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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Government controlled loose meat sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Government controlled loose meat sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Yeah, they're using it. They've got a lab. It's the
Bugs Bunny Lab Davenport, Iowa. In Devonport, Iowa. Those loose
meat sandwiches government controlled.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Ah. Now it actually does ring a bell when you
sing it, right, you gotta sing it? Ah huh Wow,
didn't know I needed that today, Operation Bugs Bunny.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Google it or don't because you'll get on a list.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Oh oh boy.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh, I'm sure they have some loose meat sandwiches and
Davenport have loose sweat sandwiches here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I gotta track them down, right, Maybe this show could
become the official loose meat sandwich show of Omaha. Somebody
who makes them, you know, get in touch. I'm afraid
of what that's going to lead to. It's gonna lead
to a lot of napkins, that's what I know.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, and you need a spoon with your loose meat sandwich, yes,
so you can scoop up what the droppings are.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
That is not a car moved oh food item. Oh no,
you got to stop. Pull over, find a find a bench.
I wouldn't eat anything that's that's a I have to
have a table.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Kind of food item.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And this is without even like putting your ketchup and
your mustard and your pickles on there, because those things
could just.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Leak out with it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
My mom used to work at the canteen down there
into tum Wyowa. Yeah, those are a big old loose
meat sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Why are we talking about this because I brought it up?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh uh? Anyway, the time is two ten. We're talking
a few a few different ways about this storm that's
about to hit Florida, Hurricane Milton, category five, category four,
Category five is kind of like moving back and forth.
(01:48):
They're saying this is at at worst the fifth strongest
hurricane they have on record by wind speed, and it's
getting very close to the top three with pressure level. Wow,
because a hurricane is really just a low pressure system
that is very low pressure and it creates a storm.
And there is a correlation that they have found scientifically
(02:09):
with the lower the pressure, the stronger the storm. Isn't
that strange? Is that interesting? Have you seen some of
the satellite images that they're showing of this thing? You
got to see this it is the most it's perfect.
It is just a perfect storm in like the shape,
in its rotation, the eye of it is a lot
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smaller than you think it probably would be. It just
like from space. They're showing it, and it just looks
like this perfect. It looks like a movie. It looks
like they made this for a movie and it was
the most perfect Hollywood created hurricane. Don't take that literally,
because I don't think that's what it is. I don't
think that the I don't think that the government's made
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Milton out of nothing.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So Hollywood and big Gov working together in fist.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And this is like some documentary that they're going to
make a lot of money on. No, that's not what's happening.
Don't give anybody any crazy ideas well.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
They teamed up for the trip to the Moon once before.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, have you so? Are you seeing this thing?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Man like it?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's pretty crazy. Now they are saying that there's fifty
eight thousand plus lightning events that they've detected in the
eyewall alone over the last fourteen hours. That is more
than one lightning event every single second for fourteen hours.
Could you imagine seeing that? I mean, nobody's sitting there
watching it for fourteen hours. Could you imagine seeing like
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ding ding ding ding ding ding ding Like that would
be what the lightning was would look like. We're gonna
have somebody who's actually in Florida call us at the
bottom of the hour and talk to us about this.
Milton getting a little bit more strength, not quite back
up to a category five at least for right now,
and the forecast has the making landfall mostly as a
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category three, which is good. At the same time that's
it's still going to be incredibly devastating. Now, here's another
thing that happened this morning. Four people and a small
dog were rescued after a plane crashed into Tampa Bay
this morning. They were trying to evacuate in the private
plane ahead of the hurricane. They crashed east of the
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Saint Petersburg Pier. A plane crashed into the water three
hundred yards east of the pier and was submerged when
crews arrived, and the passengers, men between ages forty and
twenty five, and the dog were pulled for the water.
Non life threatening injuries, risky trying to evacuate in a
plane a day before this or or not. I don't
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know if that was something you could do. What do
you think? Yeah, seems kind of scary they thought they
could pull it off. Well, hopefully they're in good shape.
I mean, it sounds like they're not going to pass away.
Here's some of the numbers I was telling you about,
Like when you're looking at this storm as a hurricane,
the first thing I think we talked would be wind speeds, right,
(05:02):
they were talking about one hundred and eighty mile an
hourrow wind speeds at its peak yesterday one eighty You
know how many storms have had faster wind speeds in
the Atlantic Ocean that we know about? Guess how many?
On wind speed sorry, and wind speeds one five Hurricane Allen,
that would have been the first hurricane of the season
in nineteen eighty one hundred and ninety miles per hour
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all roughly one hundred and eighty five miles an hour.
Hurricane Dorian, remember Dorian from a handful of years ago,
twenty nineteen, Hurricane Wilma from two thousand and five, Hurricane
Gilbert from nineteen eighty eight, and then what they call
the Labor Day hurricane in nineteen thirty five. How are
they measuring this in nineteen thirty five is my question.
Do we know anyway? Then the pressure I was telling
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you about is in mill of bars. Now I don't
know exactly how to describe millibars, but just trust me
when the meteorologists say that millibars is kind of like
the lower the millibar number, the lower the press sure
of the system is, and the lower the pressure system is,
the stronger the storm. In general, that makes sense. There
are only three that are stronger than Milton to this point,
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Milton registering at a eight hundred and ninety seven millibars.
Only three of these storms ever were lower than that.
Hurricane Wilma eight hundred and eighty three millibars in two
thousand and five, Gilbert in nineteen eighty eight eight hundred
and eighty eight milli bars, and then Hurricane Rita again
and five eight hundred and ninety five millibars. This is Milton,
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based on this information, is by far and away the
strongest storm on planet Earth this year as well. That
includes what's happening in the Pacific. Some of the stuff
that has happened in the Pacific Ocean that we don't
have or have to worry about making landfall on our
areas have been stronger than some of these other storms,
but in this year, this calendar year, Milton is the
strongest by wind and in pressure. So what's the moral
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of this story. It's a bad boy and it's going
to be nasty, and they're telling the people of Tampa
to get out and get out now. If you are
along the coastline, we'll talk more about this. And as mentioned,
I have somebody at the bottom of the arrow. It's
gonna be calling from central Florida. I'm gonna talk to
us about hurricane preparation and what that looks like for
them for this storm specifically, What does that look like,
(07:17):
Matt It looks like a It looks like a good
old fashioned Donnie Brook. If I ever did see one myself,
a Donnie Brook. Maybe not a Donnie Brook, Maybe maybe
a good old fashioned Willy Wonka. That's a good old
fashioned Willy Wonka. If I've ever seen one off to
the chocolate factory. Yeah, trying to They're all gunked up there,
(07:38):
like eight year old oil in your Cadillac. Any of
these analogies hitting for you, do anything for you.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
The last one was it's still puzzled over Donnie Brooke. Yeah,
it's a good old fashioned Donnie Brook. If I ever said, oh,
what did you see a Donnie Brook Israelian slang for
a scene of uproar or disorder a heated argument.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, I guess that doesn't actually work per the definition.
It's close. Now, come on, it's old Donnybrook. I'm sure
are people sitting in there honking their horns, saying get
out of the way. There's a lot of storm coming
before we keep this up. Matthew says, no more loose
meat sandwiches and Omaha. Sorry, my dad used to make them.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
None.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Not a single place in Omaha you can get a
loose meat sandwich. Seriously, it's got to be at least one.
Omaha is not a small town. You gotta be kidding me.
We just need to make it, get the hipsters into it,
make it cool. How do we do that?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It's easy. There are a bunch of lemmings. What they're
going for ramen these days?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, there are ramen restaurants. Yeah, you can buy a
brick of ramen for twelve cents. Yeah, that's why they
do it exactly. Loose meat, that's what's next. You think
loose meat, you can get make it posh. Put a
V neck T shirt on one of those sandwiches, and
the hipsters will gather around. I don't know, man, I
don't know. Twelve cents You might get a little bit
(09:02):
of an uproar for a twelve twelve cents for a
brick a loose meat sandwich.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Get the right lighting, Maybe take off the top bun
and put one of those dumb little hats, those big
hats with a wide brim. It's not a cowboy hat,
but it's not a trillby either. It's kind of like nothing.
It's just one of those big wide brim hats, you know. Yeah,
put it at a coffee house a sombrero. Yeah, sell
it at a coffee house for eighteen dollars. Hipsters will
buy the you know what out of it. Well, that
(09:29):
might be something we have to do. Dwayne mentions that
the dairy Queen and Wahoo has the best loose meat
sandwiches around. Well, God bless the people of Wahoo. I
am not in Wahoo. There's a dairy queen in Wahoo.
Oh oh that sells loose meat sandwich is oh oh?
What is this? A John Mellencamp song?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That's great that's a good one. That's a good tune.
I'm glad we were able to sing that today to
twenty two. All right, So I'm looking at I'm looking
at the map pier they say landfall as a potential
category three hurricane tomorrow. Debris is going to be a
massive issue. A lot of people are trying to get
(10:11):
stuff to the landfills in the possible area. I'm looking
at people working around the clock getting their garbage out.
You know why, because debris. Think about it. If you
have loose debris and all of a sudden, the one
and fifty mile an hour gust of wind picks it
up and decides to throw it somewhere, probably not great, right,
(10:34):
I mean that's probably going to do some damage to
somebody's house or car or face. Right. Yeah, what a
terrible situation is this? Is this the worst type of
thing that you could be like in the way of
and know what's coming. Like again, we talk about tornadoes.
We had several that we were reporting on here this spring.
You have, like, at best a tornado will form and
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at best you'll have like thirty to forty five minutes
knowing it's there before it gets to you, and most
of the time, it may not even get to you.
This thing has been there for like three days already,
and they know it's going to get to Florida tomorrow,
like you're seeing it happen, you know, in the last
major hurricane to make landfall at Tampa is Guess when
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the last one was?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I imagine it's been a while they think about think.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
About Florida and how many hurricanes or tropical storms make
landfall there on a yearly base. It feels like we're
talking about a solid handful every single year, right, because
they're just in a bad spot. Guess when the last
time Tampa ate one of these, like a legitimate hurricane
made landfall of Tampa last year, nineteen twenty one, one
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hundred and three years ago. How is that possible? You're
telling me there's not a single storm in the last
one hundred and three years that formed and somehow made
landfall to the largest city on the west coast of Florida.
Not one, not a single one. So yeah, if I'm
in Tampa, I thought I was safe from this stuff. Right,
This is omadome. Two point zero hurricanes is not going
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to run through Tampa. It never does. This one is
this one? Is this one is as strong or stronger
than most any storm that we have seen, not just
this year. This is stronger than Helene. The problem with
Helene was the people that got hit by that don't
have the infrastructure to handle hurricane damage. Because she made
landfall in a weird way, like she kind of angled
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up and kind of skirted Florida and then stayed together
a lot longer than most hurricanes do when they make landfall,
and then went up like straight up, not even toward water,
just straight up and got parts of Georgia in South
and North Carolina that generally don't ever have to worry
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about a hurricane getting there. I mean, look at the satellite.
Look at that image. Does that look like the like
a perfect storm?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That looks very powerful and it's just like.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
A perfect circle. This looks like something that somebody on
another planet looks at and teaches their kids about, you know,
like the Great Spot on Jupiter, or the Great Blue
Spot or the Great No, it's the Great dark Spot
on Neptune. Have you seen the Great dark Spot on Neptune? No?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It's a big storm. Oh, it sticks out like a
sore thumb when you look. Look at the planet Neptune.
That thing has been a storm for thousands of years.
You've seen a picture of it right now as a
I don't mean messing with that thing.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It's the size of the entire Earth. Yeah. Yeah, winds
in the storm measured at fifteen hundred miles per hour. Yeah,
the storm on Neptune. Wow, think about that for a second. Yeah, right, well,
this isn't that, but it's it's big and powerful, and
I think you know, if there was life on Neptune,
they would they would be doing a study on like
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a storm that looks like this.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It'd be like, wow, look at that. That thing just
like developed that in nothing. Although by the time that
they would know about it, based on you know, how
long it takes light to travel, the storm would probably
be over by the time they'd know anything about it
or whatever that's worth. Unless they have the Internet, then
maybe they have you know, maybe they'd be able to
see it. I don't know, fifteen hundred mile an hour
wins in that storm. Dang, could you imagine, good thing,
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there's like nothing there, just a big rock. I mean,
you get some cameras on Neptune. It'd be interesting to
see what it's like to be in that thing anyway.
Two twenty eight I got a friend. His name Simon Conway.
He's also a radio host. He is in Florida right now.
He is going to tell us about the storm preparation
for Milton. He's also going to tell us about what
the preparation looks like for a general hurricane or tropical storm.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Among other things.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And he'll be joining us next So you'll want to
stick around here on news Radio eleven teen Kfab Andrie Sung,
the biggest story in the nation is very, very certainly
what's happening down there in Florida, the storm preparation for
Hurricane Milton. And a guy who knows a thing or
two about this is a guy who's spent plenty of
time living in Florida, and it's currently in Florida to
tell us about it right now. It's a host of
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multiple shows on our sister stations across the iHeartRadio networks,
including in Orlando, Florida. His name is Simon Conway. He
is joining us on the online right now. Simon, thanks
for the time today.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You are very welcome. Yes, the Orlando show is called
Good Morning Orlando, but it's also tomorrow going to be
good evening Orlando. And hey, it's two o'clock in the morning, Orlando.
Oh so we're all not going off their buddy.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So this is this is the thing that we talked
about in you know, I talked to Simon earlier today
on my IOWA show about this, and you know, this
is a storm of pretty epic proportions. We talked about
it by wind speed is no less than the fifth
or sixth strongest storm on record by wind speed, even
though it was in the golf when they were measuring it.
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And then this is the fourth strongest storm by like
the low pressure millibars of pressure. This is no joke,
and it's hitting a spot that we talked about hasn't
been hit since nineteen twenty one with the legitimate hurricane
in Tampa. And then it's going to just kind of
cut through the center of Florida and be at east
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a Category three hurricane when it does. So, So what's
the preparation look like for a place that probably hasn't
worried about a direct hit of a hurricane in this
magnitude for a long time.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Okay, So a couple of things. First of all it
has worried about it. It just hasn't received a direct hit. Also,
it's not guaranteed that this is going to be a
direct hit on Tampa. Last I checked the favored places
in fact Sarasota, which is to the south of Tampa,
so it may not get a hit this time either.
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What is interesting with storm surge and what happens to
Tampa Bay is before that surge hits, Tampa Bay empties
of water. It is spooky to see it. Man, there
is nothing in it. There's just mud on the floor.
It is weird to see it. But if you ever
do see that, run as fast as you possibly can
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in the other direction because the storm surge is coming
and it is predicted to be twelve to fifteen feet
that will kill you. We're being very direct. The Mayor
of Tampa is being very direct. If you get caught
in that, you're going to die. It's that simple. So
if you've been ordered to evacuate, get out. Go now.
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This isn't hundreds of miles you need to go. If
you draw a straight line down that center of the
cone of uncertainty, which is what we call it, that
storm is going to go through my daughter's backyard. But
she lives ten miles inland, and ten miles inland means
they're not going anywhere because the storm surge isn't going
to hit them. What they will have is strong winds.
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They live in a well built house. Hopefully they will
have no damage. I can tell you. Helene calls them
to lose a screen on their screened in porch. They
just lost one screen. That was it. Nothing else, and
hopefully that will be the extent of her damage this
time as well. But this is more serious in terms
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of the direct approach, Helene, was a side swipe on
the west coast of Florida caused a lot of damage,
but it was a side swipe. This is not going
to be a side swipe. This is direct. So my
daughter has boarded up her home. Well she hasn't. My
son in law did that. She's pregnant, okay, less, thank
you very much. So my son in law bought it
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up the home and they are hunkered down and they
are going to ride it out. And where they are
ten miles inland, that's fine. They should be fine.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
So it's interesting that you mentioned that you know, we
think you know the storm is going to hit and
it's going to be the storm surgeon. This is a
completely different thing as to what created all the issues
in western North Carolina, in Georgia and stuff like that.
But you're telling me that the bay itself next to Tampa,
like it just recedes. And when you see that, that's
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basically telling you that there's going to be a giant
wall of water that's going to be continuously kind of
coming back when the storm itself. So when that happens
itself does when the storm itself makes landfall, is that
one of the reasons why it tends to weaken? And
is it going to weaken with less land in its way?
(19:21):
Knowing that you know, by the time it fully gets
to land and potentially where you are in Orlando, it
could be grabbing some more water on the other side
of Florida as well.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, there'll be some put this way, there will definitely
be rain. There's gonna be a lot of rain. It
could be up to twelve inches of rain that in
and of itself would cause flooding in some areas. So
there will be some flooding. But storm surge and flooding
are two entirely different things. Flooding in a place like Orlando,
flooding is not going to kill you typically, unlike places
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like North Carolina and on the western edge of North Carolina,
where just the infrastructure just isn't there rose washed away
and there were indeed walls of water as a result
of all of that and people. We still don't have
the number of dead. We have a lot of people missing.
It's going to be horrible when we get those final numbers.
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It's horrible now, it's going to be worse when we
get those final numbers. But when you're talking about big
modern American city, you're just going to have pockets of
flooding and it's going to suck for those people. Their
homes are going to be covered in mud, They're going
to stink here, They're going to be along road to recovery.
All their appliances, all their furniture is going to have
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to be thrown out. All that stuff is going to
happen to them, and it's awful, absolutely terrible, But typically
no one should die in that. What you're worried about
is that initial storm surge right at the coast, and
when that wall of water comes in fifteen foot high,
it's going to kill you. There's no way to say it,
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and that's why the mayor of Tampa said it in
exactly that way. But yeah, all the water gets sucked
out of the bay. It's like it's gathering with its
buddies to come and do maximum damage. It's I've seen
pictures of it. I've never seen it, and it is eerie. Man.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Well, that's something we're keeping an eye on. Simon Conway,
who's a talk show host across a couple of different
states over there in Iowa in the afternoons and in
the morning in Orlando usually, and he's in Florida right now.
And I got to ask about a lot of people
have questions about the handling of you know, from FEMA
and the federal government on what's happening in North Carolina
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and how the state infrastructure of Florida, you know, they
are much more ready than you know, western North Carolina
ever would be. And it makes sense to me, but
can you kind of explain how that works right when
there seems to be imminent damage happening to some area
of you know, Florida, And we see Ron Desantas, he's
talking a lot about things and giving instruction and explaining
(22:01):
what they're about to do, and we still are waiting
for this storm to get here. So what is you know,
kind of the difference in the way that the state
of Florida, how they handle it, and what does the
federal government do as a partner for them in the
recovery or preparation of that.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
All right, just very brief. It's just a very brief
step into politics. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris tried to make it
political yesterday saying Roonda Sanders won't take my calls and
he's playing politics and being selfish. That's a complete lie,
totally made up. In fact, Rhonda Sanders has had nothing
but nice things to say about the federal government. He
had a conversation with the president, and the president, according
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to Rhonda Santis, has given Florida and indeed Roonda Santis
everything he has asked for. So there's no politics going
on from Florida's point of view, none, And people should
take that into account when they're listening to somebody who
wants to be president making a weird statements. But Florida's
being given everything Florida is asking for. Typically, what is
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essential after one of these is we need line crews
down in Florida putting the power back on because millions
of people are likely to lose power, millions, and the
faster you get that back on in a state that
typically will be around ninety as high this time of year,
you want that power back on as fast as possible,
because that is not nice, especially with a lot of
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standing water, a lot of bugs, a lot of mosquitoes.
You want out of the heat into the core as
much as possible. Water huge deal. Florida has a ton
of bottled water that is ready to go. Because Florida
is used to doing this. FLOYDA knows what's coming. They
have the linemen ready, both internally and externally. I spoke
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to the Lieutenant governor of the state of Florida yesterday.
She said that even though a lot of those linemen
are out of state right now, up in North Carolina
and Georgia, Florida has enough to do with what's coming,
and they know what's coming, and they will have enough.
They know where the shelters are, they know how to
get people from point A to point B. They've ordered
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evacuations or mandatory evacuations of nursing homes, three hospitals, have
been shut down as well on the coast. Last count
I had was three. So if you stay and something
happens to you, there's literally no help. Wow, there's no help.
So if you have been ordered out, go Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And we watched some video from I think it was
I seventy five that people trying to get out of there,
and it seems like a big traffic jam at this
point right now. But there's no doubt to me, Simon
that Florida trying to get as ready and let people
know as serious as this is as quickly as possible,
and some great coverage going to be for the people
of Florida with you, as you mentioned, all day long
as this hits. And you're about to do your Iowa
(24:53):
show as well, So we really appreciate the time today.
A good luck down there, and we'll touch base with
you once this whole thing blows over.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
BI Man blows over. I see what you did there, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Taught you soon, all right, see you later, alright, Simon Conway,
big thanks to him for being a part of the
show today. It's two forty nine News Radio eleven ten
KFAB
Government controlled loose meat sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Government controlled loose meat sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Yeah, they're using it. They've got a lab. It's the
Bugs Bunny Lab Davenport, Iowa. In Devonport, Iowa. Those loose
meat sandwiches government controlled.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Ah. Now it actually does ring a bell when you
sing it, right, you gotta sing it? Ah huh Wow,
didn't know I needed that today, Operation Bugs Bunny.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Google it or don't because you'll get on a list.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Oh oh boy.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh, I'm sure they have some loose meat sandwiches and
Davenport have loose sweat sandwiches here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I gotta track them down, right, Maybe this show could
become the official loose meat sandwich show of Omaha. Somebody
who makes them, you know, get in touch. I'm afraid
of what that's going to lead to. It's gonna lead
to a lot of napkins, that's what I know.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, and you need a spoon with your loose meat sandwich, yes,
so you can scoop up what the droppings are.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
That is not a car moved oh food item. Oh no,
you got to stop. Pull over, find a find a bench.
I wouldn't eat anything that's that's a I have to
have a table.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Kind of food item.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And this is without even like putting your ketchup and
your mustard and your pickles on there, because those things
could just.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Leak out with it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
My mom used to work at the canteen down there
into tum Wyowa. Yeah, those are a big old loose
meat sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Why are we talking about this because I brought it up?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh uh? Anyway, the time is two ten. We're talking
a few a few different ways about this storm that's
about to hit Florida, Hurricane Milton, category five, category four,
Category five is kind of like moving back and forth.
(01:48):
They're saying this is at at worst the fifth strongest
hurricane they have on record by wind speed, and it's
getting very close to the top three with pressure level. Wow,
because a hurricane is really just a low pressure system
that is very low pressure and it creates a storm.
And there is a correlation that they have found scientifically
(02:09):
with the lower the pressure, the stronger the storm. Isn't
that strange? Is that interesting? Have you seen some of
the satellite images that they're showing of this thing? You
got to see this it is the most it's perfect.
It is just a perfect storm in like the shape,
in its rotation, the eye of it is a lot
(02:30):
smaller than you think it probably would be. It just
like from space. They're showing it, and it just looks
like this perfect. It looks like a movie. It looks
like they made this for a movie and it was
the most perfect Hollywood created hurricane. Don't take that literally,
because I don't think that's what it is. I don't
think that the I don't think that the government's made
(02:50):
Milton out of nothing.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So Hollywood and big Gov working together in fist.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And this is like some documentary that they're going to
make a lot of money on. No, that's not what's happening.
Don't give anybody any crazy ideas well.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
They teamed up for the trip to the Moon once before.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, have you so? Are you seeing this thing?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Man like it?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's pretty crazy. Now they are saying that there's fifty
eight thousand plus lightning events that they've detected in the
eyewall alone over the last fourteen hours. That is more
than one lightning event every single second for fourteen hours.
Could you imagine seeing that? I mean, nobody's sitting there
watching it for fourteen hours. Could you imagine seeing like
(03:33):
ding ding ding ding ding ding ding Like that would
be what the lightning was would look like. We're gonna
have somebody who's actually in Florida call us at the
bottom of the hour and talk to us about this.
Milton getting a little bit more strength, not quite back
up to a category five at least for right now,
and the forecast has the making landfall mostly as a
(03:54):
category three, which is good. At the same time that's
it's still going to be incredibly devastating. Now, here's another
thing that happened this morning. Four people and a small
dog were rescued after a plane crashed into Tampa Bay
this morning. They were trying to evacuate in the private
plane ahead of the hurricane. They crashed east of the
(04:17):
Saint Petersburg Pier. A plane crashed into the water three
hundred yards east of the pier and was submerged when
crews arrived, and the passengers, men between ages forty and
twenty five, and the dog were pulled for the water.
Non life threatening injuries, risky trying to evacuate in a
plane a day before this or or not. I don't
(04:39):
know if that was something you could do. What do
you think? Yeah, seems kind of scary they thought they
could pull it off. Well, hopefully they're in good shape.
I mean, it sounds like they're not going to pass away.
Here's some of the numbers I was telling you about,
Like when you're looking at this storm as a hurricane,
the first thing I think we talked would be wind speeds, right,
(05:02):
they were talking about one hundred and eighty mile an
hourrow wind speeds at its peak yesterday one eighty You
know how many storms have had faster wind speeds in
the Atlantic Ocean that we know about? Guess how many?
On wind speed sorry, and wind speeds one five Hurricane Allen,
that would have been the first hurricane of the season
in nineteen eighty one hundred and ninety miles per hour
(05:25):
all roughly one hundred and eighty five miles an hour.
Hurricane Dorian, remember Dorian from a handful of years ago,
twenty nineteen, Hurricane Wilma from two thousand and five, Hurricane
Gilbert from nineteen eighty eight, and then what they call
the Labor Day hurricane in nineteen thirty five. How are
they measuring this in nineteen thirty five is my question.
Do we know anyway? Then the pressure I was telling
(05:48):
you about is in mill of bars. Now I don't
know exactly how to describe millibars, but just trust me
when the meteorologists say that millibars is kind of like
the lower the millibar number, the lower the press sure
of the system is, and the lower the pressure system is,
the stronger the storm. In general, that makes sense. There
are only three that are stronger than Milton to this point,
(06:09):
Milton registering at a eight hundred and ninety seven millibars.
Only three of these storms ever were lower than that.
Hurricane Wilma eight hundred and eighty three millibars in two
thousand and five, Gilbert in nineteen eighty eight eight hundred
and eighty eight milli bars, and then Hurricane Rita again
and five eight hundred and ninety five millibars. This is Milton,
(06:31):
based on this information, is by far and away the
strongest storm on planet Earth this year as well. That
includes what's happening in the Pacific. Some of the stuff
that has happened in the Pacific Ocean that we don't
have or have to worry about making landfall on our
areas have been stronger than some of these other storms,
but in this year, this calendar year, Milton is the
strongest by wind and in pressure. So what's the moral
(06:54):
of this story. It's a bad boy and it's going
to be nasty, and they're telling the people of Tampa
to get out and get out now. If you are
along the coastline, we'll talk more about this. And as mentioned,
I have somebody at the bottom of the arrow. It's
gonna be calling from central Florida. I'm gonna talk to
us about hurricane preparation and what that looks like for
them for this storm specifically, What does that look like,
(07:17):
Matt It looks like a It looks like a good
old fashioned Donnie Brook. If I ever did see one myself,
a Donnie Brook. Maybe not a Donnie Brook, Maybe maybe
a good old fashioned Willy Wonka. That's a good old
fashioned Willy Wonka. If I've ever seen one off to
the chocolate factory. Yeah, trying to They're all gunked up there,
(07:38):
like eight year old oil in your Cadillac. Any of
these analogies hitting for you, do anything for you.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
The last one was it's still puzzled over Donnie Brooke. Yeah,
it's a good old fashioned Donnie Brook. If I ever said, oh,
what did you see a Donnie Brook Israelian slang for
a scene of uproar or disorder a heated argument.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, I guess that doesn't actually work per the definition.
It's close. Now, come on, it's old Donnybrook. I'm sure
are people sitting in there honking their horns, saying get
out of the way. There's a lot of storm coming
before we keep this up. Matthew says, no more loose
meat sandwiches and Omaha. Sorry, my dad used to make them.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
None.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Not a single place in Omaha you can get a
loose meat sandwich. Seriously, it's got to be at least one.
Omaha is not a small town. You gotta be kidding me.
We just need to make it, get the hipsters into it,
make it cool. How do we do that?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It's easy. There are a bunch of lemmings. What they're
going for ramen these days?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, there are ramen restaurants. Yeah, you can buy a
brick of ramen for twelve cents. Yeah, that's why they
do it exactly. Loose meat, that's what's next. You think
loose meat, you can get make it posh. Put a
V neck T shirt on one of those sandwiches, and
the hipsters will gather around. I don't know, man, I
don't know. Twelve cents You might get a little bit
(09:02):
of an uproar for a twelve twelve cents for a
brick a loose meat sandwich.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Get the right lighting, Maybe take off the top bun
and put one of those dumb little hats, those big
hats with a wide brim. It's not a cowboy hat,
but it's not a trillby either. It's kind of like nothing.
It's just one of those big wide brim hats, you know. Yeah,
put it at a coffee house a sombrero. Yeah, sell
it at a coffee house for eighteen dollars. Hipsters will
buy the you know what out of it. Well, that
(09:29):
might be something we have to do. Dwayne mentions that
the dairy Queen and Wahoo has the best loose meat
sandwiches around. Well, God bless the people of Wahoo. I
am not in Wahoo. There's a dairy queen in Wahoo.
Oh oh that sells loose meat sandwich is oh oh?
What is this? A John Mellencamp song?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That's great that's a good one. That's a good tune.
I'm glad we were able to sing that today to
twenty two. All right, So I'm looking at I'm looking
at the map pier they say landfall as a potential
category three hurricane tomorrow. Debris is going to be a
massive issue. A lot of people are trying to get
(10:11):
stuff to the landfills in the possible area. I'm looking
at people working around the clock getting their garbage out.
You know why, because debris. Think about it. If you
have loose debris and all of a sudden, the one
and fifty mile an hour gust of wind picks it
up and decides to throw it somewhere, probably not great, right,
(10:34):
I mean that's probably going to do some damage to
somebody's house or car or face. Right. Yeah, what a
terrible situation is this? Is this the worst type of
thing that you could be like in the way of
and know what's coming. Like again, we talk about tornadoes.
We had several that we were reporting on here this spring.
You have, like, at best a tornado will form and
(10:56):
at best you'll have like thirty to forty five minutes
knowing it's there before it gets to you, and most
of the time, it may not even get to you.
This thing has been there for like three days already,
and they know it's going to get to Florida tomorrow,
like you're seeing it happen, you know, in the last
major hurricane to make landfall at Tampa is Guess when
(11:16):
the last one was?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I imagine it's been a while they think about think.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
About Florida and how many hurricanes or tropical storms make
landfall there on a yearly base. It feels like we're
talking about a solid handful every single year, right, because
they're just in a bad spot. Guess when the last
time Tampa ate one of these, like a legitimate hurricane
made landfall of Tampa last year, nineteen twenty one, one
(11:43):
hundred and three years ago. How is that possible? You're
telling me there's not a single storm in the last
one hundred and three years that formed and somehow made
landfall to the largest city on the west coast of Florida.
Not one, not a single one. So yeah, if I'm
in Tampa, I thought I was safe from this stuff. Right,
This is omadome. Two point zero hurricanes is not going
(12:04):
to run through Tampa. It never does. This one is
this one? Is this one is as strong or stronger
than most any storm that we have seen, not just
this year. This is stronger than Helene. The problem with
Helene was the people that got hit by that don't
have the infrastructure to handle hurricane damage. Because she made
landfall in a weird way, like she kind of angled
(12:24):
up and kind of skirted Florida and then stayed together
a lot longer than most hurricanes do when they make landfall,
and then went up like straight up, not even toward water,
just straight up and got parts of Georgia in South
and North Carolina that generally don't ever have to worry
(12:44):
about a hurricane getting there. I mean, look at the satellite.
Look at that image. Does that look like the like
a perfect storm?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That looks very powerful and it's just like.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
A perfect circle. This looks like something that somebody on
another planet looks at and teaches their kids about, you know,
like the Great Spot on Jupiter, or the Great Blue
Spot or the Great No, it's the Great dark Spot
on Neptune. Have you seen the Great dark Spot on Neptune? No?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It's a big storm. Oh, it sticks out like a
sore thumb when you look. Look at the planet Neptune.
That thing has been a storm for thousands of years.
You've seen a picture of it right now as a
I don't mean messing with that thing.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It's the size of the entire Earth. Yeah. Yeah, winds
in the storm measured at fifteen hundred miles per hour. Yeah,
the storm on Neptune. Wow, think about that for a second. Yeah, right, well,
this isn't that, but it's it's big and powerful, and
I think you know, if there was life on Neptune,
they would they would be doing a study on like
(13:43):
a storm that looks like this.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It'd be like, wow, look at that. That thing just
like developed that in nothing. Although by the time that
they would know about it, based on you know, how
long it takes light to travel, the storm would probably
be over by the time they'd know anything about it
or whatever that's worth. Unless they have the Internet, then
maybe they have you know, maybe they'd be able to
see it. I don't know, fifteen hundred mile an hour
wins in that storm. Dang, could you imagine, good thing,
(14:07):
there's like nothing there, just a big rock. I mean,
you get some cameras on Neptune. It'd be interesting to
see what it's like to be in that thing anyway.
Two twenty eight I got a friend. His name Simon Conway.
He's also a radio host. He is in Florida right now.
He is going to tell us about the storm preparation
for Milton. He's also going to tell us about what
the preparation looks like for a general hurricane or tropical storm.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Among other things.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And he'll be joining us next So you'll want to
stick around here on news Radio eleven teen Kfab Andrie Sung,
the biggest story in the nation is very, very certainly
what's happening down there in Florida, the storm preparation for
Hurricane Milton. And a guy who knows a thing or
two about this is a guy who's spent plenty of
time living in Florida, and it's currently in Florida to
tell us about it right now. It's a host of
(14:53):
multiple shows on our sister stations across the iHeartRadio networks,
including in Orlando, Florida. His name is Simon Conway. He
is joining us on the online right now. Simon, thanks
for the time today.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You are very welcome. Yes, the Orlando show is called
Good Morning Orlando, but it's also tomorrow going to be
good evening Orlando. And hey, it's two o'clock in the morning, Orlando.
Oh so we're all not going off their buddy.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So this is this is the thing that we talked
about in you know, I talked to Simon earlier today
on my IOWA show about this, and you know, this
is a storm of pretty epic proportions. We talked about
it by wind speed is no less than the fifth
or sixth strongest storm on record by wind speed, even
though it was in the golf when they were measuring it.
(15:39):
And then this is the fourth strongest storm by like
the low pressure millibars of pressure. This is no joke,
and it's hitting a spot that we talked about hasn't
been hit since nineteen twenty one with the legitimate hurricane
in Tampa. And then it's going to just kind of
cut through the center of Florida and be at east
(16:00):
a Category three hurricane when it does. So, So what's
the preparation look like for a place that probably hasn't
worried about a direct hit of a hurricane in this
magnitude for a long time.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Okay, So a couple of things. First of all it
has worried about it. It just hasn't received a direct hit. Also,
it's not guaranteed that this is going to be a
direct hit on Tampa. Last I checked the favored places
in fact Sarasota, which is to the south of Tampa,
so it may not get a hit this time either.
(16:33):
What is interesting with storm surge and what happens to
Tampa Bay is before that surge hits, Tampa Bay empties
of water. It is spooky to see it. Man, there
is nothing in it. There's just mud on the floor.
It is weird to see it. But if you ever
do see that, run as fast as you possibly can
(16:57):
in the other direction because the storm surge is coming
and it is predicted to be twelve to fifteen feet
that will kill you. We're being very direct. The Mayor
of Tampa is being very direct. If you get caught
in that, you're going to die. It's that simple. So
if you've been ordered to evacuate, get out. Go now.
(17:21):
This isn't hundreds of miles you need to go. If
you draw a straight line down that center of the
cone of uncertainty, which is what we call it, that
storm is going to go through my daughter's backyard. But
she lives ten miles inland, and ten miles inland means
they're not going anywhere because the storm surge isn't going
to hit them. What they will have is strong winds.
(17:44):
They live in a well built house. Hopefully they will
have no damage. I can tell you. Helene calls them
to lose a screen on their screened in porch. They
just lost one screen. That was it. Nothing else, and
hopefully that will be the extent of her damage this
time as well. But this is more serious in terms
(18:06):
of the direct approach, Helene, was a side swipe on
the west coast of Florida caused a lot of damage,
but it was a side swipe. This is not going
to be a side swipe. This is direct. So my
daughter has boarded up her home. Well she hasn't. My
son in law did that. She's pregnant, okay, less, thank
you very much. So my son in law bought it
(18:28):
up the home and they are hunkered down and they
are going to ride it out. And where they are
ten miles inland, that's fine. They should be fine.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
So it's interesting that you mentioned that you know, we
think you know the storm is going to hit and
it's going to be the storm surgeon. This is a
completely different thing as to what created all the issues
in western North Carolina, in Georgia and stuff like that.
But you're telling me that the bay itself next to Tampa,
like it just recedes. And when you see that, that's
(18:59):
basically telling you that there's going to be a giant
wall of water that's going to be continuously kind of
coming back when the storm itself. So when that happens
itself does when the storm itself makes landfall, is that
one of the reasons why it tends to weaken? And
is it going to weaken with less land in its way?
(19:21):
Knowing that you know, by the time it fully gets
to land and potentially where you are in Orlando, it
could be grabbing some more water on the other side
of Florida as well.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, there'll be some put this way, there will definitely
be rain. There's gonna be a lot of rain. It
could be up to twelve inches of rain that in
and of itself would cause flooding in some areas. So
there will be some flooding. But storm surge and flooding
are two entirely different things. Flooding in a place like Orlando,
flooding is not going to kill you typically, unlike places
(19:54):
like North Carolina and on the western edge of North Carolina,
where just the infrastructure just isn't there rose washed away
and there were indeed walls of water as a result
of all of that and people. We still don't have
the number of dead. We have a lot of people missing.
It's going to be horrible when we get those final numbers.
(20:16):
It's horrible now, it's going to be worse when we
get those final numbers. But when you're talking about big
modern American city, you're just going to have pockets of
flooding and it's going to suck for those people. Their
homes are going to be covered in mud, They're going
to stink here, They're going to be along road to recovery.
All their appliances, all their furniture is going to have
(20:38):
to be thrown out. All that stuff is going to
happen to them, and it's awful, absolutely terrible, But typically
no one should die in that. What you're worried about
is that initial storm surge right at the coast, and
when that wall of water comes in fifteen foot high,
it's going to kill you. There's no way to say it,
(21:01):
and that's why the mayor of Tampa said it in
exactly that way. But yeah, all the water gets sucked
out of the bay. It's like it's gathering with its
buddies to come and do maximum damage. It's I've seen
pictures of it. I've never seen it, and it is eerie. Man.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Well, that's something we're keeping an eye on. Simon Conway,
who's a talk show host across a couple of different
states over there in Iowa in the afternoons and in
the morning in Orlando usually, and he's in Florida right now.
And I got to ask about a lot of people
have questions about the handling of you know, from FEMA
and the federal government on what's happening in North Carolina
(21:39):
and how the state infrastructure of Florida, you know, they
are much more ready than you know, western North Carolina
ever would be. And it makes sense to me, but
can you kind of explain how that works right when
there seems to be imminent damage happening to some area
of you know, Florida, And we see Ron Desantas, he's
talking a lot about things and giving instruction and explaining
(22:01):
what they're about to do, and we still are waiting
for this storm to get here. So what is you know,
kind of the difference in the way that the state
of Florida, how they handle it, and what does the
federal government do as a partner for them in the
recovery or preparation of that.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
All right, just very brief. It's just a very brief
step into politics. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris tried to make it
political yesterday saying Roonda Sanders won't take my calls and
he's playing politics and being selfish. That's a complete lie,
totally made up. In fact, Rhonda Sanders has had nothing
but nice things to say about the federal government. He
had a conversation with the president, and the president, according
(22:41):
to Rhonda Santis, has given Florida and indeed Roonda Santis
everything he has asked for. So there's no politics going
on from Florida's point of view, none, And people should
take that into account when they're listening to somebody who
wants to be president making a weird statements. But Florida's
being given everything Florida is asking for. Typically, what is
(23:06):
essential after one of these is we need line crews
down in Florida putting the power back on because millions
of people are likely to lose power, millions, and the
faster you get that back on in a state that
typically will be around ninety as high this time of year,
you want that power back on as fast as possible,
because that is not nice, especially with a lot of
(23:29):
standing water, a lot of bugs, a lot of mosquitoes.
You want out of the heat into the core as
much as possible. Water huge deal. Florida has a ton
of bottled water that is ready to go. Because Florida
is used to doing this. FLOYDA knows what's coming. They
have the linemen ready, both internally and externally. I spoke
(23:50):
to the Lieutenant governor of the state of Florida yesterday.
She said that even though a lot of those linemen
are out of state right now, up in North Carolina
and Georgia, Florida has enough to do with what's coming,
and they know what's coming, and they will have enough.
They know where the shelters are, they know how to
get people from point A to point B. They've ordered
(24:12):
evacuations or mandatory evacuations of nursing homes, three hospitals, have
been shut down as well on the coast. Last count
I had was three. So if you stay and something
happens to you, there's literally no help. Wow, there's no help.
So if you have been ordered out, go Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And we watched some video from I think it was
I seventy five that people trying to get out of there,
and it seems like a big traffic jam at this
point right now. But there's no doubt to me, Simon
that Florida trying to get as ready and let people
know as serious as this is as quickly as possible,
and some great coverage going to be for the people
of Florida with you, as you mentioned, all day long
as this hits. And you're about to do your Iowa
(24:53):
show as well, So we really appreciate the time today.
A good luck down there, and we'll touch base with
you once this whole thing blows over.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
BI Man blows over. I see what you did there, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Taught you soon, all right, see you later, alright, Simon Conway,
big thanks to him for being a part of the
show today. It's two forty nine News Radio eleven ten
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