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TV’s weathermen feel the hurri-pain

Hurricane Irene made the nation’s TV weathermen look like Category 5 fools.

MSNBC storm trouper Mike Seidel tried to show how tough he was on a beach in Nags Head, NC, which was enduring 70-mph winds.

“We are getting so battered,” he said. “I am also getting sandblasted, which is kinda painful.”

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Weather Channel reporter Eric Fisher donned a pair of swim goggles.

As ridiculous as that looked, he didn’t reach his height of foolishness until college-age pranksters wearing skivvies ran behind him and one mooned the camera.

“I am pretty much speechless,” Fisher said in disgust.

A moment later, an SUV passenger gave him the finger.

“This is depressing,” he added, asking the anchor to take him off the air.

CNN’s John Zarrella used his body as a yardstick to show how fast the water was rising in a suburban enclave of Atlantic Beach, NC in one North Carolina town. He dragged himself into what appeared to be the middle of a boulevard of windswept, sagging trees.

CNBC reporter Darren Rovell, who is often mocked online for the amount of hair gel he uses, headed to Montauk to do live stand-ups starting at 6 a.m. today.

In a Twitter exchange yesterday, a fan asked, “Will the hair stay in place?”

Rovell tweeted back, “I have Hurricane Force Gel.”