Ryan Sudol - Morning News Director at WSNN TV Joins Houston Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
By fifty three. Now Here in Houston's morning news, we

(00:02):
have a special guest checking in from Sarasota, Florida, just
south of the Tampa area. Ryan is Sudhal. He's a
morning news anchor a WSNN TV. I'm sure you folks
have been hoping this thing is going to jog or
move or go somewhere else, but it sure seems like
it's b lining its way somewhere between Tampa and Sarasota
this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
You know, I never thought I'd get to get on
the air and say it and have it have meaning.
But Houston, we have a problem, Yes you do. It
is you know, it's crazy because a lot of people
forget we've just gotten the battered from the storm search
for Hurricane Helen. But even weeks before we had that
first INVEST ninety, we were in drought conditions here in

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Sarasota for a very long time, and then just within
weeks of each other, basically two hundred year storms in
INVEST ninety and Hurricane Debbie, which kind of ruined the
inland a little bit, and then Helene just completely taking
out the barrier. This is yeah, this is definitely no
joke thought.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
So you haven't you haven't totally recovered. I mean I'm
talking about we're thinking about clean up piles of tree
limbs and lumber and whatever boats. Uh, and now you've
got to lock down and get out.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, the everything basically from Bradenton Beach in Anna Maury
Island in northern Manatee County, all the way down to
c St. Key, which is, you know, historically considered one
of the greatest beaches in the world. I mean, they
still have debris lined up on the streets, and everybody
there has basically evacuated. So everything that's been piled up
over since Hurricane Helene is basically just gonna rewash up

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into the water and just make everything pretty much untravelable
for a very very long time.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well, government officials, including the Mayor of Tampa said get
out or die at least if you're in one of
those evacuation zones. Have been heat, people been heating the warning.
What how's the evacuate be going any idea how many
people have left?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I mean two days ago it was just solid red
on I seventy five heading north. I have a few
friends here that have headed south towards the Boca Ratan
Miami area. It's it's definitely been a lot. I'm fortunate
to not be in a in a flood or an
evacuation zone, but that doesn't that doesn't mean that it's
not gonna do damage even a little more inland. But

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it's definitely probably the weirdest angle of a hurricane I've
seen in my fourteen years here in Sarasota. And I'm here,
I'm not as scared as i am kind of anxious,
just kind of the waiting the last forty eight hours
has really been what's been the kind of crippling emotional thing.
But it's you know, at this point, it's kind of

(02:47):
too late to leave and we're just you know, sitting out.
I'm in a pretty secure house, so just anticipating, you know, hoping,
hoping for the best, but brace for the worst.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Will you be careful? Yeah, and you take care And
thank you thank you for joining us.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, be sure to appreciate it, because you've got bigger
things to worry about today, that's for sure. Thank you.
Ryan Ryan soud All morning news anchor wsn N t
B in Sara so To, Florida. It is five point
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