When the clothes run out....

Has anybody noticed Anderson Cooper of CNN, who’s been down in the gulf for not one but two hurricanes at this point, has been wearing the same clothes a lot lately? That blue t-shirt and that olive drab one with the epaulets? And then he started wearing the two in a combo – trying to spice up that reporter-sent-into-the-field-without-sufficient-supplies-for-who-knows-how-long wardrobe.

How can we reporters be better prepared for such circumstances? Clothes that can be easily laundered in the field? Major media organizations, maybe the AP, pre-positioning supplies where we know we’ll be needing them? Kind of like how the Army conveniently keeps tanks the around the world just in case? We know that journalists will be sucked to N.C.’s outer banks every year – why not bury a batch of MREs?

Just kidding.