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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Midnight is coming to Omaha next Wednesday. They're gonna
be at the Steelhouse, Okay, and I gotta tell you,
I'm pretty psyched up about it.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Gonna maybe, uh you know, check in on them, see
if we can. Let's just say that.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I have already done some checking in waiting on the
word back from the powers that be. But yes, that'd
be sweet, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It would be I mean, you know with those things,
they're moving so quickly through these tours.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You know, they're co headlining with a band called Chromeo,
which apparently is kind of a funky eighties sound in band.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I like Chromeo.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Okay, I'm not super familiar with them, so so Chromeo
and the Midnight next Wednesday at Steelhouse.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Chromeo is cool.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And you know what the coolest thing about Chromeo is
what about two members in Chromeo and one is a
Jew and one is a Muslim.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
No, and they're best buds. That's awesome, uh huh. And
then one of the guys he does the Peter Franmpton
talkbox thing a lot for for like the sound effect
with these voice Yeah, he has like the what is
that like the little mouthpiece thing, the mouthpiece that goes
down to his keyboard, right, so as he's playing the keys,
he will talk and it like will mimic the sound
(01:10):
of his voice and they say his words and stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
So it's funky stuff. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But the midnight for me, you know, like the midnight
Chromeo in the midnight at the Seal House on next Wednesday,
that'll be a good time. I just wanted to mention
that because I found that out last night and we
do a lot of midnight stuff here and hopefully we
get to talk to one of the guys from the
midnight anyway, you know what that sound is.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It sounds like doctor Zvi. It is did doctor Zvia
just make an adjustment?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah? A big, big old backcrack? And my C four lumbar?
Is that a thing? Is the C four A lumbar?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Sounds like it's a C four that's an explosive, but
it might also be a lumbar.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Whatever. The lumbar, I think that's the lower back. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I didn't go to the weekend of school you needed
to become a chiropractor, so I wouldn't know. What are
you drinking today? By the way, if you're a chiropractor
out there.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's a joke. It's a joke. Okay, I know that
you've done more than that, right.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We understand it was a couple of weekends stretched over
a limited amount of time.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You worked hard on your calligraphy for the you know,
the diploma that you hang up in your office.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm just kidding anywhere. If it's all a joke, we
just yeah, I got myself. It is a monster energy drink.
Ultra watermelon is the flavor, and it's rather tasty, rather
tasty and full of caffeine. Okay, well, caffeine is good.
Cheers to you.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Cheers.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, it's a Thursday, all right. You see some of
those pictures from Milton.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, it's a lot of water.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Eighteen inches of rain across parts of Florida. Storm surge
they said got close to about ten feet or so,
so a little less than you like. Like they were
like the usual forecast prediction that we had seen over
the last few days, which is good. Did you see
tropic can of field? Oh the roof got ripped off
or at least remember we were talking about this. They
(03:02):
had planned for several hundred lines, people like linesmen who
were going to work on the power first responders who
were from other places that were in town to kind
of help out, maybe some National Guard members. Like that
was going to be like an HQ spot. They had
laid a ton of cots out on the field for
people to go in there in sleep as, kind of
(03:23):
like a home base camp in Saint Petersburg and all,
but like two panels of that fabric roof that put
that covers that thing just gone, just got ripped up, shredded,
And that leads you to ask the question, who thought
a fabric roof in those conditions was going to actually
hold up. You got to remember they built this thing
(03:45):
in like the late eighties or maybe early nineties is
when it finished. They haven't been hit at that point
by a hurricane since nineteen twenty one. It's like seventy years.
They're not thinking hurricane. This is the first hurricane this
thing's had to like live through. Did not go well.
The first thing I thought of was the metrodome, remember
that thing? Yeah, or a bunch of snow landed on
top of it and it caved it in and then
it just ripped and a bunch of snow was in there.
(04:06):
It's real it's weird. It's a big structure, these stadiums,
big structure. And to see like a roof that large
and that high and you can just see that it's
like ripping apart. There's something eerie about that. It's kind
of it kind of reminds me like I'm a big
hot air balloon guy. But when you see like a
hot air balloon like malfunctioning in a way, not like
(04:29):
in a dangerous way, although that has happened before too.
Like guy tries to like stand his balloon up but
didn't get enough air in there, and so it's like
billowing and you can just like it's like billowing like
a flag in the wind.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And it's just so large.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And here's kind of like it creeps you out a
little bit, like, wow, that's so large. What would happen
if that just like took off and flew away somewhere.
I don't like it anyway. That was pretty stunning footage.
And then today now it's clean. It's like clear down
there now, I mean, see the weather in Tampa. It's
just like it's beautiful weather.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Well, they were able to fly a drone over Tropic
Canna Field this morning and like, look inside, that thing
is toast really and they're gonna have a got to
clean up obviously inside now because of all the debris
from the roof when end like fell inside and everything
got wet in there. So I don't think that building
is meant or could figure that part out right.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well, if they don't have it fixed by next spring.
We got a pretty nice stadium up here.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Are you suggesting the Tampa Bay Rays start surveying for
alternate homes.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm just suggesting that OKC was able to pivot that
into a permanent situation, so you're not wrong there.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
In the NBA, the Hornets from New Orleans, displaced by Katrina,
played a season in Oklahoma City as the New Orleans.
Oklahoma City Hornets went back permanently to New Orleans, but
Oklahoma City was permanently in the good graces of the NBA.
And when the Seattle SuperSonics got bought by an owner
from Oklahoma City and they said we're going to move
(06:07):
this team to Oklahoma City, the NBA was like, that
sounds like a good idea. Because Seattle couldn't build a
new like they couldn't get approval to build a new arena,
we kind of already have a good baseball field. Yeah,
the A's are playing in Sacramento at a minor league
ball field.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
We got td air trade.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, but is it it's Charles schwab Field now, oh yes,
But is the capacity like for like permanent residence.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
It's probably not big enough. It's close.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
What's the smallest MLB stadium capacity? That would be the
race Roughly about twenty five thousand. So they already play
in the smallest capacity baseball stadium. How large is Charles
schwab Field twenty four thousand with the ability to expand
(06:58):
a thirty five thousand?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Hmm. You may be onto something here. So yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
So the lesson we've learned out of Hurricane Milton is
let's start marking up the Tampa Bay Rays tree nobody
cares about them anyway, and get them to maybe try
out being a major league team in Omaha. You think
the Royals would mind? They would mind, They would definitely mind. Yeah,
they wouldn't be thrilled, they would definitely mind. Creighton might
mind as well, and the College World Series people would
(07:27):
absolutely mind.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
They would they wouldn't be thrilled as well.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So is it worth making all those people mad or
telling the Rays they have to be on a two
week road trip so we can play the College World
Series while they're gone. That's probably not a good idea either, right,
we're workshopping this idea. All right, it's two seventeen. At
the bottom of the hour. My friend Simon Conway, he's
been in Orlando. He's going to tell us all about
some of these numbers. I'll tell you some of the
numbers that we know as well about how this thing
(07:51):
went down Hurricane Milton and what we know. It's definitely
not a great situation, but it sounds like they dodged
the worst case scenario. And we'll explain coming up on
news radio eleven to ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Eh Marison on News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Three point two million accounts without power. That is a
large number. They've already got over eight hundred and eighty thousand,
he said, back up and running. But holy cow, that
is who That is pretty wild stuff. Some good news
the Melbourne Orlando International Airport, which I've actually flown into before,
(08:34):
they will reopen tomorrow morning after closing. And we have
what's being reported. The state hasn't confirmed this, but there
are five fatalities that are being reported right now for
other people in northern Fort Pierce killed by tornadoes that
will spawned ahead of the hurricane's landfall. Have you heard
(08:57):
of that before. I'm sure it's happened before. It's just
not something I've ever really thought about, tornadoes on the
front end of a hurricane in a place like Florida.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I haven't heard of that before.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But it makes that makes you think a little bit
differently about this because we talk about how dangerous and
damaging tornadoes themselves are as they come through our area.
You're talking about this at the time category five hurricane
as it was about to make landfall, and tornadoes like
multiple tornadoes just oh yeah, those are going to come
(09:27):
and just kind of tell you that this is happening.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, I just is it the just the pressure change,
the temperature change that's got a cold hitting each other? Absolutely,
But I see you have to imagine that that this
has happened before, if we've dealt with these levels.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I mean, this was what it was a Cat.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Three when it hit the Yeah, hit the ground so
or it hit landfall from the ocean. Yeah, but I
mean you would think it has a it's a pressure
problem that would create all these tornadoes. But I just
can't recall of this many tornadoes actually being reported head
of a hurricane in this situation, and they are reporting
(10:05):
five fatalities right now. So they talk about all these
different vehicles and all these different places that you know,
many states have been sending linesmen or first responders or
some of their big, large wheeled equipment to go down
and aid this effort. And they are very organized. You
can tell the way that he talks. He knows what
(10:27):
they're doing, and they have a plan. And of course
they've been hit in this state by hurricanes with regularity.
But seventeen tornadoes total were reported as this was about
to make landfall, and that's just a ridiculous amount. I'm
looking up a Hurricane Katrina back in two thousand and five,
there were some there were some tornadoes before that hurricane,
and there was an F two tornado that touched down
(10:48):
in the Florida Keys Gee with there were four week
tornadoes that were observed as the hurricane approached land. All told,
over the swath of that entire hurricane, which eight different states,
there were fifty seven tornadoes that touched down during the
hurricane Katrino, Katrina outbreak tang So, yeah, what weird things
(11:11):
of mother nature? That is crazy, that's crazy. Wow, we
got a person that's in there.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
We talked earlier this week to my friend Simon Conway,
who's a talk show host does the show in Orlando,
but also does the show in Iowa. He's actually in
Orlando for this week doing as much coverage as he can,
and now that the hurricane is through the state of Florida,
we're going to re catch up with him. We're going
to touch base with him and get a recap of
(11:40):
exactly how things went down, and that'll be coming up
here momentarily. So stick around. Emory Songer with you on
news radio eleven ten KFAB and re sung joining us
again on our phone line, Simon, what was the vibe right?
You talked about being on the air basically giving this
for hours and hours and hours on end because the
people needed this information. Ron Desanta said it wasn't necessary
early worst case scenario. What was kind of what the
(12:02):
vibe was for you as you were making this coverage
versus you know, kind of the.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Majority of our the majority of our coolers were very
much this is nowhere near as bad as we thought it.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Was going to be.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
There was a lot of references to Hurricane Charlie, which
nailed Florida twenty years ago, and if you came out
after Charlie, there was like a blanket of debris on
all the roads, just trees and limbs and leaves and
all kinds of stuff that simply isn't there. That doesn't
mean there wasn't any damage. There certainly was. It doesn't
(12:38):
mean it wasn't a serious storm. People died, but so
the people that died died ahead of the storm, right,
So before the storm even made landfall, there was a
Midwest kind of a spin up of massive tornadoes that
just crossed the whole peninsula and one of those hit
(12:59):
an assisted living facility in Port Pierce, and I don't
actually have the number still, but the local sheriff said
there were multiple fatalities.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Well, Simon, that was a big question. And we did
some research on some other major major hurricanes, and they
are known to you know, conjure up tornadoes, but I'm
sure this would be the only type of situation that
would create a tornado in Florida?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Is that right? Or am I'm missing?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
And we've seen tornadoes without hurricanes in Florida, but the
tornadoes that you usually get with hurricanes are usually not
like this. This was very very Midwest like last night.
An as to say, this was before the storm even
made landfall, so this was ahead of the storm. All
(13:45):
this damage was on the East coast, the East coast,
and I do have to point out that Tampa did
not take a direct hit again, so Tampa has still
dodged this bullet for more than one hundred years, which
is good because it's the one major city in the
country that probably really couldn't take a direct shit. What
(14:07):
did happen in Tampa Bay is once again the same
thing happened two years ago with Ian. All the water
got sucked out of the bay. So if you looked
at the storm surge index, Tampa Bay was showing minus
four feet because all the water disappeared right came back again,
but it got sucked out first of all.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, and you know, water has to go somewhere and
then eventually it comes back. I saw the roof of
Tropic Canna Field was actually in Saint Petersburg, which is,
you know, nearby Tampa, and the roof just like a
fabric roof on the top of that done. They were
using that to how some of the people from out
of town that were there to help with lines like
linesmen and first responders and stuff. And obviously they didn't
(14:49):
think through that that roof was going to be able
to hold. But I guess the question then becomes what
happens next in Florida and how long will this clean
up take.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, I just though a look before we came on
the air, and some two hundred thousand Floridians have got
power back. So that's a good sign. And if you
live near a hospital, you're going to get your power
back before everybody else because.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
That's the priority.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Hospitals, firehouses, that kind of stuff, anything like that that's out,
they're going to put that back first. And if you
live near Low's facilities, that means you're going to get
your power back first as well. There's fifty thousand linemen
in the state of Florida right now pre positioned before
this storm hits. So Florida is the best state in
(15:40):
the Union to deal with this.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Perhaps one of the worst stories we heard overnight was
my daughter, who lives about ten miles inland from Camper
and she was very lucky she had power all night long.
After all of her friends, literally all of her friends
were in the dark.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
She was not.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
She had power. And about eleven o'clock last night at
the power went out.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
And so she said she was just going to go
to bed.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I was, you know, chit chatting to her on texts
and stuff, and then she said, oh, the roof just
crashed through the little nigh.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Now they're in pitch dark right. There's no way to
see anything. The wind is howling, rain is like coming
down in horizontal sheets. There's no way to see anything.
So they checked as best they could for water intrusion
in the house. There wasn't any.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
So they tried to go to bed. Now they didn't do.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Much sleeping, not because they were worried about that particularly,
but because it was just so noisy outside that that
wind was just so loud. So anyway, they didn't get
a sleep. Some comes up this morning and yep, roof
crashed through leel and I of my daughter's home. But
it wasn't her roof. What it was somebody else's roof.
(16:53):
I just spoke to her about an hour ago, and
I'm like, did you figure out where the roof came from,
and she goes, no, we can't. Well, so it's not
like it was the next door neighbor. This roof that
traveled some distance before it decided to come to rest
on my daughter's Lanai.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So what I mean, I mean that's going to take
some effort to get rid of, Like get rid of
that I saw. You know some of the pictures, like
they have the drone shots of some of the damage
and some of the stuff that's washed away. But the
Santa said a lot of that was kind of older
neighborhoods that didn't necessarily have updated codes that they had
dealt with. Is that something that you're going to see
a big push for as you know this western side
(17:31):
in Central Florida kind of rebuild from this particular storm,
knowing that the newer buildings did much better against this
storm than the older ones.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
St Yeah, it happens every time. You know, if if
houses get disappeared in a storm, the houses that replace
them are in much better situation to resist the next storm.
And obviously all the new build communities they're in much
better situation to resist the next storm as well. And
you know, my daughter's house is a newer house as well.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
In her house did fine.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
She lost a few shingles here and there, lost some
screen panels around the.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Back, but that was about it. So they did really well.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
But they have somebody else's room in their roof in
their backyard.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, okay, so that that is quite concerning. You know
that a roof could just fly off. I did see
Simon Conway joining us on our hotline here. I did
see a photo of a guy, I think he was
in the Tampa area. He put like big old strit
like those those really strong bungee type cords across his
(18:35):
roof from the front yard to his backyard. I've never
seen anybody do that. I'm sure you know that there
are people trying to understand this, but I guess what
was the top speed that you were hearing reported that,
you know, was coming in through Florida. And how much
water was, especially like the Orlando area with all these
people that would be in Orlando as well, how much
(18:57):
water was being dumped on you guys in Florida.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Well, that's I don't know.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
If you haven't flown into Saint.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Pete Airport, have you, I've done that.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Okay, So it's a.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Little airport allegiant to flies direct from the Midwest to
Saint Pete, so you can be there in two and
a half hours without a stop, which is kind of cool.
So we've used that airport quite a lot. They got
nineteen inches of rain. What nineteen inches of rain? They
(19:28):
got five of that in one hour?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, so that was pretty crazy.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Daytona beach got over a foot.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
On the other coast, on the East Coast. I haven't
seen specific numbers for Orlando yet, but we were speaking
to our weather partners through the night once an hour
through the night, and one twenty is what they were
telling us for sustained winds. So gufs would be higher
than that, but sustained winds of one twenty. By the
(19:57):
time it got to Orlando, those sustained winds were about
ninety five to one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
That is some wild stuff in nineteen inches. It's hard
to even fathom what that would look like. Yeah, I
mean flash flooding, massive issue with that of course as well.
But Simon, this is going to be something we'll talk
about as the recovery continues.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Thanks for the update.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
This is certainly the biggest story in America right now,
and we'll chat with you again very soon. Have fun
on your show this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
All right, You take care wiping out.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I appreciate it.
The Midnight is coming to Omaha next Wednesday. They're gonna
be at the Steelhouse, Okay, and I gotta tell you,
I'm pretty psyched up about it.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Gonna maybe, uh you know, check in on them, see
if we can. Let's just say that.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I have already done some checking in waiting on the
word back from the powers that be. But yes, that'd
be sweet, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It would be I mean, you know with those things,
they're moving so quickly through these tours.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You know, they're co headlining with a band called Chromeo,
which apparently is kind of a funky eighties sound in band.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I like Chromeo.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Okay, I'm not super familiar with them, so so Chromeo
and the Midnight next Wednesday at Steelhouse.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Chromeo is cool.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And you know what the coolest thing about Chromeo is
what about two members in Chromeo and one is a
Jew and one is a Muslim.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
No, and they're best buds. That's awesome, uh huh. And
then one of the guys he does the Peter Franmpton
talkbox thing a lot for for like the sound effect
with these voice Yeah, he has like the what is
that like the little mouthpiece thing, the mouthpiece that goes
down to his keyboard, right, so as he's playing the keys,
he will talk and it like will mimic the sound
(01:10):
of his voice and they say his words and stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
So it's funky stuff. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But the midnight for me, you know, like the midnight
Chromeo in the midnight at the Seal House on next Wednesday,
that'll be a good time. I just wanted to mention
that because I found that out last night and we
do a lot of midnight stuff here and hopefully we
get to talk to one of the guys from the
midnight anyway, you know what that sound is.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It sounds like doctor Zvi. It is did doctor Zvia
just make an adjustment?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah? A big, big old backcrack? And my C four lumbar?
Is that a thing? Is the C four A lumbar?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Sounds like it's a C four that's an explosive, but
it might also be a lumbar.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Whatever. The lumbar, I think that's the lower back. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I didn't go to the weekend of school you needed
to become a chiropractor, so I wouldn't know. What are
you drinking today? By the way, if you're a chiropractor
out there.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's a joke. It's a joke. Okay, I know that
you've done more than that, right.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We understand it was a couple of weekends stretched over
a limited amount of time.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You worked hard on your calligraphy for the you know,
the diploma that you hang up in your office.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm just kidding anywhere. If it's all a joke, we
just yeah, I got myself. It is a monster energy drink.
Ultra watermelon is the flavor, and it's rather tasty, rather
tasty and full of caffeine. Okay, well, caffeine is good.
Cheers to you.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Cheers.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, it's a Thursday, all right. You see some of
those pictures from Milton.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, it's a lot of water.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Eighteen inches of rain across parts of Florida. Storm surge
they said got close to about ten feet or so,
so a little less than you like. Like they were
like the usual forecast prediction that we had seen over
the last few days, which is good. Did you see
tropic can of field? Oh the roof got ripped off
or at least remember we were talking about this. They
(03:02):
had planned for several hundred lines, people like linesmen who
were going to work on the power first responders who
were from other places that were in town to kind
of help out, maybe some National Guard members. Like that
was going to be like an HQ spot. They had
laid a ton of cots out on the field for
people to go in there in sleep as, kind of
(03:23):
like a home base camp in Saint Petersburg and all,
but like two panels of that fabric roof that put
that covers that thing just gone, just got ripped up, shredded,
And that leads you to ask the question, who thought
a fabric roof in those conditions was going to actually
hold up. You got to remember they built this thing
(03:45):
in like the late eighties or maybe early nineties is
when it finished. They haven't been hit at that point
by a hurricane since nineteen twenty one. It's like seventy years.
They're not thinking hurricane. This is the first hurricane this
thing's had to like live through. Did not go well.
The first thing I thought of was the metrodome, remember
that thing? Yeah, or a bunch of snow landed on
top of it and it caved it in and then
it just ripped and a bunch of snow was in there.
(04:06):
It's real it's weird. It's a big structure, these stadiums,
big structure. And to see like a roof that large
and that high and you can just see that it's
like ripping apart. There's something eerie about that. It's kind
of it kind of reminds me like I'm a big
hot air balloon guy. But when you see like a
hot air balloon like malfunctioning in a way, not like
(04:29):
in a dangerous way, although that has happened before too.
Like guy tries to like stand his balloon up but
didn't get enough air in there, and so it's like
billowing and you can just like it's like billowing like
a flag in the wind.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And it's just so large.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And here's kind of like it creeps you out a
little bit, like, wow, that's so large. What would happen
if that just like took off and flew away somewhere.
I don't like it anyway. That was pretty stunning footage.
And then today now it's clean. It's like clear down
there now, I mean, see the weather in Tampa. It's
just like it's beautiful weather.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Well, they were able to fly a drone over Tropic
Canna Field this morning and like, look inside, that thing
is toast really and they're gonna have a got to
clean up obviously inside now because of all the debris
from the roof when end like fell inside and everything
got wet in there. So I don't think that building
is meant or could figure that part out right.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well, if they don't have it fixed by next spring.
We got a pretty nice stadium up here.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Are you suggesting the Tampa Bay Rays start surveying for
alternate homes.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm just suggesting that OKC was able to pivot that
into a permanent situation, so you're not wrong there.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
In the NBA, the Hornets from New Orleans, displaced by Katrina,
played a season in Oklahoma City as the New Orleans.
Oklahoma City Hornets went back permanently to New Orleans, but
Oklahoma City was permanently in the good graces of the NBA.
And when the Seattle SuperSonics got bought by an owner
from Oklahoma City and they said we're going to move
(06:07):
this team to Oklahoma City, the NBA was like, that
sounds like a good idea. Because Seattle couldn't build a
new like they couldn't get approval to build a new arena,
we kind of already have a good baseball field. Yeah,
the A's are playing in Sacramento at a minor league
ball field.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
We got td air trade.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, but is it it's Charles schwab Field now, oh yes,
But is the capacity like for like permanent residence.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
It's probably not big enough. It's close.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
What's the smallest MLB stadium capacity? That would be the
race Roughly about twenty five thousand. So they already play
in the smallest capacity baseball stadium. How large is Charles
schwab Field twenty four thousand with the ability to expand
(06:58):
a thirty five thousand?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Hmm. You may be onto something here. So yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
So the lesson we've learned out of Hurricane Milton is
let's start marking up the Tampa Bay Rays tree nobody
cares about them anyway, and get them to maybe try
out being a major league team in Omaha. You think
the Royals would mind? They would mind, They would definitely mind. Yeah,
they wouldn't be thrilled, they would definitely mind. Creighton might
mind as well, and the College World Series people would
(07:27):
absolutely mind.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
They would they wouldn't be thrilled as well.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So is it worth making all those people mad or
telling the Rays they have to be on a two
week road trip so we can play the College World
Series while they're gone. That's probably not a good idea either, right,
we're workshopping this idea. All right, it's two seventeen. At
the bottom of the hour. My friend Simon Conway, he's
been in Orlando. He's going to tell us all about
some of these numbers. I'll tell you some of the
numbers that we know as well about how this thing
(07:51):
went down Hurricane Milton and what we know. It's definitely
not a great situation, but it sounds like they dodged
the worst case scenario. And we'll explain coming up on
news radio eleven to ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Eh Marison on News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Three point two million accounts without power. That is a
large number. They've already got over eight hundred and eighty thousand,
he said, back up and running. But holy cow, that
is who That is pretty wild stuff. Some good news
the Melbourne Orlando International Airport, which I've actually flown into before,
(08:34):
they will reopen tomorrow morning after closing. And we have
what's being reported. The state hasn't confirmed this, but there
are five fatalities that are being reported right now for
other people in northern Fort Pierce killed by tornadoes that
will spawned ahead of the hurricane's landfall. Have you heard
(08:57):
of that before. I'm sure it's happened before. It's just
not something I've ever really thought about, tornadoes on the
front end of a hurricane in a place like Florida.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I haven't heard of that before.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But it makes that makes you think a little bit
differently about this because we talk about how dangerous and
damaging tornadoes themselves are as they come through our area.
You're talking about this at the time category five hurricane
as it was about to make landfall, and tornadoes like
multiple tornadoes just oh yeah, those are going to come
(09:27):
and just kind of tell you that this is happening.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, I just is it the just the pressure change,
the temperature change that's got a cold hitting each other? Absolutely,
But I see you have to imagine that that this
has happened before, if we've dealt with these levels.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I mean, this was what it was a Cat.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Three when it hit the Yeah, hit the ground so
or it hit landfall from the ocean. Yeah, but I
mean you would think it has a it's a pressure
problem that would create all these tornadoes. But I just
can't recall of this many tornadoes actually being reported head
of a hurricane in this situation, and they are reporting
(10:05):
five fatalities right now. So they talk about all these
different vehicles and all these different places that you know,
many states have been sending linesmen or first responders or
some of their big, large wheeled equipment to go down
and aid this effort. And they are very organized. You
can tell the way that he talks. He knows what
(10:27):
they're doing, and they have a plan. And of course
they've been hit in this state by hurricanes with regularity.
But seventeen tornadoes total were reported as this was about
to make landfall, and that's just a ridiculous amount. I'm
looking up a Hurricane Katrina back in two thousand and five,
there were some there were some tornadoes before that hurricane,
and there was an F two tornado that touched down
(10:48):
in the Florida Keys Gee with there were four week
tornadoes that were observed as the hurricane approached land. All told,
over the swath of that entire hurricane, which eight different states,
there were fifty seven tornadoes that touched down during the
hurricane Katrino, Katrina outbreak tang So, yeah, what weird things
(11:11):
of mother nature? That is crazy, that's crazy. Wow, we
got a person that's in there.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
We talked earlier this week to my friend Simon Conway,
who's a talk show host does the show in Orlando,
but also does the show in Iowa. He's actually in
Orlando for this week doing as much coverage as he can,
and now that the hurricane is through the state of Florida,
we're going to re catch up with him. We're going
to touch base with him and get a recap of
(11:40):
exactly how things went down, and that'll be coming up
here momentarily. So stick around. Emory Songer with you on
news radio eleven ten KFAB and re sung joining us
again on our phone line, Simon, what was the vibe right?
You talked about being on the air basically giving this
for hours and hours and hours on end because the
people needed this information. Ron Desanta said it wasn't necessary
early worst case scenario. What was kind of what the
(12:02):
vibe was for you as you were making this coverage
versus you know, kind of the.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Majority of our the majority of our coolers were very
much this is nowhere near as bad as we thought it.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Was going to be.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
There was a lot of references to Hurricane Charlie, which
nailed Florida twenty years ago, and if you came out
after Charlie, there was like a blanket of debris on
all the roads, just trees and limbs and leaves and
all kinds of stuff that simply isn't there. That doesn't
mean there wasn't any damage. There certainly was. It doesn't
(12:38):
mean it wasn't a serious storm. People died, but so
the people that died died ahead of the storm, right,
So before the storm even made landfall, there was a
Midwest kind of a spin up of massive tornadoes that
just crossed the whole peninsula and one of those hit
(12:59):
an assisted living facility in Port Pierce, and I don't
actually have the number still, but the local sheriff said
there were multiple fatalities.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Well, Simon, that was a big question. And we did
some research on some other major major hurricanes, and they
are known to you know, conjure up tornadoes, but I'm
sure this would be the only type of situation that
would create a tornado in Florida?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Is that right? Or am I'm missing?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
And we've seen tornadoes without hurricanes in Florida, but the
tornadoes that you usually get with hurricanes are usually not
like this. This was very very Midwest like last night.
An as to say, this was before the storm even
made landfall, so this was ahead of the storm. All
(13:45):
this damage was on the East coast, the East coast,
and I do have to point out that Tampa did
not take a direct hit again, so Tampa has still
dodged this bullet for more than one hundred years, which
is good because it's the one major city in the
country that probably really couldn't take a direct shit. What
(14:07):
did happen in Tampa Bay is once again the same
thing happened two years ago with Ian. All the water
got sucked out of the bay. So if you looked
at the storm surge index, Tampa Bay was showing minus
four feet because all the water disappeared right came back again,
but it got sucked out first of all.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, and you know, water has to go somewhere and
then eventually it comes back. I saw the roof of
Tropic Canna Field was actually in Saint Petersburg, which is,
you know, nearby Tampa, and the roof just like a
fabric roof on the top of that done. They were
using that to how some of the people from out
of town that were there to help with lines like
linesmen and first responders and stuff. And obviously they didn't
(14:49):
think through that that roof was going to be able
to hold. But I guess the question then becomes what
happens next in Florida and how long will this clean
up take.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, I just though a look before we came on
the air, and some two hundred thousand Floridians have got
power back. So that's a good sign. And if you
live near a hospital, you're going to get your power
back before everybody else because.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
That's the priority.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Hospitals, firehouses, that kind of stuff, anything like that that's out,
they're going to put that back first. And if you
live near Low's facilities, that means you're going to get
your power back first as well. There's fifty thousand linemen
in the state of Florida right now pre positioned before
this storm hits. So Florida is the best state in
(15:40):
the Union to deal with this.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Perhaps one of the worst stories we heard overnight was
my daughter, who lives about ten miles inland from Camper
and she was very lucky she had power all night long.
After all of her friends, literally all of her friends
were in the dark.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
She was not.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
She had power. And about eleven o'clock last night at
the power went out.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
And so she said she was just going to go
to bed.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I was, you know, chit chatting to her on texts
and stuff, and then she said, oh, the roof just
crashed through the little nigh.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Now they're in pitch dark right. There's no way to
see anything. The wind is howling, rain is like coming
down in horizontal sheets. There's no way to see anything.
So they checked as best they could for water intrusion
in the house. There wasn't any.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
So they tried to go to bed. Now they didn't do.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Much sleeping, not because they were worried about that particularly,
but because it was just so noisy outside that that
wind was just so loud. So anyway, they didn't get
a sleep. Some comes up this morning and yep, roof
crashed through leel and I of my daughter's home. But
it wasn't her roof. What it was somebody else's roof.
(16:53):
I just spoke to her about an hour ago, and
I'm like, did you figure out where the roof came from,
and she goes, no, we can't. Well, so it's not
like it was the next door neighbor. This roof that
traveled some distance before it decided to come to rest
on my daughter's Lanai.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So what I mean, I mean that's going to take
some effort to get rid of, Like get rid of
that I saw. You know some of the pictures, like
they have the drone shots of some of the damage
and some of the stuff that's washed away. But the
Santa said a lot of that was kind of older
neighborhoods that didn't necessarily have updated codes that they had
dealt with. Is that something that you're going to see
a big push for as you know this western side
(17:31):
in Central Florida kind of rebuild from this particular storm,
knowing that the newer buildings did much better against this
storm than the older ones.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
St Yeah, it happens every time. You know, if if
houses get disappeared in a storm, the houses that replace
them are in much better situation to resist the next storm.
And obviously all the new build communities they're in much
better situation to resist the next storm as well. And
you know, my daughter's house is a newer house as well.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
In her house did fine.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
She lost a few shingles here and there, lost some
screen panels around the.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Back, but that was about it. So they did really well.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
But they have somebody else's room in their roof in
their backyard.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, okay, so that that is quite concerning. You know
that a roof could just fly off. I did see
Simon Conway joining us on our hotline here. I did
see a photo of a guy, I think he was
in the Tampa area. He put like big old strit
like those those really strong bungee type cords across his
(18:35):
roof from the front yard to his backyard. I've never
seen anybody do that. I'm sure you know that there
are people trying to understand this, but I guess what
was the top speed that you were hearing reported that,
you know, was coming in through Florida. And how much
water was, especially like the Orlando area with all these
people that would be in Orlando as well, how much
(18:57):
water was being dumped on you guys in Florida.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Well, that's I don't know.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
If you haven't flown into Saint.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Pete Airport, have you, I've done that.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Okay, So it's a.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Little airport allegiant to flies direct from the Midwest to
Saint Pete, so you can be there in two and
a half hours without a stop, which is kind of cool.
So we've used that airport quite a lot. They got
nineteen inches of rain. What nineteen inches of rain? They
(19:28):
got five of that in one hour?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, so that was pretty crazy.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Daytona beach got over a foot.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
On the other coast, on the East Coast. I haven't
seen specific numbers for Orlando yet, but we were speaking
to our weather partners through the night once an hour
through the night, and one twenty is what they were
telling us for sustained winds. So gufs would be higher
than that, but sustained winds of one twenty. By the
(19:57):
time it got to Orlando, those sustained winds were about
ninety five to one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
That is some wild stuff in nineteen inches. It's hard
to even fathom what that would look like. Yeah, I
mean flash flooding, massive issue with that of course as well.
But Simon, this is going to be something we'll talk
about as the recovery continues.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Thanks for the update.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
This is certainly the biggest story in America right now,
and we'll chat with you again very soon. Have fun
on your show this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
All right, You take care wiping out.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I appreciate it.
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