Geraldo chased Irma to Columbus. He and the mayor caught two whitewater daredevils.

It was getting close to dark Monday night and the worst of the storm was over.

For about 10 hours, I had covered the effects of Hurricane Irma, now a tropical storm, from Midland to Double Churches Road and midtown to downtown, and I was headed home.

Then someone called me and said there was a river rescue in progress. I was not surprised, having seen kayakers on the river a couple of hours earlier.

What I found down by the river was not a rescue.

It was Mayor Teresa Tomlinson —and Geraldo Rivera. And it gets stranger from there.

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(Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)