October 9, 2024 • 34 mins
Milton makes landfall near Tampa // Chad Carson lives in Tampa – flooding, power outage, underground pool now 4 feet above ground // Senator Rick Scott on biggest concerns / Plane flipped // Milton hits FLA. Flooding, storm surges, power outages
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six and you're listening to The Conway
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
We're keep an eye on this horrible storm coming across
Florida right now as we speak, it's wall to wall
on all the cable stations. The local stations are carrying
it as well. Tampa. Tampa International Airport is completely vacant.
There are no planes there. They have Air Mexico, air Canada, Alaska,
(00:30):
British Airways, Delta, American Frontier, Jeff Blue, Southwest Spirit, they've
taken them all, United, Virgin Atlantic. They get a lot
of airlines flight in and out of Tampa, and they
took all those planes out and they all went to
either Miami or Georgia or North Carolina so they didn't
get destroyed by this weather. So to crank that airport
(00:51):
up again, we'll probably take a week or so, because
you got to get the crews down there, you got
to get the flights down, the planes down there, you
got to get people to the airport. A lot of
people are are have, you know, vacated the area, and
so to get Tampa International Airport going again is going
(01:12):
to be a monster chore. Because a lot of people evacuated,
and that includes all the you know, the pilots and
the flight attendants as well.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They got the hell out.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
So it's going to be a long time before Tampa
International and there might be damage to the airport itself.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So this is where was this here?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
This is the local station local ABC ABC News there
don't I don't know what channel it is. I think
it's thirteen or eight, but this is the local station
in Tampa on live TV. This woman is covering the
conditions there and nobody is around at this hotel.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
A lot of people from Saint Pete and from the coast.
They came in more inland for the storm ahead of it.
A couple that I to they spend half of their
time here in Tampa and another half in the Midwest,
and they say that they just went through Helene obviously
a few weeks ago, and they said that it scared them.
They were out of power, and so they made the
(02:12):
move to evacuate for this hurricane, and they think that
they made the right decision. Obviously we still have power now,
but you're seeing as this makes landfall, the impact that
this is having here again, we almost have horizontal rain
whipping at us at this intersection. You can see, I mean,
this intersection. It's almost crazy to picture and to see.
(02:34):
I hope it comes across as intense as it is
that we know.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It looks like all the street lights are still on
and all the office lights are still on, so at
least they got power in Tampa, they're all set for this.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Seeing out here with this whipping rain, the trees are
whipping back and forth. We're seeing tree branches being pulled
off of the trees. Now, a lot of businesses in
this area did prepare ahead of the storm, and you
can see some of these born up businesses across the
street from where we're at, a lot of businesses in
(03:04):
Ebors City look like this now boarded up windows, boarded
up doors. A lot of them have that sandbag reinforcement.
We're also seeing some lightning. We haven't seen that here yet,
but again within the.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Left no there.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
She goes, oh my god, what up.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Milton, as it's coming in, and like I said, you
know you heard it.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
We saw it.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Those transformers blowing that one. There was one over there
behind you. There's also one over that way, and I
think there was a third. It could have also been lightning,
but it did have a pretty immediate boom. So, like
I said, when you're counting how far going old school,
how far this stuff is, you know, it's really close.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
To us right now.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
And that's kind of exactly what we're seeing back to
you guys.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
All right, Marianne, thank you.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
So we don't want to stay in the panelas Hillsboro
areas because those are the counties really.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Seeing the brunt of the weather right now. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
And our Eric Waxler is standing by in downtown Saint
Pete with what the weather conditions are out there right now.
Speaker 9 (04:04):
Eric, Yeah, I haven't used the word delusion a long time,
I think, but I would say about usually appropriate.
Speaker 10 (04:13):
Right now.
Speaker 9 (04:13):
We have just had an onslaught of rain now for
a few hours here in downtown Saint Pete.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You know, a Crosier again, you're our Florida connection. This
doesn't seem at least now. Thank god, it's not the
catastrophe that they have predicted. You know, it's not the
one hundred and eighty mile an hour winds with twenty
foot swells, right and thank god for now.
Speaker 11 (04:37):
Look when we talk about the major deadly hurricanes, and
everybody wants to obviously point at Hurricane Katrina, and people
need to remember when Katrina hit, it was only a
category three. Oh wow, it had been a five, but
it dropped down to a three by the time it
hit in New Orleans. And it wasn't the storm itself
that caused all of the flooding. It was the crap
engineering from you know, all the byways that ended up
(05:00):
breaking over right, and New Orleans is below sea level, right,
it's a bowl, yeah, essentially.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And so they had a tremendous amount. I think they've
cleared that up though. I think the you know, Army
Corps of Engineers went in there and really put together a.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Lot of work in there. Yeah.
Speaker 12 (05:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (05:14):
But where they have one of these guys from CNN,
they have him in Fort Myers and Fort Myers is
is further south than Sarasota. So you can see he's
up to his knees in sort of flooding. But he's
the worst of that's kind of past him at this point,
and you're just you're not seeing much of a storm
per se, but you're definitely seeing knee high water that's
flowing past him. Now you're seeing Anderson Cooper, who's you know,
(05:37):
further north, just south of Saint Petersburg and Bradenton, and
you're seeing a Bill whir who's in Saint Petersburg, just
west of Tampa, right there at the mouth of the
Tampa Bay, and they're really starting to get hit with
some hard stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And you're very familiar with this area. You lived in
this area. My dad lived in the area. I had
a bunch of properties there, and you went to visit him,
and you're very familiar with it. I mean, you talk
about it it's like your second home.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Well, the first time I actually to Tampa Bay was
the day he died. Oh wow.
Speaker 11 (06:02):
So but I had to make a million trips down there,
so I was very familiar with the area after that.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, it's a beautiful, beautiful area.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
There is at the mouth of the Tampa Bay, just
inside from where the golf is, there is what's called
the Skyway Bridge, and it is a beautiful bridge. And
at some point you will probably see I'm sure there
are cameras set up on that thing where that is like.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Right there, it goes all the way across the bridge.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Just pretty amazing little feet of technology and engineering and
that's where I want to see some shots from.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You know, for people that have never been to Tampa.
If you take the beautiful homes that are in Newport
Beach along the harbor there, that's what you get a
lot in Tampa. You get these beautiful homes with big
lawns that are looking out looking west, you know, towards
the Gulf. And there is some spectacular, multi multimillion dollar
(06:53):
homes there. Yes, and those people aren't going anywhere. Those
people been there for generation after generation and they're sticking around.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
They are there.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But the but if you go a little bit north
of there, there seems to be newer developments up in
that area. And again my mom lived down there for
a while. She was in a new development area and
they build those those condos nowadays to withstand this kind
of Yes, these storms.
Speaker 11 (07:20):
Yeah, there's a friend of mine who lives further south,
right near Sarasota. Actually, she has a fairly new home
and last year when there was a hurricane, that blue
suit there messed up a fence outside, but otherwise her
house was in pretty great shape.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But even she had to go up to Saint Pete
to get away from this one and.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
A lot of these newer homes they have those automatic
steel shutters that come down remotely over your windows. Yeah,
and they really do protect your home.
Speaker 11 (07:46):
There are a lot of people that have shutters that
they keep in their garage. Oh wow, that they attach
if something like this comes through.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And like plywood that they hook up. They have like
big hooks and cover the windows and things like that. Yeah. Yeah,
I imagine there's gonna be wider run at Low's and
Home Depot in the near in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Quite a run.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
Yeah, they're gonna have a They're gonna have problem stocking
up with plywood because I'm sure it was taken all
before the storm.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yes, exactly right. All right, we're gonna continue to cover this.
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very third first podcast I ever did was his podcast
years ago, and he's with us.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Chad Carson, how you bub?
Speaker 12 (10:45):
I'm fine, but you know, I wish I was at
the Marongo birthday.
Speaker 14 (10:49):
Buddy.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh buddy, you can just get on a plane get
out of Florida. So where are you right now? Are
you in Tampa? Did you evacuate? What's going on with you?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well?
Speaker 12 (11:00):
I was going to evacuate and everyone's like, oh, we
got you have until like Thursday, two am it's going
to hit. Well, guess what hits at seven pm?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Okay, but you know what, Chad, you're the kind of
guy that tells everybody he's going to evacuate and then
you stay behind.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You've done that before.
Speaker 12 (11:18):
I know who you've been talking to.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
So have you stayed behind in this one? And where
are you exactly?
Speaker 12 (11:27):
So, I'm sure if you follow the news, there's you
know where they always show you the graphic where Tampa
Bay goes. It's like a little tiny I don't know,
the thing that hangs in the back of your throat.
What is it called uvula or whatever?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (11:41):
Yeah, it's like the the bay goes up right there
and they always circle that and that's where they're like
worst case scenario if it hits here. Well I'm right there,
so okay, And.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
What do you seeing right now? Is the wind? It
doesn't sound like it's really windy. Are you Are you
at home?
Speaker 12 (11:59):
Yeah? So, yeah, it's wendy. I went outside here. Let
me give you a little Oh yeah, I can't even
open the door. The water's just coming right in. But
so this is I've lived here my whole life. My
end ground concrete pool has floated four feet above ground.
(12:21):
My wood is ripping off my windows as we speak.
I just lost power, So you're good luck. So it's just.
And the third thing, let me tell you before every
everyone was tired of hearing hunker down. I'm tired of
hearing surge. If I hadn't, if I ever hear surge again,
(12:42):
it's just and my house is flooding as we speak.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
So white water's coming into your home.
Speaker 12 (12:50):
Yeah, yep, So I just lost power. I was trying
to get this. I had this big giant wet back,
you know, sucking it up as it comes in and
putting it, you know, and then the power goes off.
So now I'm just walking it creep creep through the
whole house and there's nothing I can do.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
But really, I mean, are do you have a generator?
Speaker 12 (13:10):
I don't, and I've there goes one of my playwoods.
I don't, but I've never needed one, and you know
I've I've lived in this house and I've flooded three
times this year. I've never flooded before. Wow, I don't
know what's going on.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Now?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
What do you have? You have hardwood floors or carpet?
What's your flooring?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Like?
Speaker 12 (13:31):
So it's it's a mid century house. So it's that
tarazo floor, okay with you know, which is beautiful. Pain
The problem is it gets under the baseboards, it gets into.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
The drywall, and then have you had to replace drywall
from the from Helene?
Speaker 12 (13:49):
Uh? I didn't get anything from Helene.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Wow.
Speaker 12 (13:53):
So yeah, and it's it's the weirdest thing. But two
blocks down the street, literally two blocks down this they
have their refrigerators, couches, beds, all out by the man.
So I was lucky.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
But yeah, and Milton said, and from what I remember,
you live within walking distance of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Stadium.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Is that true?
Speaker 12 (14:18):
Oh I could I? Oh, here comes a emergency alert
da da yeah, life threatening. And so it's I'm getting
this beep thing on my phone. I don't know if
you can hear it, but all right, it's done. I've
been getting them all night. I can walk there. Technically
it's probably two or three miles away, but I can
walk actually to Bay Shore Boulevard, which is Jim Cantor
(14:42):
or whatever. That's where he camps out. So I'm like,
really go home because he he's here. And then like great,
so he's always so yeah, I walked to Bay shore
and that's but this is the weird one because if
it would have hit the north of US, that's where
the surge would have, like the the twenty foot so urge.
But it hits south of us, so that then it
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sucks all the water out of the bay. Which I'm
sure there's idiots down there walking on the sucked out
water or whatever you call it.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
But do you live. Do you have a two story
house or one story?
Speaker 12 (15:16):
It's one story, but I have a really high ceiling,
so I put everything, uh, you know, valuable up top.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So yeah, you have sand bags outside?
Speaker 12 (15:29):
Yeah, let me tell you sandbags I have. I did
this that foam ceiling, stuff around the door, none of that.
If it's Mother Nature wants to get in your house
and coming in, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Do you have enough vodka or gin for the weekend.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I have a full bar out of the You know what,
that's a good idea my kind of guy. Yeah, well
no it's not, actually, because yeah, that's what you need
is like drunken with no power and slippery floor.
Speaker 12 (15:59):
So maybe not. I tell you, though, you're you're lucky.
You're lucky because I don't want to hear, sir, I
don't even want to. I don't even want to hear
about bronstorn Pin show anymore because if you get that joke,
remember that.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Look, I do remember this though.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
The very first pod you were an early adopter of podcasts,
and the very first podcast I ever did was it
was a podcast called Honey.
Speaker 12 (16:26):
And Biscuits, Biscuit and Honey, bis Getting.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Honey And that's your podcast with Kristin Martin, a friend
of a mutual friend.
Speaker 12 (16:35):
Yeah. Can I tell you one thing that did get saved, yes,
is my Private Eyes original movie poster.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Wow, that's you know.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
By the way, what a coincidence that where they shot
that movie was Asheville, North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So the poster was saved, but the town wasn't.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
Yeah, that's true. And look, I'm gonna sparey of like
this this how this was a first slow moving storm
and I was going to do Yeah, it was like
a Mississi Wigan's thing. I'm not going to do that,
you know, but that was one of my private possessions.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But yeah, I get it, buddy.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So what are they predicting for you for your neighborhood?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Is it going to last an hour? Two hours. It's
going to be an all night thing for you.
Speaker 12 (17:24):
So your friend, our friend said, oh, it's going to
be bad until two am. But right before the power
went off, they said, oh, it's going to start clearing
up at eleven. Well, you know what, maybe that makes sense.
Maybe they're going by your time. I hope it clears up.
So but and then of course you go outside. Let
(17:45):
me see if I can open the door. I'm the
only idiot on the street. It's like I could go
out and just run down the street like four oh,
like Forrest Gump. There's literally no one here. But I
thought I had more time.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
So yeah, I hope you do well.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Please, I'd want to take up any more of your
battery on your phone in case you needed for an
emergency and other power is out. But really appreciate you
checking in. Maybe we can call you tomorrow or Friday
and see how it was.
Speaker 12 (18:10):
Yeah, and send me a ticket to that boom Tanga
thing or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Okay, the Morongo thing, yeah, is a better name for it.
All right, buddy, appreciate you coming on. Godspeed, all right,
I'll talk to you all right. Take care of yourself.
Speaker 12 (18:24):
There.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
He goes to that guy for not saying one curse
word throughout that buddy.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
He is the you of Florida. When they say surge,
he says screw it. And when they say get out,
he's like, I don't want to go.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I'm not going. He's the a Florida man story.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
He is the Crozier of Florida. All right, we'll come
back more of Milton. The Dodgers are playing as well.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Lot's going on here.
Speaker 13 (18:47):
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Speaker 1 (18:53):
Milton has hit Florida. It has come ashore and we
have a lot to get to. So let's get right
into it.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Here.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
There's a plane that flipped over. Rick Scott is there
from CNN. He had a cool interview. Let's right now,
let's see what he had to say. Here we go right.
Speaker 15 (19:09):
Now on the phone. Joining me is Florida Senator Rick Scott.
And Senator thank you for being here. You were governor
of Florida. You've dealt with a lot of storms like
this in your home state. What are you most concerned
about right now as this storm is making landfall?
Speaker 10 (19:21):
Well, Number one is people that did in the back
week that should have. We can't. We can't take care
of him now.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, like my buddy Chad, he stayed behind.
Speaker 16 (19:30):
And what happens often is people say, oh, gosh, this
is really getting bad, So then they want to leave
unfortu she's you got flooding, you got you got trees down,
you got para lines down. As you know, we've had
unbelievab number of tornadoes around the state today, So you
have no choice. You have to stay in place now,
and you have to hunker down, and you have to
keep yourself alive. I worry about our first responders that
(19:53):
want to go out and help these people. Uh, and
they have to put their lives on the line, but
they do it because they want people to to.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Be safe, to be safe. So and then I worry about,
you know, when as this passes, are you know to
all the problems.
Speaker 16 (20:08):
We're gonna have trees down, We're gonna lose a lot
of power, We're gonna you know, And then I worry about,
you know, are people and go outside before it's safe
and they're going to be around trees are gonna fall
because we are saturated with water. Are they gonna touchdown
power lines or are they gonna try to start a generator
and not know how it works.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
I think he's a power of sawt in.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
What a negative, What a Debbie downer this guy is.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
He's lecturing the people that stayed and then he's saying, Wow,
you probably got to generator.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
You have no idea how to use it. No, no, no,
no no. People have generators know how to use them.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
Start a generator and not know how it works.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
People have generators know how it works.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
I think he's a power of salt and not know
how it works.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So people who have power saws know how power saws work.
Speaker 16 (20:50):
You just worry that that, you know if you just
what happens. One, Unfortunately people don't get out of harm's.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Way right and then two, let's start shame. I'm in
the middle of the storm.
Speaker 16 (21:01):
Number two is afterwards they make foolish decisions right on
top of.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
That, again shaming them in the middle of the storm.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Number two, they.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
Made foolish decisions right on top of that.
Speaker 16 (21:13):
Today we've we've had horrible tornadoes around the state. I've
talked to a lot of shaff some mayors all day
today about the tornadoes, and my hurt goes after everybody
going through theres right now.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
I'm in I'm a little bit further south.
Speaker 16 (21:28):
I'm in Naples, Florida, and I evacuated away from the
I was in the evacuation zone, which I hope everybody did.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
So you had to evacuate that where I live it's safe.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, that's exactly.
Speaker 15 (21:39):
What he just said, City Gain, Kaylen, you had to
evacuate your home.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
That's right. He just said that.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
Yeah, we had to evacuate.
Speaker 16 (21:47):
And so so I'm hoping that, you know, everybody around
me evacuated. I'm hoping it's not as bad as they anticipated.
Speaker 15 (21:55):
City Gain, Kaylen, you had to evacuate your home.
Speaker 16 (21:58):
Yes, we're supposed get five day for the storm. Surge
is a lot of flooding, So I hope it's not
going to be that bad. But you know, these are
these are you know, these are deadly storms.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And so and Crozier again are Florida specialists. I think
that people who live in Florida and Texas and Louisiana
are some of the toughest Americans when it comes to
this kind of crap. Which ones we put People live
in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, people live on the on the
(22:29):
Gulf Coast or the East Coast are tough Americans.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, absolutely, you got to be.
Speaker 11 (22:34):
It's like the people that live up in the you know,
up in the Northeast with winters and stuff and the lakes,
the Great Lakes and all that.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
The best Americans, the toughest Americans, Tommas.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
We're pampered here in the Southland. That's exactly right, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
If a plane flipped over, a small little private plane
flipped over, I guess the guy didn't tie it down
and bang it's over right now.
Speaker 15 (22:57):
That plane video that I just saw showed you in Venice, Florida.
That was shot by Jonathan Petramala, who is a storm
chaser in Florida, and he's joining me now. Jonathan, just
tell me. I mean, this is a remarkable image and
just speaks to what we are seeing watching this live
right now. Tell me what you've been seeing out on
the ground in Florida.
Speaker 17 (23:15):
The strongest part of where we've been in the storm
has been on the back side of the eye after
it passed on shores.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
And what do they call that, Crowzer're the dirty side
of the hurricane.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yes, yeah, the dirty side of the hurricane. Has coming short.
Speaker 17 (23:28):
Yeah, made landfall just to the north of where we are.
We're in Venice, Florida. So we have a couple of
situations happening here. You have the wind shifting to be
directly on shore here and what that is doing, clearly
it's strong enough to knock over a flip of the
plane upside down like this, also knocking down trees, power lines.
There was a stacado of popping from all of the
power lines blasting off earlier and breaking. And then of
(23:52):
course you have the storm search that's really beginning to
pour in as well near where we are here at
the Venice Airport, the low lying areas esplanade around the NSM.
So that's going to be the next real big issue
that people are gonna have to worry about, and they
might let their guard down and just do not do
that because the backside of the storm, especially south of
where landfall is, that's where we expected.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, this is going to be. This is pretty bad,
all right, Then we have a week come back, we'll play.
Sarasota is in the eye of Milton.
Speaker 11 (24:18):
So I'm on the phone right now with my sister
who lives in Awami, and I was asking her what
the weather's like. So I got her on the phone
here and you were saying that it's you're getting hit
with thunder and rain right now, Susan.
Speaker 14 (24:28):
They're rain and bands. So the bands are like they
bring in like so now we have a tornado warning here,
which is pretty much normal when it comes to these
storms that come through. I mean I went to Andrew
down here in Homestead, so that was the category five.
This one's coming in and a category three tat three,
(24:49):
which is not too bad. But we're still getting those bands.
Speaker 11 (24:53):
Have you got any flooding? How's the water level where
you're at your house right now?
Speaker 14 (24:58):
We're not in the flood zone.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Clean, So so you're good, you're yeah. So vodka and
popsicles are on tap right absolutely. And this is your sister. Yeah.
Oh wow, Okay, thank you girl, appreciate you. I love you.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
That is great. Man Krozer is all over this Florida scene.
So what is your name? Her first name Susan, Susan,
and she's doing well. She's in Miami. Thank god. That
is great. I think when we get sunrise, we cut
and we get into six seven o'clock or tomorrow morning,
five six seven. We're going to see a lot of damage, yes,
a lot of it, but that storm will be gone
(25:38):
by early morning, two three o'clock in the morning and
it'll be off onto the East Coast and then out
into the Atlantic and that will be a wrap and
and it's really remarkable. I know we've got to take
a break here, but it's really remarkable. After a hurricane
like this, it is almost always clear the next day
crystal clear. Yes, you know, it takes all the energy
(25:58):
with it. It all does appears and it's crystal clear.
So we're going to be seeing a lot of images
tomorrow morning at daybreak. We're live on KFI. We're also
tracking the Dodgers. They are playing San Diego. So we've
got a lot going on and we'll cover all of
it when we continue.
Speaker 13 (26:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Well, Milton has hit Florida. Here's some sound of what
it actually sounds like in Florida right now.
Speaker 18 (26:30):
Not sure if you can. It's been sort of in
and outs, but I'm gonna shut up for a second.
Speaker 12 (26:37):
Just listen.
Speaker 18 (26:46):
That is the soundtrack, and depending on where you are
in this city. There's car alarms by all these vehicles
that were parked high to keep them out of the
flood zone. It's going off as they're being rocked by
the wind.
Speaker 10 (26:59):
Here.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You know, all new respect for the Tesla truck. You
can put it in a sort of a survival mode
where it can get through very deep water. And I
saw one going through what looked like three or four
feet of water and it cut through it like a
like a hot night through butter.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
It was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Anderson Cooper there in Florida for CNM. This just came
in with Anderson Cooper recalls a previous hurricane and the coverage.
Speaker 19 (27:31):
I think a lot of people maybe who were staying
at home looking out their windows had the sense of
lego things are kind of not as bad as maybe
some people had thought it was gonna be. You know,
it was downgraded from there was a Cat five out
there in the Gulf, then it was a Cat three
when it came on shore. It may be a Cat three,
(27:51):
but that is a really really strong storm and you
can feel the power of it out here right now.
It's been I don't know ten or so years since
I've really done a lot of hurricane coverage. I've experienced
white out conditions a couple of times in the really
the height of a storm.
Speaker 18 (28:10):
We're not there yet.
Speaker 19 (28:11):
We may not get there, but it is it is
close to, at least in this area.
Speaker 18 (28:17):
There is so much rain and wind and.
Speaker 19 (28:21):
Water in the air, the sky almost looks white. It's
a very eerie, strange thing.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And it looks like the eye of the storm.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I'm looking at Fox thirteen in Tampa, and it looks
like the eye of the storm is directly over Sarasota,
and so Tampa is taking the brunt of this the
northern flank of this hurricane. That's where all the rain
is right now, and they are just getting wiped out.
This is This is a Fox Channel thirteen in Tampa,
(28:52):
live on Channel thirteen in Tampa Bay right now.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Whipping down this street.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
You can hear the winds whistling, and you can see
the rain moving very quickly. We've seen the winds steadily
pick up here over the last hour, the rain steadily
coming down. We've seen some of brie starting to get
tossed around, branches and leaves in the street. We haven't
seen any any water really collecting on the street. The
(29:18):
winds have been the real big.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Story just in the last thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
And people living in Tampa and the surrounding area, you know,
you've got the Eastern Gulf, You've got you know, I'm
obviously Hillsboro and Polk County and Tampa. This is what
people living in Tampa right now are watching on their
TV if they still have, Like Cristal.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Winds have really picked up, whipping these trees back and
forth here in downtown. We're right on top of the
steps of the Convention Center. Any of that windows w
wind tunne whipping through right there. You can hear them
whistling as they passed through these tall buildings here in
downtown Tampa. In terms of the conditions, though, they've continue
to just moor sin since we've been out here. The
wind and the rain have just steadily picked up since
(30:04):
we've been here. And like I said, we've seen some
some some debris for the first time whipping through the streets.
And that's the first time we've really seen that here
in the last hour. But that's the very latest right
now here in downtown Temple. We'll go ahead and send
it back to you.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Guys, all right, that's what you're seeing if you live
in Tampa.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
That is the the.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
The current conditions, and Channel thirteen is on it. ABC
is on as well. Let mess if we can bring
AB CBS. This is CBS.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Affiliate and that's here that Robert is eyeing for our
safety by ABC ferociously back and forth with the wind
in this area.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
So this is what we're experiencing.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
This storm makes its way in. It's still very strong
when we are you guys again, We're in Panellis County
in the Seminole community right now.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Man, man that win, thank you.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
We actually want to go to Paula Grow He's in
Brandenton and really having some extreme weather out there.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Paul is Live ABC in Tampa. Yeah.
Speaker 20 (31:05):
The wind is now furious and punching and pretty punishing.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
We're seeing some debris fly around up here.
Speaker 20 (31:11):
We got the live truck here to shield us a
little bit, but that wind is coming right at the house. Wow,
they already have one of the palm trees down right here.
You'll see that that blew over some debris from who
knows where.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
It blew the window out in their live flying around
here in the driveway.
Speaker 20 (31:28):
This home I see off in the distance Tim, there's
stuff flying around back there, so.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
That's always a concern.
Speaker 20 (31:37):
But this wind is the most intense that it's been
and it's been like this, by the way, guys, non stop.
For I would say, what do you think, Tim, the
last hour, Yeah, last hour, non stop, punishing wind and
it's coming toward the house. So it switched back around
(31:58):
and it brings with it the kind of rain that
just kind of goes sideways and in all directions. It's loud,
it's uh, it's damaging.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
There is no power and as right, some of them
and boarded up homes.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Man, the debris is flying past him and it's busted
out at least one window in his live truck and
they don't have power.
Speaker 20 (32:26):
The only thing you hear is the wind and the rain.
And not to be, you know, too dramatic about it,
but this is the kind of wind that that leaves
a mark, that does some damage. We mentioned earlier how
the wind was changing direction, Hey, Paul, and it's definitely
done that.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Paul is yes, I.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
Want to interrupt for you for a second. So you're
on the back side of the eye right now, and
there was one hundred and two wind report. It's Sarasota
Brandenton Airport. So that's the highest we've seen. How far
are you from that airport because you're in the same spot.
Speaker 20 (33:04):
I don't have the exact mileage on that, but we are.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
He's trying to survive. Okay, Oh wow, we.
Speaker 20 (33:10):
Got somebody's raft from a nearby pool that came flying by.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
Yeah, I mean that's the that's you are in the
area with the strongest wind that's been reported with this
storm so far, the backside of the eye one hundred
and two miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Okay, all right, we're gonna keep I'm sure mo Kelly
will have many, many details on this storm.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I'm gonna jump out of here. Moe Kelly is next.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
The Dodgers are up three nothing on San Diego, so
that's good news. Mo Kelly and his whole crew following
this storm tonight as it gives uh just kicks Florida
and wallops Tampa Bay and the surrounding areas. We're live
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(33:55):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We're keep an eye on this horrible storm coming across
Florida right now as we speak, it's wall to wall
on all the cable stations. The local stations are carrying
it as well. Tampa. Tampa International Airport is completely vacant.
There are no planes there. They have Air Mexico, air Canada, Alaska,
(00:30):
British Airways, Delta, American Frontier, Jeff Blue, Southwest Spirit, they've
taken them all, United, Virgin Atlantic. They get a lot
of airlines flight in and out of Tampa, and they
took all those planes out and they all went to
either Miami or Georgia or North Carolina so they didn't
get destroyed by this weather. So to crank that airport
(00:51):
up again, we'll probably take a week or so, because
you got to get the crews down there, you got
to get the flights down, the planes down there, you
got to get people to the airport. A lot of
people are are have, you know, vacated the area, and
so to get Tampa International Airport going again is going
(01:12):
to be a monster chore. Because a lot of people evacuated,
and that includes all the you know, the pilots and
the flight attendants as well.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They got the hell out.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
So it's going to be a long time before Tampa
International and there might be damage to the airport itself.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So this is where was this here?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
This is the local station local ABC ABC News there
don't I don't know what channel it is. I think
it's thirteen or eight, but this is the local station
in Tampa on live TV. This woman is covering the
conditions there and nobody is around at this hotel.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
A lot of people from Saint Pete and from the coast.
They came in more inland for the storm ahead of it.
A couple that I to they spend half of their
time here in Tampa and another half in the Midwest,
and they say that they just went through Helene obviously
a few weeks ago, and they said that it scared them.
They were out of power, and so they made the
(02:12):
move to evacuate for this hurricane, and they think that
they made the right decision. Obviously we still have power now,
but you're seeing as this makes landfall, the impact that
this is having here again, we almost have horizontal rain
whipping at us at this intersection. You can see, I mean,
this intersection. It's almost crazy to picture and to see.
(02:34):
I hope it comes across as intense as it is
that we know.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It looks like all the street lights are still on
and all the office lights are still on, so at
least they got power in Tampa, they're all set for this.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Seeing out here with this whipping rain, the trees are
whipping back and forth. We're seeing tree branches being pulled
off of the trees. Now, a lot of businesses in
this area did prepare ahead of the storm, and you
can see some of these born up businesses across the
street from where we're at, a lot of businesses in
(03:04):
Ebors City look like this now boarded up windows, boarded
up doors. A lot of them have that sandbag reinforcement.
We're also seeing some lightning. We haven't seen that here yet,
but again within the.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Left no there.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
She goes, oh my god, what up.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Milton, as it's coming in, and like I said, you
know you heard it.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
We saw it.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Those transformers blowing that one. There was one over there
behind you. There's also one over that way, and I
think there was a third. It could have also been lightning,
but it did have a pretty immediate boom. So, like
I said, when you're counting how far going old school,
how far this stuff is, you know, it's really close.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
To us right now.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
And that's kind of exactly what we're seeing back to
you guys.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
All right, Marianne, thank you.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
So we don't want to stay in the panelas Hillsboro
areas because those are the counties really.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Seeing the brunt of the weather right now. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
And our Eric Waxler is standing by in downtown Saint
Pete with what the weather conditions are out there right now.
Speaker 9 (04:04):
Eric, Yeah, I haven't used the word delusion a long time,
I think, but I would say about usually appropriate.
Speaker 10 (04:13):
Right now.
Speaker 9 (04:13):
We have just had an onslaught of rain now for
a few hours here in downtown Saint Pete.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You know, a Crosier again, you're our Florida connection. This
doesn't seem at least now. Thank god, it's not the
catastrophe that they have predicted. You know, it's not the
one hundred and eighty mile an hour winds with twenty
foot swells, right and thank god for now.
Speaker 11 (04:37):
Look when we talk about the major deadly hurricanes, and
everybody wants to obviously point at Hurricane Katrina, and people
need to remember when Katrina hit, it was only a
category three. Oh wow, it had been a five, but
it dropped down to a three by the time it
hit in New Orleans. And it wasn't the storm itself
that caused all of the flooding. It was the crap
engineering from you know, all the byways that ended up
(05:00):
breaking over right, and New Orleans is below sea level, right,
it's a bowl, yeah, essentially.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And so they had a tremendous amount. I think they've
cleared that up though. I think the you know, Army
Corps of Engineers went in there and really put together a.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Lot of work in there. Yeah.
Speaker 12 (05:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (05:14):
But where they have one of these guys from CNN,
they have him in Fort Myers and Fort Myers is
is further south than Sarasota. So you can see he's
up to his knees in sort of flooding. But he's
the worst of that's kind of past him at this point,
and you're just you're not seeing much of a storm
per se, but you're definitely seeing knee high water that's
flowing past him. Now you're seeing Anderson Cooper, who's you know,
(05:37):
further north, just south of Saint Petersburg and Bradenton, and
you're seeing a Bill whir who's in Saint Petersburg, just
west of Tampa, right there at the mouth of the
Tampa Bay, and they're really starting to get hit with
some hard stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And you're very familiar with this area. You lived in
this area. My dad lived in the area. I had
a bunch of properties there, and you went to visit him,
and you're very familiar with it. I mean, you talk
about it it's like your second home.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Well, the first time I actually to Tampa Bay was
the day he died. Oh wow.
Speaker 11 (06:02):
So but I had to make a million trips down there,
so I was very familiar with the area after that.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, it's a beautiful, beautiful area.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
There is at the mouth of the Tampa Bay, just
inside from where the golf is, there is what's called
the Skyway Bridge, and it is a beautiful bridge. And
at some point you will probably see I'm sure there
are cameras set up on that thing where that is like.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Right there, it goes all the way across the bridge.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Just pretty amazing little feet of technology and engineering and
that's where I want to see some shots from.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You know, for people that have never been to Tampa.
If you take the beautiful homes that are in Newport
Beach along the harbor there, that's what you get a
lot in Tampa. You get these beautiful homes with big
lawns that are looking out looking west, you know, towards
the Gulf. And there is some spectacular, multi multimillion dollar
(06:53):
homes there. Yes, and those people aren't going anywhere. Those
people been there for generation after generation and they're sticking around.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
They are there.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But the but if you go a little bit north
of there, there seems to be newer developments up in
that area. And again my mom lived down there for
a while. She was in a new development area and
they build those those condos nowadays to withstand this kind
of Yes, these storms.
Speaker 11 (07:20):
Yeah, there's a friend of mine who lives further south,
right near Sarasota. Actually, she has a fairly new home
and last year when there was a hurricane, that blue
suit there messed up a fence outside, but otherwise her
house was in pretty great shape.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But even she had to go up to Saint Pete
to get away from this one and.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
A lot of these newer homes they have those automatic
steel shutters that come down remotely over your windows. Yeah,
and they really do protect your home.
Speaker 11 (07:46):
There are a lot of people that have shutters that
they keep in their garage. Oh wow, that they attach
if something like this comes through.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And like plywood that they hook up. They have like
big hooks and cover the windows and things like that. Yeah. Yeah,
I imagine there's gonna be wider run at Low's and
Home Depot in the near in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Quite a run.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
Yeah, they're gonna have a They're gonna have problem stocking
up with plywood because I'm sure it was taken all
before the storm.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yes, exactly right. All right, we're gonna continue to cover this.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are playing for their life. If
they do not win tonight, they come back here to
Los Angeles. Well, they come back anyway, even if they win,
they come back here to play Friday. But in the
first inning, Mookie Betts got up and hit a home run,
and then the Dodgers are winning in the first inning.
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Dodgers are up one zero. Live on KFI following Milton
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Speaker 2 (10:42):
Chad Carson, how you bub?
Speaker 12 (10:45):
I'm fine, but you know, I wish I was at
the Marongo birthday.
Speaker 14 (10:49):
Buddy.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh buddy, you can just get on a plane get
out of Florida. So where are you right now? Are
you in Tampa? Did you evacuate? What's going on with you?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well?
Speaker 12 (11:00):
I was going to evacuate and everyone's like, oh, we
got you have until like Thursday, two am it's going
to hit. Well, guess what hits at seven pm?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Okay, but you know what, Chad, you're the kind of
guy that tells everybody he's going to evacuate and then
you stay behind.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You've done that before.
Speaker 12 (11:18):
I know who you've been talking to.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
So have you stayed behind in this one? And where
are you exactly?
Speaker 12 (11:27):
So, I'm sure if you follow the news, there's you
know where they always show you the graphic where Tampa
Bay goes. It's like a little tiny I don't know,
the thing that hangs in the back of your throat.
What is it called uvula or whatever?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (11:41):
Yeah, it's like the the bay goes up right there
and they always circle that and that's where they're like
worst case scenario if it hits here. Well I'm right there,
so okay, And.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
What do you seeing right now? Is the wind? It
doesn't sound like it's really windy. Are you Are you
at home?
Speaker 12 (11:59):
Yeah? So, yeah, it's wendy. I went outside here. Let
me give you a little Oh yeah, I can't even
open the door. The water's just coming right in. But
so this is I've lived here my whole life. My
end ground concrete pool has floated four feet above ground.
(12:21):
My wood is ripping off my windows as we speak.
I just lost power, So you're good luck. So it's just.
And the third thing, let me tell you before every
everyone was tired of hearing hunker down. I'm tired of
hearing surge. If I hadn't, if I ever hear surge again,
(12:42):
it's just and my house is flooding as we speak.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
So white water's coming into your home.
Speaker 12 (12:50):
Yeah, yep, So I just lost power. I was trying
to get this. I had this big giant wet back,
you know, sucking it up as it comes in and
putting it, you know, and then the power goes off.
So now I'm just walking it creep creep through the
whole house and there's nothing I can do.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
But really, I mean, are do you have a generator?
Speaker 12 (13:10):
I don't, and I've there goes one of my playwoods.
I don't, but I've never needed one, and you know
I've I've lived in this house and I've flooded three
times this year. I've never flooded before. Wow, I don't
know what's going on.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Now?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
What do you have? You have hardwood floors or carpet?
What's your flooring?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Like?
Speaker 12 (13:31):
So it's it's a mid century house. So it's that
tarazo floor, okay with you know, which is beautiful. Pain
The problem is it gets under the baseboards, it gets into.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
The drywall, and then have you had to replace drywall
from the from Helene?
Speaker 12 (13:49):
Uh? I didn't get anything from Helene.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Wow.
Speaker 12 (13:53):
So yeah, and it's it's the weirdest thing. But two
blocks down the street, literally two blocks down this they
have their refrigerators, couches, beds, all out by the man.
So I was lucky.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
But yeah, and Milton said, and from what I remember,
you live within walking distance of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Stadium.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Is that true?
Speaker 12 (14:18):
Oh I could I? Oh, here comes a emergency alert
da da yeah, life threatening. And so it's I'm getting
this beep thing on my phone. I don't know if
you can hear it, but all right, it's done. I've
been getting them all night. I can walk there. Technically
it's probably two or three miles away, but I can
walk actually to Bay Shore Boulevard, which is Jim Cantor
(14:42):
or whatever. That's where he camps out. So I'm like,
really go home because he he's here. And then like great,
so he's always so yeah, I walked to Bay shore
and that's but this is the weird one because if
it would have hit the north of US, that's where
the surge would have, like the the twenty foot so urge.
But it hits south of us, so that then it
(15:03):
sucks all the water out of the bay. Which I'm
sure there's idiots down there walking on the sucked out
water or whatever you call it.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
But do you live. Do you have a two story
house or one story?
Speaker 12 (15:16):
It's one story, but I have a really high ceiling,
so I put everything, uh, you know, valuable up top.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So yeah, you have sand bags outside?
Speaker 12 (15:29):
Yeah, let me tell you sandbags I have. I did
this that foam ceiling, stuff around the door, none of that.
If it's Mother Nature wants to get in your house
and coming in, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Do you have enough vodka or gin for the weekend.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I have a full bar out of the You know what,
that's a good idea my kind of guy. Yeah, well
no it's not, actually, because yeah, that's what you need
is like drunken with no power and slippery floor.
Speaker 12 (15:59):
So maybe not. I tell you, though, you're you're lucky.
You're lucky because I don't want to hear, sir, I
don't even want to. I don't even want to hear
about bronstorn Pin show anymore because if you get that joke,
remember that.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Look, I do remember this though.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
The very first pod you were an early adopter of podcasts,
and the very first podcast I ever did was it
was a podcast called Honey.
Speaker 12 (16:26):
And Biscuits, Biscuit and Honey, bis Getting.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Honey And that's your podcast with Kristin Martin, a friend
of a mutual friend.
Speaker 12 (16:35):
Yeah. Can I tell you one thing that did get saved, yes,
is my Private Eyes original movie poster.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Wow, that's you know.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
By the way, what a coincidence that where they shot
that movie was Asheville, North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So the poster was saved, but the town wasn't.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
Yeah, that's true. And look, I'm gonna sparey of like
this this how this was a first slow moving storm
and I was going to do Yeah, it was like
a Mississi Wigan's thing. I'm not going to do that,
you know, but that was one of my private possessions.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But yeah, I get it, buddy.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So what are they predicting for you for your neighborhood?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Is it going to last an hour? Two hours. It's
going to be an all night thing for you.
Speaker 12 (17:24):
So your friend, our friend said, oh, it's going to
be bad until two am. But right before the power
went off, they said, oh, it's going to start clearing
up at eleven. Well, you know what, maybe that makes sense.
Maybe they're going by your time. I hope it clears up.
So but and then of course you go outside. Let
(17:45):
me see if I can open the door. I'm the
only idiot on the street. It's like I could go
out and just run down the street like four oh,
like Forrest Gump. There's literally no one here. But I
thought I had more time.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
So yeah, I hope you do well.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Please, I'd want to take up any more of your
battery on your phone in case you needed for an
emergency and other power is out. But really appreciate you
checking in. Maybe we can call you tomorrow or Friday
and see how it was.
Speaker 12 (18:10):
Yeah, and send me a ticket to that boom Tanga
thing or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Okay, the Morongo thing, yeah, is a better name for it.
All right, buddy, appreciate you coming on. Godspeed, all right,
I'll talk to you all right. Take care of yourself.
Speaker 12 (18:24):
There.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
He goes to that guy for not saying one curse
word throughout that buddy.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
He is the you of Florida. When they say surge,
he says screw it. And when they say get out,
he's like, I don't want to go.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I'm not going. He's the a Florida man story.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
He is the Crozier of Florida. All right, we'll come
back more of Milton. The Dodgers are playing as well.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Lot's going on here.
Speaker 13 (18:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Milton has hit Florida. It has come ashore and we
have a lot to get to. So let's get right
into it.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Here.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
There's a plane that flipped over. Rick Scott is there
from CNN. He had a cool interview. Let's right now,
let's see what he had to say. Here we go right.
Speaker 15 (19:09):
Now on the phone. Joining me is Florida Senator Rick Scott.
And Senator thank you for being here. You were governor
of Florida. You've dealt with a lot of storms like
this in your home state. What are you most concerned
about right now as this storm is making landfall?
Speaker 10 (19:21):
Well, Number one is people that did in the back
week that should have. We can't. We can't take care
of him now.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, like my buddy Chad, he stayed behind.
Speaker 16 (19:30):
And what happens often is people say, oh, gosh, this
is really getting bad, So then they want to leave
unfortu she's you got flooding, you got you got trees down,
you got para lines down. As you know, we've had
unbelievab number of tornadoes around the state today, So you
have no choice. You have to stay in place now,
and you have to hunker down, and you have to
keep yourself alive. I worry about our first responders that
(19:53):
want to go out and help these people. Uh, and
they have to put their lives on the line, but
they do it because they want people to to.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Be safe, to be safe. So and then I worry about,
you know, when as this passes, are you know to
all the problems.
Speaker 16 (20:08):
We're gonna have trees down, We're gonna lose a lot
of power, We're gonna you know, And then I worry about,
you know, are people and go outside before it's safe
and they're going to be around trees are gonna fall
because we are saturated with water. Are they gonna touchdown
power lines or are they gonna try to start a generator
and not know how it works.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
I think he's a power of sawt in.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
What a negative, What a Debbie downer this guy is.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
He's lecturing the people that stayed and then he's saying, Wow,
you probably got to generator.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
You have no idea how to use it. No, no, no,
no no. People have generators know how to use them.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
Start a generator and not know how it works.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
People have generators know how it works.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
I think he's a power of salt and not know
how it works.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So people who have power saws know how power saws work.
Speaker 16 (20:50):
You just worry that that, you know if you just
what happens. One, Unfortunately people don't get out of harm's.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Way right and then two, let's start shame. I'm in
the middle of the storm.
Speaker 16 (21:01):
Number two is afterwards they make foolish decisions right on
top of.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
That, again shaming them in the middle of the storm.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Number two, they.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
Made foolish decisions right on top of that.
Speaker 16 (21:13):
Today we've we've had horrible tornadoes around the state. I've
talked to a lot of shaff some mayors all day
today about the tornadoes, and my hurt goes after everybody
going through theres right now.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
I'm in I'm a little bit further south.
Speaker 16 (21:28):
I'm in Naples, Florida, and I evacuated away from the
I was in the evacuation zone, which I hope everybody did.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
So you had to evacuate that where I live it's safe.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, that's exactly.
Speaker 15 (21:39):
What he just said, City Gain, Kaylen, you had to
evacuate your home.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
That's right. He just said that.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
Yeah, we had to evacuate.
Speaker 16 (21:47):
And so so I'm hoping that, you know, everybody around
me evacuated. I'm hoping it's not as bad as they anticipated.
Speaker 15 (21:55):
City Gain, Kaylen, you had to evacuate your home.
Speaker 16 (21:58):
Yes, we're supposed get five day for the storm. Surge
is a lot of flooding, So I hope it's not
going to be that bad. But you know, these are
these are you know, these are deadly storms.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And so and Crozier again are Florida specialists. I think
that people who live in Florida and Texas and Louisiana
are some of the toughest Americans when it comes to
this kind of crap. Which ones we put People live
in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, people live on the on the
(22:29):
Gulf Coast or the East Coast are tough Americans.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, absolutely, you got to be.
Speaker 11 (22:34):
It's like the people that live up in the you know,
up in the Northeast with winters and stuff and the lakes,
the Great Lakes and all that.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
The best Americans, the toughest Americans, Tommas.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
We're pampered here in the Southland. That's exactly right, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
If a plane flipped over, a small little private plane
flipped over, I guess the guy didn't tie it down
and bang it's over right now.
Speaker 15 (22:57):
That plane video that I just saw showed you in Venice, Florida.
That was shot by Jonathan Petramala, who is a storm
chaser in Florida, and he's joining me now. Jonathan, just
tell me. I mean, this is a remarkable image and
just speaks to what we are seeing watching this live
right now. Tell me what you've been seeing out on
the ground in Florida.
Speaker 17 (23:15):
The strongest part of where we've been in the storm
has been on the back side of the eye after
it passed on shores.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
And what do they call that, Crowzer're the dirty side
of the hurricane.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yes, yeah, the dirty side of the hurricane. Has coming short.
Speaker 17 (23:28):
Yeah, made landfall just to the north of where we are.
We're in Venice, Florida. So we have a couple of
situations happening here. You have the wind shifting to be
directly on shore here and what that is doing, clearly
it's strong enough to knock over a flip of the
plane upside down like this, also knocking down trees, power lines.
There was a stacado of popping from all of the
power lines blasting off earlier and breaking. And then of
(23:52):
course you have the storm search that's really beginning to
pour in as well near where we are here at
the Venice Airport, the low lying areas esplanade around the NSM.
So that's going to be the next real big issue
that people are gonna have to worry about, and they
might let their guard down and just do not do
that because the backside of the storm, especially south of
where landfall is, that's where we expected.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, this is going to be. This is pretty bad,
all right, Then we have a week come back, we'll play.
Sarasota is in the eye of Milton.
Speaker 11 (24:18):
So I'm on the phone right now with my sister
who lives in Awami, and I was asking her what
the weather's like. So I got her on the phone
here and you were saying that it's you're getting hit
with thunder and rain right now, Susan.
Speaker 14 (24:28):
They're rain and bands. So the bands are like they
bring in like so now we have a tornado warning here,
which is pretty much normal when it comes to these
storms that come through. I mean I went to Andrew
down here in Homestead, so that was the category five.
This one's coming in and a category three tat three,
(24:49):
which is not too bad. But we're still getting those bands.
Speaker 11 (24:53):
Have you got any flooding? How's the water level where
you're at your house right now?
Speaker 14 (24:58):
We're not in the flood zone.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Clean, So so you're good, you're yeah. So vodka and
popsicles are on tap right absolutely. And this is your sister. Yeah.
Oh wow, Okay, thank you girl, appreciate you. I love you.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
That is great. Man Krozer is all over this Florida scene.
So what is your name? Her first name Susan, Susan,
and she's doing well. She's in Miami. Thank god. That
is great. I think when we get sunrise, we cut
and we get into six seven o'clock or tomorrow morning,
five six seven. We're going to see a lot of damage, yes,
a lot of it, but that storm will be gone
(25:38):
by early morning, two three o'clock in the morning and
it'll be off onto the East Coast and then out
into the Atlantic and that will be a wrap and
and it's really remarkable. I know we've got to take
a break here, but it's really remarkable. After a hurricane
like this, it is almost always clear the next day
crystal clear. Yes, you know, it takes all the energy
(25:58):
with it. It all does appears and it's crystal clear.
So we're going to be seeing a lot of images
tomorrow morning at daybreak. We're live on KFI. We're also
tracking the Dodgers. They are playing San Diego. So we've
got a lot going on and we'll cover all of
it when we continue.
Speaker 13 (26:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Well, Milton has hit Florida. Here's some sound of what
it actually sounds like in Florida right now.
Speaker 18 (26:30):
Not sure if you can. It's been sort of in
and outs, but I'm gonna shut up for a second.
Speaker 12 (26:37):
Just listen.
Speaker 18 (26:46):
That is the soundtrack, and depending on where you are
in this city. There's car alarms by all these vehicles
that were parked high to keep them out of the
flood zone. It's going off as they're being rocked by
the wind.
Speaker 10 (26:59):
Here.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You know, all new respect for the Tesla truck. You
can put it in a sort of a survival mode
where it can get through very deep water. And I
saw one going through what looked like three or four
feet of water and it cut through it like a
like a hot night through butter.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
It was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Anderson Cooper there in Florida for CNM. This just came
in with Anderson Cooper recalls a previous hurricane and the coverage.
Speaker 19 (27:31):
I think a lot of people maybe who were staying
at home looking out their windows had the sense of
lego things are kind of not as bad as maybe
some people had thought it was gonna be. You know,
it was downgraded from there was a Cat five out
there in the Gulf, then it was a Cat three
when it came on shore. It may be a Cat three,
(27:51):
but that is a really really strong storm and you
can feel the power of it out here right now.
It's been I don't know ten or so years since
I've really done a lot of hurricane coverage. I've experienced
white out conditions a couple of times in the really
the height of a storm.
Speaker 18 (28:10):
We're not there yet.
Speaker 19 (28:11):
We may not get there, but it is it is
close to, at least in this area.
Speaker 18 (28:17):
There is so much rain and wind and.
Speaker 19 (28:21):
Water in the air, the sky almost looks white. It's
a very eerie, strange thing.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And it looks like the eye of the storm.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I'm looking at Fox thirteen in Tampa, and it looks
like the eye of the storm is directly over Sarasota,
and so Tampa is taking the brunt of this the
northern flank of this hurricane. That's where all the rain
is right now, and they are just getting wiped out.
This is This is a Fox Channel thirteen in Tampa,
(28:52):
live on Channel thirteen in Tampa Bay right now.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Whipping down this street.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
You can hear the winds whistling, and you can see
the rain moving very quickly. We've seen the winds steadily
pick up here over the last hour, the rain steadily
coming down. We've seen some of brie starting to get
tossed around, branches and leaves in the street. We haven't
seen any any water really collecting on the street. The
(29:18):
winds have been the real big.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Story just in the last thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
And people living in Tampa and the surrounding area, you know,
you've got the Eastern Gulf, You've got you know, I'm
obviously Hillsboro and Polk County and Tampa. This is what
people living in Tampa right now are watching on their
TV if they still have, Like Cristal.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Winds have really picked up, whipping these trees back and
forth here in downtown. We're right on top of the
steps of the Convention Center. Any of that windows w
wind tunne whipping through right there. You can hear them
whistling as they passed through these tall buildings here in
downtown Tampa. In terms of the conditions, though, they've continue
to just moor sin since we've been out here. The
wind and the rain have just steadily picked up since
(30:04):
we've been here. And like I said, we've seen some
some some debris for the first time whipping through the streets.
And that's the first time we've really seen that here
in the last hour. But that's the very latest right
now here in downtown Temple. We'll go ahead and send
it back to you.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Guys, all right, that's what you're seeing if you live
in Tampa.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
That is the the.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
The current conditions, and Channel thirteen is on it. ABC
is on as well. Let mess if we can bring
AB CBS. This is CBS.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Affiliate and that's here that Robert is eyeing for our
safety by ABC ferociously back and forth with the wind
in this area.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
So this is what we're experiencing.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
This storm makes its way in. It's still very strong
when we are you guys again, We're in Panellis County
in the Seminole community right now.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Man, man that win, thank you.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
We actually want to go to Paula Grow He's in
Brandenton and really having some extreme weather out there.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Paul is Live ABC in Tampa. Yeah.
Speaker 20 (31:05):
The wind is now furious and punching and pretty punishing.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
We're seeing some debris fly around up here.
Speaker 20 (31:11):
We got the live truck here to shield us a
little bit, but that wind is coming right at the house. Wow,
they already have one of the palm trees down right here.
You'll see that that blew over some debris from who
knows where.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
It blew the window out in their live flying around
here in the driveway.
Speaker 20 (31:28):
This home I see off in the distance Tim, there's
stuff flying around back there, so.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
That's always a concern.
Speaker 20 (31:37):
But this wind is the most intense that it's been
and it's been like this, by the way, guys, non stop.
For I would say, what do you think, Tim, the
last hour, Yeah, last hour, non stop, punishing wind and
it's coming toward the house. So it switched back around
(31:58):
and it brings with it the kind of rain that
just kind of goes sideways and in all directions. It's loud,
it's uh, it's damaging.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
There is no power and as right, some of them
and boarded up homes.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Man, the debris is flying past him and it's busted
out at least one window in his live truck and
they don't have power.
Speaker 20 (32:26):
The only thing you hear is the wind and the rain.
And not to be, you know, too dramatic about it,
but this is the kind of wind that that leaves
a mark, that does some damage. We mentioned earlier how
the wind was changing direction, Hey, Paul, and it's definitely
done that.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Paul is yes, I.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
Want to interrupt for you for a second. So you're
on the back side of the eye right now, and
there was one hundred and two wind report. It's Sarasota
Brandenton Airport. So that's the highest we've seen. How far
are you from that airport because you're in the same spot.
Speaker 20 (33:04):
I don't have the exact mileage on that, but we are.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
He's trying to survive. Okay, Oh wow, we.
Speaker 20 (33:10):
Got somebody's raft from a nearby pool that came flying by.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
Yeah, I mean that's the that's you are in the
area with the strongest wind that's been reported with this
storm so far, the backside of the eye one hundred
and two miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Okay, all right, we're gonna keep I'm sure mo Kelly
will have many, many details on this storm.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I'm gonna jump out of here. Moe Kelly is next.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
The Dodgers are up three nothing on San Diego, so
that's good news. Mo Kelly and his whole crew following
this storm tonight as it gives uh just kicks Florida
and wallops Tampa Bay and the surrounding areas. We're live
on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand on
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