Someone's got to do it! TV reporters are battered by Hurricane Matthew as they report from the heart of the storm

  • As Matthew ravaged Florida and creept north, reporters have flocked to cover it
  • TV reporters are often outside in the storm and being battered by winds
  • Local and national broadcasters have been no match for Matthew's force
  • Clip from Daytona Beach show one reporter using a wall to hold herself up 
  • Another in St Augustine shows waves spewing water while reporter talks 

It's a time-honored tradition whenever extreme weather conditions roll in: watching miserable reporters get battered by the storm.

As Hurricane Matthew trounces Florida, committed journalists have done their duty by reporting from the heart of the downpour. 

Both local and national stations have sent reporters and meteorologists to Florida to cover the impact of Hurricane Matthew. 

One WPIX11 reporter tried his best to show the evacuated coastal towns of Florida, but the wind and rain had other ideas.  

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Reporters have ventured to cover Hurricane Matthew at its worst and have been battered by the storms winds and rain in the process. This WPIX11 reporter tried to show the evacuated coastal towns of Florida, but the storm's brutal force had other ideas

Reporters have ventured to cover Hurricane Matthew at its worst and have been battered by the storms winds and rain in the process. This WPIX11 reporter tried to show the evacuated coastal towns of Florida, but the storm's brutal force had other ideas

As the reporter discussed how one man had stayed behind to tend to his business, the intense wind and rains pushed him back as he put an arm out trying to block the torrential rain. 

At the beginning of the clip the reporter even says the wind is so strong he lost his hat before the start of the broadcast. 

His interviewee, clearly more accustomed to the stormy weather, retrieves it for him.

In a different report, ABC News producer Scottie Withers was hampered by wind as he stood near the sea in St Augustine, Florida.

'Police, first responders - they've evacuated. Firefighters have evacuated the island. They've just told us we have to go. 

ABC News producer Scottie Withers is hampered by wind as he stands near the sea in St Augustine, Florida

ABC News producer Scottie Withers is hampered by wind as he stands near the sea in St Augustine, Florida

 

'Police, first responders - they've evacuated. Firefighters have evacuated the island. They've just told us we have to go,' Withers says into the camera 

'Police, first responders - they've evacuated. Firefighters have evacuated the island. They've just told us we have to go,' Withers says into the camera 

'If you're here and you do not leave, you are not getting any help until after the storm is over,' Withers warns as his microphone is battered by the wind. 

In the Bahamas, one Weather Channel reporter, Brett Adair, looked as if he was sky diving as the winds pushed him around. 

As winds ripped through Paradise Island, Adair held arms held backward and tried to walk forward but had to lean into the winds just to remain upright.

In the Bahamas, one Weather Channel reporter, Brett Adair (pictured), looked as if he was sky diving as the winds pushed him around

In the Bahamas, one Weather Channel reporter, Brett Adair (pictured), looked as if he was sky diving as the winds pushed him around

With his arms held backward, Adair tried to walk forward but had to lean into the winds just to remain upright

With his arms held backward, Adair tried to walk forward but had to lean into the winds just to remain upright

Another reporter from WKMG, Sachelle Saunders, was on assignment to cover the high winds and surf in Daytona Beach, Florida. 

'Um, I don't know what to tell you guys. You can see what's happening,' Saunders says.

Her jacket is being ripped back and forth by wind in the clip and she has clearly been doused in rain and sea spray. 

'I'm holding myself up against the wall as water and wind come in off the ocean,' she says. 

Saunders tells viewers once she is on the other side of the wall she will be safe from the winds. 

As she says this the intensity kicks up and streams of wind and water can be seen tearing around her body.  

'Um, I don't know what to tell you guys!': WKMG's Sachelle Saunders was on assignment in Daytona Beach as she got a taste of Hurricane Matthew 

'Um, I don't know what to tell you guys!': WKMG's Sachelle Saunders was on assignment in Daytona Beach as she got a taste of Hurricane Matthew 

'I'm holding myself up against the wall as water and wind come in off the ocean,' she says
Her jacket is being ripped back and forth by wind in the clip

'I'm holding myself up against the wall as water and wind come in off the ocean,' she said in the clip 

Saunders tells viewers once she is on the other side of the wall she will be safe from the winds
But she has trouble finishing her sentences as the wind picks up
Finally, she throws back to the studio as she reaches her breaking point

Saunders tells viewers once she is on the other side of the wall she will be safe from the winds

Finally, she throws back to the studio as she reaches her breaking point 

Another clip shows a WJXT reporter in St Augustine reporting from the beach as waves crash against a wall behind him. 

Like the other journalists, his jacket is being pulled against him by the violent winds as water pellets downward. 

As the water is flung over the wall by the wind, a cameraman is forced to pull out a rag and wipe clean his lens. 

A CNN reporter tried to show how a gate was nearly ripped off by wind and flung into a road, but his camera was so clouded by water it's impossible to tell what he's talking about.  

A WJXT reporter in St Augustine was pushed and pulled by strong gusts near the ocean in St Augustine

A WJXT reporter in St Augustine was pushed and pulled by strong gusts near the ocean in St Augustine

A CNN reporter tried to show how a gate was nearly ripped off by wind and flung into a road, but his camera was so clouded by water it's impossible to tell what he's talking about

A CNN reporter tried to show how a gate was nearly ripped off by wind and flung into a road, but his camera was so clouded by water it's impossible to tell what he's talking about

Another CNN reporter had her hair tossed by gusts in Daytona Beach as the storm came through 

Another CNN reporter had her hair tossed by gusts in Daytona Beach as the storm came through 

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