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Cameron Smith Hurricane Recovery - DR Bill Williams - Erica Thomas from 1819 Bridges - Midday Mobile - Wednesday 10-09-24
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Glad to have you here and another couple hours of live local talk. You know how we do it? Get through to the show at 343-01-06-3430106 for a phone call or a text and a couple of y'all yesterday using that Talkback feature of the FM Talk 106-5 app. Let's you record a message, e-mails to the show and I can play it back there as well. Talkback features on the front page there. It's the microphone icon, right? It's that microphone looking thing on the front page of the FM Talk 106-5 app, so you can use that as well. And as we get, my buddy Cameron Smith's going to join us here in just a second. And yeah, so I mean, Jeff mentioned, oh, somebody who might be in the listening audience had texted him about this last night. It was me. It wasn't even really, I don't think I'm not coming at it mean spirited, but I'm saying watching, watching Ron DeSantis, watching Governor DeSantis in Florida, doing the pressors and being on with multiple national news groups and just without teleprompter could just talk about what they're doing in Florida to get ready for the storm. Florida has shown that they've gotten pretty good at this and how he laid it out would take questions and all that. Now, I was just wondering if the similar situation, now I do understand Florida way bigger state, so I am not saying it's not apples to apples here, but in a comparison. And they have a huge coastline way bigger state and more exposure for storms. I get it. But if we had that same situation here, and that doesn't mean I've got my other issues with Governor Ivy, you don't have to be a Ron DeSantis to be a good governor. But gosh, it does look good for the state as he's talking about the approach of Milton, which by the way, we'll check in with our staff meteorologist Dr. Bill Williams coming up. They're on 1235 and talk more about that. All right. Without further ado, let me check in with this man. He's the busiest man in multi state media. It's Cameron Smith from mail dot com and the Triptych Foundation. And I got to ask you, is it cold in Nashville right now? What's going on? It is cool. It has been wonderfully in the 70s and it is it is glorious right now. I just finished three hours of radio and I am going to go outside. Well, okay. Because I saw this, I peeked in on you and buddy in common, Matt Murphy up there. You had on a hoodie. He had on some kind of flannel thing. It's nice here, but I'm still in short sleeves. I mean, y'all were dressed like you're going get up. I don't know. You're in Winnipeg or something like that, man. Keep it cold in the studio. What's going on there in Nashville? No, and eventually I get in the studio, I get to smell myself because you know, it's heavy doors well insulated and it's just gross, but actually it's nice. You can wear a hoodie. You can wear a t-shirt. You can wear shorts. Okay. I mean, a little bit of everything right now. It's great. I just saw you both the overdressed like wintertime. I said, man, it's just, you know, I was watching your live feed and I said, my gosh, it's making me sweat. Look at those two boys. They're dressed like that. All right. Lots to talk about here. First of all, yeah, that commentary I had and it really, I didn't even, I have my issues that I'll rant about with Governor Ivy over time, but this one's not even coming at it from a like, oh, got you. I just wondered. I mean, if we had a similar situation with a massive hurricane heading, you know, right in here, right up Mobile Bay, would we be able to provide the pressers and the awareness from the executive branch? The desantis does or could we get halfway there with Governor Ivy? No, but I don't think it would be in a negative sense. Ivy's been good at managing different issues that the state has faced. And so you're probably not going to hear she would come out and do a general presser, but she'd have the right folks there to do the specific briefs and action plans and stuff like that. Desantis has just been excellent on his feet. He's going to be very involved. It's really impressive. Yeah, you know, I had not since he bowed out the, you know, the presidential cycle. I really hadn't watched him until last night watching weather porn, right, about Milton. And I was like, gosh, darn it. He's good. I mean, it's just good to be good because this Milton, it's the first time I've seen meteorologist cry. Yeah. That guy on CNN. That was wild, you know, okay. So we've got, I would argue the best meteorologist, 44 decades plus here, Dr. Bill Williams. And when he says pay attention to something because he doesn't hype things, we pay attention to him. He is a scientist and he doesn't buy the books. He has no all the years of me going, Hey, can you hype this up? You never will. This is what I love about him. He's just by the books. But he cares. He lives right here. And even when storms have been coming right up Mobile Bay, I've never seen him tear up. That guy on CNN. I don't know where they got him from. I mean, you could be serious about it without having a breakdown there. Talk about the hurricane. I'm worried for those people too. I got friends in the path of it, but I, you know, the crying thing. I don't know. I don't know either. I do know that from one meteorologist to another, I've seen them say, wow, this is an impressive hurricane. And I think that's the concern here of man, get out of the way. I understand Florida man in his gene shorts is like, you know, I think I got this, but I think a lot more people kind of got the gravity of the situation and have sought higher ground because that storm surge looks ugly. But I mean, the best thing here, I think, is we're seeing the nation sort of ignore politics a little bit focus on, hey, we got to make sure these people are okay. We got to have a recovery plan in place ahead of the storm. And that seems to actually be working. It's actually Kamala Harris that looks sort of like the odd man out in the whole chain of command, which she probably should be. She's the vice president. And nobody's calling Trump and asking him for, you know, his thoughts on what FEMA should do. I don't really think we need herds either. Okay, but I want to get back to that in a second and link it to the Santas, but I do want to give you this piece of info that is interesting that the number of evacuees will welcome evacuees that are coming to our area, you know, folks from Florida often would evacuate up to Georgia, right? And actually, I mean, no people in Florida, they seem to go vacation in North Carolina and they have a conduit. They're obviously a interstate that takes them there, but they're taking that left turn up there and getting on I-10 because of the damage from Helene. It is interesting to see that, right? That there's so many people coming this far west that are evacuating from Florida because their normal northerly path has been torn up, you know, it's just, I don't want to just sometimes notice it's different. All right. Yeah, talk about Harris and the Santas. I mean, yesterday was pretty interesting to me as you had this back and forth and Kamala Harris saying, well, you know, I've been trying to get in touch with the governor of this, that the other, like he's not taking her calls. This is political. Then you have Biden go around and say, Oh, no, I talked to him. He's got my number. I got his number. We're talking and we're coordinating two things there. I mean, it was good on the Santas and what do you think that was? Do you think that was a Biden on his way out the door telling Harris, she's number one middle finger or what? I think Joe Biden absolutely resents being forced out of the race and it has been very clear to me over the last little bit that he is saying things that really hurt the Harris campaign, you know, from, Hey, you know, she was my right hand. She made all these decisions like he has to know that that's really bad for her. And meanwhile, she's saying, I'm not Joe Biden, he's like, no, she's better. She helped make all the decisions. And then in this situation where he didn't rope her in at all and said, yeah, we got it. We, DeSantis and I have clear lines of communication. We're good. We feel comfortable where we are. While she's saying I called governor DeSantis and he didn't return my call. It makes her look needy and kind of pathetic. And it's a, it is a bad look. This shouldn't be politicized because let's face it, there's a very good chance that people are going to die as a result of this storm and to turn that into a political thing where the vice president doesn't really have any operative chain in there where DeSantis would need to talk to her. And I think what, what they see is the same thing that I see, which is this storm is likely going to dominate the rest of this news cycle heading into the election. And so how that recovery happens, how FEMA does, I think the Democrats state have huge implications of if it goes well, it helps Democrats. If it goes poorly, Trump's the next president. And so I think Harris is trying to position herself as a player in that knowing if this goes well, it helps me, if it goes poorly, it helps Trump. You know, as we kind of look at the, the, the rift between the two, interesting to have back during the debate to hear Kamala Harris talk about the new way forward or whatever it is, which is, you and I've talked about this many times since she announced since she usually ordained as a candidate, I've said they're running against Trump like he's an incumbent, you know, like forgetting the fact that they've been in office for a push in almost four years, coming up, but then to have her say a new way forward during the debate, which I am pwned a little bit, but then she's on the view yesterday. Then my God, having to watch a clip of the view, I lost a couple of years off my life, but she's saying she wouldn't do anything differently than Biden did. I, you know, I guess when you don't believe in anything, word salad, it's pretty easy. Yeah, they're letting her out of the basement. And that's a bad campaign strategy. Because to me is malpractice from her consultants, you know, she's not good on her feet. You know, she's not good if she doesn't have her specific talking points. She was great in the debate, verse Trump, why? Because she knew what to say. She said it and she was done the, the off the cuff interviews and questions. It's been awful every time she gets in front of the camera and Democrats either are looking at this and saying, we're behind and we need some help and are throwing a Hail Mary here, or they're just doing it wrong. Because I think if you look at the historical trend line, she needs to be up, I think at least five points in the national polling in order to win this election. She's not there right now. And I think they're looking at their internals and saying, we got a problem. We've got to do something quickly. They're now staring down the second tornado in a couple of weeks, or second hurricane in a couple of weeks. And this literally could be the perfect electoral storm for Trump to win office again. Yeah. And knowing that, it's interesting. I don't know. I think it is actually in this case. I usually say it's omission versus commission. In this case, I think it's commission that polling data will come out and they don't point out that they're talking about popular vote and how much of a win in a popular vote has to be to win electorally. You see, and I don't know if those polls are there to encourage more Democrats to come out or to disincentivize Republicans, but you've watched them, right? I mean, they come out and say, well, she has a four-point lead. Well, that's popular vote. That's not enough to make the cut for the electoral map. Yeah. I think she needs to have high single digit, I'd say minimum of five, you know, is close to 10 points in a popular vote poll as she can get to secure the win. If it's less than that, she's going to lose. And I think that's the big concern here for Democrats is Trump's Trump, he's in on quantity, he's there. She got a nice bump, her favorability rating still net positive. But the more she gets out there, the more Americans say, wait a minute, like she's not really good at answering questions. She's kind of thin on ideas. It's very much the anti-Trump vote, but they've tried to make it about Harris is historic and great when probably the right answer, if I was a Democrat, was just to go after Trump and tear him up and stay in the basement. That worked for Biden. It could have worked for Harris, but now they're having her out and about and I think it just hurts her every time she talks. Don't you doubt that if Harris loses, then you've got Biden sitting there going, I told you, I told you, you have whippers, nappers, I could have come to and won this thing. But she couldn't have won it either. Let's actually break it down here. I know you've analyzed different battleground states. I'm just going to pick a couple. First question, I'm going to ask you, without the discussion that exists on our text line that these hurricanes have been engineered and steered through these battleground states to suppress Republican votes and keep them off, I'll deal with those folks later. But do you see any issues here for people getting out in a Georgia and in North Carolina and voting? And do you think it shifts this at all? I don't know how much it matters in terms of, do I think that there will be big shifts? North Carolina was one of the areas that people were really pointing out. Well, this could matter. Those are pretty rural areas. I think Trump's going to do well in a lot of those rural areas. And I don't know that it would really affect the outcome too much. Maybe I'm wrong. I just don't see it right there, but I actually have a really cool column that should be dropping in the next couple of days with Senator Katie Britt trying to handicap some of the Senate races. She's very zeroed in there. She knows exactly where Republicans are focusing and for being radically outraged on the funding front, both in the presidential race and in the Senate races, Republicans have a very good chance of taking the Senate, regardless of whether Trump wins or not. Okay. One more battleground then, Pennsylvania. You and I both have family connections to the Keystone state. And this could be the real keystone to this election. What do you think in there? What do you see? I think it's still the edge to Casey. Casey is the son of a governor. His name ID is very high, it's very well liked. McCormick is a good challenger, much better than Dr. Oz. But the fundraising advantage to Casey. Check this out. I looked at the FEC data. The Senate candidates, Republicans have been almost doubled up by the Democrats in fundraising. And Trump has actually been outraged, not just by Joe Biden, but also by Kamala Harris. He's almost at a three to one disadvantage. And so I think in Pennsylvania, and in some other areas, the cash advantage, it doesn't determine the race, but man, it helps in a close one. So I think Casey still got the edge in Pennsylvania. What about Trump? Does he win Pennsylvania? Oh, I, I'll put it this way. I think Trump can win Pennsylvania because Pennsylvania, it's, as you know, Alabama with Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, and he can turn out that rural vote in very high percentages. The question is suburbia. And that's where I just, I think if Trump's successful McCormick, probably a successful, again, right now, I'd probably have to give the edge to Harris. Okay. And then for the last one here, AL2, this is pretty, pretty important in the, in the national setting for the house, but obviously to those of us that live in AL2 is pretty important as well. You've got to, I would imagine the figures campaign is out raised. The Dobson campaign, Dobson seems to be more places, you know, shaking hands, kissing babies, that kind of stuff. What do you think that ends up on November 5th, meaning I still have the edge slightly to Democrats in that race. Dobson is run the, a great campaign in everywhere, talk to people. And I think the way the seat ended up being drawn up, she has to overcome a lot to be successful. I will say though, that if Republicans have a good night overall, it's because a lot of people showed up and turned out. And if Republicans in AL2, there's enough Republicans in the district for her to win, but man, they got to show up and anybody that says it's, it's done is actually kind of, you know, making that happen. So voters need to show up. Republicans can win that seat. All right. I'll let you get outside and enjoy it, but tell people before you go, how they find you online and how, if they have not, the three or four people that have not seen the ballot at Davy Crockett, how they do that as well. Sure. AL.com/opinion are @decameronsmith on X. That's a great way to find the columns. And if you want to watch the ballot at Davy Crockett, first of all, you guys have been great in supporting us in that work. Let's go to Amazon. It's on Prime, Google Play, anywhere you get your digital stuff, go check out the ballot at Davy Crockett. All right, brother. Get out. Enjoy that sunshine and we'll talk soon. Thank you, Sean. All right, there goes Cameron Speth and we're all coming right back. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk 106.5. I've got 1228, FMTalk 106.5 and Midday Mobile on this Wednesday, about seven minutes away from staff meteorologist Dr. Bill Williams with the latest update on Milton's path out there. Move a little bit south and there's still a heck of a storm out there and hopefully there's you know, reduction in the wind speed, but still, I mean, if you're talking about a category three and somebody yesterday, sorry, I was talking about Frederick being a three, they corrected me. Frederick was a four. Yeah. Frederick was. So thank you. Whoever that was yesterday, three or four. I mean, you know, what we're talking about here, we all here know what we're talking about. This is going to be even at that horrible and the storm surge, like Dr. Bill had talked about, it will be even if the storm is slower wind speed, the storm surge that has been created when it was a higher wind speed will be coming with it. So we'll talk to him more about that. Let's go to the text line. Chris and after you maybe laugh, he said, wouldn't the Santa's be a great presidential candidate? But you know, there's some of the things where he fell apart, right? Some of the places like in debates and stuff he didn't do as well as in that setting his governor. And just watch him last night. If like on that kind of stuff, executive branch organization and stuff, he's a boy sharp. I'll tell you, boy sharp. I think he's got a career ahead of him. Come back. We'll talk about Dr. Bill. Also, Erica Thomas from 1819 News joins us live to do on mid-day mobile glad you're here. This is mid-day mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. Well, Milton is rapidly now approaching the west coast of the Florida peninsula. In fact, the outer winds of tropical storm pours are just offshore. And it now appears that the center of the storm will get into the west coast of the peninsula and around midnight tonight. And the likely target remains the Tampa area. It's possible that the center could go right over Tampa. But right now it appears that it may be just a little bit to the south of it. That means possibly Bradenton Sarasota. And that's again, around midnight or perhaps maybe one o'clock or so in the morning. The highest winds right now are at 145 miles per hour with gusts to 165. It's lost a little bit of strength mainly because of some wind shearing. And it will continue to lose some strength on through the evening as wind shearing becomes more of a problem for the storm. But it will make landfall as either a Category 4 or a very strong Category 3, probably in the range of 125 to 135 miles per hour sustained winds. And it's going to produce a big storm surge. Certainly a lot of water will be pushed initially into Tampa Bay. But the areas that I mentioned before, Bradenton and Sarasota, they may get the full brunt of maybe as much as 15 feet. The worst part of the storm surge then will continue on to the south and at least 10 feet possibly down around Port Charlotte. And so it's going to affect most of the coast, especially to the south of the storm center. And as I mentioned, it's very possible that it could shift its position a little bit. This happened in the past with other hurricanes and it could possibly go right over the Tampa area. Now, after it makes landfall, it will steadily lose strength but remain as a hurricane from midnight all the way to noon time tomorrow when it reaches Cape Canaveral on the east coast. And then it will move offshore and steadily out into the open Atlantic. So places like Lake Wales, Winterhaven, and some of those cities will bear the brunt of the, right in the core of the track that crosses through Central Florida. Dr. Bill, I'm trying to think back to the coastline here and, you know, just being a Gulf Coast guy and picturing, you know, they come in at some, not always a 90. But how they approach the coast in this case, it's a 90, but it's going the other way. If it goes in South of Tampa, you get that big storm surge, like you said, south there. Does it have that, do they then get that wraparound wind effect and does it drain like Tampa? If it went for enough south, does it drain Tampa Bay the way, you know, we had Frederick drain the bay or what happens there? Well, I mean, the storm surge to the south of the, of the center is going to vary greatly depending on the configuration of the coast. So any small indentation, small cove, smaller bays, it will reach 15 feet and that would be surprising even higher than that. So there's going to be a lot of variation that will take place to the south, but it certainly I think the most, the real danger area is going to be the Bradenton and the Sarasota. Right now that seems to be the target, the target area. The storm is getting bigger in size. That usually happens at, with time it will expand in size. And so a lot of people are going to get hurricane force gusts if they don't get sustained winds then gusts will be felt over a large area of central Florida. That includes getting up to around Orlando and all those towns and cities, Kissimmee and even on the east coast as far south, maybe as Melbourne could receive gusts of hurricane force. And that's when the storm has actually lost some strength, but it still is a hurricane when it reaches the east coast. So the impact will be huge across Florida. And you mentioned the, talks adult in this morning, I thought that was of great interest too. In the aftermath of Helene, the damage that was done to the coast, you know, their number one with debris number two, with erosion of what would be the first line of defense, we could see a, we could see the storm surge having easier time making it in. Is that fair? And what about the debris that's there? Yeah, the combination there of what has been removed in the way of sand dunes and some protection and that's gone. And now the water can sweep in with ease. And then of course, all of the debris in the way and some of that stuff can be battering rams against other structures that still were in decent shape after they previous hurricane. So all of that debris is going to be added to what is going to be created. So it's just a terrible mess for the area. All right, Dr. Bill, once again, you see the getting effects now on the west coast of Florida, but you see the actual landfall being middle of the night or so. Somewhere around midnight, it looks like it will be the actual landfall and then it can take the entire morning across central Florida and then reach the Atlantic around noon time tomorrow. All right, Dr. Bill, we appreciate the update and we'll be checking back with you. Okay, Sean. All right, there's our staff meteorologist, Dr. Bill Williams, doing it 40 years plus here, forecasting tropical weather along the Gulf Coast and even broader sense, the Gulf Coast and then off the east coast of Florida as well. And you, something that we talked about yesterday and I talked about a little bit earlier is the number of people, I think I just mentioned it to Cameron, the number of people that are from Florida that have evacuated here. And it's, you know, normally there would be some people, if you had family roots or something, you would come here, but normally folks from Florida, you would see them evacuate into Georgia, right? They would go that way. They got that I-75, take you right up there, would evacuate into Georgia, but in the aftermath of Halene, there's a lot of people that evacuated and came up and made that left turn to get on I-10 and come west. And so there's a lot more people I know reports yesterday from what it looked like at the buckies in Locksley, what I'm hearing about people with campers and local trailer, camper spots here. So people coming this far over. All right, joined by Erica Thomas from 1819news.com, Erica. Howdy, Sean. Howdy. And you and I have been talking about that on text, too, that they're folks you know, and my people are staying, that's a whole other, but you know, folks are making that evacuation from Florida and coming up here. Yeah, my people are coming to my house with their child and their two dogs and their cat and their bearded dragon, so it's going to be, it's going to be interesting. And you already have two dogs, so you have two dogs and so this is going to be, I would say mayhem. Yeah, and a bird. So you got, so two dogs and a bird plus, how many do they bring in? A dog, well two dogs, a cat and a dragon. Yeah. Okay, so mayhem, mayhem is about to fix them to hit your house. Okay. They pick one, yes. But I'll be working from outside of the house, but it is interesting to the number of people that have come over here that don't even have like roots or connections because normally they would have gone up to Georgia, but not much to go to, you know, probably infrastructure wise there. Well, in a lot of the issues that my friend is facing right now, just trying to get here is finding gas. You know, obviously the traffic was really bad when she first left. She lives south of Tampa in Sarasota. She had an issue, you know, just getting on the road. They just closed down the Skyway Bridge today. So their, their problem now has been just finding gas along the way because all of these gas stations have ran out of gas and even last night in Foley, there was a circle K, the circle K off 59 and 12, half of their pumps were, were closed off and I'm not sure if that was because they're out of gas, but it made me, I mean, it's still less, you know, opportunities for half of their, for half of their pumps to be closed off it. So I would just recommend everybody just go ahead and get gas because you don't want to be in a situation where we all run out of gas. Yeah, for sure. And I know that Governor DeSantis has brought in a lot of gas and fuel into the state, but that's probably not at all the gas stations right now. Back here. Go ahead. That was very impressive to me how DeSantis just got ahead of everything from, from the gas, the process of bringing it in to, you know, the last week with the FEMA trailers unavailable. He said, we have our own. We do this on our own. And so I think, I think some governor should take notes when it comes to disaster response because they have done an incredible job at getting ahead of Milton and helping us that were impacted by Helene. Yeah. What, what he lacks on the campaign trail and maybe even in debates, Ron DeSantis is absolutely in his wheelhouse when it comes to this. I mean, I was talking about that last night, talked about on the show today, how, you know, I mean, you would, if you, if you were a citizen of Florida, I think you'd feel better that he was organizing things. Yeah. And maybe that's why, you know, God probably said, you need to be here. You need to be in Florida. Because you know what you're doing and you're doing a great job with stuff like this because, you know, if he, if he had a job in the White House, he wouldn't be able to. Fuse campaigning right now. Yeah. Think about it. Fuse campaigning for the general. If he had been the GOP nominee. Yeah. Ooh. That would not be a good timing. All right. Another story that you have posted and Jeff was talking about, I was reading this and for folks in South Baldwin, this is pretty important. Is this work, the construction delay on 59? Where is this? And what are people saying? What's going on? Yeah. So this is on Highway 59. If you're, if you're going towards the beach, you have to go over the WC Holmes Bridge. And so this, this project has taken place south and north of, of that bridge. It's a roadway widening project. It's been underway for over a year now. And it's also a project that has frustrated drivers because the two lanes that are existing, they shift dramatically once you get south of that bridge. And all of the sidewalks have been blocked off. There's cones up. There's some businesses there that have really struggled and, and likely will go out of business because of the barriers that have been put in front of their, their buildings due to this, this project. Is there any, is there any way for them to, to, to protest that or to, I mean, if somebody's going to, if you block somebody to where they can't do business, now, you know, see places they have road work and they say, well, businesses are still open and they block it here, but you can get in and still do business. You know, there are several of those going on in mobile. In this case, are you serious? They may go out of business and it's at the doing of this road work. Yes, there's one in particular that they sell souvenir type things and they have, they sell vates. And you know, every cell fakes or takes plasma. Yeah. Well, and it used to be a tattoo shop when it was in a different location. Oh, there you go. That area is not zoned for, for tattoos though, but this is people's way of life. This is their, you know, their income, yeah, legal business. So they, they're trying to do their jobs and they told me, you know, we just don't have much longer because there are so many different types of these shops up and down 59 people are not going to go around and go to back road and go around their elbow to get to their thumb to go to this one particular business. So they're trying to also get the city to allow them to do tattoos again, just to help them in the meantime, make up for lost revenue because they believe that would kind of set them apart from, you know, the other businesses in the area. So we'll see. But they have talked to the city about this project. They've gone to them since February about these issues. Al died actually stepped in and said, we'll talk to the city and try to see if we can, we can fix this problem. And they spoke with the contractor of the, of the job and they kind of moved around some cones and some areas, but that didn't work out because there's also a safety issue if the cones are not in place. But the issue now is workers have not been on the site for weeks. And people say this is already supposed to be a very long drawn out project. What's going on? So I found out that what actually happened is the contractor that was doing the work sold out. Their business was acquired by another contracting company. Okay. So they were bought by, so they had the contract. They were doing the work. And in the meantime, some other company bought their company. Yes. Okay. So doesn't the, don't they take the ongoing, like if you buy a company, you would take the contract that that first company had, right? Or did they say they weren't taking the contract? They will take it and it, water grass construction company is the one that I'm sorry. It took over. And so they will continue to be the contractor. They might have to get new subcontractors. They have to, you know, go through negotiations, make sure they know what's going on. What the purpose of the project is, there's a lot, this is like just learning, hey, you're going to be, you know, doing this whole huge 24 month project, here you go. So that's why there's been a delay. It's going to take time for them to get all their stuff together and make sure that, that the sale goes through smoothly. So that's why there's a delay. The negotiations for the sale are over. So hopefully we'll see some crews back out there, but there's still a lot of people that, you know, hope this contract doesn't take longer or doesn't have to be extended due to the sale of the company. But there was good news. Gulfshore's Mayor Robert Krauth, he said he is so thankful already because he can tell that the work sites are getting cleaned up. They look better and hopefully this company will work better with the city than the previous company did. There you go. Y'all can look at that story to hold a lot more from Erica over at 1819news.com or if they want to reach out to you with the story that, you know, they think you need to know about or something like that. How do they, how do they get in touch with you directly? You can email me, it's Erica.Thomas@1819news.com and that email address is at the bottom of every story or to keep it simple. You can just email all of this at news@1819news.com. Very good. And I'll be looking for live updates from the zoo, you'll be running there in your home here very shortly. Yes. I cannot wait. And that on Facebook and Twitter. Okay. Hi. Jinx will ensue. I can't wait to see the pictures. We'll talk next week. Alright. Bye bye. Alright. There goes Erica Thomas and we're coming right back. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk1065. I talk 55, FMTalk1065 Midday Mobile, I'll get to a couple of texts here and then we'll come back to a stack of them to get to and we'll get to those in our number two. Yeah. That's funny, Silverdale, Tony said, Erica's situation almost sounds like your Mobile Bay Coins commercial. It does, doesn't it? But she was texting me and she was saying there, she was sending me pictures of the bearded dragon her friends were bringing and now I found out there's dogs and cats as well and that can be fun. If she can handle it, let's see the somebody texting in, people are on site currently working on the 59 project. Good. That's good news on name texture. Thank you for the heads up. Somebody else says, was there no performance bond? I don't know. That's why I asked that question. I did about continuing the contract with the new new purchasers. You know, that is a thing that happens. You purchase a business and a lot of cases you got to take on what they had done before. I don't have an answer to that, but that's why I asked that question as well. Mike says, did you hear what she said? They closed the Skyway Bridge. I did hear that and I've been watching the post here and text with my buddy, JB Bueno. He used to work at Channel 5. He lives in Tampa now. He and his wife, Devin and the kids and they're, he works in TV down there and he said, yeah, they were closed down a whole bunch of bridges. But Mike goes on to say that's exactly what's going to happen when we have no causeway. It'll be closed before Hurricane. He dang sure won't go over a 213 foot high bridge in a gale force wind. Yeah. Like what he's talking about is whenever we get the I-10 mobile river bridge project done, you'll be having to, you'll shut, you'll shut that down. Yeah, a certain, I don't have any miles an hour. The wind would be, but that's a, you know, that's the thing that would happen. And then you would have people evacuating your course and then you would have that shut down. You keep going under the river, I guess, you know, and the causeway, listen, we need to get Mayor McMillan back on the show because he's talking about something, not even, and Mike, I agree with you. I don't disagree with what you're saying, but even that takes a couple of different things happening. When they start this work, right, on the bridge, let alone down the road when people are trying to avoid, you know, this toll or that toll, the amount of traffic that's going to go on the causeway. And so there should be, and I know there's probably not budget for it, but there should be at the same time or even before I would say you get to working on the I-10 project, you do something to maybe add some, you know, how you could add a lane or do some passing lanes or do some elevation or something to the causeway because you have that much more traffic going across there and, you know, get you a king tide in the south wind, low pressure, and you put at least one of those lanes out of action with the water sitting on it, so, yeah. All right, coming right back, get to your text and many stories, and now we're number two of Midday Mobile. I'm glad you're here. [Music]