Hurricane Milton Arrives ! Hunkering Down With My Parents As Powerful Storm Crosses Central Florida
Hurricane Milton Crosses Florida
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welcome everyone Adam the wooo here as
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the recording of this it is Wednesday
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October 9th 2024 I'm sitting here on my
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porch Celebration
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Florida hurricane Milton supposed to be
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arriving late tonight crossing over the
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central Florida celebration Disney World
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area Orlando area CMI area St Cloud that
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whole section bright and early it won't
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be bright be very cloudy very rainy very
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messy very nasty
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going to be getting the preliminary
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outer bands of that throughout the
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course of the evening my mom and dad are
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going to be staying here with me they
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are going to be arriving in the next few
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minutes might drive around and just see
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what is open at this time
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frame and then hunkering down see how
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the day
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goes see what happens inviting you to
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join me again as I'm filming this it is
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not arriving is hitting the coast Tampa
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St Pete area around midnight 1 o'clock 2
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o'clock a.m. again I'm not a
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meteorologist and the path is always
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changing this is as I'm filming this and
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supposedly crossing over where I am
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right here around 6: or 7 a.m. in the
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morning again as I'm filming
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this Wednesday October
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night join me shall you pulled a couple
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of the chairs in few of the chairs we're
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just going to be sitting at we're
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probably be sitting on the porch a lot
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throughout the evening of course
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tomorrow will not be sitting on the
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porch all the rest of the Halloween
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decor has been pulled off the porch as
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well including this bench and the big
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skeleton took most of it down the other
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day but now everything is done you going
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to be cozy there all right it's 10:32
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right now got my dad in the car he want
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say hi howy howdy howy we are going to
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go peruse around celebration see what's
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open see what's closed I would doubt
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anything is
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open and maybe head over to just outside
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celebration to 192 and see what's open
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over there I haven't perused him quite a
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while perusing is fun 7-Eleven still out
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of
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gas so my mom brought over a lot of
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stuff a lot of food we're going to make
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food a little bit later while we still
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have power power probably will not go
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out if it does until tomorrow if it even
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goes out but she got everything asked if
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there's anything she needed she said get
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some sugar
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substitute for coffee so I'm going to
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get some of that W in here so 7-Eleven
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is open even though they are out of
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fuel dad's going to wait in the
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car not a lot of gas anywhere in Central
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Florida from what I've been
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seeing I might get a coffee too while
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I'm here
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all
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right 7-Eleven closes at noon
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today putting up bags on the windows in
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there just in case the windows break it
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McDonald's probably be closing around
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the same
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time the Disney parks Clos at
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two I think two was kind of the cusp of
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when everyone's supposed to be off the
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roads all right as stated 7-Eleven is
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closing at noon the employees are all
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gearing up to close
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Publix is already
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closed brick Clips Fat Burger The
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Burrito
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Place Jeremiah's ice all closed think
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I'm noticing I haven't really seen
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anybody putting boards on their windows
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obviously we're not going to get hit as
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heavily as the coastline will we're
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still going to get some Hur hurricane
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force winds though probably a category
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two or three when it comes across here
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but I've yet to see one board across any
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Windows tilted the chairs over here in
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Island village don't know if that's
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going to really do much they are pretty
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heavy though I've sat over there and
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eight before they're pretty heavy chairs
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but the wind whips up
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now driving down Market Street
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here like the pizza place might be
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open yeah dad had a good point to show
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how the water is now versus how it's
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going to be tomorrow afternoon
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now there's not a lot of flooding in
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celebration however the only part I've
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ever really seen that does flood is the
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lakefront Starbucks is
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closed if put away all their tables over
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here it looks
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like this is the first use of sandbags I
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saw people filling up sandbags they have
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their sandbags so that would make sense
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over here by the lakeef front because if
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the water comes up here sandbags stop
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stop all the water from going in seeping
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into the doors of Starbucks and over at
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avocados you got they took all their
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tables
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there tied them all zip tied them all
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up plenty of parking down here at the
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moment because avocados is closed
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Starbucks is closed Celebration Town
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tavern's closed the diner's closed I
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just ran over a
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leaf in front of the theater in front of
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the ice cream place they've removed all
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their tables as well
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and this is why you're supposed to
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prepare before the day of this before
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the night of the storm the celebration
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Hardware is a hardware store behind the
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192 Publix there two Publix is in town
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the world drive one that I showed
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there's also the one on 192 side
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celebration Hardware has been open every
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day with lots of stuff just like Home
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Depot has with a smaller town version
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they're closed now let see if this
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public is
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open doesn't look like this one is
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either they got
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there oh speed
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bump have their Gates down there
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it looks like this gas station had fuel
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yesterday today they are out of
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fuel talking to a bunch of people from
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the area no one's been able to find gas
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since last night
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you can see people still pulling in
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trying
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to possibly get lucky to get gas but
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they're
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out Chick-fil-A is
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closed actually the whole 7-Eleven Clos
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yeah they put plastic sandbags and
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plastic over their Windows there almost
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got signs up letting every window
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they're closed for the
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storm all right on the billboard they
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have changed it to where it says stay
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safe be
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prepared I think I realized I probably
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KN need new windshield
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wipers lot of power trucks the
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light we're going to be very busy the
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next couple days
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all right obviously the ferris wheel at
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Oldtown is not
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open and they're just going to kind of
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let it ride like this I know the Orlando
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i the icon Park in the past during
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hurricanes they will tie
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down and put like kind of metal ropes to
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secure the the
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larger pods the gondal as they call them
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but this one they're just kind of just
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just letting it sit like this little
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town Cassi all close cute cute little
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dogs saw a dog earlier downtown
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celebration wearing a rain
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pona not a 99 Cent Store it's full
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dollar
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inflation dragging the trash cans
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in over at the hotel
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motel or dragging their trash
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cans out of Harm's Way this thing turn
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into projectiles once the storm comes
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in anything that's not tied down outside
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you just really don't want to have
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sitting in an empty parking
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lot I find this really fascinating so
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over here these are the little
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brochures on the side of 192 that you
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can get hotel
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information they have shrunk WRA that
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and tied that down just so all those
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books don't go
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flying I'm really surprised that they
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did that I mean it makes sense because
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if those doors open and all those coupon
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magazines go everywhere but that really
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was not something I would have expected
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they would have secured they
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did all right we've entered no man's
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land now I like to call it which is out
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of the celebration bubble the dad and I
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were noticing no boards anywhere in
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celebration but once you get on 192 just
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a few hundred yards well probably a half
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mile few yard outside celebration you
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start seeing boards on Windows the flea
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market boarded
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up the
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motel next to the Big Orange all boarded
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up we're not messing around on
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192 celebration we're just we're just
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rolling with the punches and just
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assuming nothing is going to happen
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happen there but in
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reality
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it's a half mile from
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here the Big Orange is closed oh no the
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Big Orange is
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open the big orange is
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open I've always heard that you really
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need to start worrying when a Waffle
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House
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closes and I'm really curious if this
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Waffle House when they're going to close
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today cuz Waffle House is still
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open and
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busy look how busy it is in there therez
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nothing else is open Waffle House is uh
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cornering the market right now on this
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uh on the storm so Cracker Barrel
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basically sells the same type of food as
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Waffle House both reasonably priced
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breakfast
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food Waffle House said you know what
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Cracker Barrel is going to close we're
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going to stay open
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all right Walmart is
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closed noticing every place that we're
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pulling into that is closed we are not
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the only
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ones stopping to see if they're
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open people still need supplies I think
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we got everything we
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need Walmart is closed it is 11:34 right
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now they have their carts in front of
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the doors probably just maybe stop the
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wind or maybe just because they have so
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many cards because the place isn't
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open probably just to keep them from
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blowing
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away this these are not all the way in
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front of the door well I guess the there
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probably are I don't know maybe there's
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no employees in there you got to have
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one door open if there's anyone inside
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Dollar Store looks to be very busy
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people getting since Walmart's not open
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Publix isn't open I have seen a lot of
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the power companies out and about doing
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preliminary or maybe even I don't know
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what they'd be doing out this early just
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making sure everything's okay maybe
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staging
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Vehicles getting them ready yeah
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here hey we're a news crew from Canada
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are you guys here for the storm we live
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locally pardon yeah we're local here can
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we ask you a couple questions about how
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you're ready and how you're feeling sure
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sure okay cool is that like are you guys
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out filming stuff too yeah you want me
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to get out no you're fine you're fine no
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you're fine here we'll do it real quick
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can I and this is okay with you sure
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okay can I start with your name and
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where you're from my name is Adam Adam
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Jim Jim how so um tell me how are you
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feeling right now what are you doing oh
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I'm feeling fine we're all prepared for
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the storm we got our house all boarded
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up and um our son lives in a secure
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bigger secure house and we're going to
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be staying over there okay um have you
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been through one of these before oh
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we've been through other hurricanes in
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the past yes does this one feel any
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different at all um it's probably
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stronger than some of the others that
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we've had uh we had one back several
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years ago that um that we went through
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that was this kind of reminds me of that
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it's going to be stronger than Helen was
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and we're going to take a direct hit
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here in Central Florida um so uh you're
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prepared what are you doing out today
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may I just just ask what you guys are up
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to right now yeah we're kind of my son
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is a YouTube uh videoer and he um he's
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kind of taking some before and after
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videos of what the celebration area
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looks like okay and so your house is
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boarded up you guys already yep okay
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we're all it anything else you want to
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add no stay safe okay thank you so much
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I appreciate you thank have a great day
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are we going to be on YouTube you're
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going to be on YouTube there you go yeah
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who where you who you guys who you guys
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with Canadian public broadcaster
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Canadian CBC so no thank you for your
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time we appreciate stay safe okay guys
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yeah you too thank
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you wow cool you're going to be on
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TV he's a
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celebrity this is a big event when there
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a news place from Canada down filming
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yep also I should mention my place is
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not boarded up your guys place is
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boarded up but yeah I didn't mention
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that all right it looks like this
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racetrack has
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fuel I see people fueling up over there
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racetrack on the corner of lbv Factory
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Stores
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drive and
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535 even the sign is secured down kind
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of again interesting that celebration
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not one board that I've
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seen
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however that says open this door this is
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a Wendy's they are boarded
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up someone definitely abided by the rule
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painted on that door the door is
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open but only a segment of the Wendy's
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actually no the Wendy's is not boarded
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up the Chevron is boarded up
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Wendy's is still
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either right Disney Springs it's 12:01
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right now they are allowing people into
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the lime
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garage I don't think Springs is
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open maybe Springs closed it too just
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like Disney World
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does yeah bus traffic still going in and
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out so that's still running for the
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resorts and the parks
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already hear in Sirens back home now got
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to hun her
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down all right back inside now my place
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actually looks livable now that you guys
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are here there's actually
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groceries brought stuff over
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snacks chips
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soups mom's going to make tacos
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tonight ready for some tacos I am ready
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it's like we're going to stay a
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month there's Mom all cozied up yep so
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Dad got interviewed on the news did he
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tell you yep he going all about it yeah
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he's famous now Canada you said Canadian
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news place that's what he was telling me
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as we were driving away babe yeah as we
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were driving away there was some other
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people standing
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around and uh they said you're going to
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be on TV and I said yeah this then we
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continued to drive away and this guy
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said as we drove away can have you
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on just received notification there is a
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curfew in order yeah I saw that did you
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guys get that too I I saw it but what
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time time is it 8:00 P.M we have to
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can't be outside after 8:00 P.M
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tonight be yeah we don't definitely want
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to be out there oh now we're all getting
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another one here curfew order and effect
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Oola County I don't know why I'm getting
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two but all right just got a voicemail
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let's see what the voicemail
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says this is an Urgent Message from
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alert Oola please stay on the line for
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additional
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information curfew order and effect for
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aola County from 8:00 p.m. Wednesday
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October 9th to 10:00 a.m. Thursday
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October
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10th
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okay we were sitting here watching the
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TV getting the projected path got our
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first hunker down of the newscast that's
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a phrase that's used around here when
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you're supposed to stay St say stay safe
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you got to hunker down got our first
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hunker down of the
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Season out of the out of the moue of the
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the newscasters and the people doing the
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press
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conference to document this occasion
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that my stove is actually being
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used I can tell you only have three pots
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surprised I even have
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those holders
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here right there
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see all right dinner is now prepared
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thanks to Mom for making all the
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food mom and I both have our Stanley dad
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does not have a Stanley you didn't bring
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his it's at home you have a Stanley yeah
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it ain't a Stanley but it's something
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like we got he got it to other night at
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church thank you okay we could have all
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been uh all three had Stanley stanle in
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tonight
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has there ever been a hurricane named
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Stanley I don't know I don't know a
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Milton yeah we getting close when you
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think of Milton what name is what's the
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first Milton you think of Milton Burl
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exactly Milt
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all right it's now 8:50 we're watching
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the news and about 5 or 10 minutes
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ago the hurricane made landfall near
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Sarasota I think they said it was a
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little near Sarasota five or six miles
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from Sarasota came
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across so the hurricane is
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officially on Shore in Florida
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again it's about 850 p.m. 8:45 I think
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it made
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landfall around there so far so good I
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have not lost power
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yet in watching the news there's a lot
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of power out lots of power outages over
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on the coasts and in Central
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Florida but again the storm the eye of
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the storm has not come over Central
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Florida yet it's going to be around 2:
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a.m. before it passes by between
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midnight and 2: a.m. so still a little
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time but so
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far so far so good here in celebration
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from my
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a it's a pretty intense
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one especially on the Tampa St Pete side
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and even when it when it gets over to
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the other coast when it gets over to the
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east coast Bard Coco Melbourne all that
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it's going to be a lot of flooding
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all right I'm in the garage now my
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parents parked their car in here it's
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11:27 right right now so I'm going to
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squeeze
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around my garage is flooding a little
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bit but
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not anything out of control in
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comparison to what I've been watching on
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the news but I also want to talk about
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Tropicana Field where the raay play got
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my Tampa Bay Ray banner up Tropicana
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Field roof got ripped off unbelievable
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in St Pete so I got some water coming in
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here it's not too deep but there is like
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some standing water starting to flood in
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maybe that squeegee I purchased when I
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bought the
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house late last year probably in the
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morning you're still expecting another 6
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seven
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in before the the storm passes by
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tomorrow morning so I'm sure this is
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going to be filled up a little bit but
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compared to what I've
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seen on the
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news definitely
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not not anything that's too terribly bad
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man there's some places been to get hit
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really hard I was shocked to see the
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news
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footage of Tropicana Field roof has been
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freaking ripped off Tropicana Field in
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St Pete so they're saying well over a
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million people in Central Florida are
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without power I'm very grateful my
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parents and I have power here in
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celebration again
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celebration has underground power lines
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I'm sure that probably is helpful in
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that
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situation but just watching the news
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just really intense across central
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Florida all right it's a little after
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midnight now it's almost
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1 I think I'm going to try to get some
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sleep now I know it's still for a few
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hours going to be really intense I think
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the worst is heading over now as far
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as here thunder and lightning or I can
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see the lightning or hear the
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thunder so Tropicana Field the worst
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from what I've seen on the news is a lot
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of flooding even on the East Coast
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before the Hurrican even got over there
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but also the West Coast tampus St Pete
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area Sarasota all that when the eye came
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across but it hit land seeing the news
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footage of Tropicana Field just really
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amazing a place that I have been to
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countless times I do very well like a
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second home for me being a ra fan but
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also very saddening because the National
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Guard they had hundreds if not a
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thousand CS I may be OV exaggerating
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with a thousand CS but hundreds of Cs
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where the National Guard were going to
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be resting they were resting in order to
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as soon as the sun came up and the storm
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passed in the morning they were going to
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you know
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linesmen and getting the town safe
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secure and helping the community we're
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resting there and then the roof just
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completely ripped off and that is just
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one of the many stories of this
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hurricane I was grateful to have my Mom
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and Dad here hopefully throughout the
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course of the night they already went to
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sleep wake up in the morning we're still
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safe and can just
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see what what has happened but a lot of
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flooding lots and lots of flooding lots
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and lots of rain lots of wind as of now
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when I'm turning in everything's good
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here on my end but when I was listening
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watching the TV the million out of power
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there's 1 million people out of power
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they said now it's 2 million people are
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out of power so I'm really grateful that
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we were able to to have power on at
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least now after I turn in maybe when the
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storm comes over directly we'll lose
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power but now turning in a little after
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midnight 1:00
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a.m. we're okay but what a storm
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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is over