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Pete Riehm Tennessee for Hurrican Relief - Mobile Mornings - Tuesday 10-08-24
[MUSIC PLAYING] News, sports, weather from Dr. Bill Williams, traffic info from Kane, and one of the Gulf Coast's most familiar voices. It's Mobile Mornings with Dan Brennan and Dalton R. Whig. Good morning from Dan and Dalton. Sean is in for Dalton this morning. Thanks again. Sean, double duty. So what's a media mobile look like today? Have you got a little line up? Yeah, a huge blockbuster line up, OK? So I've got things to say that you do in the midday show. Now we'll talk a little bit of presidential politics. Also, locally, Representative Matt Simpson coming in. We're going to have a feeling one of the things we're going to talk about is a pre-filed bill about not requiring saltwater fishing licenses to take part in Jubilees. It's something that I talked about on FM Talk, one of 65 Outdoors. Mike Ward and I did on Saturday morning. And the stories out about came out last week about this bill. Now Representative Simpson had talked about this before with me. And he's going to join me. Imagine we'll talk about that. And then a lot of other items coming up for the legislative session, so. Well, help me understand this. So he's talking about statewide legislation. Yeah, but it would only apply here. It really would only apply to the strip of land where Jubilees happened. Yeah, although there are some rare Jubilees happen on the west side of the bay, but it's a rare thing. But yeah, it's a-- and listen, we went through this story before, earlier this summer. I know a lot of people disagree that they think you should be able to harvest that will. Well, within the limits, there are some people who say you should be able to get everything because they think they're all going to die. They don't, during Jubilee. They don't die once the hypoxia-- once the oxygen daylight gets up, they come back. They come to, and the oxygen is in the water, and the critters can swim off. But the question is, should you-- I think most people, there are some people who are like, I should take whatever I want. But they're most people I've talked to. They believe the limits should be in place, but you shouldn't have to have an efficient license to take part in Jubilee. My unpopular opinion is, you should. So we'll debate some of that today. And as far as, when you live on the Eastern Shore, say you live in Point Clear Fair Hope, your land extends to the beach, or is it-- But there's a high water mark thing. I mean, people can walk the-- I mean, do you own that part of the land? But once the water stops and you have maybe-- Well, it's the high water mark, I think, is where, you know. So, I mean, you-- OK. And most people have bulkheads there, whatever. OK. OK. So as they walk down to that bulkhead, or whatever-- yeah, you have a-- it's just like the beaches. Remember this during COVID, when they shut the beaches down? Yeah. And I was like, what? Outside, separate, you know. But the state had the right to do that, because the state owns that-- even if you have private property on the beach, the state owns the public, we, the people, on that intertidal zone, or whatever, I think the term is for it. Wasn't Florida wide open? And they were getting hammered over it. Like, their beaches were-- was there over time of-- Oh, yeah, I'm sure they did. I mean, I remember Florida being more and getting killed on the news, on the national news, for-- People being outside? Well, getting vitamin D. Being near each other, you know, on the beach. But-- So, Dolphin Island was closed? No, it was-- yeah, the governor put that in. What I'm getting to, this is a-- you know, we kind of gone off a tangent, but just to say that intertidal zone belongs to the people. You don't own-- unless you have a bulkhead, they can't be up on your yard or whatever. But you have, you know, that area is just same thing. If you had a house on the beach, other than the bay, you own private property, but people can still walk down the beach 'cause that's public. Now they can't walk up in your yard than they can, but they're not supposed to. Yeah, that's a problem I'm never going to have. But thanks for straightening that. The Dan Brennan's future beachfront property, that's on hold. Yeah, it's on mine too. 10 minutes after 8 o'clock, let me run something by here real quick, Sean, too. And I hate that you're answering all my queries here this morning, but you remember when my orchestra came out last week and said, we've got enough money for puts in front of us here, FEMA. We've got enough FEMA money for what we're dealing with here with Aline, but we don't have money for future storms, which looks, you know, here's their future storm about to happen in Florida. So he had that to say, but there is a new controversy, and it looks like, let me find out real quick where I'm at with the story. It's not, I apologize, it's the Inspector General now saying that they've got money. Inspector General released a report saying that FEMA is sitting on at least $8.3 billion in untapped, unspent funds. On October 2nd, my orchestra said we're expecting another hurricane hitting, we do not have the funds for that. This guy's saying we do have the funds. This new controversy is surfacing as Milton of course and now become a category five. Analysts say FEMA cannot tap unspent appropriations from long ago crisis, so the money sits frozen as you have, you know, all the damage up in North Carolina. So is it money they can tap into or not? I don't quite get it. It's $8.3 billion. Again, this is the Inspector General of the DHS, which I guess is a step below my orchestra, so. But he's saying we've got $8.3 billion, but analysts say FEMA cannot tap into that money. - Well, it seems like if that's the rule, then Congress could undo that. - Okay. - 'Cause they are about appropriations, they hold the purse strings. You know, we see this at a state level with earmarking, and we'll go into session and be debating the budget and we're talking about really in the general fund, maybe 7% of the budget under debate, 93% in Alabama's earmark, which is silly because sometimes you have needs, other places versus. - Sure. - So I think that's gotta be a semantic argument. - Okay. - I think if they really want to do it, exactly like I said before we went to the news too, and Congressman Carl pointed this out yesterday when we were in that discussion, and you can go back and check out the podcast and listen to that full conversation. But he said, by the way, too, as we're going down the list of places there are money or they've spent money, not just on the housing, the illegal immigrants. He said, Sean, do you know how much money we spent in September on COVID? And he gave me the number, I said, oh, is that September 2022 or 21? He said, no, of 24. And it's $4 billion was spent on COVID-19 aid in the month of September of this year, which was the most of any month since 2023. I don't, it must've been for the kids or something like that. But it's, you know, you look at this, they spent, so look at a breakdown here, look at like an XL sheet of spending here. It's, this is the Disaster Relief Fund monthly obligations for fiscal year 2024 from the federal government, and line items are initial 20, initial fiscal year 2024, spend plan to estimates. And then they've list like California wildfires, Oregon wildfires, these things that are still, they're still paying on from the past. And then it said COVID-19, monthly actual estimated obligations. So this is 2024, September, $4 billion in spending. - Yeah, I don't quite get that, Sean. I don't know. - Yeah, and I mean, it may be for test kits outreach. I don't know, it doesn't have a breakdown here beyond that main line item of what it is, but there's money out there that is just how you've allocated the money. And Congressman Carlson, we fully funded FEMA. This is not an issue they do have the money to pay for this. So, and once again, we're gonna see this on top of, once again, we have the challenges we're talking about. And I'm gonna tell you right now the number of people, there's so many affected from Helene, but even though the swath of this, Milton is gonna be smaller. It's a lot denser population. You go through central Florida. - Absolutely. - It's gonna be, a lot of people affected there. And you look at Tampa or Lander, that I for corridor out to the east coast of Florida there. There's a lot of people there that are gonna be hurting. - This is way different than what we just saw. I mean, this is, this is, and I'm pretty familiar with that area because my sister living down there, but it is, they've talked about 1.5 million Tampa Bay. - It's three million. - Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. - 3.2 million in the Metro. So, and then how about Orlando? So, there it is. - And also there was a conversation between the press secretary, and I guess it was Ducey with Fox talking about, well, we were just talking about about those funds, and that got a little contentious as well. Do we wanna go to the phone's line on the phone lines here? - Yeah, we can, I do wanna say, by the way, Corinne Jampier's been offered a new gig too. - Really? - I guess this will be the swan song of Corinne Jampier, what is it, they offered a position like a, let's see, I don't think it's a pay increase, but another position with the Biden administration going forward, forget what it is. I get to that in a second, but yeah, Corinne Jampier, I don't know if that means she's gonna be double duty, or she's not gonna be press secretary anymore. I don't care what party, who wants to be the press secretary? I guess I'm too much of an individual thinker to do that for any party, but yeah, okay, Corinne Jampier's the service senior advisor to Biden during the final three months in office. Says despite internal concern about Jampier's performance, which resulted in an unsuccessful attempt to coach her to step aside, the new title likely does, does not include a pay raise, as Jampier 50 already earns $180,000 per year, the same as current senior advisor. - That's, that job's not worth $180,000 for the aggravation. - You don't imagine the ulcers? - It's got, and no kidding. All right, let's see what's going on here. What are we talking to? - This is Jay, isn't it? - Okay. - Yeah. - How are you doing today? - Doing fine, Jay, what's going on? - Well, I'd like to thank you guys for your show, I really enjoy it, but y'all hit a nerve with me earlier. - Sure. - The state of Alabama, when they shut down, those beaches committed a crime against humanity. It was insane, it was crazy, it was just pure out stupid, and we need to call out what it is. People have a right to go outside and enjoy their life, period. My body, my choice. And if we're gonna live that philosophy, we need to mean that philosophy. And we need to conduct a hearing on the COVID virus, and how badly it was conducted at the local, the state, and the national level. It was one of the biggest disasters we have ever had in this country. It showed the weak-mindedness of our government and our people in allowing this to occur. It should never, ever happen again. We claim to be Americans, we claim to love freedom, but we have the opportunity to fight for it. And eventually we did. We need to never, ever let that happen again. There are great crimes and committed against humanity at times, that was one of them. And Sean, thank you for bringing that up today, reminding us that we didn't have the right to walk the beaches. It was taken from us, and we have to fight every day to keep our freedom. - There we go, Jake. - Appreciate you, Jake. - Put you down as undecided on that. (laughs) - Yeah, he's just walking the fence there. - But the beach thing, that came up because of private property. But the state does own to the mean high tide, the intertidal zone there. How we went from Jubilees to COVID night, that's the kind of show we run here. It's 18 after eight o'clock on FM Talk 10065. If you missed what Dr. Bill had to say earlier today about Milton, we've got that around the corner. - Good morning from Dan and Dalton, FM Talk 10065. Sean is in for Dalton this morning. - Howdy. - Got our eye on what's going on with Milton. Looks like it's still on the Gulf of Mexico, but it's, hey, they're almost sure the strength of it, it's a five now. It may not be a five when it gets to the coastline. That's good. Take any good news we can get. But it might be a three or a very strong three or a four, so none of that is really good news. Some of the officials are putting out some pretty dire messages like the mayor of Tampa. Her name is Jane Castor. She says this is gonna be an event like you've never seen before and talks about all the different things that you're gonna be dealing with if you decide, especially in Tampa, to stay, which she does not recommend. This is Jane Castor. - Helene was mostly a water event for us. This is going to be wind, water, storm surge, rain, you name it. It's gonna bring everything towards our community. - All right, what do you think, Sean? But what do you think, what are we gonna be talking about in two days when the storm hits? - I mean, if it's staying like it is, the tree damage is gonna be something. Obviously, storm surge, sure looking in Tampa, and I've sent you some stuff this morning. I was looking at some topography maps of, and it's like I get frustrated around here when national media will assume that topography's the same everywhere. Like Katrina or other storms are like, all this could flood and you're like, well, we're not South Louisiana, we're not even as flat as the Mississippi coast, right? I mean, you've got, you've got the Ecore Rouge, right? You have the Bluffs at Montrose that are some of the, I think the highest on the coast until you get to Maine. - Interesting. - Yeah, I think that Bluffs-- - Interesting. - I think that's true. We have some different topography, and Florida does to some degree. Actually, if you'll be driving north of Tampa, there's a little kind of, say, mountains, I think they're not-- - Oh, really? - I think they're sand ridges, but yeah, there's definitely some topo there. So certain parts of Tampa, 15 feet of storm surge, it's gonna be a big deal, and there's so many people live on the water. I mean, that's one of the great things to live in there, right? - Yeah. - Having your house on the water, they're gonna be, you get 15 feet of storm surge. It's gonna be a big time problem. I think the highest point in Tampa is 48 feet above sea level. A lot of it's around 2022, I look, so those areas won't get inundated by storm surge. Obviously, other areas will be big time. And then in addition to that, I think you start talking about, say it's a category three, coming in. Frederick was a three, you don't remember? I was a kid. - I didn't realize that. - It's a kid, but I remember what the pond trees look like here in our fair city after that. So, I mean, the tree damage, and then if this pours the rain like it's going to, do you remember the inland flooding they get on the peninsula there and get some massive flooding inland as you get a place like Orlando and those places. - Here's what Dr. Bill had to say or as we talked to him earlier today. - Yeah, yesterday the storm reached an incredible 180 mile per hour staying wind, which meant that it had gusts probably around 200 miles per hour. A very, actually a very small storm and that remains that way, but it's gonna change. And during the night, it underwent, we call an eyewall replacement cycle and the eye became extremely small, just a few miles in diameter. And this happens when the storm gets extremely strong, although it can happen other times, but most likely when they're very strong. And as a result, the eye, the smaller eye collapses and a newer one forms have a larger diameter. And during that process, the top winds will drop down. And so it dropped from 180 miles per hour to 155, which is the way it is right now. 155, which makes it a category four, but right on the edge of being a category five. Now will it rebuild again? It looks like it will. That usually happens after the new eye forms a larger diameter, it starts to become smaller and smaller. The storm increases in intensity. I don't think it'll get back up to 180, but it looks like goodbye this afternoon. It may get up to around 165. It's right now just north of the Yucatan Peninsula, very close to it. And it's beginning to turn more to the northeast. And that's gonna be the track here for the next couple of days, or at least for the rest of today in the model. And it will continue as a major hurricane. Once it gets up closer to the Florida Peninsula, it will undergo some wind shear. And that's gonna slow it down a bit, not in forward speed, but certainly in wind velocity. But the likely target now is Tampa, and that will occur tomorrow night. And it will be at least a category three, maybe a four. It's gonna push a lot of water, particularly, it was up to 165 mile per hour winds. It will be pushing a lot of water, although it may drop down in intensity, perhaps to 145 or 140. That is still a very strong hurricane. And if it goes into Tampa, Tampa Bay will receive double digit storm surge, possibly as high as 15 feet. And that will occur to the south also of Tampa, down along the coast and many areas, even as far as Fort Myers could get up around the 10 foot storm surge. - There you go, that's what Dr. Bill had to say this morning. It doesn't seem as the morning went along, and much had really changed at all. And we'll see, you know, maybe during the day, if there's some sort of shift, or if he just wants to jump on with you again. - Yeah, you'll probably have him on at 12.30. You can't normally join speed to give an update. We're gonna go from one potential disaster to one real disaster right now, up in North Carolina. Pete Reem, who you know from this radio station, is in North Carolina right now. And I believe it's in the Asheville area. - Yeah, I saw some of his pictures of the weekend on Facebook, unbelievable damage, unreal. So, he'll let us know what's going on up there, and what he sees in terms of FEMA, Red Cross, and that kind of thing, all coming up. (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music) - Good morning from Dan and Sean. It's in for Dalton this morning, 8.35, on FM Chocolate 365. I've been going to more P-Wea football games lately, I don't. It just, it turns in, it's kind of a treat. But yeah, a friend of mine, I've got friends who was backstage, and now they've got their kids, right. So I was a coach back in the day when they were little kids. So it's just fun to watch, okay, now I'll watch your kid play. - And going through this, my youngest is 14 now, 19, but to go watch kids sports, there's those kids that are like, phenoms are already into it, they know the game, they're like, and then there's, the kids are there, they don't know what's going on, exactly, they know they're playing the P-Wea football game, they're not sure, like they're looking over at the coach always with their hand up, like what did I do. Here's those, that's my, that's my people. - Here's the, that was me, but here's the difference. I swear, I was watching a UMS, might've been, they were getting ready for a game, they might've been fourth and fifth graders. I swear they had seven coaches. I mean, they were, they were barking instructions to these kids, there's, you couldn't be confused on the, on the field because, there were so many telling you what to do. - There's so many people telling you what to do. All right, we're not gonna tell him what to do, but we appreciate that he's on with us right now, back from North Carolina. Pete Reem, joining us on the line, Pete, I didn't realize you were back, so welcome back, glad you're back. What's the situation in North Carolina with your family and homes and everybody? What's going on up there? - Well, good morning, Dan, Sean, thanks for having me. Yeah, I got back this weekend. I was up there, I went up last Sunday, drove in Monday morning, I got up to Knoxville last Sunday, loaded up, got there, and I drove in Monday morning 'cause it was, 'cause I didn't, I wanna go, didn't wanna go in the dark, needed light. I was able to get in from Tennessee, in the Tennessee side over the mountain, and fortunately, which, which when you head that way, there was a big road closed sign, and, but I saw people coming out, so I drove around it, but that was fine, so you were able to get in. And we have a cabin up there, which is only about 15 miles from the Tennessee line, and thankfully, my daughters, all the grandchildren, son-in-law, well, one son-in-law, was at the cabin, and they were fine, and I got to them Monday morning now. My oldest daughter lived in a place called Pensacola, North Carolina, across from Cat Tail Creek, which is normally eight to fifth, or 10 to 15 feet wide. That creek came out, and she's about 200 feet from the creek. Cat Tail Creek came out of its banks, and completely washed away her house. - Wow. - It was over eight feet of water in her house, trees going through it. They lost everything. Her house is completely gone. Half of it's gone, and the other half of it was knocked off the foundation, and sits where the barn used to be. It's a 120-year-old farmhouse, just destroyed. - Cheers. - But thankfully, they were up at our cabin, which, and our cabin sits pretty high, so we didn't have a threat of flooding, and the way it kind of depends on, for all the people up there, where your house was on the hill, if there was a lot of hill or mountain above you, you had a lot of water coming down on top of you, right? - Right, I can imagine the runoff, yeah. - Yes, the runoff, that's what got my other daughter, is she lived a mile above the North toe river, and the mile below her, where you turn off the main road to go up to her house, my other daughter, it looks like anything you ever saw like you could train in the Mississippi Gulf Coast, that little turn-off down there by the river, the buildings are all gone, flattened, I mean, bridge is completely taken out, I mean, it was unbelievable. Then you go up the mile to her house, you know, the houses are still there, but there's mud slides that they don't usually have up there. Matter of fact, one of the hills slid off on Tuesday, we didn't realize it came down, it was so wet, it took a while for it to actually slide, but now her house, she was subject to what you'd tell her on the runoff, there's a lot of hill above her, and there was literally a mountain of water came down, fortunately the damage to the house was not severe, but it literally redirected a creek that's normally 50 feet away from the house, was redirected underneath the house. - Underneath the house, that picture is on really, I was looking at Pete, I was looking at your pictures there this weekend, and you'll, I mean, you'll look at this, it just made a new channel, right Pete, and it decided to go into the house. - And went under the house, unfortunately, we were able to dig a little trench and divert it back where it really wanted to go, it was just where everything was upset with sediment, it diverted it, and so more needs to be done, but we got that diverted, but it's stories like that, and my ex-wife was actually a good example, she lives towards the top of the hill, so she didn't suffer any real damage from water or anything, but she had a 500 foot driveway that's almost straight up, well, a huge oak tree fell across her driveway. - Wow. - Well, she can't do anything with that, right? I mean, so that, as a matter of fact, we went, I went with my son, and we didn't get there until Thursday, so she could only walk out, she couldn't drive out, 'cause the driveway was blocked, right? - Yeah, yeah. - But it took till Thursday before my son and I got a, we had to go to John City, get a bigger chainsaw, and cut this thing up, you know, and I have new respect for people who do that, 'cause if you've never cut up a really big tree sitting across the road. - It's work, and the big trees like that, it can get spooky, depending on, you know, how green that tree is, I mean, when you're cutting something. - Oh, yeah, I did a lot of pondering on where, where should I be standing, or not standing? (laughing) - Yeah, so, here's the thing. - But those are examples of what everybody's dealing with, and there's so many, and I was shocked how many old people live way up on hollers on the side of mountains and stuff, and they're not real able, they can't lift stuff, they can't get stuff. I mean, like, flushing water was a big deal, because without power, everybody's wells were out, except for some had reservoirs of, maybe you had a reservoir above your house, that had gravity, you were good, but if you had a well, you were screwed, and you had to carry flush it, well, there were so many older people, they can't go 100 to 1,000 feet down the driveway to the creek and tout buckets of water back up to the house. - The town's a gallon, yeah, absolutely. - Yeah, so, I mean, simple stuff like that had to be done. - You know, so these examples are certainly painting a picture, and all I'm thinking about right now is the countless stories like that. - Oh, yeah. - How many people are in real peril right now, maybe unaccounted for, or like you said, it's older people who aren't well enough to, you know, they're not banking on something, this sort of tragedy happening in their little peaceful mountainside town. You know, they're just living out their life, and suddenly that life is threatened, and for some I guess it actually ended because of the storm and the unavailability of people to help, volunteers to federal authorities, to Red Cross to whatever. Did you see anything like that in terms of any resources that were coming in to help? - As far as resources, the first few days we were there, the only thing we saw was the locals and volunteers, you know, and people like me, I mean, my kids and grandkids were up there, so I headed in, and I sort of followed, there was a guy on Facebook from Indiana who ran in the day before me, and he was the same thing, you know, he had kids and grandkids there, and he was coming from Indiana, and he was posting on Facebook how he was going, and he and I went back and forth, you know, and he posted on Sunday as I was driving up, "Hey, I got through the way we discussed, I got through." You know, that's the people I saw the first few days, the volunteer fire departments were out, churches were out, I mean, and neighbors like on the road where our cabin is, there's not even 10 houses, but I met all my neighbors, 'cause literally everybody came by and checked on everybody else. I'd never met 'em before, but everybody came up and said, "Hey, are you here, is anybody here, does anybody need help?" So neighbors, I saw a lot of that. I left Friday evening, and then the time I was there, we did not encounter really any federal or state officials. What we did finally see about Thursday was some military units started saging supplies at various schools around the county, which, now I'll tell you, that was much appreciated that they came with supplies, but by that time the churches and volunteer fire departments were already, they had organized, people were bringing 'em water and stuff, so if you needed something, you went to any church or volunteer fire department, they probably had diapers, they probably had water, and they would be grilling out there, trying to cook hot meals, so the point I'm getting back to about the military getting there, so you had all these young, able-bodied military people, and they showed up to the schools and they'd be unloading pallets of water and MREs, and then they're ready to hand 'em out, and by this time everybody's running around, people like me too old and too dumb to be operating a chainsaw are running around, and we're looking at them going, we don't, the old women are handing out water, we need them with equipment out here going up these driveways and helping people get out and clear stuff off the road, 'cause literally, now our cabin's pretty remote, and our area, nothing, the roads were cleared, and the week I was there, they were not cleared, there was only paths cut literally by the locals with their own chainsaws. So we were, I mean, the day I left, I was still driving around the same fallen trees, the same downed power lines, this was Friday, I was still driving around in our area, down in the population center, they were working from the outside, you know, the population are out, but it was literally the local people got out and cut enough of a path for vehicles to pass, and it was still, like I said, in our area that way Friday. - So you got there Tuesday, so you're talking about Tuesday, Thursday, and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, so in that time-- - I got there Monday, I was in Monday morning. - Okay, and so would you say that you saw substantial change in the conditions or very little? - In our area, there was not substantial change in the conditions where the cabin is. Now when I got back down to the main town, where we usually shop called Burnsville, that, and that's a population center, there was starting to be substantial change in the conditions, the power company was there, there was heavy, there was some heavy equipment coming in some contractors, 'cause there was a, thankfully there was a couple of main bridges on the U.S. highway that runs through the town, and they got to work, they had to put them down to one lane because they were about to fall in, and they were working on it, so that stuff was working, but honestly the supplies came from the people, like the Cajun Navy was set up at one of the shopping centers, there's like two little shopping areas, or actually three, but they're very small shopping areas in Burnsville, and one of them, that whole parking lot, Cajun Navy was set up, and if you can find their pictures, they had supplies just all over the place. I mean, you could get up there and get whatever you wanted, and they were organizing every day to go, "Who needs help?" And I mean, Facebook actually had more coordination for what I could see than the county or anybody else, because what we would see when you could get a signal, which was very hard, and thankfully they're two miles from our cabin was about to your fire department, and somebody got in them a star link, so I could go up there and get a little bit of a signal and a call out or two. - Yeah, that was a guy named Elon. - Yeah, but people were posting, would post on Facebook, they called Burnsville Hub, "Hey, so-and-so with this address and blah, blah, blah," and that would be related to either, something like the Cajun Navy, or they had all sorts of people, I mean, teams of people would show up from wherever armed with, you know, bed rolls, chainsaws, gas tanks, water, and they would say, "Where do we need to go?" And they, and if you could get them to somewhere, they would just go up and clear people's driveways, but that was individuals that I saw. - Thank God for people like that, and also for Cajun Navy, I've had that. They were on my show a couple of times, years ago, you know, you think about the negatives of social media, but what Pete's talking about too is social media could be a fantastic tool in that situation. And Pete, I want to also ask you about this story, I was reading over the weekend. Y'all listen to this, and you're talking about divine providence and the story of grit here. You pointed out that while you're, well, you know, one of your daughters who lost the house, Jessica, she was safe, she evacuated and got safe, I guess your son-in-law stayed behind, and then when he went to evacuate, can you tell folks that story about how he did leave the house the next day and how he found your daughter? - Yeah, that was just a divine providence, and it, my daughter, she was, they had no communication. We couldn't talk to any of them either, right? So we had no idea what's going on. So the day after Friday when it hit, he stayed behind 'cause they had chickens and a dog, and he was gonna watch, 'cause they expected water to come up to the house and block the roads, but they didn't expect it to wash away the house. - Sure. - So he was down there watching, he realized it was coming up fast, and he was in his truck, and him and the dog backed up. There's a driveway next to their house, it goes up to a house above them on the hill, where he stayed that night, but he kept backing up the hill, and he just watched it all happen. Well, there's no communication, nobody knows anything. So by Saturday morning, he wants to, 'cause he didn't know where his family is, other than they're at our cabin, and are they okay? 'Cause he didn't know what happened on the other side of the county. - Sure, yeah, that makes sense. - So there's no way to communicate, and the roads down there in Pensacola are totally washed out. You can't drive anywhere. Bridges are gone, totally washed out. So my son-in-law and the dog, it's normally a 15-mile drive to town over the windy roads, but he hiked over the mountain with the dog eight miles. - Wow, up and over. - So he's going straight over the mountain with him and the dog hiked back to town eight miles. My daughter, Saturday morning, not knowing where her husband is, can't hear anything. We're 15 miles by road to the north side of Burnsville in the cabin, but you can't get that the way, because bridges are washed. So she hitchhikes 25 miles, because she got to go through spruce bines, got to go all the way around to the north and come back. And she hitchhikes 25 miles to get to town to find out if she can find her husband. And thankfully, thank the Lord, she literally was put, she arrived at the rescue station, there at the center part of town. Well, where the main road coming out of Pensacola comes into town, there's a rescue station, she arrives there, and just shortly after she arrives there, he's walking out with the dog. Oh my God, when I read that, they gave me goosebumps, that's a heck of a story. - That is an amazing story. - Yeah, Pete, we appreciate you sharing so much with us this morning, including the-- - And Pete's post now shared on our Facebook page too. So if you want to see Pete's pictures too, you got FM Talks, Facebook page, and I'll link through there. - Thanks for doing what you did. I know you did it because of family, but I'm sure you helped a lot of people up there as well. And glad that everyone, for the most part is okay, Pete. - Thanks for your time this morning. - Yeah, no, thanks for having me. Keep praying for those people, they got a long road to rebuild. - That's the picture that you're paying for sure. Pete Reame on FM Talk, one of the six, five and mobile mornings. My God, that's a lifetime movie final, final chapter. When I read that, I think it's Sunday, I was like, holy cow, what a story. - 853, Dan, and Sean, in for Dalton. (upbeat music) What's going on, y'all? Dan, and thanks again to Sean Sellers coming in for Dalton this morning. Great to be appreciated. (upbeat music) Okay, we've got the Jet Force show on the way. And it's guest list includes Eastern Shore Republican Women's Judy Barlow. She's in the nine o'clock Arabic, 935. An hour from then, who will be a U.S. Representative Gary Palmer on Jeff Show, and then to wrap things up, 1135 AL GOP chair, John Wall. He's got a new position as well. It's got to do with the library board, right? Anyway, they'll talk libraries and they'll talk GOP politics in the state of Alabama, and they'll do that around 1135 this morning. Thanks again for all the texts. Phone calls, thank you to Pete Reame for his account of what was going on in the place called Burnsville, North Carolina, and in the Western Carolinas. Appreciate to what he's done. Keep those people in your prayers and help them any way you can. 859, talk to you tomorrow. (upbeat music)