TDW 1897 - Hurricane Irma : Why I'm Not In Florida
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here it's
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my second channel daily vlog channel
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it's the daily whoo I had some ideas of
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what I was going to do the topic of
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today's vlog but I decided to scratch
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that and just talk about a pressing
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subject matter that is at hand that I
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know no matter what I did today would be
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weighing on not only my minds but also
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your mind I thought I would address it
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there's a hurricane a massive
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destructive hurricane like so many
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others that Florida and I when I lived
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there for 25 years had to endure and
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deal with that is heading and probably
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by the posting of this video is already
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making landfall or at least squeaking by
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the coast of my former home state and a
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place that my parents still to this day
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reside they are in Central Florida they
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are not in increasingly insane danger by
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being on the coastline Central Florida
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is not quite as bad but nonetheless this
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is nothing nonetheless not not Leste
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nonetheless this is nothing to turn your
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nose up at nothing to sneeze at that's
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even the correct terminology this thing
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is quite impressive most impressive in
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the most horrific form and I have been
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asked a few different things I think
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three different types of things are your
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parents okay currently my parents are
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doing fine their homestead looks to be
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like it's going to make it through
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safely however you never know which
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direction the tide will turn per say
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they do have a safe shelter a facility
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that they can go to they have a lot of
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very close friends who have friends who
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have connections they have a place where
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they are secured no matter how strong
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the winds come through their earthly
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self their bodies will be will be fine
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the same cannot be said for where they
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reside
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my family does not have a place that I
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grew up in we moved around a lot we do
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not have a family home they have been
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living in their current place for only a
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few years give or take so the memories
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there are not strong so no matter what
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happens whether something goes away
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whether something is destroyed I've had
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this conversation with my parents with
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my mom and dad in fact I've talked to my
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mom every day for the last three days
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and I will most likely call her today up
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until they either lose power good lord
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willing and the creek don't rise that
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does not happen and we have had this
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conversation that things are just things
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things can be replaced but you know our
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selves are the most important and
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thankfully they have a place where they
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can go and and breathe easy breathe a
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sigh of relief the second question is
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why did you not go to Florida why did
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you not trek out there and I also had
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this conversation with my mother that I
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have been talking to since I started to
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get a little of an uneasy feeling about
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this the path of Emma I believe they
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have named this storm now this is not
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their first rodeo it is not my first
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rodeo when I live there especially
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working retail I worked at Publix
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grocery store winn-dixie we had to deal
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with a lot of the hullabaloo the over
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preparedness which is that's probably
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not even a bad thing because you always
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should be prepared but there always is a
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a sense of urgency sometimes that does
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not come to fruition and working in
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grocery you will know that the shells
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water batteries canned goats are
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completely wiped out and I it was not
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something I
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what's the correct word it was something
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I did not get used to her got used to
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because you had to deal with it so much
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ballpark
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probably been through about 50 moderate
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hurricane thought processes 20 of them
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formulated into the terrifying subject
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matter as they are and then back I think
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it was either 2003 or 2007 I was in a
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band at that time and within two weeks
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there were three hurricanes category two
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three and maybe even a four don't quote
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me on this that the I passed gently near
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the nether regions of sight cloud
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Florida will look all these birds flying
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around and that was that was a horrible
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experience my uncle there's this
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interesting if there is any humor in
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this there's this funny story of between
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the second and third hurricane that came
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within the shadow of about a week my
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uncle and I were tarping the roof
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nailing it down one of those blue tarps
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that became ever so famous in the news
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media and magazines and on television in
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fact four years after those storms she
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would fly into Orlando and all you would
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see was countless blue tarps because a
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lot of insurance companies that were not
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legit went under and they could not
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afford to fix people's roofs but I
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digress the story goes I was up on top
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of the roof with my uncle we were
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holding this tarp a gust of went one of
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the outer bands of one of these storms
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came through and it basically took it
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took that tarp and turned it into a
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parachute and we almost got launched off
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the roof which would have been an
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America's Funniest Home Videos moment
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and a moment that I probably would have
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shattered a limb not a tree limb not a
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tree limb like this but a limb on my
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body which would have been funny to look
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back but it would not have been funny
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when it happened thankfully we let go of
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the tarp at that specific moment and it
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went flying off two or three houses down
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down the neighborhood and we had a nice
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little laugh about it until I had to
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climb down the roof
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and go get the tart I have been asked
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how come you did not go to Florida and
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talking to my parents we decided it was
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not in the best interest it did not make
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a lot of whole heck of a lot of sense
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for me to fly out there just to sit
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there basically in a place that would be
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safe and secure where they would be you
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never know what's gonna happen so the
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decision was if something tragic happens
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to the homestead to my parents home
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staff I can always fly out there after
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the fact they have plenty of friends
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they have been there for almost 30 years
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27 years 30 years I lose track after all
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this time that is their home they have
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more than enough acquaintances good
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friends people that are willing to help
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until I get there knock on knock on
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that's not wood that's kind of kind of
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serves the same purpose but knock on
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that nothing nothing comes to that
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hurricanes are scary they are I had you
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know people always ask what would you
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rather deal with tornadoes hurricanes
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avalanches what people don't really ask
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about the Avalanche earthquakes I think
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it would rather deal with an earthquake
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because I'm not trying to understand
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in Florida constantly during the season
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but there is so much of a buildup there
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is so much panic there's so much horror
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that goes through your mind I'm the kind
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of person that I can have a panic attack
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when it comes to thinking about what
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could happen where if you just spring it
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on me
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and it just happens I sent I tend to
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handle a little bit better and the odds
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are better in your favor that nothing
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might not happen like I said not trying
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to downgrade this at all because this
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this sucker is if Doc Brown had to her
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Marty had to describe this he would say
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this sucker
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is nuclear it can formulate a nuclear
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reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts
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of electricity I did offer my parents a
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place to stay I talked to my mom a
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couple days ago when it first started to
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rear its ugly head and I said once you
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board a plane fly out here they have had
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and still do prior obligations that they
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needed to take care of and like me my
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dad and my mom are very stubborn and
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they will do what they wanted to we all
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share that common trait hopefully I
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addressed some of the questions comments
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and concerns like I was saying I had
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planned on doing a little bit different
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subject matter than this today but I
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have noticed the peppering in of
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comments about this topic on the past
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few days and today today is the day it's
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suppose I hope it doesn't but today is
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the day it's supposed to strike and do
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the most damage I will keep you posted I
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am worried I'm not going to say I'm not
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I'm trying to look at the brighter side
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but it happens happens pretty often
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around there's happened countless amount
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of times I think that could be a bad
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thing I think I think it could always be
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a bad thing when something becomes
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slightly mundane you do not think about
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what the sheer unincorporated capacity
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of terror that a storm could could bring
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on I've had that conversation with them
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in the past
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all right let's hope let's pray let's
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wish whatever it is you do anyone who's
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in Florida not just my family my friends
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whatever it is that sets your mind at
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ease I'm wishing you the best let's all
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send out something out whether it was
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either a moment of silence if it's some
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sort of mind meld if you're religious if
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you're not religious if you think
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whatever it is just keep them in your
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hearts and your minds anyone that's in
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Florida or not just Florida that thing's
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supposed to go up through Florida
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currently and up into the the states and
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there's another one out there all right
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I'll see you guys tomorrow with a little
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bit more jovial and another another
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point sometimes people will say oh
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you're out having a lot of fun while
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other people across the country are
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dealing with worry and it's an
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interesting topic too for someone to
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suggest that you put your life on hold
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and not continue doing what you're doing
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and the total opposite spectrum of where
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something else is happening that you
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really have no mind over matter to
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change that situation you have to just
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kind of go about it to just kind of go
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about your life at least that's my
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opinion but today was today was
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definitely 100% the exception this
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needed to address and I hope I addressed
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it accordingly if I didn't feel free to
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chime in down below and we can we can
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talk about it see you tomorrow
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vlog
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over