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Jeanne Knocks Reporter Off Feet

POSTED: Monday, September 27, 2004
UPDATED: 12:33 pm EDT September 27, 2004

A reporter from Tampa, Fla., was videotaped being blown off his feet by winds from Hurricane Jeanne during a live report this weekend.

Reporter Blown Away In Hurricane Jeanne
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The video shows the reporter fighting to stand in the strong gusts from Hurricane Jeanne when the winds finally knock him down. The reporter then went head over heels into some nearby shrubbery, according to the report.

Jeanne -- the latest in a relentless parade of hurricanes to pound Florida -- sliced across the state Sunday with howling wind and rain, turning streets into rivers, peeling off roofs and rocketing debris from earlier storms through the air.

At least six people died in the storm, which came ashore in the same area hit by Frances three weeks ago. Officials from six of the state's utility companies estimated more than 2.5 million homes and businesses were without power late Sunday.

President Bush declared a major disaster area in Florida. The hurricanes have prompted the largest relief effort in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's history, eclipsing responses for the 1994 earthquake in Northridge, Calif., and the 2001 terrorist attacks, director Michael Brown said.

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