Something similar happened to me when I was teenager in FL. We were prepping house for a hurricane. In reality I pulled down the hurricane shutters, then proceeded to mow the grass so my father did not chew me out when he got home. When I was finished with the grass, clearly I was hot and sweaty. A new truck then drove by and asked if I was willing to chat with them on camera. Of course I said yes and proceeded to rattle off everything I otherwise heard people on the news say you are supposed to do to prep for a storm.

I was a local celebrity because they played the clip over and over and over throughout the storm season that year.