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Eben Brown informs us about the recent tropical storm
Air Fox correspondent Evan Brown is in Miami and more on the storms that are taking place right now. The big one, the first one of the year now, Tropical Storm Alberto responsible now for at least four deaths in Mexico. Evan, welcome in. Thanks for being here. Good morning. So this did not turn into a hurricane, but my pretty powerful though. Yeah, it just goes to show that quote, unquote, just a tropical storm is still problematic and dangerous and a risk and you have to take these things seriously. And while we consider a landfall where the eye of the storm reaches land, that was in Mexico. Plenty of spots in Texas got reigned on pretty hard and certainly felt the wind field and were under a tornado watch for most of yesterday. So this was a pretty wide storm and just a, you know, like you mentioned, four deaths reported in Mexico at least. And just as a reminder that these are powerful things that have long lasting far reaching impacts far inland as well. And, you know, when when we get them hitting the US Gulf Coast or the Florida East Coast or the entire the US East Coast, you know, they become problems for a lot of people. You know, it just a great reminder of this. You know, Hurricane Ida, which struck New Orleans a few years back as a category for, you know, it was pretty intense. But then to remnant the tropical depression remnant low, it rained on Pennsylvania and New York and caused more flooding there than it did in New Orleans and killed more people up there because they're unprepared for it. They don't know how to deal with it. And they don't listen to, you know, to the warnings about, you know, being safe. So, uh, and sadly, that's, uh, it was to their detriment. So that's a reminder that these things are, are pretty awful. I thought it was interesting and I never thought about this, but the four deaths in Mexico blamed on the storm. Three of those were from electric shock, you know, in this situation. Well, yeah, I mean, I don't know the specifics of them, but that is a risk that's a known risk. You know, power lines come down. They're not necessarily turned off. And if you start walking through water, you don't know if you're going to walk on top of a down line because you can't ski, you know, or just in general, you know, water and electricity don't mix. So, uh, you know, it's just, it's very dangerous to be out during a storm and, uh, and to, and to go through, you know, flooded, uh, you know, building water because you just can't see what's underneath you, what you're walking through. Uh, there could be a downed wire. The ground underneath could have given way and you can't tell. Uh, and then there's wildlife, you know, I mean, there's, there's wildlife there and, and they could, uh, be problematic for you too. So yeah, if you're around situations where there's all kinds of flooding and it's rising like that, you're right. But you could walk into who knows what anything from critters to gators to snakes to electric wires to engine parts. I mean, when it gets that bad, it can get really dangerous quick. Thank you. Evan Brown, our Fox correspondent in Miami, by the way, Greg Abbott, the governor there in Texas has issued a disaster declaration for 51 counties in Texas before this whole storm made landfall there. But, uh, yeah, the brown of it did hit Mexico, but far reaching as Evan indicated