re: These hurricane update press conferences with all the people standing behind the podium

Local politicians looooooooove getting their ugly mugs on television while contributing nothing to the topic at hand. Chances are there's a clerk of court or justice of the peace in there that just happened to be walking by after a hard day of doing nothing that saw the opportunity for camera time. Next election cycle there will be a picture from that and the tagline of "Sheila Blowcocks CARES about our community."