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No offense, Fleshbot, but it's obvious that there are only two real babes covering Hurricane Ivan. Jim Cantore can crawl back into the scary gym teacher corner from whence he came: I'm talking about CNN's Bill Hemmer and TWC's Mike Bettes.
If you ever fantasized about what Bill Hemmer would look like if he shed the doofy man-glasses and starchy suit and bought you a Mind Eraser at the Florabama, your wish has been granted. Hemmer actually looks relaxed in the khaki, windbreaker and baseball cap combo CNN has him sporting on Mobile Bay. He could definitely pass for a Spring Hill Communications major looking for his big break. They cut to him during Inside Politics and though I know he said "Hey, Judy," I swore he said "Hey, Cutie." Hey yourself...Billy.
Mike Bettes, though, is not looking too shabby in his Gore-Tex uniform out there in Pensacola. Gothamist senses something vaguely Stephen Malkmus-y in his demeanor, if not his approach. (He seems to inherently understand that there can only be one diva allowed to romp freely through the cattails.) Plus, you have to love this comment from Jump the Shark:
...that glint in the eyes of Dave Schwartz and Mike Bettes every time they're onscreen together? Get a room, guys.
Though Gothamist Weather is brimming with Schwartzaholics (I'm looking at you, KP), I'm officially knighting Bettes my TWC hunk du temps. But seriously: check out Hemmer if you can. He's actually having fun. (Gasp.) Sadly, the party ends at nightfall: they're shipping Anderson Cooper down there for tonight's 360.
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Wait a minute...who is this Rob Marciano guy reporting from Mobile on the Lou Dobbs show? Suddenly it's a three-way race.
ugh, Hemmer is a tool! i'll pass on the news networks for weather channel. (unless you give me keith olberman in a rain jacket; then i'm there!)
i prefer Stephanie Abrams, because there's the added thrill that if you watch long enough, you might get to see her actually blow away.
i agree with your Hemmer = tool assessment, though he has always seemed like the kind of tool who you and your hipster friends still crushed on in college. i never watch CNN, so maybe i'm just forgetting how much he used to irk me.
i have to bone up on my Weather Channel broadcasters. the only one who really struck me yesterday was Jeanetta Jones in the studio, and that was due to the sheer time investment involved in her faux-windswept hairdo.
I really, really miss the old guy in the National Hurricane Center in Miami. I want to say his name was Bob Sheets, but I may be thinking of someone else. He was the right reverend of the tropics.
Were you thinking of John Hope?
YES! John Hope! He died a few years back, didn't he?
Yep