A reporter from South Florida caused a stir on social networks when she broadcast live the arrival of Hurricane Ian on the west coast of the state and decided to cover her microphone with a condom to “protect the equipment”.
Kyla Galer, reporter and presenter for NBC2 in Fort Myers, where just today Hurricane Ian made landfall in category 4, broadcast live from outside and with a condom covering her microphone, for which several viewers began to send her messages on his social media accounts.
Galer was reporting on the arrival of Hurricane Ian, now downgraded to Category 2, from a parking lot in Fort Myers, when viewers reportedly “got distracted” with the transparent rubber cover of their microphone and wrote immediately on social networks.
Here is a response from Kyla Galer to your action:
“NBC 2 practicing safe mic reporting during Hurricane Ian,” one viewer tweeted.
On her Instagram and Facebook profiles, the journalist replied: “Many people ask what is in my microphone. It is what you think it is, it’s a condom. Helps protect equipment. You can’t get these mics wet. There is a lot of wind and a lot of rain, so we have to do what we have to do and that is put a condom on the microphone”.
Galer has been covering the preparations for Ian’s arrival in Florida in recent hours from Fort Myers, Sarasota and Cape Coral, the area where Ian made landfall today after leaving the western region of Cuba devastated.
“This is really serious. If you are under a mandatory evacuation listen to it and do it now!!! Dont wait! We are in continuous coverage to make sure that Southwest Florida is safe, “Galer warned yesterday before the arrival of the hurricane.
The powerful Hurricane Ian made landfall this Wednesday on the west coast of Florida with maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour, and “catastrophic” flooding and tidal waves are still expected in parts of this coastal strip facing the Gulf of Mexico, despite the fact that it has been downgraded to category 2.
So far no fatalities in the impact zone, but in the Florida Keys, in the south of the state, they are looking for twenty Cuban “rafters” who were aboard a boat that capsized in the midst of strong waves caused by the hurricane.
According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States, the eye of the hurricane made landfall around 3: 05 in the afternoon near Cayo Costa, a barrier island off the southern town of Fort Myers, more than 100 kilometers south of Tampa, where coastal towns are still under flood alert due to storm surge.
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