A Florida journalist was caught in a blackout during a live broadcast report on Idalia’s impacts Wednesday — putting the dangerous storm’s strong winds on full display for viewers.
Forrest Saunders, the Florida State Capitol Reporter for E.W. Scripps, was standing outside delivering an update on the storm from Chiefland, a city about 25 miles from the ocean, when the street lights surrounding him suddenly started to flicker before turning off completely.
“We just lost power! You just saw the power go out,” Saunders can be heard saying in a video of the broadcast shared to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
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