Why a Chinese Reporter Was Tied Up During a Typhoon

Mother Nature is dangerous business. Weather reporters in Asia (and elsewhere) are often sent into the eye of a storm—if anything, just so they can show how severe the weather is. And a typhoons are pretty dang severe. On August 8, typhoon Haikui hit Hepu County in China, sadly leaving two dead in its wake. This is the third typhoon in less than a week after two powerful typhoons ravaged the country, killing nearly two-dozen people and leaving nine missing. Twenty Yono all app minutes before Haikui touched down yesterday, a reporter and a crew were sent out to cover the storm. To keep the reporter from being blown away (which, supposedly, has happened), she was tied with some sort of rope. During the report, she had to crouch several times to keep her footing.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5933195","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"kotaku-east","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"kotaku-east","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Yes, it’s Yono all app weather reporters’ job to cover storms, but Yono all app surely, there’s a way to do that without putting them in unnecessary peril—or using rope. Reporter tied a rope to make report before arrival of typhoon HaiKui [China Buzz] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.