Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome Wednesday the Morning Show with Preston Scott. This will be the final show show for the week. I'll quit counting after today because tomorrow will not be a normal show. We will not be on in Panama City tomorrow. We expect to be exclusively broadcasting tomorrow and Friday in the Tallahassee region, and so we will not count that as a normal show because it's going to be anything but normal. In fact, today is
going to be anything but normal, but it is. It is good to be with you, he is Jose, I am pressed. Great to have you with us, and we will be keeping you company where we'll kind of lay
it all out for you in the course of the show. Today, We've got a ton of guests, get as much information in front of you as possible, and of course you certainly should know what we're talking about, and that is the uh, the disaster that is coming to the area in some form or fashion, and so we're just going to be turning to God and just asking for grace
and mercies. You know, it's what you find yourself in a very strange spot praying about things like this because short of it just going away which it's not going to do. If we benefit from the storm moving somewhere, others are harmed, and it's just you just pray God your will be done. You know. Since we're in this time of the show where I always start with some scripture, and I'll get to that here in a second, I just want to remind everybody we live in a fallen world.
This kind of stuff is just a reminder of that the paradise that God meant for us all changed with a bad decision. But we all have a free will, we all have choices that we can make in our life. And the reminder that I want to give you, no matter what choices you've made in your life, comes from
Psalm one thirty nine. I spent some time reading that a week or so ago and just really chewed on it, and I always have This Psalm has always been so powerful to me because it speaks broadly of how God just intentionally makes you and I, and He puts gifts and talents that are unique to each of us, packaged in each of us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. But listen to this one short segment. After describing that there just is no place where we can find ourselves,
that is beyond the reach of God. It says in one thirty nine, verse ten, in the Book of Psalms. Even there, your hands shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. Even there, where's there. That's the thing. The verses prior talk about shield. But what this really means to you and me is wherever you and I are, not just physically, but in our heart, in our mind, in our world. When things get very, very difficult, even there, your hand shall lead me, your right hand shall hold me.
So friends, we're gonna need to lean on that a little bit over the next few days. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. I don't believe in coincidence. I think a coincidence is a miracle of God where he prefers to remain anonymous. But listen to this September twenty fifth. Now, there are other things on this date and history. Ethan Allen captured by the British during an attack on Montreal
in seventeen seventy five. I want to zero in on nineteen eighteen Eddie Rickenbacker earns the Medal of Honor in the skies near Verdon, France. The reason I want to focus on Eddie Rickenbacker is because not only was he a legendary ace and pilot for the United States in World War Two, he was a non military observer. He had a mission to evaluate and report the status of the US Army Air Forces in the Pacific theater during World War Two. Searching for Canton Island low on fuel,
there B seventeen went down in the Pacific. Rickenbacker and his crew were adrift on life rafts for twenty one days before being rescued. Now here's what I want to say. There's the store, and then there's the As Paul Harvey used to say the rest of the story, Rickenbacker and his men are in a bad place. I mean, twenty
one days, you're dealing with exposure. You're dealing with a lack of water unless it rains, because you can't drink salt water, no food, and they were beginning to resign themselves to a very difficult fate when in the middle of nowhere, literally a seagull lands on the head of Rickenbacker as he's laying back on the boat on the life raft. He grabs it. They were able to use that bird to survive they used it as bait for fish,
and that singular bird saved their life. Rickenbacker would retire to Florida and every afternoon he could be seen along the beach feeding the seagulls to say, thank you. What a cool story. I read that in a book years ago and it has stayed with me. So grateful was he for the intervention and the provision that came, because he you know, where'd that bird come from? And of course, you know, seagulls fly all over the place in the oceans, and I you know, you see them on the fishing
boats that are way out to see right. So it's it's just kind of one of those interesting little tidbits, little anecdotes of history that you don't hear about very often. But it's just a reminder and I think appropriate to the day. We are going to be challenged in the next few days. Friends. We're going to be challenged as a community. We're going to be challenged as a region. And what we've always looked at in other areas and
we've had a glancing blow here or there. It's been nearly forty years since a storm hit Tallahassee, and that one was perhaps a third in intensity than this one. Now the track has shifted a little bit and we'll get to all of that, So stay with us this morning. Today is all about useful information and making sure that you've got i's dotted and tea's crossed. So stick around and we will we will walk through this together. Seventeen past the hour, It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Twenty two past the hour, Wednesday, the day before the storm's going to hit tomorrow. Let me just kind of set the stage here. First of all, if you have useful, verifiable information that is worth sharing, you may always call eight five zero two zero five WFLA. Not so much today, but moving forward into tomorrow as the storm is approaching
and arrives and we start going through this together. Now, our plan is to be broadcasting throughout We would anticipate a normal six to nine, five to eight Central program tomorrow, but tomorrow we will not broadcast in Panama City. As I mentioned, we will be exclusively tomorrow and Friday in the Tallahassee Marketplace and the surrounding area because of what will likely take place, what we would expect to happen is tomorrow, we'll do our show six to nine, take
a break, and assemble back in the afternoon. We would expect our we have a hub here in Florida that just kind of handles storms for iHeartRadio based in Tampa and Orlando. We would expect them to jump in for a few hours as the storm begins to sort of narrow down its path, and then within an hour, couple of hours, two to three hours of us really getting hit, we would then sign on and take over broadcasting until now here's the thing. The until could be a lot
of things. It could be until we just simply can't go on anymore because we got a rest. It could be until the worst of the storm some sulf The thing about it is that's perhaps when it becomes most important for us to be on the air, because that's when we start to see what happened and what we're dealing with. That's when we'll really lean on you to
share what happened for you, what you're experiencing. Where you find ice, where you find a cup of coffee, where you find water, where fuel is available, those kinds of things. This is where you become a reporter and more importantly, the best of neighbors. Because you're able to help and tell others where they can get help. You know, when you go through something like this, it's sort of like the old adage of one beggar showing another beggar where they found bread. That's kind of how I view my
role as a Christian. I'm no different or better than anybody else. I'm just showing you where I got my source of food. But there's a literal application of that. And we're going to do our best to create a platform, and that's what we historically have done here. However, many storms have come through this region since two thousand and two. That's how many storms I've been through as the host of this program, and we're preparing to do it all
over again. We'll assemble as many people as possible so that we can keep it as local as we can. Once the storm approaches, we're going to be here unless for some reason we can't. Now I'm reminded that it was nineteen eighty five that a pretty significant storm hit the area, but it was only a Category one. It was a direct hit, but it was a Category one. This potentially is a Category three, maybe more. Don't know what it'll end up being. It's still a tropical storm.
It will intensify, become a hurricane, and it will move quickly into the statuses of two to three. And we hope not higher. We hope lower. We hope it shears off. We hope a lot of things happen that benefit anyone in the state of Florida. As of right now, the track has changed a little bit. We'll give you the details on that next. So that's what you can expect
today is preparation. And so if you have tips on where you're finding stuff, you can call even today, you can send me an email press to at iHeartRadio dot com. Where'd you find water? Where'd you find fuel? I would expect we still have it right now, but there will come a time when there's nothing going to be moving. They're not going to let anything on the roads that You're not gonna have a fuel truck on the roads in hurricane force winds, even tropical storm force winds, you're
just not. So you know, in South Georgia, you will be facing hurricane force winds into South Georgia, and so you need to take this just as seriously as we are. There will be flooding throughout the region. Yes, Panama City. You're gonna face some flooding, You're gonna face heavy rains. We want the best for everybody, but you know, as you it's it's just going to be a rough time, all right, So stay with us specifics on the storm as we know right now and anticipated track next here
on the Morning Show with Cresting Scott. All right, I'm looking at the latest animation that I have, and internally we're still seeing wins in the range of thirty thirty five knots, which is not necessarily tropical or rather a
hurricane force wins at this point, but it will. It's right now in that little gap between Cosamel and Cuba, I think they refer to that as the Yucatan Peninsula, and it's about to hit open waters, and so it's gonna make its way to the open waters by later mid mid to later this afternoon, and at that point
things are going to change pretty dramatically. The wind's gonna jump and the track, though based on the European model, which is what I personally favor as being a little bit more accurate, shows what will be Hurricane Helene hitting. And right now it's pushed just a little bit back to the east, placing Tallahassee on the west side of the eye of the storm. Now we know that west is better than east, but we're so close to the proximity of the eye of this storm. It's gonna be
a beating. The winds are gonna shift around a little bit. And right now, landfall is estimated to be late afternoon to early mid evening on Thursday. That would be tomorrow, So that's what you're looking at. As far as rain, you're gonna have rain as this thing approaches. The squalls, the major major squalls are going to be as far south as Sarasota, as far east as the entire eastern coast of Florida. We're talking it's gonna be pulling really
significant storms off the entire eastern coast of Florida. That's how big this thing is going to be. It's going to be extending up to Brunswick to Savannah with heavy bands of severe weather. So again, the track of this storm has pushed it so that we're not right now going to be on the eastern side of the eye of the storm, but we're still going to be hit very, very hard, and it could be a Category three storm. It could be a little higher, it could be a
little lower. We just have to hope that something happens that shears it off. The forecast is going to become more definitive each and every couple of hours. So that's where we are right now. Tomorrow, late afternoon, early evening is how much time you've got as this approaches. You will not be on the roads. That would be a disastrous decision forty minutes past the hour. So if you've got to evacuate, if you're in an evacuation area, do
it sooner versus later. All right. Flooding is expected Gulf Franklin, Liberty Bay, Waclor, Taylor, Dixie, Lefayette, Swanee, Madison, Jefferson, Leon, Gadsden, Liberty, Calhoun. Flooding is expected into Alabama, in and around Othan, into Georgia. This is a significant weather event for the entire region. So now we turn to the cour the subject of sandbags, and I did a little digging yesterday. First of all, we got reports that there were sand in locations, but
not necessarily sand bags. So you know, I can't tell you the status of whether sandbags are available at your local stores. Perhaps if you know you can let me know. If you work at the lows and the home depots in the region, let me know. But here's what I can tell you about sandbags themselves. You fill them half to two thirds full. You tie the top so the bag will lie flat when put in place. A properly filled sand bag should weigh between thirty five and forty pounds,
not seventy to seventy five. If you don't leave room for the thing for the sand to kind of flatten out, you'll have gaps and water will seep through overfilled bags or bags that are tied too low. In other words, they're just too full allow water to seep through. So here's what you do. You lay them flat on the ground, you overlap them, you tamp them into place, and then they're stair stepped. But here's your rule for counting. An average sandbag is fourteen inches by twenty six inches. That's
your average size, So I'm using that for my calculation. Here, every five feet in linear length and one foot high requires thirty bags. So if you are protecting, say the doorway to your home, and you have a linear length of five feet to surround that area around your door, to go two feet high require sixty bags. If you go ten feet buy one foot, it's sixty bags. If you go ten feet wide by two feet, it's one
hundred and twenty. So your calculation is this, for every five feet of linear length, for every one foot high, you need thirty bags. So that's a fairly accurate but rough estimate on the number of sand bags you need to accomplish any level of protection. If you're trying to protect, for example, an entire driveway, you might not need to go higher the a foot, but you might need to go twenty five feet. So if you're going a foot by twenty five feet, well that's one hundred and fifty bags.
So that'll help you. Now, because you've got time today to get some stuff done. This is the time to get things done. And so today on the program, I'm going to be talking through some of these little tips, some of these little things to think about that'll help you prepare. Forty six minutes past the out it is The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
All right, as you have questions, you can email. I'll do my best on the email front. You can call, but understand we will have people calling in with emergency information and related intel, and so we'll do our best to kind of filter through all of that. We did
get a question on shelters. Shelters will open beginning tonight at six pm, and those shelters in the immediate area here in Leon County are Child's High School, Lincoln High School, god Be High School, Leon High School, Sale High School on Jackson Bluff Road, Fort Braden School, in Fairview Middle School. Now here's the question I cannot answer right now. Where can you bring your pets with you? It will likely be Child's High School, likely, but I do not have
confirmation on that. Pets will not be allowed in most of the shelters. However, any shelter, whether it's in Leon, Gadsten, Jefferson, any shelter that's open that does allow pets, you must have the vaccination record of your pet, and you must have a crate some kind of kennel to keep your pet in. That is a non negotiable, It's just it's a requirement if you are needing a shelter. And keep in mind we could be seeing winds sustained at one
hundred and ten miles per hour plus minus. If you just look at what that means, we're seeing the potential of those winds into Monticello, obviously Perry Saint Mark's touching the southeastern portion of Tallahassee. Tallahassee, we're seeing seventy four to one hundred and ten miles an hour easily Thomasville, the same, Moultrie, Valdosta. There could be winds in excess of one hundred and ten miles an hour along the
coast into touching Tallahassee. What that means is mobile homes are facing severe, if not complete destruction in a wind like that, roof damage, structural challenges. You're gonna see utility poles. You're gonna see trees snapped, debris could make roads impassable. Widespread power outages are likely. And so next hour, what we're gonna do is we're gonna start going through kind of a to do list because we have a little
bit of time. We have roughly thirty six hours before we start seeing some significant weather move into the area, maybe a little less than thirty six hours. So as a result, we're gonna go through the best practices, things
to think about, things to consider. I'll be as exhaustive as I can in going through these things, so that you can just mentally go through kind of a checklist I want you to maybe get if you haven't printed out a list of some kind, if you haven't developed a plan for yourself and your family, what might be useful to you is to get a pad of paper, something to write with, or get your laptop tablet something you can make notes with. Because I'm gonna go through
some things in the next two segments. Terry Smith will join us next hour. Scheduled to join US State Senator Corey Simon represents a large part of the area that's gonna be hit by this storm. We're gonna reset what we know about the storm itself next hour, and so we're gonna keep feeding as much information and again today is about preparation, be prepared, all right, already to the second hour here Wednesday on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Things are gonna move real fast. And then as this storm approaches, it's going to be like time stops. It's going to be a long eight hours longer. It just will He's Oaia, I'm Preston paying attention to what will be Hurricane Helene it is going to be a hurricane. The winds are going to be extensive. Whatever the track may be. If it wabbles one way or the other,
it might be a little helpful. But the fact of the matter is the winds on this are so extreme as they are with bigger storms, that whether you're one side of the wall or the other, it might not make all that much difference. We'll get the storm surge and some other things, because the storm surge on this sucker is incredible what is being expected along the west coast of Florida and especially into the Big Bend. But
the Big Ben's geography just lends itself to it. Note of clarification, All shelters in Leon County will accept pets. The proviso on that, as we explain to you, is that you've got to have a crate, you've got to have your dogs cats vaccination records, and you've got to bring food and water for your pet. But all of the shelters will accept pets. I've had that clarified by a member of the school board, so we thank you
for that. Now, ah, some to do lists. Let's just kind of go through these advise to have a minimum of two weeks of any medicines that you need, a list of the medical devices that you use. Batteries, flashlights, handles not suggested. Transistor radio one that gets FM at the very least has a a Noah weather band on it that you can push and dial in and get constant weather updates. Cash because the ATMs may not be working in the wake of this storm and may not
work for quite a while. I can't tell you how potentially challenging this can be to this area because we have trees. The trees change a lot of things. Cell phone chargers, back up batteries for those things. You know, the bricks if you will, the charging bricks that you've got.
Make sure you've got the cables that you need. If you are sheltering with your children, make sure that you've got, you know, puzzles and coloring books and crayons and activities, and you know, any little thing to help them during these times. Important phone numbers. Maybe print out a quick list. Clothing, rain gear, waterproof shoes or boots, sturdy shoes, boots, work gloves. If you have an infant still in diapers, get what you need appropriate first aid kits, food and water, nonperishable
food items. Water. It's advised one gallon per person per day. You can fill up your washing machine with water. Put it on deep soak setting. If you've got one of those more advanced deep soak fill it up, no detergent, know anything else, Just fill it up and stop the thing and let that be a source your bathtub. Fill it up. Get as much water as you can get, bottled water if possible, a non electric can opener, paper plates,
plastic cups, different things like that. Whatever utensils you might need, If you can get Sterno's, the little Sterno burners, to be able to just cook up some ramen noodles, or heat up some you know, a can of spaghettios, or you know what I mean, it's a can of soup. Whatever. Get anything you can to safely heat up food. You might have a gas grill that has a little burner on it. Make sure you've got a propane tank that's
filled up. That could be unbelievably helpful to you once the storm passes, powers out to be able to just go outside, cook up a meal. We're going to get to the documents and some other things next. Terry Smith will join us this half hour from the Weather Channel with the latest. So stay with us. We're going to keep you company. Get you ready today, tomorrow we'll be back, and then tomorrow in advance of the storm, we will be on the air through the duration of the storm.
Once we go wall to wall with our storm coverage, we should likely be on all of our iHeart outlets, so you'll be able to find us. If one signal goes away, you'll be able to find us on others. It's why we are the FCC designated emergency outlet. We're here to help and so if you can help us, our phone number is eight five zero two zero five WFLA. Make note of that number. Eight five zero two zero five WA LA. It's eleven minutes past the hour. We
continue on the morning show with Preston SCOTTUFLA. I'm going through some to news because it's preparation time. As you get to the stores, friends, these are your neighbors. Don't let the ugly side of us all come out during this time. Try not to hoard anything, have a little faith, leave some for others. Get what you need, not more than you need. Keep your gar your vehicles topped off. If you're down to a half a tank. Fill it up. Don't let it get down empty A. It takes more time.
B you then have to take more fuel. So if if you're there, I mean, you got to get fuel, right, but if you can avoid it, top it off. Obviously. The pet thing, we've kind of covered same things with people. If you've got a pet that's going to be with you through this star, make sure you've got what they need, medications and so forth. If you're going to a shelter crate, you've got to have a crate. Hopefully you have one, a crate, kennel of some kind for your dog or
cat or lizard, I don't know. And and food and water, any medications, vaccination record if you're going somewhere else. Now this is really important. Insurance papers, insurance cards, medical records, banking information, credit card numbers, social security cards, birth certificates, keys to your cars, your house, anything you have backup of or this is your birth certificate, for example, your passport,
waterproof bag in a waterproof location. Protect all of it now to that end, that would be anything that you might need for the next weeks, month or two. Medical records, copy of your will, if you have one. Get that in a waterproof bag in a waterproof location. Now here's the thing about that. If you are in a flood prone area and you don't have a waterproof location, what's waterproof is your dishwasher. Keep that in mind. And here's
the last little tidbit. Video tape everything. If you can't videotape, take pictures everything outside your home, the condition of your home outside, the roof, everything, everything, your vehicles, and then your possessions inside. The condition of your home inside. That will be invaluable if your home suffers damage. Make that your to do. At sixteen minutes past the hour, Terry Smith will join us next from the Weather Channel here
in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, twenty one minutes after the hour, Morning Show with Preston Scott. It is the day before and joining us from the Weather Channel is our meteorologist and we're cast expert Terry Smith.
Morning, Terry, Hey, good morning.
So what do we know right now?
Well, what we know is that Helene is still a tropical storm, but that's not going to last for very long, strengthening into a hurricane at some point today and continuing to get stronger as it approaches the coast, it's going to move steadily, pretty steadily northward. The cone has narrowed somewhat, with the focus of where the center of the storm is going to be somewhere between Apple achic Coola and the Big Bend. The hurricane warnings extend all the way
down south to near Tampa. But here's the thing that I want, folks. There's two things I want folks to do. One is not focus on the cone, because this thing is so massive. The wind field with it, the tropical storm force winds, which means forty mile an hour winds up the seventy four mile hour winds. Okay, tropical storm force winds are one hundred and seventy five miles on either side of the center. That's between here and Jacksonville.
That's how broad this windfield is. So it doesn't matter if it moves a little to the east or moves to the west. We're still inside this massive wind field of at least tropical storm force winds. More than likely we'll be dealing with those hurricane force winds, and I have not looked to see how far those extend out. Those tend to be concentrated near the eye so the intensity of the Hurrie came forth winds will be determined by the eye, but we are all going to feel
the effects of the winds. We've got that massive storm surge that will likely effect just about everywhere along the coast. I've seen evacuations already for Gulf County, Franklin County, or Kala County, Taylor County because of the water level rises that are expected.
And.
We're likely to lose power. A lot of places are going to be without power as a result of the wind and the rain from this thing moving on through Terry.
I have seen all kinds of forecasts, and obviously you know this better than I or anybody that's listening right now. It is you know. You do the best with the information you have. There are some suggesting this could actually move up to a Cat four or five storm by the time it reaches landfall. Is there any condition out there that could change it the other way, any weather system to the north or to the west that could shear off some of the strength of this storm.
There is always that possibility that something will interfere with it that we're not seeing, that the models aren't seeing, or they're not taking into account at the moment. I have not looked. Dry air is you know, one of those things that tends to kind of sap some of the strength out of hurricanes. And there is some drier
air back to the west. It's over the Gulf, but there's some drier air back to the west and the south of it where it is right now, but it's very minimal, So I don't see that being a big factor. That row pressure system up over the Mississippi Valley is going to stay far enough away that it's not going to really play any role in this. As long as this has a good evacuation route for the circuit where in the upper levels we've got high pressure that allows
it just to continue to kind of develop uninterrupted. We're going to see it continue to strengthen, and that's what our best estimate is. I would I always believe in preparing for the worst but hoping for the best. Sure, but we got to be prepared, and if at the end of the day Friday or Saturday, we step outside and it wasn't as bad, we can just count our lucky stars. But I would much rather people be ready
for a lot of inconvenience Tomorrow. Tomorrow night and part of Friday because we've had a massive hurricane make its way into North Florida.
Last question for you, Terry, is there an expectation on when the winds will get to the point inland where travel on the roads i e. Evacuation becomes more hazardous than stainot.
Yes, let me take a look at that, because there's so much inform we're looking at right now.
Sure, and.
Looks like we're going to see those tropical storm force winds starting to be felt Thursday morning, and I don't know if that's going to be to the extent that it's going to impact your ability to drive. I know, honestly, if I lived in Tallahassee, which I used to do a long time ago, I would take today to get everything done and then I would just be wherever I need to be by Wednesday night, so that Thursday I can just hang tight where I am, knowing that I'm safe and prepared.
Terry. Thanks as always, we'll talk again tomorrow. I appreciate all your work, you bet. Thank you, Terry Smith. With the Weather Channel and the latest information. Twenty seven minutes past the hour, when we come back, we'll have the reset of the storm information, some additional things that you might need to know about storm surge in the outlying areas. And I know for some of you're like, well, we're not going to deal with storm surgeon and around Tallahassee,
there's not going to be storm surge in Panama City. Yeah, well, you might know people that live along these areas that might not be aware of how significant this could be. So we'll get to that next here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott, all right, thirty six past the hour. Locally, we're hearing that the local walmarts do have food, water, soft drinks, et cetera on hand, gas stations not showing a problem. There are apps you can download ways I
believe is one of them. Gas Buddy I think is the name of another, where you can find out who has gas. I don't Again, I don't anticipate many issues today early. You could start seeing some issues later, but as of right now, we don't have any of those issues.
Quick reminder that this storm there are now some projections showing that it could be a Cat four or five, and I don't need to remind those of you that are in the Panama City area what that's like, I can only tell you that in our part of Florida, it might be very difficult to even compare because of the trees. Trees can be your best friend because they can kind of together act as a bit of a buffer, but they can be your worst enemy because of the
logical reasons. They snap in half, they give way, limbs break off, and then you've got a significant wind that's perhaps carrying it in a direction that is not going to be real helpful. So all we can do again is just prepare the best we can. I did get some clarification on the shelters. Yes, all of the schools that we listed will be open as of six o'clock tonight. Yes, they will all accept pets as long as they're created and you have water, food, and a vaccination record and
a leash for your pet. You can't just let your pet out and go running around. You've got to have your pet on a leash at all times if it's not kindled. But the one clarification I was asked to make is that the preference is for pets to be taken to Childs High School because of other services that are available for those with pets that are there. So
that's the request being made by county officials. I had promised to get into storm surge because it's hard to get your mind around what is potentially going to happen with this storm. The Big Bend, for obvious reasons, is like the worst possible storm surge area here, because you're looking at a possible storm surge from the Aklockney River down around the Big Bend heading south of ten to
fifteen feet. That's a level of storm surge I've not seen before, five to ten feet from the Indian Paths to the Achlockney River, and so from Appalachicola basically east, you're looking at at five to ten feet, ten to fifteen feet back around, and you're going to see storm surge along the western coast as far south as you know, Sarasota, Tampa, Saint Pete, that whole area is going to get storm surge. So just be advised if you have friends and family
in those areas. When they say evacuate, they mean it. This is not to be messed with. All Right, forty minutes past the hour, we come back. State Senator Corey Simon will join me next. All Right, forty one minutes past the hour, and good to have you with us this morning. We'll be keeping you company normal hours of
the show. Today, today's all about preparation. Tomorrow we will kind of tie tie up any loose ends in the morning, and then we'll come back in advance of the arrival of the storm and we will hunker down and be with you through the duration. That is what we do, and we are here to be helpful to you. And to that end, we have State Center or Corey Simon with us. Corey, I'm looking at your congressional or your
state Senate district and oh my goodness. Uh, there's not an area that's going to be untouched.
Yeah, good morning. Unfortunately, over the last fourteen months, it's a sang dance, different song, you know. But I believe in the folks of this district. I think they're going to do what's right. Now is the time if they're going to evacuate, to get out of the district and get some more safe But if you're gonna hunker down, make sure you're in a safe location and hug your families close, it's gonna be a wild ride.
Corey, what are you hearing district wide? As far as preparations, are we seeing people at here the I mean, we've got mandatory evacs in Franklin, Wacalla, and Taylor at this point. Are people heeding those warnings?
Yeah, so brust than we are. We are seeing folks that are starting to get out of the district, especially those folks that are and manufactured homes. You know, it's one of those communities that loves to stay close unfortunately. But I think we've learned our lesson over the last year, and folks are starting to get out of these places.
What kind of communication are you getting from the Florida Department Emergency Management or even the local county emergency management districts in terms of, you know, resources standing by, because once this thing passes, I would imagine the first order business is going to be just clearing roadways so that people can get to the help that they need or help can get to them.
Listen. So all things are on the table right now. We've brought in spoke to our co ops yesterday bringing in over three thousand additional support to get to restore power. You know, our folks from the f X be doing cut and toss. We've got all hands on deck right now. We've already started to set up pod locations so that we can have dispersement into these communities for folks that stay behind and need food and water. So those locations are already starting to be set up. All the things
are moving, you know. Unfortunately, we've had we've had a lot of practice at this over the last year, and so I think folks are are storm weary, but at the same time ready to respond.
Cory, is there anything else you want folks in the area to to mind or to know before we I'm going to ask one last question.
Yeah, no, listen, now is the time. Like I said, this is the time to get out. You know, us as Floridians, and I know we've become accustomed to seeing storms and we tend to kind of wait them out. Don't wake this out. This is a strong storm that's heading into the area. We're going to see hurricane force winds here in Tallahassee, which is pretty uncommon, and so
we just we've now is the time to move. Once you get back, as long as you're safe, we can rebuild everything else and we will, but don't wait around to the last minute to leave. Gather up your family, get those things that are important to you and get out of town, Corey.
Last thing, I know you're going to be talking with officials in all of the counties inside your district. Please feel free to pass along our phone number here and our contact information because we will be likely on all of our radio stations once this storm is approaching, which means we are covering pretty much your entire district and we can pass on information put their officials on the air. So please pass it along and let us know how we can help.
And I sure will preston. And lastly, those that have some concerns are need help after the storm, my office is also available, so that number is eight five zero four eight seven five zero zero three again eighty five zero four eight seven five zero zero three if there's anything that you need. Two final points pressing before we get off one. After the storm, you'll see a lot of folks come around wanting you to sign documentation for help. Don't sign anything. It's just just don't want to walk
into a scam situation. If you're seeing those folks come around again, call my office. And then lastly, now is the time to get your insurance documents in your hands.
Don't wait.
I've had calls over the last year of folks that can't remember what insurance company they're with, that can't find any of their insurance documents because of the storm. Print out a copy of your declaration page so that you have that information ready now at the time to take pictures, photos of you, of your property. Just do all of the things now, you know. I had an old coach used to tell me, if you stay ready, you don't have to get ready. So now is the time to make sure you're ready.
Corey, thanks very much. I appreciate your time and let us know again any information. Feel free to call in anytime.
Absolutely, thanks listening.
Thank you, sir, State Senator Corey Simon, our guest, forty seven past the hour. All right, fifty two minutes past the hour. You may hear some awkward moments of silence here and there because I have multiple piles of things. I have emails that I'm printing, I have emails that I'm reading. I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve thirteen tabs opened up on my desktop. I have my phone where I'm getting texts, and so I'm trying to kind of keep a mental note of some of the things that I want to get to. So you can imagine that there might be a little out there. It is, and I just so just kind of we pride ourselves on trying to sound like well oiled machine we gotta going, but in times like these, it's just a little bit more disjointed than normal. And so I just ask your patients with me as we push ahead. Here,
we will talk to Kevin Peters. He is the director of Leon County Emergency Management. In just a few minutes he'll join us update us on preparations. Speaking of the workers are arriving. Mutual aid agreements between cities impacted by natural disasters are vitally important, and the city of Tallahassee has mutual aid agreements and crews from five different states arriving and they're coming in cruis are coming from Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio,
North Carolina, and Oklahoma. Additional assets will be brought in from the region once we kind of have a feel for exactly where this is going to go and win. Now, there are a few things I want to point out to you. Number One, as you're driving around town, great great tip from a caller. The cones and the signage that you might normally see warning you that, okay, road work is going on here. Be careful of that over there.
They're pulling all that up because every bit of it is a projectile in a storm like this, So be patient as you're driving, be very vigilant. Now, listen, you never text and drive, but right now, you really never text and drive because there are workers. There are people that are preparing and pulling these cones and these signs and things. Friends. Focus, Okay, I know I sound like a patronizing old man. Well that's because I am. That's just the way it is, all right, and I'm told
to change now. So it's important that you understand what's going on.
Now.
Let me go back to those mutual aid workers, all of our line workers, whether they're local City of Tallahassee, City of Perry, City of Quincy, or Havanah or you know Tauquin, or they're coming from out of state, simple, thank yous. When it comes time to putting this stuff back together, I'm not suggesting you wander out of your house if you've got down power lines, but I am suggesting, if it's safe to offer them a Coca cola. A bottle of water. But more than anything else, our thanks
and let them do their job, but be appreciative of it. Okay, all right, We're going to come back kind of focus in on the Leon County area with the director of Leon County Emergency Management, Kevin Peters. That's next hour three of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, friends, here we are a third hour of the Wednesday program. I guess we have tentatively renamed it the Day of Preparation.
Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Jose runing the broadcast, and I am here in Studio one A and joining me on the phone line is the director of Leon County Emergency Management, Kevin Peters. Good morning, Kevin, how are you.
Good morning, Preston. Thanks for having me.
My pleasure. Let's just kind of go from the top down. What's the most important set of things you want people in the county to know?
Yeah, so very important. There is a hurricane coming. And while we've had hurricanes and major ones around us, you know, back to Hurricane Michael in twenty eighteen, or Dahlia just last year, or even Ian that was in South Florida, but it's still at State. This one is going to be coming our way. We are not going to be on the fringes of this one, so the worst of the winds will likely affect the Tallahassee area and there will be heavy rain involved.
As a result, you are laying out as much preparation as can be done, Kevin, Do you anticipate any kind of evac order for Leon County other than the obvious, which I would list, is you know, a modular maybe not modular, but certainly mobile homes?
Yeah, you know we which talking about there. You know, FEMA recommends that all types of mobile home, camp or RV type structures are not safe during hurricanes. If that's the living situation that needs to be in your mind right now, is I need to find a safer structure to stay in during this storm. Just with the number of trees that people may have and potential for power loss that could be prolonged with a storm of this magnitude.
You also have to ask yourself, if there's going to be multiple days of power outages, would I be more comfortable if I go somewhere else or do I have all the resources I need? You know, I know there are a number of people that have mitigated their homes, they've had trees cut back, they've invested in hull home generators. Maybe they're in a good position to ride it out. Maybe they've got good supplies. But you need to make those decisions now. Think about that now, and maybe going
somewhere else is a better option for you. But that's what you need to be working out in your mind this morning.
Kevin Peters with us from Leon County Emergency Management. He is the director. Kevin, let's talk about because we've already had calls this morning, the shelters that are going to be open in the county.
Yes, seven locations to open at six pm this afternoon. I can run the list if you'd like me to Fort Braden Child High School. Sorry, that was Fort Braden K eighth School, Child's High School, Leon High School, Lincoln High School, Bareview Middle School, Fail High School, and to god Be High School. They will begin being available at six pm this evening. You can if you have a pet,
bring them. Please bring all of your pet supplies, crate or kennel type thing, you know, food, leash, water, all the things you'd need to keep your pet fed and well, if you're bringing a pet with you to shelter, as well as any supplies you need for yourself, an extra snacks, betting materials. Again, the shelters are available if if if other options to individuals are not, the shelters.
Will be available when it comes to the aftermath of this storm. What is first that you need in the minds of people, because my mind goes to those that might be in one location and they're trying to get to another, whether it's to their home, whether it's to a you know, their mom or dad's home, but the roads are impassable. What what kind of order in which you are going to attack the problem post storm?
Yeah, so, well, to answer I think everybody, I would I would encourage high levels of patients and a disaster like this, this is this is going to be different than our experiences with you know, Hermine or or Hurricane Michael. That the intensity winds are going to be so much more here. So we're going to need to increase the
level of patients that we have as a community. But yeah, so so the response process, you know there our local agencies we're going to focus on, uh kind of the combo of getting roadways cleared, UH and making electric restoration. You know, we want to make sure that that we can get some of the major routes for emergency services
access points opened. Trying to get routes in and out to the hospitals and our fire stations will be key, and we'll work on some of those major routes and then start working out into more of the the more of the roadways and getting more of the community community
roads access open. That also facilitates the restoration efforts of the electric crews, the mutual aid that that was mentioned here the news brief that are coming in to help our providers, they can get in, they can start accessing the infrastructure lines.
Uh.
And then it also allows the relief supplies from from some of our major partners, the Red Crosses, the Salvation Armies, the other organizations that are kind of come in and provide disaster relief after the disaster. So those are kind of the big, big primary steps that will take and then and then that helps facilitate returning things back to normal, getting schools back open, getting offices back open, things of that nature.
Kevin stand by, We're going to take a quick seventy second break back more. Kevin Peters, director of Leon County Emergency Management. My guest here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Twelve minutes past. Few more moments with Kevin Peters with Leon County Emergency Management. Kevin, we were just talking about clearing roads. You know, the community seems to
kind of have two distinctly different makeups. One where utilities are above ground and that's the majority, but there are other parts that are underground, in those small areas where the utilities are underground. How comfortable are you when you hear of people, you know, after a storm like this kind of helping their neighbors and clearing the roads and cutting the trees down and pushing them to the side themselves.
Well, you know, neighbors helping neighbors. We always advocate that, you know, community helps build community, and that's always a good thing, you know, when you're talking about the the that part about that is is you know, if you're cutting up and clearing, you know, certainly chain saws. Uh. If that's not something you are very familiar with, don't let this hurricane be the first time you've used a
chain saw. I mean, certainly people with the experience and they've done it because it's easy to get hurt, and just you know, hopefully if you if you own a chain saw, you've got the right type of safety gear. You've got the uh the chaps and and and you know, the helmet and and uh goggles and stuff and gloves, use it safely, follow the manufacturers instructions, you know, because uh, you already a tough situation recovering from a from a hurricane.
Uh.
You don't don't want to compound that with a severe uh injury from from the chainsaws. There's certainly certainly using caution uh with with any type of you know, electric outdoor tools.
Uh.
I think kind of similar to that theme too, Preston, if I could just you know, if you're going to operate a generator and it's a gas powered portable generator, being safe with that, making sure that you know, you don't set it up right outside your bedroom window. That the carbon monoxide gas that it produces odorless, poisonous and can kill you. So you know, operating it, you know where it's got a good airflow. It's not near any of the windows to your home. Do not operate it
inside your home or inside your garage. Do not refill the gas tank while it's still running, let it cool down a little bit, you know, to help prevent some type of fire. And again follow the manufacturer's instructions on what what its power rating is and how much it can power, and just just use caution with with power tools and power equipment.
Kevin, last question for you. We know that there's going to come a point where this storm has approached and it's upon us. What is the guidance that our citizens should know that emergency workers, first responders, law enforcement has where they're just going to be off the roads. Is it tropical storm force winds or is it sooner.
It would be generally over forty five miles per hour. Okay, that that's going to be about our breakpoint once we get to those really strong, strong tropical storm force winds. Once we exceed that level, that makes response very difficult.
So there will be a period of time once the winds are are over that that that threshold we're getting the fifty sixty seventies or higher until it comes back down and then then it's then it's going to be get out as as best we can start, you know, working our way through all of the what whatever whatever is there to respond to the calls as we need to. So yeah, just just you know, there's a time where the winds may make it unsafe for anybody regardless of
why are to be out about the community. So certainly you don't have to be out driving around throughout the day tomorrow. Don't don't go out, you know, make your decisions today about what you're going to do and if if you can can leave it this afternoon or evening, if that's your plan, that's probably the best time to go is used the time you got today. I think I think your lead in preparedness day sums it up today is that make this preparedness and get ready to
take action. We're at that phase of what we say here Leon County about readiness to prepare, act and recover. We're kind of leaving that preparedness phase and getting into that phase where it's time to act, act upon your personal safety plan.
Kevin, We've told your team, but let me just tell you directly. We will be on the air in the kind of the prelude to the arrival of the storm tomorrow afternoon, and then we'll be on through the duration. So if at any point you need information out because we will be blanketing the entire county and region. You be sure to call us because we'll make the time and get you on the air.
All right. Thanks depressing. We appreciate the work that you guys do to keep the community informed at critical times like this.
Thank you, Kevin. We appreciate all the work thank you and your team are doing to help keep us safe. Thank you so much for the time. Kevin Peters folks with the Leon County Department of Emergency Management. He is the director and our guest here in the morning Show twenty two minutes past the hour Morning Show. This storm is huge and it will impact the entire listening area of this program, and joining us is someone no stranger to these types of events. He went through Michael. He's
the Florida Chief Financial Officer CFO. Jimmy Petronis Jimmy. How are you, sir?
Hey President, Thank you, We'll tell you and thank you for what you're doing to stay on the air when people meet it the most. So you know, y'all are y'all are amazing. Thank you for what you're doing.
We're doing our best, sir. This has got to be uncomfortably familiar to you because you went through this with Michael, with that experience clearly in your mind, what would you tell people now facing a possible three, four or five storm that's coming to our area.
So the I'm gonna put multiple hats on one. Please, you know, heed the warrings of your elected officials, especially down in Franklin County.
You know a J.
Smith is doing a mandatory evacuation. You're seeing there a share pageant over in Taylor County. Those counties are going to be susceptible to significant storm search, specially along the coast areas. And you know we can replace your stuff, we can't replace you. And then second, why you've got time today, Take your phone. We're a smartphone society. Go film me outside of your house, Film me inside of the house. Just document you've got no trees on it.
Take a video inventory at what your house is not. Because Heaven forbid, you've got to claim. Now you've got black and white evidence of your status of your house. And it's inventory before the storm that will make your claim go so much smoother and help us get the money you deserve.
It's been advised not just to do that, but then in the aftermath of this, don't sign anything thank you, Thank you. How do we know if someone coming into the door is from your your actual insurance company versus somebody who's not well.
The great thing about it is your insurance companies. I going to ask you to sign anybody, so anything that you may sign the door step of your home when you're vulnerable. That could be somebody you've never met before. You're essentially attaching a parasite onto your claim. And whenever you attach a party to your claim, that means before you can probably get your first nickel of any relief, they're going to have to sign off on it. I tell people all the time, you can always sign up
with public adjusters and a turn. But let that first phone call be to your carrier, your agent, or to my office at one eight seven seven my FLCFO. If that is one of the first calls you make if you have damage, I promise you you won't be taking advantage of the Other thing I'll push is any transactions you do with cash, you might as well be setting it on fire. You will not be eligible for reimbursement by your carrier if you're making transactions in cash without fly or authorization.
All right, let's put another hat on here for a second. You're a resident of Bay County. What are you hearing as far as preparations, Because while we kind of have a feeling that the cone of this is going to be in the Appalachic Cola to the East area, there's still a chance and no matter what, these wins are going to extend into Panama City and the rain is as well.
Yeah, so Bay County, those counties to the Leon County, those are going to be, at least right now, based on the current path, are going to be on the dirty side of the storm. That means, you know, you're going to be getting all this debris that has be part of that cone that is going to be battering the county coming from the north. So you know, just understand,
this is why you have impact windows. This is why if you've got shutters, you need to have them installed because those winds, if they penetrate your windows and your doors, that's what leads to the catastrophic event that can peel your roof off and then you've really got a mess
on your hands. So you know, Bay County, Gulf County, Liberty Town, who Jackson, all those counties Washington, they really need to take the storm very seriously because that debris will be coming in from the north and it will be incredibly dangerous.
Jimmy, thanks for the time this morning. Obviously, you know, if there's any information you feel as beneficial and needs to get pushed out to call us.
Yeah, brother, we'll talk you in the next twenty four hours. Appreciate you.
Thank you, sir, Jimmy Petronas State CFO, our guest, twenty seven past the hour, thirty five minutes past the hour. Information is vital when we're going through this stuff, and so now is the time to make sure you have your transistor radio the ability to listen, because your TV is going to be useless to you without power. I don't know of many battery operated TVs. Now, your smartphone can act as a TV, depending on you know your services and whether you have an app that runs your
television streaming service on your phone. But how long can that last? Because that wears your battery down big time if you're using video, So you manage your usage a lot of power that gets to things that will get to more in depth tomorrow, the use of your standby generators and so forth, because we're not there yet. So I'm not spending much time on that, but this is preparation time. There's a market on North Monroe, Jose gentlemen called you, and I forget the name of it, Fresh
for less, Fresh for less. That's right, it's on North Monroe. They've got plenty of water and supplies. As of now, it's quiet, good time to go. If you're looking for you know, sources of things. We really need you to button up that stuff today because tomorrow is all about final,
final things, and you make a decision. I really hope if you are inland at all where there's the possibility of storm surge, and just to reset that possibility, I'm looking at storm stent potentials right now from Appalachicola to the Achlockney River of five to ten feet, from the Ochlockney River golly on around the Big Bend of ten to fifteen feet. That is a potential, and it's going to go inland through the little creeks and the little levees and the little canals and the things. That is
you can't get out of that. That is a dangerous storm surge and it's going to be accompanied by hurricane force winds. So I'm sharing this with you not because there's a bunch of people listening right now in the area affected by storm surge, but because there's a bunch of people affected by storm surge that you know, and so don't be dismissive of this. Make sure that loved ones and friends that you know they're aware of how dangerous this will be. The last thing I want is
for someone to say I didn't know. I will take all of the heat that comes from having you be over prepared and it not be needed. I'll be fine with that. I'll personally live with that. What I'll really struggle with is people not heeding the warnings that are preceding a potential level of devastation that quite honestly, the area of Tallahassee probably has never seen. That's the potential that's in front of us. So heed the wisdom. Up a little tidbits here we mentioned this earlier. Sand bags.
Here's your ratio on sandbags. For every five linear feet of blockage up to one foot, you need thirty bags. That's a standard fourteen by twenty six sand bag filled one half to two thirds full. You do not fill a sand bag to the top. You do not tie it to the level of the sand. You leave room so the sand can spread out, flatten out, and create the barrier that you need, and then they're overlapped. They're
tamped in place. So for example, if you need to cover let's say your driveway is got an incline where the floodwaters come down, it raises up maybe a little bit, but it might not cover you. If the water level gets too much, you need to go a foot, but you need to go twenty five feet. Well, your ratio is five feet for every one foot of height thirty bags.
So if you've got to go twenty five feet, you need one hundred and fifty bags to go twenty five feet across in one foot high, So your ratio is five feet linear one feet in height for thirty bags. Forty minutes past the hour, we come back. Florida's Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nunez joins us.
Next, this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Forty one minutes past the hour, It's the Morning Show, joined by Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nunez, Lieutenant Governor, How are you?
Good morning?
How are you?
It seems like you and I talk every time. We've got a major storm coming our way, and we've got a big one coming.
Indeed, absolutely we're bracing, of course for a tropical storm Aline to turn into a major hurricane, and obviously as we're preparing for that.
We want people to take this seriously. The storm will bring both significant wind and water and storm sturge, and so I know that everyone in the Big Ben Panhandle area they're going about their preparations, but we can't stress that enough. We want people to have their plans in place, make sure they have all their supplies. If you're under an evacuation order, please heed those warnings. Local governments do that. They do it obviously with the goal of preserving life.
And we want people to take the seriously because it is going to intensify, and we'll see as the day goes on and to tomorrow that this could could turn pretty quickly, and it should intensify pretty quickly.
Tell me what the state resources look like that are positioned, that are first being in place ahead of and then let's talk for a moment about what's prepared for the aftermath. I heard mentioned Lieutenant Governor of there being basically a means of trying to limit storm surge to a certain extent. Are those efforts already deployed where they're available?
Yeah, absolutely, Governor DeSantis, sadly, we have not. We have been no stranger to hurricanes during our administration, and so this area in particular, we have seen both Dahalia, Debbie and al Helen really in about a year's time. So Governor has had a number of opportunities to work closely with our Division of Emergency Management. We have developed best practices across the board. We have made sure to preposition, like you said, not just assets and resources, but personnel.
We've activated over three thousand guardsmen olver fifteen thousand linemen. They're located within close proximity to be impacted areas, but they will be deployed as soon as the wind subside and it's safe to do so. But in addition, we have everything from high water vehicles and of course water and tarbs and generators and additional first responders and other
personnel in place. Every county has the opportunity if they have specific needs that they are bracing for and they're looking for, they can put in those requests to our Division of Emergency Management and those get builled almost immediately. We have hundreds of Starlink satellites ready to deploy for internet access once the storm has gone by. So really and truly we have everything we need at the front end.
We are of course encouraging people to take those personal precautions, those personal preparations seriously, and then once the storm subsides, we will have to deal with the impact in the aftermath.
And that's something that we saw force during e in which we're coming close to, i think the anniversary of that catastrophic storm in southwest Florida as well, and so we rebuild bridges, we help with cut and toss, we help their debris and that area in particular, as you well know, the Big Band area, so many trees and
really challenging from a recovery standpoint. But Governor has all those resources and assets available to be able to do that and help, and we've of course have FEMA has already approved our emergency declaration, so all of the pieces are in place, and Floridians need not panic, but they do need to follow those orders.
Lieutenant Governor. Thanks, it's always for joining us for a few moments in a very busy time for you, as well as the entire administration. We will be on the air in the prelude to the storm and throughout. So if there's anything that you feel we need to know, please feel free to call us and we'll put you on the air.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
If I could just encourage people to look at Florida disaster dot org. That's our website with all information that they may need, and then as well on x you.
Can follow us at fl search that's fl at RT.
Thanks so very much for the time.
Thank you.
Lieutenant Governor Jeanette unia is with us forty six past the hour. I've got I've got a handful of people out there saying you're scaring people. Whatever. I'll live with that, not seriously. I will live with that. I will. I will happily be on the wrong side, and if this thing dissolves and turns to nothing, it won't. I am good. What I cannot live with is people. For example, some
of you've never been through a hurricane. You're new to Florida, you're new, You're looking around watching everybody just go into the stores and get and you're like, what the heck is going on? There are storms that we look at and we go we're gonna get some wind, and rain, probably have some trees down. It'll be a little uncomfortable for a while. And you see a few roofs damaged, and you see some trees down, and you see, you know,
a little, this little this is not that. This looks to be a minimum CAT three with the potential based on conditions that none of us control of being a Cat four or five, and and at that point at a Cat three, even a Cat two, it doesn't really matter. With the breadth of this storm, as was explained by our meteorologist Terry Smith, with the width of this storm, it doesn't really matter which side of the eye you're on.
You're gonna get your butt whipped. If you live in a mobile home or know of somebody, get them out. If you have friends that are staying in an RV park nearby, get them on the road and heading west. Get out, cause you know in RV is sitting in a parking lot, you know, one hundred and ten miles an hour. I don't like your chances, even if you're
in the shelter. I don't like your RV's chances. So this is a very serious storm, and we have tried to communicate to you the most important things to consider and know for today. Tomorrow there'll be a little bit of that, but tomorrow's mostly about Okay, here we go. That'll be tomorrow morning's program. If you're in Panama City, if you're in Perry, all of these areas capable of hearing the show, and of course, because of my heart,
everywhere else. But if you're in these in that span, you're going to be hit Perry worse than Panama City. But you're still going to get tropical storm force winds, You're still going to get flooding rain. Please please please protect yourself, your loved ones, and those possessions that are most important to you. Get the paperwork, do all of the things you need to do today. All right, brought to you by Barno Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. We've started today with a verse
of scripture from Psalm one thirty nine. Even there your hands shall lead me, your right hand shall hold me, Verse ten, where there where we will be. Thank you for joining us. I hope it was useful. Tomorrow we'll be here and then we'll be here for the storm. As always, friends, we thank you so much. If you have tips, suggestions email me Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. We'll have the phone lines open tomorrow. We'll take some calls and a course during storm coverage, we'll take your
call as well. But we thank you as always for being part of the program. And prepare my friends and be safe.