101024 Jimmy Hour 4

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
All right, good to have you here. Final hour of
the show is starting down. One hour from now you'll
have the Clay Travis and the buck Sexton Show, and
I know you're all looking forward to that with baited breath.
I'm sure everybody's just standing by anticipating it's going to
be like by the way, I got this email that

(00:38):
Trump rally and Aurora, Colorado tomorrow. They say people start
lighting up aus seven maybe five am. There's no parking
on side. I'll go through some of the rules of that.
If you're heading down there, it's going to be chaos.
But I'm sure it's like a Trump rally. You already
lined up, just waiting for the Clay Travis buck Sexton
show to come on. Right, you're ready lined up? It
is fired up. Here we go. Yeah, I bet you are.

(01:01):
We're else waiting for it. It's one hour from now.
Then you'll be done with me. I'll get to the
Trump Rally details in just a bit after this segment.
But ladies and gentlemen, as we do every week at
this time, our aviation and travel expert, my friend Jay Ratliffe,
is on the hotline. Jay Ratliffe, good morning, sir, how.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Are you It couldn't be better? Good morning, Well, good morning.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
This one looks like this sort of looks like I'm
going to avoid your home in Savannah, But it nailed
Florida last night, and I want to kind of talk
about these airports. I'm reading that Tampa is going to
reopen tomorrow. Talk about the reopening of the Airport's a timeline.
When do they start flying these airplanes back in and restaging.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, back here in Savannah, we started getting the Trump
we're under a tropical storm warning. We got the winds
about two o'clock this morning, and they were substantial. They
died down quick, which was I was glad to see.
But we started seeing the Florida airports close on Tuesday
and Wednesday as the storm approached, And that was the
proper call, because airlines want to make sure that they

(02:02):
get their airlines way out of harm's way so that
they're not involved in a high wind situation where flying
debris could actually inflict aircraft damage. Now, the storm was
quick moving, which was our saving grace here. So what's
going to take place is the airports that have been
closed Tampa, Saint Pete to Sarasota, Orlando, even over towards

(02:22):
Daytona Beach. Those airports will go through their necessary inspections today.
They have to do runway inspections, facility inspections, all the
avionics equipment, everything that is used to support the operation.
They're going to look at the facility itself so that
they can make sure that the employees are safe, passengers
are safe, aircraft are safe, all of that. Even have

(02:42):
to look at the fuel farm where we keep the
fuel to make sure there's no water contamination with any
standing water, and a whole bunch of other things. But
they'll run through that checklist today. They'll start seeing cut
some commercial flight activity tomorrow, and I believe as early
as Saturday we could be back to firing on all cylinders.
These airports, as you and I have discussed so many
times before, are revenue engines, and you want to get

(03:05):
that thing fired up just as quickly as you can.
So there's certainly an emphasis in doing that because, look,
you got a lot of people that are anxious to
check on family, friends, their property. They want to fly
into the area. You have airlines that are gonna be
used for cargo, bringing in a lot of needed supplies
and things for the first responders, So you want to
get that fired up and rolling as quickly as you can.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
So they moved these a lot of these aircraft out,
maybe fly them to Atlanta. I don't know where they
put them at, stage them somewhere else. How long does
it take them to get pilots in place to take
those planes back in there? Are they taking them deadhead
or are they doing inbound flights or they just fly
them empty and get them in their first staging.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Most of it is just a dead head flight exactly,
because what will happen is we'll stage those aircraft just
outside of the reach of the storm. Many times, we
don't have to fly them all the way back to hub,
you know, we'll take them to you know, a Pensacola, Florida,
or you know something again that's outside the realm, and
we'll stage the aircraft there with the crew there, and

(04:05):
they'll be there for a day or so until the
things get fired back up, and that's when they will resume. Now,
you know, we're early enough in the month that we're
not too worried about crew rest with regards to who
can do what we get into some of these storms
like we've had last month towards the end of the month,
and a lot of these pilots and crews that can
only fly a certain number of hours in a month.

(04:26):
Sometimes they're coming up on that. It causes problems from
a crew scheduling standpoint, But it's always fun because any
time there's a hurricane, there's one of these pictures that
hit social media that's got an airport that has all
these airplanes and they're all up to their wings and water,
and I get so many people saying, oh my gosh,
chat and I'm like, now, I forget it. That's a
false picture because these airlines are never going to allow

(04:49):
these expensive revenue tubes to be in harm's way. They're
going to get them out of there and quickly. And
you know, they stink when it comes to customer service.
But when we have this type of a weather event
that we can see coming in advance, airlines do a
very good job. Now they do everything they can to
try to accommodate us in advance. If we want to
take a later flight, we can change it without a problem.

(05:09):
They're giving us options. There's all kinds of things other
than one airline that got caught having problems and that
was United passengers on Tuesday were trying to get out
of Tampa. They were going up to Chicago. They're checking
Americans fairs southwest about six hundred bucks. Wow, United was
charging twenty one hundred. No little price gouging. Maybe they're

(05:32):
going on taking advantage. So that's when the Biden administration
came out and said, hey, guys, ain't happening. Anybody caught
doing that, that's gonna be in a lot of trouble.
And of course, you know, I said, oh, I'm sorry,
that's just a typical fair. Well, we checked the same
fares the next week on Tuesday, six hundred bucks. So
it was obvious somebody jacked it up there again, trying

(05:52):
to take advantage. Incredibly, so of this kind of a situation.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
You've mentioned it before. You do have think this administration
has been wrong a lot of things, but they have
done they've really tried to keep those airlines in checking.
Good for them for doing that, and you know they
sometimes will blame it, Well, that's just the algorithm the
computer figures. Now you're telling me there's actually a human
being kind of dinking around with those airfares.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, I mean, it's like, come on, a minute. Somebody's
got to be programming those algorithms to make this kind
of stuff happen. And it's strange out only seems to
impact one airline at the time. But once the people
started taking screenshots of that and it blasted through social media, Oh,
it didn't take any time at all. And you're right.
The Biden administration has done like practically nothing right that

(06:33):
I like. But going after the airlines and pushing for
customer service. Oh, I can't thank them enough. And that's
why I keep telling people. If you get a problem
with an airline, do not complain to the airline. Go
to dot dot gov. In the little search box, type
in airline complaint, and if there's a past or current
problem that's not been resolved, complain through the dot just

(06:54):
giving the six digit confirmation number and see how quick
you get a response.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, you know, I've tried to be fair on the program.
I'll critique what I want to critique, but I'll compliment
what I want to critique. I compliment, And they've done
a good job holding these airlines accountable, and kudos to them.
Hats off to Old Joe for doing that. He said
his administration has done well on that. Let me, Oh,
by the way, how does all these I guess cancelations

(07:18):
and no flights out of Florida? Is that going to
has the rest of the nation already absorbed? That is
that affecting travel to anywhere else right now? Or did
already everybody already got rerouted?

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Oh, there have been problems, and fortunately it's not the
busiest travel month of the year. So thankfully it's not
you know, the busy summer travel months, which is good.
But what we have here is you've still got some
flights that are affected. You know, folks are thinking, hey,
I'm in Chicago and Denver, I'm flying to the West Coast.
I shouldn't be having any problems. Well, if your aircraft
was being routed through any of these affected areas, yeah,

(07:50):
you could be facing some delays, you know, when airlines
are trying to minimize the damage to it as much
as they can, and they do a pretty good job.
And we're seeing obviously flight can't sold in these areas
where we've got the effected areas. But for the most part,
the rest of the country continued to do pretty good,
and part of that is because we've had such good weather.

(08:11):
Other than this massive storm across the country. It's allowed
us to, you know, kind of minimize the headaches that
we've had from a travel standpoint this week, and believe me,
we've needed at big time.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
You think part of the fleets are sitting there on
a tarmac nearby, waiting to get back to Florida. And
those were flights who were supposed to maybe come from
somewhere in Florida to Denver, then too La or something
like that, so part of their fleets all tied up,
and that's why it could affect the rest of the country.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
I guess, well, yeah, but you've got what we do.
We have flow control. We've got a department that routes
each one of those aircraft on the three, four or
five segments a day that it has and knowing this
storm was coming, they had plenty of time to say, Okay,
let's get all of our ducks in a row. Let's
take this aircraft offline because we know it's going to

(08:58):
be out of service because of the storm. Let's use
other aircraft that are available that we can use. And
that was a great way to go. And I was
really pleased to see it, because you know, when you've
got that advanced prep work. And of course airlines sucks
when it comes to customer service, but when it comes
to irregular operations during a weather event like this, I
always have to give them high marks other than United

(09:20):
trying to gouge us, because airlines do a very good
job of trying to stay ahead of it. They want
to solve the problems long before we get to the airport,
and I really appreciate.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
That, Jay Ratliff. I guess, Jay, you sent me a story,
the kind of a sad story. A Turkish Airlines captain,
the pilot died during the flight. That's a horror story
waiting to happen. Give us the details.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well, it was I believe it was La to Istanbul flight.
Turkish air was flying and they were still flying across
the country at the time when the captain, fifty nine
year old man, just collapsed. They had the medical team
or medical response if you will, on board the aircraft.
The flight attendant are trained to a certain extent. Plus

(10:01):
they've got the defibrillators and other types of things. You
always are asking for medical personnel EMTs, doctors, nurses that
can assist. They had some from what I'm told, and
By the time they made the emergency landing, they were
over New York at the time, the pilot had passed away.
So a very sad situation. But remember that Boeing and

(10:23):
the air Bus had been given instruction by the airlines
to try to develop a prototype for a single pilot cockpit.
So what they're saying is, because all the automation that's
out there, you really don't need two pilots and a cockpit. Well,
I think a story like this reinforces the fact. This

(10:45):
is why we want to have two pilots, because if
safety is your number one priority, and no airline's going
to say it's not, then you have to have we're
done at backup system, two pilots. If you don't, then
you're suggesting and stating I think quite clear it's profits
over safety, and who wants to send that message.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, well, I guess I don't know how that works.
But they extract the guy that passed away. How long
does that delay a flight? Now that sounds like a
kind of a petty thing to ask, but how long
did they get back on board?

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, if you have a passenger pass away, I'll tell
you that we try to move the body to a
part of the airplane where you have some empty seats
and we move people away, put a blanket over, put
the seat belt around, secure it until the plane lands.
I'm not sure exactly where they were working on the
pilot at the time, but in a situation like this,
flight's canceled, the passengers are put on overnight accommodations and

(11:44):
typically they'll fly in another crew that will pick up
and take the rest of the flight. Because you're dealing
with a crew that had gone through a very traumatic
situation and the last thing you want to do is
just let them go right back into work the next
day because we're going to need some time to processes. Now,
they may have decided that the crew, look, we're going
to honor the captain, we're going to do our job.

(12:05):
We're going to you know, take on tomorrow with an
additional crew member. But normally a day or so and
the passengers are accommodated.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Uh Jay, real quick, I know we're overtime here, But
what's it like for you? Mentioned a little bit of
flying across the country has been pretty good weather. What
are we looking at?

Speaker 2 (12:22):
It is fact, the only headaches we're seeing is Florida
South and central and south and it's the only problem
area of the country. And that leaves the rest of
the country, especially in the beautiful skies above you nothing
but a lot of on time flights from a you
know me mccanna or weather standpoint, and that's always great
to see.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Jay Ratliff Jratliff dot com. Jay, God bless you, my friend.
Great to hear your voice and kept here a couple
of minutes over a while or alloted time. I apologize
for that if I interfered with your schedule. J Ratlift
R A T L A F F J ratlift dot com.
If you go to this website, I encourage you to
check it out, but you'll see a lot about day trading.
He's prolifically involved in the day trade world and actually

(13:01):
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He teaches that as well. So but I give you
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have a travel question, he is responsive there and it
just plugs his website and gives you a way to
contact him. But feel free to check it out. Jay
Ratlift R A T L I F F J ratlift
dot com and just tell him. Hey, listen, Lakey show

(13:23):
love you hearing you, and feel free to fire my
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You may find something interesting. We day trading there as well.
All right, good to have you here on the radio show.
I posted this photo of Robert Ray and somebody said, wow, Lakey,
you're not looking for any slots on the Fox News channel. Well,
I figured at this point they would have called if
they wanted me, But I meana sincerely, I feel bad

(13:45):
for this reporter, Robert Ray. They were using him, and
the other networks did the same thing last night. I
let there be no mistake. It's not just about Fox,
but it's these networks that get these people out in
these storms that are obviously dangerous. And I asked the question,
did a screenshot from my cigar room. I was sitting
there in my chair watching I record the news. I

(14:05):
don't watch it live because I don't want to watch
these whole shows and hear the blobbing that goes on.
So I fast forward to stuff that I want to see,
and I see this guy out on the street and
it's on the hand of the show. But I think
the other reporters or the other hosts and shows had
used the same guy. He was in Bradenton, Florida. And
what you see in that photo on a Facebook page

(14:26):
Facebook dot com slash me Thiky fan page, that's about
as high as he could stand. At some point he
had been crouching like he was doing business in the woods,
just to kind of keep a low profile so the
wind wouldn't blow him over. And I asked the question
on this post. I said, is there any true value
to having reporters risking injury or life just to prove

(14:47):
that the wind is blowing in a hurricane. And at
this point, if you watch that segment live from Brandon
and Florida, I believe his name is Robert Ray, you
could literally see power lines a couple of times popping
and falling behind him with sparks. His mic cut out
three or four times, and rather than dismissing him and
say this isn't working, they cut away and then come

(15:09):
back to him, and he couldn't stand up. And I'm
thinking what they even said at the end of the segment.
They said, Hey, we're going to ask you one more
question then you can get into safety. And I wonder
if they recognize what that actually they're saying. They're saying, hey,
you're unsafe right now, but we have a question, so
that my ratings are good, So let me ask you
a question, then you go to safety. I think it
was just disgusting by a lot of these networks last night,

(15:31):
and I happened to take a photo of the one
on Fox and I just I say shame on them.
And some of you were responding to it. Now, by
the way, feel free to tell me I'm wrong, feel
free to say that lacky. That is good reporting. I
really appreciated it. What did it prove to you to
see this guy out there? You knew the wind was blowing.
I am looking over here at my left and there's

(15:51):
foot there's videos of trees blowing. I can tell you
that it's a powerful wind. I don't need a human
life out there risking life and limb so that Fox
News can say that they had better reporting on Hurricane Merlin.
We know the wind is blowing it. We're not stupid.
It's a hurricane. On my Facebook page Facebook dot com
slas Jimi Lackey fan page, Eric posted this, they have

(16:12):
no integrity, just showboating. In my opinion, it'll take someone
getting injured or killed by flying debris before they stop
this practice. Oh but the rest of the population, we
must heed the warnings and get to safety. He says, SMH,
which stands for shaking my head. I agree if those powers.
You can see the power lines falling behind the guy,

(16:33):
and they kept coming back to him, even though as
Mike kept cutting off, they'd come back. We'll come back
to you. We know you're in danger, but stay there.
Gary Wright says. He said they're like DEM's they don't
care as long as they get viewers or votes. Well
maybe they don't care as long as they're getting the viewership.
That's really all that matters. I guess that's what it's
all about. I find it to be a horrific practice

(16:53):
in a situation like that. I get it if you've
got a snowstorm and you got somebody standing on the
on the freeway and watching the cars come down the highway.
But hurricane is a little bit different than standing in
a snowstorm in Colorado. A hurricane is a little bit
different than uh than that. I mean, this is literally

(17:13):
projectiles can come and impale you in a moment's notice. Uh.
It's kind of like having a reporter stand there daring
a tornado. What the heck are we thinking? We're these
all of them. Shame on them. I guess I won't
be on the Gutfeld Show anytime soon. Well I I
wasn't planning on it anyway. This career stalled out long ago.

(17:37):
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Center dan Kaplislaw dot com. All right, tomorrow, the Trumpster
is coming to Colorado. He's going to be down at Aurora.

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And I've asked several people, what do you think the
great benefit of him coming is? And other than just
making a lot of foot fans. People that love the Trumpster,
love the Orange guy, that they're going to be happy.
But I don't know if it advances a campaign. It
does highlight the illegal immigration, which again poll numbers show
that that's a top topic. That's a big topic for people,
and they can try to downplay. People can try, but

(21:02):
it really is. It's on people's radar screen. But I've
got this email says the Colorado Trump rally is sold out.
Now the tickets were free. You had to go to
his website and try to get them. But ever they're
not issuing any more. They started with the about four
thousand and now they've raised it about twelve thousand people
of the Gaylord Complex. If all you need is your

(21:25):
confirmation of a ticket, so if your phone, your email
address or on file. So even if you didn't get
the email it got caught in spam. If you have
that confirmation of a ticket, you can show that. And
the ticket only guarantees the ability to stand in line.
It doesn't guarantee you're going to get in. So let
me give you some advice. This is from the Colorado GOP. Well,

(21:46):
whatever they might know, they tell you this. The best
way to increase your chances of attendance is to arrive
to the Gaylord early tomorrow. Doors open at nine am.
The lines of entry will be packed by seven am.
If not by five, I'm guessing if the Gaylord will
allow it, there will be people camped out there overnight.
I'm not sure the Gaylord will allow it. Now there
are rooms available still at last look at the Gaylord

(22:08):
if you want to stay there. And here's why you
might want to consider that. Listen to this. There is
no on site parking for the event. So if you're
driving down from Wyoming, or you're driving down from Northern
Colorado up from Colorado Springs and you get all the
way to the Gaylord and you're like, well, we'll just
find the parking spot, you're not gonna find one. There
is no on site parking. Only hotel guests or permitted

(22:31):
to park on site. So if you would like to
reserve a room, they still had rooms available at last look.
Now here's what they're saying about parking. There will be
parking for attendees in surrounding areas. The parking lots at
fifty sixth and Himalaya and sixty first and Payana are
available for parking. There are shuttles that will take you

(22:53):
to and from the hotel. You may need cash for
the shuttles and for the parking lots. You might want
to find those parking lots and find out which will
get you shuttle to the Hotel fifty six and Himalayas
sixty first in Panium. They have parking lots, but you
may need to pay for those shuttles. They say, please
wear comfortable shoes and if you're not staying at the Gaylord,

(23:14):
in the event the shuttles are full, you may need
to walk a long distance to the hotel. So I'm
just giving you fair warning if you're going to have
your The word I think we need to use more
often is your hikine's going to be in line? I
looked it up. There's one definition buttocks. If your hikne's
going to be in line and you want to be there,
you need to get there early to find parking because
there is no parking on site and so you may

(23:35):
need to walk a long distance together there. So bring
your walking shoes. These shoes were made for walking. Do
that a handicapped parking is available, but it is extremely limited.
They said that. They say we've probably received over one
hundred questions about handicap parking, indicating the demand will rapidly
out pace the supply. We are told these supply spaces

(23:57):
will likely be taken by seven am Friday. You might
plan to make alternative arrangements for handicap parking. According to
the Gay Lord's general manager, there will not be a
designated handicap entrance, so plan ahead for your comfort and
your safety. If you have VIP tickets, you should receive
an email in the next twelve to twenty hours with

(24:18):
more information. If you're a VIP and somebody asked me, what, Jimmy,
will you be there? No, I will not be there.
I've not been asked to be there. I'm not a VIP.
I'm just a little redheaded step child. So no, I
will not be there. I will not be here tomorrow.
I'll be off tomorrow, but I will not be at
the Trump rally. I have some other business I need
to care for it tomorrow and so I'm going to
take the day off. But I will not be at

(24:38):
the Trump ravety. Unless Donald calls me this afternoon asks
me to VIP, then I will. I'll be there, but
I doubt they do it. I doubt that I'llorado Republican
Party asked me to be a VIP either, So no,
I will not be there, but good luck to you.
What I would suggest if you're going to go is
you might actually park like at the airport, or park
somewhere else near the airport and then take an uber

(25:01):
over to even parks, I don't know, somewhere else parking,
anthem or so. What are some of the subdivisions up there?
Reunion I think it's called Reunion. Right, park over there somewhere,
take an uber ride over to the hotel, and then
uber back to your car. You don't have to uber
all the way from home, but park somewhere on the
way and that will get you right to the front door,

(25:23):
so you avoid a full parking lot and having to
walk a long way. So that is an option as well.
So just be aware. Parking is limited. There is no
on site parking. And if you get there tomorrow and
you're all ticked off about no on site parking, hey
I warned him. I told you. I warned you that
there is going to be no on site parking, so
get over it. So there's your information you needed to know.

(25:44):
Thank you, and you are welcome. That's all the details
got to you gotta know, and good luck to you.
Good luck those things do get crowded. I went to
one of the first Trump rallies you had in Colorado
in twenty sixteen, and it was a lot of fun.
I took my son and some of his friends wanted
to go. It's just, you know, at that point, I
didn't even know I Trump was going to get the nomination.
I just thought it was kind of cool to see
a presidential nominee, and kind of like the old whistle

(26:06):
stop days. You know, you don't get to see somebody
running for president that often. Even in the old days,
they didn't get to see them. And so when the
train pulled into town, you wanted to go see the
guy the old cadre on the back of the train.
And I looked at that. So it's gonna be packed tomorrow.
Get there early and again there. I'd stay there. If
I were you, I'd stay there. If I got called

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to b VAP, I'm ober my ass there, I'm not
any waited lie of parking and walking. Listen, I get
enough steps in, Well I probably don't get enough steps in.
Don't tell my U. Don't tell my personal trainer that
I said I'd get enough steps in, because they would
say absolutely not. All right, we got one more segment
left in the program. I'll come back and we'll wrap
it up here on the program today. I also want

(26:51):
to read some email. I want some more of you
to comment, and I wish I hope somebody at Fox
and seeing In reads this some of the comments and
sees I just don't understand the putting people in harms
way last night trying to get them to give coverage
of this hurricane. It was a very serious situation, and
they had these reporters out on the street. Some of
them couldn't even stand up. It was awful, and yet

(27:14):
all for the sake of ratings, and the hosts would
even say, hey, we'll get you back to safety after
this last question. I'm sorry, that's a dumb thing to
say in a dumb situation. They put these reporters in
last night. Thankfully that I know of, nobody was hurt.
Everybody stand by. Final segment coming up, Lakey on the radio,
Good morning, six hundred KCO. I still find it interesting

(27:54):
that these talking heads on the cable channels are still
yapping about the hurricane. A lot to report, But remember
six o'clock hours, seven o'clock hour, I said, oh, they
finally released there's finally a photo of Sarasota, which is
right kind of cs to Key area of Sarasota is
where the storm went ashore in the center of it.
And right now they're still showing the same photo that

(28:15):
came out seven hours, three hours ago, So I'm not
sure why they're not. I don't know why. Maybe other stations.
I got to flip the channels, maybe other people have
people there. But a lot of reporting from Tampa, a
lot of reporting from Coco Beach, and there's some destruction there,
especially in Coco Beach. Looks like there's a mess, but
there's not a lot of stuff coming out of where
these where it went right on land, and that would

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be Sarasota. Cs to Key was the forefront, that's where
it laid ground, Sarasota area Fort Myers. And again for
three hours, they've had one photo. They portray it as
a video image, but it's a photo of Sarasota and
there's a beautiful home. Looks like right on the water.
There's a boat dock and the boat is kind of
halfway up on the dock. That's I've been washed up

(29:01):
halfway in the dock. But that's the only photo I've
seen from Sarasota this morning, So again I'm not scouring
for it, but that's why they're reporting. But the reporters
are all at least seeming again they just were going
to report on this until eventually it's not going to
have much impact because you're gonna be tired of it
because there just saying the same thing over and over again.
Yeamor and yammer and yammer. Ron DeSantis kind of told

(29:22):
you everything you needed to know this morning. He said,
I think that at that point they had three people
that they knew had died, and those were people I
believe he said they were. They were not on the
West coast, were the east coast, Central coast, and they
were in a one of the retirement communities, and I
forgot the name of it. I meant I find it

(29:43):
here they were, but I'll find it here in a
second where they they had three people. More than three
million homes and businesses or without power this morning. And
the gaping hole of the Tropicana field that was the
fabric roof, so it wasn't like a metal roof gotripped off,
but it still got ripped off. No reports of injuries.

(30:04):
The deaths. Emergency cruise responted overnight to dozens of calls
for help, including one of which a tree fell on
the house with fifteen people inside, including children. The Tampa
police got there and all people were taken to a shelter.
At a large construction crane came in crashed in Saint Petersburg,
but it landed on a deserted street. The state is

(30:25):
still in danger of river flooding today after up to
eighteen inches of rain fell. So this water drains off
these streets, it's going to get into the rivers and
there could be some river flooding as it. As the
water drains off the streets. Authorities are waiting for rivers
to crest, but so far waters levels were added below
their levels of Hurricane Helene, so that hasn't happened yet,

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and there's just stories are coming out. And the worst
case scenario was avoided, according to Desantas, but there's still
a heck of a lot of damage there. He said
they avoided the worst case scenario, and he cautioned to
give the damage is still significant. The four deaths occurred
in Saint Lucy on Florida's East coast, with at least

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two of those four in the Spanish Lakes community, which
is a set of senior neighborhoods, and that's where multiple
twisters touchdown on Wednesday afternoon. So some of those deaths
were probably attributed to the tornadoes, not necessarily the hurricanes.
So anyway, keep the folks in Florida in your thoughts
and in your prayers, and just we'll continue to wait

(31:28):
for real information and if there's a bad situation out there,
I hope that they'll stop putting these reporters out there
and arms a way. I don't know why that took
me off so much. Watching the last night, I was like,
I got to turn the damn channel. They got this
guy going to kill him out there because they kept saying, hey,
well we'll let you, We'll let you go back to safety.
After we asked this one question, I'm like, really, this
is you realize what you just said there. I'm going

(31:49):
to I'm going to I'm going to ask you a question.
Well you're in danger, but as soon as you answer,
I'll get you back to safety. I'll get to this
story next time I'm on the radio again. I'm gonna
take tomorrow off Trump. Praley tomorrow. I'm not gonna be there.
That's not why I'm taking off. I've got some other
things that needed just take care of tomorrow. And in
a major victory for taxpayers, the Colorado Supreme Court has

(32:11):
declined to hear the government's appeal from a unanimous panel
of the Colorado Court of Appeals that basically says, doubling
of the property taxes by a water district, yeah, you
can't do that. So anyway I was talking, it's a
victory for taxpayers are rare in Colorado. We got one
from the Supreme Court of Colorado. All right, don't forget

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my website Jimmy Lakey dot com. My charity work is
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tomorrow morning, well soon. God bless him,