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September 29, 2022Hurricane Ian just made landfall as a massive category 4. The videos coming out of Florida right now are just terrifying. But this reporter injected just a little bit of humor into the situation, while also being completely functional. While reporting in the hurricane rain, NBC2’s Kyla Galer (yes, her name is Galer and she’s reporting in a gale) was reporting from Fort Myers when viewers noticed the telltale bulbous tip protruding from the end of her covered microphone. People started making comments on social media so she addressed them directly, saying,
“A lot of people are asking what is on my microphone. It is what you think it is. It’s a condom. It helps protect the gear. You can’t get these mics wet. There’s a lot of wind and a lot of rain, so we gotta do what we gotta do and that is put a condom on the microphone.”
Hey, I get it. It’s super light weight, fully waterproof, extremely thin to allow for better sound. Seems like a fantastic idea, to be honest. You just don’t often see a reporter holding up a condom-wrapped mic.
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If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid. Props to the reporter for field ingenuity.
Galers’ boss said “This is not a new thing. Hurricane crews have been doing this for years. They use condoms to keep all sorts of things dry. Her mistake was not putting a windscreen over it to hide the fact they were doing it.”
And reporters are not the only ones who have used condoms to protect equipment of a less personal nature. During World War II, demolitions experts used them to carry and protect fuses to keep them from getting wet. As recently as the Vietnam War, soldiers used them to cover the open ends of rifle barrels, protecting them from filling with mud and other debris. In a pinch, a condom could even be used as a “field-expedient canteen.
>It helps protect the gear. You can’t get these mics wet.
Yet, someone everybody managed without being vulgar for 100 years before today.
I remember in one of my engineering classes the teacher would talk about the “quick and dirty solution”
It has gained new context.
I’m calling BS on that. Everybody knows that if you want the “quick and dirty solution” you go to the mechanic/machinist,low man on the totem pole. The engineers are the geniuses who think the spot under the air filter, above the exhaust, and jammed up against the firewall is the perfect place for the oil filter. 😀
That is hilarious. But hopefully everybody is OK as a result of this hurricane.