Listen Live
St. Jude Radiothon 2024
CLOSE

via CNN:

Hurricane Irma Still A Monster Of Wind, Rain As It Pushes North:

Hurricane Irma dropped to a Category 1 storm early Monday after it roared through southwest Florida and left nearly 4 million customers without power.
Irma was downgraded as it moved over the western Florida peninsula, the National Hurricane Center said. By 5 a.m. ET, it had sustained winds of 75 mph with its center 60 miles north of Tampa.

Despite its weakening as it passes over land, Irma’s strong winds and flooding continue to be a major risk in the southeast, forecasters warned.
The hurricane hit southwest Florida on Sunday, downing power lines, uprooting trees and turning streets into rivers. It battered Florida’s lower half, leaving a trail of tornadoes and storm-surge flooding as its core slowly moved inland.

Frustrated First Responders Have To Ignore Irma 911 Calls:

When the winds kicked up as Hurricane Irma made its way up Florida’s west coast, rescue workers watched helplessly as the 911 calls piled up on a computer screen.

They weren’t allowed to respond. Winds were so high that emergency services in many areas were suspended to protect the rescuers.
“It just stinks. You’re sitting here not be able to do your job,” said Billy Johnston, a firefighter paramedic with St. Petersburg Fire Rescue. “And we got into this job to help people.”
“It’s a helpless feeling, but we have to look out for our safety. If we go out, we potentially create another emergency, and people have to come and help us,” added his colleague David Owens, a firefighter EMT.

White House Social Media Director Tweets Inaccurate Hurricane Video:

As Hurricane Irma began pelting southern Florida with roaring winds and heavy rains on Sunday, White House social media director Dan Scavino tweeted a video of what he said was a waterlogged Miami International Airport, only to be corrected by the airport itself.

Scavino then deleted the erroneous post, one of many ostensible Hurricane Irma tweets that he said he was sharing with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
“Sharing #HurricaneIrma on social media with President @realDonaldTrump & @VP Pence hourly. Here is Miami International Airport. STAY SAFE!!” Scavino wrote, adding a video of an airport covered in water.

The 9/11 Rescue That We Need To Hear More About:

Christopher Nolan’s $150 million film “Dunkirk” may be the first that many Americans have heard about “Operation Dynamo,” the beachfront rescue in 1940 of 338,000 Allied troops trapped between Hitler’s army and the sea. But what most people probably don’t realize is that a larger and faster maritime evacuation actually took place here in the States less than 16 years ago.

Three quarters of a century later, Dunkirk is getting its due. What continues to go largely unrecognized, however, is the spontaneous boatlift that came to the rescue when terrorists struck the US on September 11, 2001. As I reported in my book, crews aboard ferries, fishing boats, and tour boats joined mariners of all kinds to launch an unplanned maritime evacuation in New York Harbor that delivered nearly 500,000 stranded civilians off Manhattan Island in less than nine hours.

‘Celebrity Big Brother’ Coming To US:

Fans of “Big Brother” have something to look forward to this winter.

CBS has announced its first edition of “Celebrity Big Brother.”
The new show will be be hosted by Julie Chen, who also hosts the long-running reality show, “Big Brother.”
The show’s premise is to gather together a group of strangers to live in a house where they are under ’round-the-clock surveillance. They are cut off from the outside world, and “houseguests” are systematically voted out of the house.
Next year will mark “Big Brother’s” 20th season, but to honor it’s motto — “expect the unexpected” — producers aren’t making fans wait till next summer for more of their favorite show.

CLICK HERE to read story

Leave a Reply