Channels 4, 5 and 7 all have reporters along the Scituate seawall this noon hour, reporting on the giant boulders that are all that separate the Scituate lighthouse from certain doom. Channel 7's Nicole Oliverio, though, was the only one standing right on the seawall, and she struggled against the wind to maintain her footing.
UPDATE: NECN also has a reporter at the Scituate seawall.
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Same as it ever was
By anonism
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 12:45pm
Same as it ever was
Is the winner...
By octr202
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 1:14pm
...the station that gets their reporter the closest to the angry sea without losing him or her into it?
Winthrop, Dorchester, Revere, Lynn & other areas don't matter
By Hill-of-Winta
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 1:00pm
If you know what I mean...hmmm? hmmm? hmmm?
You must be young...
By Anon
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 1:25pm
Scituate has had some of the worst flooding over the decades. Reporters love disasters, after all.
Scituate is where it is
By kvn
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 1:13pm
Scituate is where it is happening, baby ! Maybe they are hoping for a repeat of something like this :
http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Ph...
( http://www.boston.com/yourtown/scituate/articles/2... )
Or maybe it's because
By anon
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 1:25pm
Situate is going to have the largest tide and waves. Dorchester? Ya because it gets real crazy in the enclosed harbor.
On all of the Massachusetts coast ...
By adamg
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 1:44pm
There is no other place that gets hit hard in the storm? Like, say, Plum Island or Nahant?
Scituate is an easy set up.
By Stubs
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 1:56pm
The reporters can park their trucks right in the parking lot next to the lighthouse/jetty or right on the town pier, which is steps away from a warm restaurant and a break from the cold.
Scituate provides reliable devastation and shots of huge waves in relative convenience. Never underestimate the laziness of reporters!
Gloucester is supposed to have
By anon
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 1:59pm
12-15 ft waves, while scituate is going to be about10-13 ft. Its just easier to get to scituate from Boston.
Coupla reasons
By merlinmurph
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 2:04pm
The Scituate coast mostly faces NE, where a lot of the other shorelines may be more E, so it gets a direct hit from the waves with the NE winds.
Scituate also has some pretty dramatic places to be when the storm hits - the lighthouse at the harbor, seawalls at various places like Minot Beach, very low places like Peggotty Beach where houses are on stilts (taxpayers paid for these houses, BTW). These are the places where the newscams always set up. Nothing more dramatic for a news camera than catching a wave hitting a seawall. Waves crashing on a beach are pretty boring compared to any of these shots. Plus, all these places are very accessible for the news truck.
Brant Rock.........
By kvn
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 2:12pm
Brant Rock.........
I did see one newscaster at
By Lmo
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 9:36pm
I did see one newscaster at Plum island. Whoa whoa, the Neponset has some pretty mean white caps during a Nor'easter! They could even get a good shot of the waves on Morrissey Blvd, when the tide is high!
Newsroom Hazing?
By anon
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 1:16pm
Is it an initiation rite for reporters: go show off your columbia or north face or LL bean outerwear on camera while wave batter and wind howls?
WBZ-AM too
By Sarcastic Sam
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 1:37pm
No visual of course, but WBZ-AM can't stop talking about the goddamn New Sea Wall in Scituate every 5 minutes.
One of the weathermen for one
By Meaghan W
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 1:48pm
One of the weathermen for one of the stations (now I can't remember!) happens to live in scituate so that's why he is always there, the rest are copying!
I mean this sincerely, Adam:
By Hyde_Parker
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 1:52pm
I mean this sincerely, Adam: awesome grammar!
I'm guessing you didn't move
By Dave
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 4:14pm
I'm guessing you didn't move to the Boston area before 2/6/78?
It's '78 all over again.
By Hyde_Parker
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 4:39pm
It's '78 all over again. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!111!!!!111!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.blizzardof78.org
By kvn
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 5:24pm
http://www.blizzardof78.org/resources/bostonmassav...
Mass ave bridge Cambridge
Who's on the wall for UHub?
By Stevil
Thu, 01/02/2014 - 4:42pm
Where's Jack Nicholson at a time like this? We NEED him on that wall.
Just Give Them The Money
By Ex Beach Goer b...
Fri, 09/05/2014 - 2:08pm
Dudes,
Try going to the beach in Scituate or Marshfield - RESIDENTS ONLY! ALL OTHERS KEEP OUT. So what in the name of fairness gives Scituate or Marshfield a right to any of my tax dollars to fix the sewall along their precious beach?
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