Dear Sandy: We may bend but we will not break

Today’s dilemma:

First and foremost - I wish nothing but prayers of safety and recovery to those affected by Hurricane Sandy.  What I have seen on the news is amazingly devastating.

Sandy’s coming over and she has an attitude. Your question if you’re Dan and the Danettes is where do you want to hide from her. One location was taken out of the equation when they decided to do the show from Milford instead of NYC. Let’s face it, it may have been tricky finding nearby, grade A restaurants today. You would need to drop down the beds in the NY mancave also, which might lead to some questionable sleeping arrangements with Nick and Artie there too. Do you go home, hope you can make it back to work the next day, or stay at home and call it in? With today’s technology you can also email, text, fax, Twitter or Facebook it in. Do you hang out at Dan’s house watching Monday Night Football and have a Red Hook slumber party? Do you go to the Milford mancave picking up reserves on your way there? At least you would be in your normal Tuesday home away from home. Decisions, decisions. We’ll have to tune in tomorrow to see how it all turns out.

  
Today could be an opportunity for the three Danettes that made it to work to practice their Weather Channel stand ups. Here’s the picture: The wind is blowing hard trying to push you backwards. You’re getting pelted with rain that’s so hard and cold it feels like cement. You’re holding onto your mic with one hand and the hood of your rain soaked jacket with the other. Meanwhile your cameraman has strapped himself to a small tree with bungee cords and your producer is crouched on the ground holding onto one of your legs praying that the two of you don’t blow away. All you can think of is the sooner you get your spot done the sooner you can get back in the news truck that you can see parked at the curb. All of this just to do it all over again at the bottom of the many hours ahead. You’re also plotting on ways you can torture the in studio anchor, who is warm and dry, when you get back without leaving any evidence. And………….action Danettes.

Here’s a walk down memory lane: Remember when Matt Lauer from the NBC Today Show went to the female reporter on live remote who was sitting in a row boat talking about how bad the flooding was in some town? The camera shot went wider to show two men wading in the water about ankle deep behind her. Did you say to yourself: "What the @#%*?!?" That reporter and station lost a bit of credibility didn’t they?

Waiting on the edge of my sofa to see if I’ll be watching a new edition of the Dan Patrick Show Tuesday or damage coverage.  Praying for the safety and recovery of those affected by the storm.