00:00Aaron, I know you've been on the move. Hopefully you got some coffee.
00:03What have you seen as far as damage as you've been moving around the panhandle?
00:09Well, I did get a cup of coffee and it was glorious. I tell you, it's been a long morning
00:13so far. We've been up since early this morning, about 5.30 this morning. I woke up, left my hotel
00:19to go walk down. We lost cell service overnight in Destin, Florida. We didn't have power there
00:24in Destin, Florida and walking downstairs out into the parking lot, just loaded with utility
00:30crews that are on their way out. As we made our way out of Destin, most of the damage that
00:36we're
00:36seeing was that fairly minor tree damage. I say minor, just with a hurricane, sometimes some of
00:43these hurricanes, you see some very widespread catastrophic tree damage. We saw a few trees
00:47down here and there, but nothing too significant. Lots of business signs, those plastic signs,
00:54like gas station signs, can easily get destroyed and fly through the wind in those hurricanes.
01:00So a lot of that type of debris, but not a lot of structural damage to homes or buildings.
01:05I didn't really see much of that, but obviously losing power, widespread power outages across
01:10this area. We left the Destin area and then got on I-10 and then a drive 30 miles to
01:16the
01:16east before we were able to find power, find someplace to get that glorious cup of coffee
01:20I had just a little bit ago. But then we continue to move our way east here and we did
01:24see a few trees down as well along I-10, I should say, off to the side, notably laying down,
01:31pointed to the north. So knowing that in that location, we were getting strong southerly winds
01:35here on the eastern side of the storm. So those strong winds definitely knocked out power for a
01:40wide stretch of Florida here. But I think from here on out to the east on I-10, we should
01:46be
01:46pretty good with the power situation. We stopped at another stop here and this place has power as
01:51well. So I think we're probably out of the zone where the widespread power outages are at now.
01:56As we move east, you know, we moved into a little bit warmer of temperatures here now. We've crossed
02:01into this warm sector that we're now targeting this afternoon for supercells and tornadoes being
02:07possible. And right now I'm looking at radar just before now and we're seeing some cells that are
02:12moving up out of the gulf into Florida around right now near Perry, Florida. Not severe warned or
02:18anything, but they do have some flash flood warnings associated with them. So it's those
02:21types of storms that we're watching today, moving up to the north through the Florida Panhandle into
02:25Georgia, across eastern Georgia from Valdasa and up to Augusta. I could see the supercells today,
02:31you know, as part of the remnants of this storm as it makes its way off of the United States.
02:35Back to you guys.
02:36And Aaron, it's one of those deceptive situations where you are now, you know, the sun is shining,
02:42I'm sure a little further to the east in that rain band, that's not the case, but in surrounding
02:46areas that could see some of those rain bands, it is. Talk to us about, you know, there's still a
02:51risk today, even though it looks like, okay, the threat is over.
02:56Yeah, absolutely. You know, that threat is, you know, and some, some, for some places today is
03:01going to be the main day for those threats. So supercells moving through interior Florida up into
03:06Georgia, you know, lots of tall trees and forests through that area. You know, it all takes as a
03:10severe thunderstorm winds to be able to knock down and cause problems with power outages there as well.
03:14So definitely could see some issues with these storms as they move off to the east later today.
03:20You know, it looks like, like you said, it looks like a line right now, but I'm thinking they might
03:23break up into more of supercells with this daytime heating a little bit later today. Back to you.
03:28Great. Thank you, Aaron. As always, we'll keep checking back with you as you're chasing that
03:33tornado threat today.
