplies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":25139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,140],"tags":[57,224,115,67,2721,203,2722,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22717"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}