WEBVTT

1
00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:09.240
<v Speaker 1>Bill Cunningham, the Great America, and welcome this war. It's

2
00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:11.599
<v Speaker 1>Friday afternoon of the tri State. The Bengals tee it

3
00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.400
<v Speaker 1>up about nine am on Sunday morning, kick off about

4
00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:17.280
<v Speaker 1>eight fifteen eight twenty pm, big game against the New

5
00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:20.839
<v Speaker 1>York Football Giants. To say, it's a crisis if they lose.

6
00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:22.879
<v Speaker 1>It would be a crisis if they lose, because this

7
00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:25.359
<v Speaker 1>is a team picked by Mowager to win the Super

8
00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:27.760
<v Speaker 1>Bowl and beyond. But instead of that, they're one in

9
00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:29.719
<v Speaker 1>four And there's no team in the NFL that is

10
00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:32.119
<v Speaker 1>a worse record than the Bengals. There's a few one

11
00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:34.039
<v Speaker 1>in four teams and the Bengals are one of them.

12
00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:37.039
<v Speaker 1>So this could begin the renaissances. Rocky boyhim and said

13
00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:39.200
<v Speaker 1>the other day that when he was with the Colts,

14
00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:41.000
<v Speaker 1>they opened up one in four won the next ten

15
00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:43.520
<v Speaker 1>in a row. Certainly the Bengals have the capability of

16
00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.399
<v Speaker 1>doing that and more. But until then the last few

17
00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:49.240
<v Speaker 1>days have been somewhat remarkable when it comes to weather

18
00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:51.200
<v Speaker 1>and when it comes to hurricanes, when it comes to

19
00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:55.280
<v Speaker 1>Ian or Helene, or when it comes to Milton, and

20
00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:58.119
<v Speaker 1>there's been lots of coverage even this morning watching news

21
00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:01.439
<v Speaker 1>Nation and watching many other channels, it's the dominant story

22
00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:03.560
<v Speaker 1>in the country and that as far as what's happening

23
00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:06.000
<v Speaker 1>and how it happened, how to stop it from happening again,

24
00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.120
<v Speaker 1>what are the impacts? And one thing I found very

25
00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:11.640
<v Speaker 1>informative is I watched the Mayor of Sarasota this morning

26
00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:14.319
<v Speaker 1>on News Nation and he talked about the fact that

27
00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:18.040
<v Speaker 1>there's not been a hurricane to hit Sarasota since nineteen sixty,

28
00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:21.280
<v Speaker 1>which was during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. So

29
00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:24.599
<v Speaker 1>this isn't exactly a regular event in Sarasota. Joining you

30
00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:27.719
<v Speaker 1>and I now is Brian Innton. Brian Anton has a correspondent,

31
00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:29.480
<v Speaker 1>has been on the scene with News Nation the last

32
00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:32.400
<v Speaker 1>several days. And Brian Anton, welcome again to the Bill

33
00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:35.959
<v Speaker 1>Cunningham Show. And Brian this afternoon, can you tell us

34
00:01:35.959 --> 00:01:38.959
<v Speaker 1>what's happening now? I know you're in Tampa, Sarasota. How's

35
00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:39.920
<v Speaker 1>the recovery going?

36
00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:43.879
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I appreciate you having me, Bill. It's moving along.

37
00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:44.799
<v Speaker 2>You know, Florida.

38
00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:47.879
<v Speaker 3>I'm from Florida. I'm a Floridian. We're really good at

39
00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:51.359
<v Speaker 3>responding to hurricanes. And I was just on the highway

40
00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:53.879
<v Speaker 3>between Tampa and Sarasota. I mean, it's like the cavalry

41
00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.840
<v Speaker 3>is coming in, all the linemen and the search and

42
00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:59.719
<v Speaker 3>rescue teams and the construction crews.

43
00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:01.599
<v Speaker 2>So it's well underway.

44
00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.120
<v Speaker 3>There's still, you know, a lot of people without power,

45
00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:07.959
<v Speaker 3>but that's improving greatly. The power restoration cruis are out,

46
00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:11.240
<v Speaker 3>you know. I was in North Tampa near the University

47
00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:14.039
<v Speaker 3>of South Florida yesterday where I mean there's just the

48
00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:19.000
<v Speaker 3>whole neighborhood there is underwater and it's slowly starting to recede.

49
00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:21.919
<v Speaker 3>They were doing rescues out there yesterday. Shout out to

50
00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:24.800
<v Speaker 3>the Hillsboro County Sheriff's office. They did an amazing job.

51
00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:28.680
<v Speaker 3>They saved like one hundred seniors from this senior living home.

52
00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:30.240
<v Speaker 3>There were no deaths.

53
00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:32.199
<v Speaker 2>But it's gonna be a clean up.

54
00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:33.560
<v Speaker 3>I mean, you know, when you get four or five

55
00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:35.639
<v Speaker 3>feet of water in your house, you think about it.

56
00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:38.319
<v Speaker 3>You got to throw everything away, all the dry wall

57
00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:39.000
<v Speaker 3>has to go.

58
00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:42.520
<v Speaker 2>So it's gonna be quite a clean up process for

59
00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:44.439
<v Speaker 2>all these folks in this part of the state.

60
00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:46.520
<v Speaker 1>And some of the best video you have is I've

61
00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:50.719
<v Speaker 1>seen dumpsters on top of roofs. I've seen large alligators

62
00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:54.039
<v Speaker 1>chewing on the tires of cars. I've seen little boys

63
00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:57.680
<v Speaker 1>plucked out of deep water by rescue workers. It's at

64
00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:00.199
<v Speaker 1>all hands on deck. Has been one or two two

65
00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:02.800
<v Speaker 1>incidents that you've seen that you're gonna remember for a

66
00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:03.360
<v Speaker 1>long time.

67
00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:07.479
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you know, you mentioned I was in the neighborhood

68
00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:09.599
<v Speaker 3>where they got the fourteen year old.

69
00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:11.159
<v Speaker 2>He was like hanging on to a.

70
00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:14.840
<v Speaker 3>Piece of wood that was again the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office.

71
00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:17.039
<v Speaker 3>They rescued him yesterday. I won't forget that.

72
00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:19.199
<v Speaker 2>It's interesting, you know.

73
00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.599
<v Speaker 3>The only time I've covered a lot of these storms

74
00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:23.680
<v Speaker 3>and you get in storm mode.

75
00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:25.199
<v Speaker 2>The only time I felt a little like that.

76
00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:27.120
<v Speaker 3>Little ping of emotion, like I was almost gonna get

77
00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:30.680
<v Speaker 3>a little tiary again, was just seeing all the search

78
00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:34.199
<v Speaker 3>and rescue crews driving in right after the storm ended.

79
00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:37.319
<v Speaker 3>You know, they stage all over the state, and you got,

80
00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:39.520
<v Speaker 3>you know, people that they want to do this, They

81
00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:41.560
<v Speaker 3>want to do this work. They come from all over.

82
00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:44.960
<v Speaker 3>It's just so amazing what they do. People don't realize it,

83
00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.439
<v Speaker 3>you know, because there's no power, it's hot, it's a

84
00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:50.560
<v Speaker 3>terrible condition to work in, but they come from all

85
00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:53.759
<v Speaker 3>over to help and I think I'll always I'll always

86
00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:54.319
<v Speaker 3>remember that.

87
00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:56.919
<v Speaker 1>And the other the other issue which you don't think

88
00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:00.000
<v Speaker 1>about are the critters. I see people walking and maybe

89
00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.520
<v Speaker 1>an ankle deep water or mud or maybe a waiste deep.

90
00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:08.080
<v Speaker 1>Talk about the critters that you might encounter in Florida

91
00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:09.879
<v Speaker 1>that you don't have like in North Carolina.

92
00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:13.039
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean, look, we got the gators everywhere here.

93
00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:14.960
<v Speaker 3>Bill Florida is just one big swamp.

94
00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:15.400
<v Speaker 2>They say.

95
00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:17.879
<v Speaker 3>Everybody of water already has a gator in it. And

96
00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:20.560
<v Speaker 3>when the water comes up like this, this neighborhood that

97
00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:24.639
<v Speaker 3>I was just in where it's now just all underwater,

98
00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:27.279
<v Speaker 3>the gators are there. There was video of a gator

99
00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.759
<v Speaker 3>in someone's house. The house was flooded. They left the

100
00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:32.120
<v Speaker 3>door open and there were the gator inside. All the

101
00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.600
<v Speaker 3>snakes come out. Everything is disturbed, you know, all the

102
00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:38.319
<v Speaker 3>things that live underground here, the snakes and crabs and

103
00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:40.000
<v Speaker 3>the holes, they all come out.

104
00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:42.600
<v Speaker 2>Because it gets flooded. So you really do have to

105
00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:43.399
<v Speaker 2>be careful of that.

106
00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:45.199
<v Speaker 3>I mean, you know, I had these stick boots on

107
00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.399
<v Speaker 3>when I was walking in the floodwater. But even then

108
00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:52.000
<v Speaker 3>you have to look where you walk. And that's a

109
00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:53.439
<v Speaker 3>whole nother sort of.

110
00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:53.839
<v Speaker 2>Part of it.

111
00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:55.480
<v Speaker 3>You try not to think about it too much, but

112
00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:57.439
<v Speaker 3>the gators are definitely amongst us.

113
00:04:57.759 --> 00:04:59.800
<v Speaker 1>You know, when you live in Cincinnati or Northern can

114
00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:02.480
<v Speaker 1>tell you live in Boone County, you live in Dayton, Ohio,

115
00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:05.040
<v Speaker 1>you don't think much about gators. And I've often told

116
00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:08.360
<v Speaker 1>some that that's the up in the up and the down.

117
00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:10.560
<v Speaker 1>The mountains and the valleys of life are available in

118
00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:13.920
<v Speaker 1>Florida that unavailable other parts of the country. Kentucky had

119
00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:18.360
<v Speaker 1>terrible incidents with tornadoes and flooding. It's awful, and the

120
00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:22.319
<v Speaker 1>tornado is unpredictable, and maybe flooding is not really predictable,

121
00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:27.040
<v Speaker 1>but hurricanes are. And when you think about the fatigue factor,

122
00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.959
<v Speaker 1>I've seen many talk in Florida about the fatigue factor

123
00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:33.319
<v Speaker 1>that is. This is I had on several times the

124
00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:37.879
<v Speaker 1>mayor of Fort Myers Beach, a good man, and I'm

125
00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:41.480
<v Speaker 1>thinking about what he's gone through the last three or

126
00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:46.120
<v Speaker 1>four years, and it's truly unbelievable, the fatigue factor of

127
00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:49.319
<v Speaker 1>what one goes through. And in Florida that you don't

128
00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:52.759
<v Speaker 1>have the fatigue factor. And since you're a Floridian, can

129
00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:55.600
<v Speaker 1>you address the issue of why would I don't know,

130
00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:58.560
<v Speaker 1>twenty five million people live in Florida. When it seems

131
00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:00.600
<v Speaker 1>this is a regular event, Why did that happen?

132
00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:02.639
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's such a good question.

133
00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:05.000
<v Speaker 3>You know, Fort Myers Beach by the Way has been slammed,

134
00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:06.519
<v Speaker 3>and you're right. The mayor is a great guy, and

135
00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:08.920
<v Speaker 3>it's a beautiful area there, but they've been hit hard

136
00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:10.000
<v Speaker 3>the last couple of years.

137
00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:11.839
<v Speaker 2>I was thinking about that today.

138
00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:13.959
<v Speaker 3>It's interesting you asked me that, Bill, because people have

139
00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:16.079
<v Speaker 3>asked me that too. Gosh, you have to worry the

140
00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:19.480
<v Speaker 3>whole chunk of the year about these storms coming. Who

141
00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:21.759
<v Speaker 3>would we even want to live there anymore? And then

142
00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:23.160
<v Speaker 3>they come and they have the station.

143
00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:27.480
<v Speaker 2>I just love it here. I mean, you know, you've

144
00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:30.639
<v Speaker 2>got eight months of the year that's beautiful. Everybody's jealous

145
00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:30.839
<v Speaker 2>of you.

146
00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.759
<v Speaker 3>It's cold and snowing everywhere else in the country and

147
00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:36.040
<v Speaker 3>we're here and it's seventy five degrees every day in

148
00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:36.560
<v Speaker 3>blue sky.

149
00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:37.959
<v Speaker 2>Is a big chunk of the year.

150
00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:42.279
<v Speaker 3>So this is the payoff, and you know, there's a

151
00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:44.319
<v Speaker 3>bonding that happens with these storms.

152
00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.240
<v Speaker 2>You know, even in the last couple of days, I

153
00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:49.560
<v Speaker 2>realized it again. People are just so nice here.

154
00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:52.959
<v Speaker 3>After a hurricane everybody comes together as a Floridian.

155
00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:55.639
<v Speaker 2>Nobody, you know, you watch the national news, everybody's talking

156
00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.079
<v Speaker 2>about politics.

157
00:06:56.600 --> 00:06:58.800
<v Speaker 3>Right now and global warming and this and that.

158
00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:01.079
<v Speaker 2>Nobody's talking about that. In Florida.

159
00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.319
<v Speaker 3>They're all just helping each other out right now and

160
00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:06.680
<v Speaker 3>giving each other hot coffee and given each other generator

161
00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:09.800
<v Speaker 3>and making sure their neighbors are okay. And in a way,

162
00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:13.600
<v Speaker 3>after a storm, people on the outside are thinking like, oh,

163
00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.160
<v Speaker 3>you'd want to get out of there. For me, it

164
00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:17.399
<v Speaker 3>makes me think about how much I want to stay

165
00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:20.360
<v Speaker 3>like it. Just I like Floridians. I like it here

166
00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:22.720
<v Speaker 3>a Florida. Do you ever hear that term Florida man?

167
00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:26.240
<v Speaker 3>Bill Like, I'm a Florida man, and I guess I'm

168
00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:26.920
<v Speaker 3>just proud of it.

169
00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:30.360
<v Speaker 1>You know, Mother nature can be awful, but human beings

170
00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:33.680
<v Speaker 1>can be so good. And when these events happen, it's

171
00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.759
<v Speaker 1>like the best of humanity in the worst of mother

172
00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:40.480
<v Speaker 1>nature meat and the human always wins in a sense

173
00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.199
<v Speaker 1>over mother nature until the next storm and the next storm,

174
00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:45.120
<v Speaker 1>and then it's, oh my god, here we go again.

175
00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:48.680
<v Speaker 1>There's two more hurricanes out in the Atlantic now, I

176
00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:52.000
<v Speaker 1>am told by Tony Bender and others don't worry about it,

177
00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:54.199
<v Speaker 1>that's gonna go north, gonna go east. But to have

178
00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:59.000
<v Speaker 1>a hurricane form quickly in the western Gulf of Mexico

179
00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:02.720
<v Speaker 1>and then they had to east at that rapid race

180
00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:05.759
<v Speaker 1>and to become a category five hit at category three.

181
00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:08.560
<v Speaker 1>I think this sand has talked about the other day

182
00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:12.040
<v Speaker 1>is that that's not happened. It's very unusual. Every sixty

183
00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:15.360
<v Speaker 1>five years it happened. But when it happens, boom about

184
00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:18.000
<v Speaker 1>a boom bauta bing bauta, bang like you have with

185
00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.600
<v Speaker 1>with Ian Helene and Milton, and there were two other storms.

186
00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:23.279
<v Speaker 1>When I talked to Mayor Dan Alllers of Fort Myers

187
00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:26.720
<v Speaker 1>Beach yesterday, I talked to him also on Monday. Uh,

188
00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:29.720
<v Speaker 1>he talked When I talked to him on Monday before

189
00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:32.559
<v Speaker 1>the crises really hit, I said, what's going to happen?

190
00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:34.759
<v Speaker 1>He said, well, we're probably going to have five to

191
00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:38.279
<v Speaker 1>eight feet of storm surge that's going to envelop go

192
00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:41.399
<v Speaker 1>over the top of the whole island for several hours,

193
00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:44.600
<v Speaker 1>and then after that it's going to recede and we're

194
00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:47.720
<v Speaker 1>going to rebuild. So I talked to him yesterday and uh,

195
00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:50.759
<v Speaker 1>and he was wonderful. He couldn't have been better about well,

196
00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:54.879
<v Speaker 1>you know, everything is basically destroyed, every building is affected.

197
00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:57.639
<v Speaker 1>We have we start to rebuild. It got up at about

198
00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:00.039
<v Speaker 1>three o'clock in the morning after the storm passed, and

199
00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:02.080
<v Speaker 1>I got here with my with my crew from the

200
00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:04.159
<v Speaker 1>City of Fort Myers speech. We got to work. So

201
00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:05.759
<v Speaker 1>the first thing we got to do. We have one

202
00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:08.759
<v Speaker 1>to two feet of mud and sand everywhere. There's no

203
00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.519
<v Speaker 1>road that's passable. And so the first thing we got

204
00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.639
<v Speaker 1>to do is get bulldozers and start getting this scrape

205
00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:17.960
<v Speaker 1>scrape the roads, and then we we kind of get

206
00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.720
<v Speaker 1>the utilities going. He said, within a week or two,

207
00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.120
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna be functional again. Isn't that almost the attitude

208
00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:27.240
<v Speaker 1>of the Alamo, in which, okay, we're Americans, but we're

209
00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:29.200
<v Speaker 1>gonna cat And I thought most people would have to

210
00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:31.840
<v Speaker 1>go through that, they would say I'm done, I've had it,

211
00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:34.960
<v Speaker 1>not gonna do it. But that's that's not the Florida attitude.

212
00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:39.039
<v Speaker 3>No, it's not, especially if you live on those barrier islands.

213
00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:42.240
<v Speaker 3>I mean, you know that you are vulnerable, so you've

214
00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:46.200
<v Speaker 3>got plans in place, and and again you just you.

215
00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:47.639
<v Speaker 2>Have to cut through some of the red tape. I

216
00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:49.639
<v Speaker 2>was listening to DeSantis this morning.

217
00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.360
<v Speaker 3>You know, they got all the bridges open right away

218
00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:55.159
<v Speaker 3>that the storm passed through overnight and by the morning

219
00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:58.559
<v Speaker 3>they were opening up all the major bridges because they

220
00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.519
<v Speaker 3>had the bridge inspectors ready to go. You know, they

221
00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:03.679
<v Speaker 3>weren't going to start at nine am the next morning

222
00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:05.639
<v Speaker 3>and be able to just chill and come on over

223
00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:07.919
<v Speaker 3>and do the whole bureaucratic thing. You know, they had

224
00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:11.799
<v Speaker 3>them staged in hotels and ready to get out immediately

225
00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:14.399
<v Speaker 3>when the storm passed and go inspect the bridges were

226
00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:16.879
<v Speaker 3>do you know how it is with some states. You know,

227
00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:19.480
<v Speaker 3>they'd be out there seven hours later and make it.

228
00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:21.159
<v Speaker 3>You know, they they'd all have to there'd be all

229
00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.759
<v Speaker 3>this red tape to jump through. Just like with the dumps.

230
00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.000
<v Speaker 3>They kept the dumps open twenty four hours ahead of

231
00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:27.919
<v Speaker 3>the storm because there was still all this debris all

232
00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:30.799
<v Speaker 3>over the place from Hurricane Helen. People had to get

233
00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:32.320
<v Speaker 3>rid of that debris or it was going to fly

234
00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:35.279
<v Speaker 3>around and fly into their houses. So they said, you

235
00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:37.679
<v Speaker 3>know what, we're keeping the dumps open twenty four hours

236
00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:40.600
<v Speaker 3>and the dumps that were still closed that were locked.

237
00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:43.320
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if you heard about this SHP flow

238
00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:47.039
<v Speaker 3>to Highway Patrol. They chained their cars to the gates

239
00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:49.279
<v Speaker 3>and they busted open the gates to one of these

240
00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:53.519
<v Speaker 3>dumps so that people could keep dumping their debris, because

241
00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:57.080
<v Speaker 3>you can't have bureaucracy when you've got a major hurricane

242
00:10:57.080 --> 00:10:59.879
<v Speaker 3>coming I mean, or they're just going to have more problems.

243
00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.559
<v Speaker 1>Well, when you look at this from around the country,

244
00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:07.000
<v Speaker 1>those watching listening in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and I've

245
00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.759
<v Speaker 1>heard so many people say that is stupid, why would

246
00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:11.559
<v Speaker 1>you live there? But then on the other side of

247
00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:14.200
<v Speaker 1>the coin, you get the benefits of living there, and

248
00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:16.879
<v Speaker 1>the attitude is, well, that's fine, let's move on because

249
00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.080
<v Speaker 1>those barrier islands have been there for centuries. Florida's been

250
00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:23.399
<v Speaker 1>there for five thousand years. It's not going anywhere, and

251
00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:26.919
<v Speaker 1>the Floridian says, okay, let's go play golf. In fact,

252
00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:29.600
<v Speaker 1>a couple friends of mine from where I belonged to

253
00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:32.519
<v Speaker 1>a club in Naples, Florida. They're going to play golf

254
00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:36.240
<v Speaker 1>today on the back nine cart path only, cart path only.

255
00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:37.120
<v Speaker 2>I said that.

256
00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.200
<v Speaker 1>He said, that's a major problem. I said, well, no,

257
00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:42.200
<v Speaker 1>wait a minute, and it's like, okay, let's move on

258
00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.039
<v Speaker 1>with life. And they will not let weather defeat them.

259
00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:48.000
<v Speaker 1>And I think it began with Governor Jeb Bush. He

260
00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.559
<v Speaker 1>was in power for eight years now the Santas. He

261
00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:54.559
<v Speaker 1>institutionalized what's happened with hurricanes, and it's like, okay, now

262
00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:55.240
<v Speaker 1>we know what to do.

263
00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:55.799
<v Speaker 2>Let's do it.

264
00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:58.360
<v Speaker 1>And if you're if you are hit by a series

265
00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:00.679
<v Speaker 1>of tornadoes, you don't have things stayed ready to go,

266
00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.639
<v Speaker 1>you don't have meals ready to eat, you don't have utilities.

267
00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:07.720
<v Speaker 1>Ronda Santas has thirty thousand utility trucks. I didn't think

268
00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:09.759
<v Speaker 1>there was not many left in the world. And so

269
00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:14.399
<v Speaker 1>the Calvary came and today hitter is Friday afternoon. I

270
00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:17.360
<v Speaker 1>would think by most of Florida by Monday or Tuesday.

271
00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:18.679
<v Speaker 1>Will it be back to normal?

272
00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:22.440
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean it will be, especially in the places

273
00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:24.519
<v Speaker 3>that aren't. You know, there's certain areas where no matter what,

274
00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:26.799
<v Speaker 3>no matter how many power trucks you have, they've got

275
00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:27.759
<v Speaker 3>to get the water down.

276
00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:29.440
<v Speaker 2>The infrastructure is destroyed.

277
00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:31.679
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, most of them listen, they'll get the power

278
00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:35.240
<v Speaker 3>on fast. And you mentioned Jeb Bush. You know the

279
00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:39.799
<v Speaker 3>building codes. He was instrumental in standardizing the building codes

280
00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:43.159
<v Speaker 3>across the entire state and starting during the Jeb Bush years.

281
00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.799
<v Speaker 3>If you built anything in Florida, it's so strong. It's

282
00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:50.679
<v Speaker 3>like you build the houses now here like bunkers. So

283
00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:55.159
<v Speaker 3>when you see any new construction Jeb Bush and on,

284
00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:01.000
<v Speaker 3>it's the houses are pretty much untouched. Even category category five.

285
00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:04.080
<v Speaker 3>The roofs don't blow off. The issue is still the water.

286
00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:07.440
<v Speaker 3>You can't stop the water from getting in. But yeah,

287
00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:09.840
<v Speaker 3>I mean, people are prepared here for the most part.

288
00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.440
<v Speaker 3>I mean, look, if you just lost your house, you

289
00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:15.240
<v Speaker 3>might not be as optimistic as I sound right now,

290
00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:20.559
<v Speaker 3>but you know, hopefully you had insurance. And again, Floridians

291
00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:23.919
<v Speaker 3>just kind of endure and people who make a choice

292
00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:25.559
<v Speaker 3>to live in Florida and move here. I'm from here,

293
00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:27.519
<v Speaker 3>I was born here, but I'm rare. I mean most,

294
00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:30.200
<v Speaker 3>that's so rare. Most people have moved here because they

295
00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:32.200
<v Speaker 3>make the choice to live here. They like the culture,

296
00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.720
<v Speaker 3>and you know, they the hurricanes kind of come with.

297
00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:36.240
<v Speaker 2>It a little bit.

298
00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:36.519
<v Speaker 3>Now.

299
00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:41.480
<v Speaker 1>Mayor Dan Allers is from Minnesota, and when Minnesota or

300
00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:44.480
<v Speaker 1>Cincinnati has a say it was a foot of storm predicted,

301
00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:47.840
<v Speaker 1>people come together. They shop to go to Kroger, get

302
00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:49.919
<v Speaker 1>everything prepared, They get milk, they get their bread, they

303
00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:53.240
<v Speaker 1>hunger down. There's a coming together because there's an outside

304
00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:55.799
<v Speaker 1>crisis in which we have to come together. That happens

305
00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:58.120
<v Speaker 1>in Florida all the time. Now, lastly, there was a

306
00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.639
<v Speaker 1>question about global warming, asked to run Sanus and I

307
00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:03.679
<v Speaker 1>might play it later on again. He had a fabulous answer,

308
00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:06.919
<v Speaker 1>can you going to summarize because the national media often

309
00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:09.799
<v Speaker 1>wants to, you know, there has to be certain pigeon

310
00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:12.600
<v Speaker 1>holding of certain events to fit in the category. And

311
00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:17.200
<v Speaker 1>of course the category is global warming, and Republicans especially

312
00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:20.120
<v Speaker 1>get global warming questions all the time. And probably the

313
00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:23.559
<v Speaker 1>atmosphere and the environment is warming a degree or two

314
00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:25.879
<v Speaker 1>over the last one hundred and fifty years. But can

315
00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:28.679
<v Speaker 1>you kind of summarize ron to Santas's answer when some

316
00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:32.120
<v Speaker 1>reporters said, mister gavin or mister Gammon or mister gavinor

317
00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:34.320
<v Speaker 1>went back global warming and he kind of gave an

318
00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:35.639
<v Speaker 1>answer that was unbelievable.

319
00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:38.639
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, and you got to play it later.

320
00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:40.240
<v Speaker 2>Because it was good, and I won't do a justice,

321
00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:41.679
<v Speaker 2>but he basically.

322
00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:43.960
<v Speaker 3>Said he went back and he was able to write

323
00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:46.720
<v Speaker 3>on the spot to recount all of the major hurricanes

324
00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:49.919
<v Speaker 3>that happened, you know, one hundred plus years ago that

325
00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:54.320
<v Speaker 3>impacted Florida, including like the strongest hurricane ever I think

326
00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:56.360
<v Speaker 3>was almost one hundred years ago, And he had the

327
00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:59.159
<v Speaker 3>dates and everything in his answer, but he basically was

328
00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:01.879
<v Speaker 3>just making the point like, look, we've been dealing with

329
00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:04.960
<v Speaker 3>storms forever here, and in fact, these aren't even as

330
00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:08.600
<v Speaker 3>strong as the ones that came long before global warming

331
00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.440
<v Speaker 3>was even a concern. And regardless of how you feel

332
00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:14.159
<v Speaker 3>about global warming, look, I mean there's all sorts of

333
00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:16.200
<v Speaker 3>stuff on both sides, and all sorts of scientists, But

334
00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:19.200
<v Speaker 3>I guess I just never understand why these questions come

335
00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:23.240
<v Speaker 3>up right during the crisis, Like, you know, people are

336
00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:26.759
<v Speaker 3>literally still being pulled out of houses and we don't

337
00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:29.080
<v Speaker 3>know who's dead and who's alive, and you've always got

338
00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:32.559
<v Speaker 3>this one reporter that wants to talk about global warming,

339
00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:35.679
<v Speaker 3>and I don't know, I mean just always seems like

340
00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:37.960
<v Speaker 3>isn't there a better time to do that? You know,

341
00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:40.639
<v Speaker 3>It's just I don't know, like, isn't there something more

342
00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:43.039
<v Speaker 3>important to ask the governor right in this moment when

343
00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.000
<v Speaker 3>you know, have so many people don't have power, And

344
00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:48.879
<v Speaker 3>it's just always kind of it's it's never a low.

345
00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:51.639
<v Speaker 3>It's always it's always someone from some other place or

346
00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:54.200
<v Speaker 3>someone with some agenda that I feel like doesn't really

347
00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.320
<v Speaker 3>care about what's actually happening in Florida.

348
00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:59.320
<v Speaker 1>Brian Anton, thank you. And it's a perfect shut up

349
00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:03.200
<v Speaker 1>because the trade winds coming off Africa, they have a

350
00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:05.559
<v Speaker 1>long way to develop many times. Or in the Gulf

351
00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:08.519
<v Speaker 1>of Mexico, it's hot water, it's summertime, it's been warm,

352
00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:12.840
<v Speaker 1>and it's shallow. And here you have the Canadian plateaus,

353
00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:14.840
<v Speaker 1>and you have the Mexican plateaus, and you have the

354
00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:17.799
<v Speaker 1>two bumpers between the Alleghanies and the Rockies. Those are

355
00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:22.120
<v Speaker 1>the tornadoes and the hurricanes have a perfect body of

356
00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:25.120
<v Speaker 1>water to form. Hundreds of miles of open ocean that's

357
00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.919
<v Speaker 1>shallow and hot, and the winds begin to swirl. Here

358
00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:29.879
<v Speaker 1>we go, you pick up the heat from the ocean,

359
00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.159
<v Speaker 1>fantastic winds. They have to go somewhere. They pile into

360
00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:35.720
<v Speaker 1>the golf coast somewhere. It's just the way nature is.

361
00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:38.240
<v Speaker 1>It's kind of like nature's air conditioning. The reason that

362
00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:42.279
<v Speaker 1>exists is it distributes different temperatures throughout the globe. And

363
00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:44.720
<v Speaker 1>that's the purpose of a cyclone. The purpose of a

364
00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:48.039
<v Speaker 1>hurricane is to take warm from the south and drive

365
00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:50.799
<v Speaker 1>it up to the north to moderate temperatures. It's kind

366
00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:53.399
<v Speaker 1>of like God's air conditioning, and that's why it happens,

367
00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:55.679
<v Speaker 1>and it's part of nature. But Harry Anton, give my

368
00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:59.480
<v Speaker 1>best all the folks at the News Nation, especially Sean Compton,

369
00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.440
<v Speaker 1>once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.

370
00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:05.200
<v Speaker 1>And Brian Anton. You're a great American and you're a

371
00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:06.039
<v Speaker 1>great Floridian.

372
00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:08.960
<v Speaker 2>Well, I appreciate that. Thank you, Bill. It's nice to

373
00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:09.440
<v Speaker 2>talk with you.

374
00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:12.599
<v Speaker 1>God bless America. Let's continue with more the line becomes

375
00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:15.720
<v Speaker 1>available five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand. Bill

376
00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:18.480
<v Speaker 1>Cunningham getting ready for the Bengals on Sunday News Radio

377
00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:20.200
<v Speaker 1>seven hundred WULW