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Tropical Storm Rachel footage: it's just lumber

Tropical Storm Rachel's surf drives out Long Beach residents. The whole segment, as it aired. The internet's moment, broken down frame by frame by people who should not be allowed near a telestrator. Licensed footage, credited.

On air
Kenji Moonfield and Hank Ledger
Aired
on Weekend Edition
Length
0:44
“Viral Score, seven. One point off for the ocean sitting politely in the background the whole time.”
Hank Ledger, BBN

Footage

  • BOARDWALK DAMAGE FROM STORM SURGE: CrescentBeachProd · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · source

Public domain or freely licensed footage, used under its licence and credited as it asks. BBN never airs the actual viral video from social media.

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Transcript

What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

  1. Hank LedgerTropical Storm Rachel's surf pushed residents out of Long Beach and briefly shut beaches in Newport Beach, the Los Angeles Times reports.

  2. Kenji MoonfieldWe don't have the actual video from there. This is file footage, a stunt double boardwalk from the archive. Roll it.

  3. Kenji MoonfieldLook at this. Planks everywhere, torn right off the walkway. Apartments on the left just standing there like nothing happened.

  4. Hank LedgerJust lumber.

  5. Kenji MoonfieldWatch this section. Splintered, scattered, still going. And here's the wide shot. Total destruction.

  6. Hank LedgerRun it back. The middle part. Only for the planks.

  7. Kenji MoonfieldYou care.

  8. Hank LedgerViral Score, seven. One point off for the ocean sitting politely in the background the whole time.

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