Ombuds Day & Hurricane Isaias: How a Fluffernutter Storm Turned Evacuation Orders Into a Grudge Match With Google's Weather Model

(00:00) Here's today's B Team Redux. The classic rock station. 100.3 KROCK. It's Aussie Shot in the Dark on this Thursday morning. I was going to say Wednesday, but no, we are Thursday, of course, keeping an eye on the storm that's out there in the Gulf. We'll get you an updated track and details on that situation. It is Thursday, though, like I said, the B Team Morning Show is on the air. I'm Schuyler Black and the B Team Show, as always, brought to you by our friends at Stripes Pub and Grill in Navarre, as well as Okaloosa Gas and Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. Folks on the National Day calendar today, we have Ombuds Day. It's the one day a year where we celebrate the human suggestion box who politely tells you you're wrong in triplicate. (00:54) That's right. Ombuds Day. Special little holiday where we pretend the world can be fixed by appointing one calm adult with a clipboard to translate your rage into a formal concern and then gently lob it into the bureaucratic ocean. Now, you're encouraged to air grievances and seek fairness and believe that just for today, that someone with neutral in their job description isn't already dead inside. Now, it's part civic therapy session, part complaint Olympics with a ceremonial moment of hope before the paperwork starts breeding in the dark. Think of it as the annual reminder that accountability exists technically the same way Bigfoot exists. Lots of sightings and no receipts. Well said. It's Ombuds Day. (01:42) That's our first national holiday here on the B Team Morning Show. Remember, we keep you updated on everything happening in the area at the B Team Show dot com local news and information, your daily national holidays, the Ask Uncle Bobby feature and the show on demand anytime you want it at the B Team Show dot com. I'm Schuyler Black. Thanks for dialing in on this thirsty Thursday morning with David Bowie. Let's dance. It's 100.3 Edgar Winner and Freeride on the Classic Rock Station. 100.3 KROCK. Good morning, everybody. Thanks for dialing in and spending your Thursday with us. It's the B Team Morning Show brought to you by Stripes Pub and Grill in Navarre, Okaloosa Gas and OutKast Sushi in Miramar Beach. But once we get past this weekend and dealing with the impending tropical system and the storm that's out there in the Gulf and tracking this direction, there's some events to look forward to next weekend, like the rescheduled Dog Days event happening on Saturday at the downtown Fort Walton Beach landing. That's nine to three next Saturday, October 17th. And then on Saturday or Sunday, October 18th, you have the Hispanic Heritage Festival, and that should be a lot of fun. That's from noon until nine p.m. Sunday at the landing. We've got details on both of those events on our website, the B Team Show dot com. Well, today on the National Day calendar, it's National Fluffernutter Day because nothing says responsible adult like smearing sugar and regret between bread and then calling it a celebration. Yeah, National Fluffernutter Day is that special moment on the calendar where America collectively admits it never really outgrew eating sugar with a spoon. (03:24) We just started calling it a sandwich. It's peanut butter and marshmallow fluff slapped between bread like nutrition is a rumor and restraint is for other people's families. You don't celebrate this one to honor history. No, no, no. You celebrate it to test the structural integrity of your arteries and your self respect in the same afternoon. And if you're feeling judged, then relax. This holiday isn't just here to shame you. It's here to take attendance. National Fluffernutter Day. And I wish our local diabetic Bobby Dewrell was here to celebrate that one with us, but not here yet this morning. It's The B Team morning show on one hundred point three KROCK. A look at your marine forecast is coming up next. The classic rock station is one hundred point three KROCK. It's The B Team morning show. I'm Schuyler Black brought to you by Stripes Pub and Grill in Navarre as well as Okaloosa Gas and Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. We will get you an update on East Elias. Yes, the storm, the storm that is out there in the Gulf of America and tracking to the northern Gulf Coast. More on that here in just a little while. Get an updated cone from the National Hurricane Center to talk about in just a bit. Keep in mind that Okaloosa County is providing sandbags to residents today. You can find them at 714 Essex Road in Fort Walton Beach or at seventeen fifty nine South for Don Boulevard up in Crestview. And of course, we've got the details and location for you mapped out online. Just go to The B Team show dot com and click on the show notes tab from yesterday. Well, today on the National Day calendar, it's International Off-Road Day. That's the one holiday we're getting lost, stuck and filthy is the whole plan. And somehow they want applause for it. That's right. International Off-Road Day is that special little moment on the calendar where grown adults look at a perfectly good road and think, nah, I'd rather go wrestle mud for sport. It's a celebration of traction lost, dignity surrendered and the sacred tradition of buying a vehicle for safety and immediately driving it into a ditch on purpose. Everybody shows up acting like it's about nature and freedom, but it's really, really about seeing whose suspension can survive bad judgment the longest. So consider it a holiday for people who here stay on the trail and take it as a personal insult. That's International Off-Road Day. All right. We're going to get you caught up on the weather situation here in just a little bit. This is The B Team morning show on one hundred point three KROCK with Aerosmith. Come here, baby. Go. It's The B Team morning show on one hundred point three KROCK, the classic rock station. Thanks for dialing in and spending your Thursday with us. I know a lot of stuff getting canceled this weekend, and rightfully so, as the forecast is not going to be cooperative. (06:29) There is a lot going on next weekend, and we've got it all listed for you on the events tab at our website, KROCK FWB dot com or at The B Team show dot com. Now, Saturday, big game in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Georgia, and the forecast is not looking too hot for it now. Eleven o'clock kickoff Saturday morning. If that game is still going to be played on the scheduled time, we'll carry it for you play by play on one oh three seven. The ticket now the final national holiday we have to chat about is National Hero Day. It's because apparently we needed a calendar reminder that doing the right thing is rare enough to celebrate like an eclipse. National Hero Day is that special little square on the calendar where we all agree to clap for heroes in the abstract because naming names gets complicated and somebody always brings up a guy with a questionable podcast. It's a holiday built on good intentions, vague definitions and the comforting belief that bravery is something other people do while we reheat leftovers and pretend we totally run into the burning building if our knees weren't acting up, right? You're supposed to honor the folks who show up when it counts. (07:42) First responders, caregivers, teachers, the aunt who can fix anything with duct tape and spite without turning it into a weird competition or corporate hashtag parade. Anyway, wipe the sarcasm off your shoes at the door because we're talking about heroism and I promise you won't stay respectful for long. But in all seriousness, National Hero Day. Shout out to all of our first responders. I know it's going to be a long weekend for you all here with the storm generally heading this direction. So thank you to our local heroes and emergency personnel. I'm Schuyler Black. It's the B Team Morning Show. Minutes away from 7 o'clock. We'll take a break. Dan Diamond has local news next. (08:21) Standby for more rock. 100.3 KROCK. A bob. That's right. Do you have any sweet children? Nope. Good morning, everybody. I mean my adopted daughters, of course. Oh, just those two. Just those two. Is there only two? I think there's like 17. Oh, really? Yeah. Every time I turn around I got like two more. Apparently I got around. Apparently Bobby was Mormon at one point. 71 degrees right now. A high today of 85. And yes, it's going to be your last full day of preparations for Hurricane Dale. Yeah. Something like that. We want to go with a name that we all can say. Yeah. Well, I'm saying it's Isaiah. That's what that name spells to me. I agree with you. I do. And then I heard National Hurricane Center yesterday. Isaias. I'm like, they're idiots. Maybe that's like the Cuban way to say it down in Miami where the National Hurricane Center is. I don't know. Clearly they don't know what the hell they're talking about. We're going to fix them. We're going to fix them. All right. So, in all seriousness, there is plenty of news and local information to get to this morning as far as closures and updates of the impending storm. Right now the 7 o'clock update actually just came out from the National Hurricane Center. Intensity has not changed. It's still a lower end cat 1. (10:00) Sustained winds right now at 80 miles an hour. It's moving east northeast at nine miles an hour. And we could start to see some tropical storm intense winds by tomorrow morning around seven or eight. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right now they've got it making making landfall somewhere around Friday evening. The eye that is anyway, probably. I mean, I'm just looking where they you know, they spotted it where it'll be at 1 p.m. and then where it'll be at 1 a.m. And at 1 a.m. they've got it right at the at the line. OK. And already downgraded to a tropical storm. So they don't expect it to that. You know, from what I've heard, where where the jet stream is running right now, they expect it to to kind of make landfall in the jet stream to start just tearing it apart. (10:54) Yeah, it's going to run into some sheer. It sounds like dried out. Yeah, actually, you know, this is one of those things. It's actually pretty fast moving right now, which generally we think, hey, a fast moving storm. Good. Right. But honestly, in this case, we actually need it to slow down because if it would slow down, that would allow the the jet stream with as low as it's running right now to start tearing it apart. Then it could be a weak storm or even a depression by the time it gets here. So if it if it'll just slow down a little bit, it'll it'll weaken. But I got to tell you, the water temp out there in the Gulf right now is still around like eighty five. So it's plenty warm, plenty warm. Well, we'll get through more of this National Hurricane Center update here in just a little bit. And of course, lots of lots of closures around town and around the area to get to local local city governments shutting down their facilities today at noon. Some families were actually ordered to evacuate from Hurlburt Field yesterday. Well, not only were families ordered to evacuate, but all visitors. So anybody down vacationing was ordered to evacuate last night by 8 p.m. They're supposed to get out. (12:03) Some longtime locals that hate tourism. Yeah, yeah. So well, you know, that that is important because, I mean, if you're visiting, you know, you got to know you got to know what you know to ride out one of these storms. And, you know, the last thing that they really want is for for anyone to be stuck on the road. Right. I mean, that's I think you and I were talking about that. (12:31) You know, the bad thing that happened with Opal is they just didn't make the evacuation announcement early enough. And so many people were caught just stuck on the interstate riding out the storm. And that's you know, you're better off in your home at that point. So, yeah. And the the county and to your point, the county commissioners last night ordered a mandatory evacuation for pretty much everyone on the island. Yeah. And then and then some select some select streets and homes in the in the Ferry Park and Elliott Point neighborhoods. Yeah. Yeah. Those are typically flood prone areas. But yeah. Yeah. Right now they've we're where we are. We're in zone B, which is category two is what's supposed to kick us to to an evacuation of that. But we'll see. (13:24) We'll see. Of course, you know, and there still is a little bit of uncertainty about the direct path of this thing, especially with that jet stream. Right. That could that could shift it. Well, that has shifted westward a little bit. Yeah. Over the last couple of model iterations. (13:42) So which, you know, for us here locally, we probably wishes it wish it would shift east more because if we can get on the west side of the eye, then we might be in a little bit better position. But if you are on the east side of the eye, we're still going to see we'll see strong winds and we'll see those those lines of severe thunderstorms that could spin up tornadoes to that. That's right. And, you know, the the the big thing about it is and here's what here's what really bothers me is you look at all the traditional models and they all converge and they all show one thing and that's it hitting more L.A. and Mississippi. We have gone all in on the Google model. Yeah. The Google model says it's the Google model. Mobile Bay to Panama City. (14:26) The Google model is 100 percent outlier and they're not even doing a convergence of models. They're pretty much just following all Google. Right. So we'll see the European model that served us well for so long in the past shows it kind of slowing down. And if it slows down, it's going to go more westward. It's going to break apart. Right. It's not going to be as bad. (14:49) Google's the only one that's you know, it's like it's like it learned from Hypes weather page. Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure Hypes weather page said it's going to hit us at a category 12. So that's a five plus five plus two. Or is that three fours? Yeah. Yeah. So so we'll see. I mean, I don't I don't want to be skeptical, but it's still it's still early. Right. There's still a lot of time. I don't think we're going to we're going to not feel anything from this storm. It's just how much. Sure. Yeah. All right. Well, we'll get to more of this here in just a little while. (15:25) We are the B Team Morning Show. Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell finally doing a show together for the first time all month. I know. Right. Right. First time in Bob Tober. It's it's a Bob Tober miracle. Did you have a good birthday? You know, I mean, yeah. Did all your dreams come true? No. No, I'm I'm I'm a Gen Xer. So that doesn't exist for us. That does not exist for us. That that that's crap that millennials and Gen Alpha get. Damn it. And that we have to make come true for the boomers. So, yeah, no, we don't get we don't get that. It's not in our stars. Hey, if you're out there and you are a bridge crosser, you know, do keep some eyes on the on the weather as it forms today, because the county has said once it hits 40 miles an hour, they're shutting down all the bridges. Oh, that could happen early tomorrow morning, right? Yeah. Yeah. So just prepare. (16:18) All right. Lots more to get to. Stay with us. The B Team Morning Show. Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell brought to you by Stripes Pub and Grill in Navarre, Okaloosa Gas and Outkast Sushi at Miramar Beach. One hundred point three KROCK. Here's Fleetwood Mac. Evil Woman. It's ELO on one hundred point three KROCK. The Classic Rock Station. Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell. The B Team Morning Show is on the air. And again, seven o'clock this morning, the National Hurricane Center sent out their seven o'clock cone and update. Really nothing major as far as changes between four a.m. and seven a.m. this morning. So the hurricane still maximum sustained winds around 80 miles an hour. So lower end cat one at the moment is it is expected to maybe intensify some throughout the next 24 hours or so before it starts to run into some more hostility as it gets closer to the coast. That's true. And there are a couple of shelters already open right now. Obviously, schools are canceled. You know, make make your decisions early and then stick stick to your guns. Yeah. Yeah. Then speaking of that, you know, while the rest of you are getting your milk and eggs and your toilet paper. That's right. Covid last night. (17:37) That's right. I cleaned my weapons. So just be prepared if you're coming to my house. Bobby will still be sitting here cleaning this gun. By the way, city of Fort Walton Beach is going to be shutting down all municipal offices and rec facilities starting today at noon ahead of the storm closures extending throughout the weekend. And the city canceled the Friday concert at the landing and all park activities, though residential trash collection and emergency services will continue as conditions permit. (18:10) So there may be a half day of work tomorrow for some of those folks in the in the sanitation department. Steve Dudley. So you all might have a little bit of a work day tomorrow, but we are expecting the winds to pick up sometime tomorrow morning, by the way. (18:28) That's right. By the way, the county did suspend all tree trimming. So you should not be trimming any trees or cutting anything down right now. They did suspend that so that we don't have yard debris and that to worry about. OK, don't need more things to fly. Right, right. Also, this morning's downtown Fort Walton Beach Coffee Club has been canceled. The monthly social get together among all the downtown merchants and residents that Bobby and I have been going to the last couple of months and Dan Diamond went to last month. Unfortunately, yeah, the weather and then the evacuation order for that part of town has has caused them to to cancel today's event, which is why we're in studio and not not out there location. Right. But we're looking forward to catching the the downtown coffee club at the next one and having all the full coverage there. (19:24) Mm hmm. All right. We're about 20 minutes away from getting your daily advice with Uncle Bobby, and it's been been a while since I've since I've gotten advice. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I've kind of fallen off here. Like my my wife is not quite as good as it was nine days ago. It's just it's amazing how Uncle Bobby's advice can really change your life's trajectory. So stick tight. We'll we'll all get back on the right track here just a little bit. (19:52) Seven twenty seven. A look at your forecast is next on one hundred point three KROCK Kansas on the classic rock station. One hundred point. The B Team Morning Show is on the air. 7.40 is the time. I'm Schuyler Black. He's Bobby Dewrell. We're about seven minutes out from asking Uncle Bobby for advice this Thursday morning. (20:11) Again, awaiting the impending hurricane that's out there in the Gulf. Right now, folks, just to shut down any hype that you may see on the internet. And we're not trying to desensitize everybody from the situation. (20:27) But this thing is literally a low-end Cat 1 right now. That's right. If you've heard Category 3, they are saying it has the potential to build to that mid-Gulf. But again, that jet stream that's coming through should be tearing it apart, ripping it apart. (20:43) And by the time it makes landfall, they're estimating a low-end Cat 2 at best. Now, still, any hurricane, any storm is a serious storm. So we're not saying don't take precautions. You certainly should take precautions. (21:00) We're looking at damage down trees, probably down power lines, some roof damage. Gutters, things like that. Yeah, it's going to be a storm. It's going to be a storm. But just because somebody saw one outlier model of a Cat 4 at 940 millibars. (21:24) That's right. That's right. If you're on Hype's weather page, you need to get off. The one based out of South Florida. Yeah. Now, the pressure is dropping a little bit, looking at the 7 a.m. report compared to the 4 a.m. report. Around the 4 a.m. report, it was 982 millibars. It's dropped down to 975. (21:43) So, I mean, that pressure is coming down. But right now, we're showing sustained winds at 80 miles per hour. This is the 7 a.m. report, by the way. So the closest report we have, 007A. But, yeah, it's, you know, sustained winds, 80 miles per hour. (22:01) It's moving east-northeast at about 9 miles per hour. So the center is currently at 23.7 north and 90.6 west, for those of you that track at home. Yeah. And, again, just to reiterate, Bobby and I are not trying to insinuate that a storm is not coming. (22:22) Because we certainly will have some sort of effects from this storm. Definitely. Something is going to hit us. But the last thing you want to do, I mean, be concerned, be prepared, but don't panic. Right. We don't need hysteria and chaos. (22:38) That's right. Panicking helps no one. Right. So, you know, let's learn from our sister neighborhoods and be better. There you go. Hey, by the way, tonight, VPS is shutting down at 9 p.m. now. (22:55) That's probably coinciding with what the commissioners want as far as the mandatory evacuation, trying to get all the tourists out of town before the storm comes in and allowing some additional flights into the evening. But VPS will be shutting down at 9 p.m. tonight. (23:11) So if you have anybody flying back home and they had a later than 9 p.m. scheduled flight, they're probably going to be sitting somewhere for a couple of days. Yeah. And if you're not a native here, if you're a tourist, if you're down visiting, first of all, thanks for listening. (23:26) Now get the hell out. Because we don't need to deal with you, OK? A lot of us have been around here for a while. We know what to do. We can take care of it. We really don't. We really don't need you. And Jim Cantore, stay the hell out of Florida. (23:42) He's already in Pensacola. Now somebody needs to just take his butt back. We'll just send him over to Baldwin County. That's right. Other side of Perdido. Get over there. Go to New Orleans. They like you there. Speaking of that, Cinderella, nobody's fool. (23:57) Stick tight. Ask Uncle Bobby coming up in just a bit. Nobody's fool. That's Cinderella on the Classic Rock Station. 100.3k rock. 747 is the time. That means it's time to crank up this music and get ready for your daily advice on the B Team Morning Show. (24:18) It's Ask Uncle Bobby, brought to you by Hard Rock Bet. Oh, think your fantasy football stars will score in Week 5? Well, Hard Rock Bet has odds for that. And pretty much everything else. Stack your picks into epic parlays and just a few easy taps on Hard Rock Bet, and turn pay dirt into pay day. (24:35) That's Hard Rock Bet, Florida's only legal app to bet on football. Offered by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Must be 21 and over. Fiscally present in Florida. To wager, terms and conditions apply. Concerned about your gambling? Well, call or text 1-833-PLAYWISE. There you go. Alright, today, Uncle Bobby, your question comes in from the Noblesse Road Scholar. (24:54) Dear Uncle Bobby, I bought a new car, and everything is on a touch screen. To change the fan, I have to tap through menus, and the heated seats are installed, but they only work if I pay a monthly subscription. How do I deal with this without losing my mind? (25:11) Well, listen, you already lost it the moment you paid extra money for a car that makes you do homework to lower the fan. See, this isn't a vehicle. It's a smartphone that happens to have wheels in it. It has the same battery life as your patients. Yeah, look, you're doing 60 miles an hour trying to find defrost like it's buried in Montessori's secret library, while the dashboard calmly asks if you'd like to update your preferences. (25:36) Preferences? Buddy, my preferences is not dying because my car replaced knobs with an iPad taped to a regret. Look, the heated seat subscription? Ah, that's pure poetry right there. Look, you own the hardware, but they rent it back to you like it's waterfront property. (25:54) You know, that's not innovation. That's a landlord in a lab coat. Yeah, next they'll sell you a monthly plan for the glove box, then a premium tier where the blinkers blink at the same time. Here's what you do. You take a knob off of a 1994 pickup, you know, the kind you could find in the dark while eating a burrito, and you duct tape it right onto the touch screen. (26:18) Not because it works. Because it makes a statement. Every time you reach for it, your hand remembers what freedom felt like. And when the dealer asks why there's a greasy antique dial stuck to your luxury interface, you tell them it's your new user experience package. You know, look, I'll even give them one win. (26:37) The backup camera is fantastic. Absolutely love it. You know, it's like having a small guardian angel in the trunk. But explain to me why seeing a shopping cart behind me costs me a volume knob. You know, that's like getting LASIK and losing your eyelids. (26:53) Then, you send the dealership an invoice. Okay? Monthly. Call it Silence Plus. Just for $19.99 a month, you'll refrain from calling their car a rolling terms and conditions screen. (27:08) And if they don't pay, you show up with a seat cushion and an extension cord and plug yourself in at the service bay on principle. If they can monetize warmth, you can monetize contempt. There's the advice, knobless road scholar. (27:24) Uncle Bobby has spoken. All right. Hey, if you missed any of the past episodes, you can find them all online at thebteamshow.com. Or if you go to dewbob.com, d-e-w-bob.com. That's right. You can find all the past episodes and get your exclusive. (27:41) Dewbob merch. That's right. Because who doesn't look good in Dewbob merch? Well, I don't really ever see anybody in Dewbob. Actually, I have. My wife. And? And Matt Jaquit. And? It fits nicely. (27:57) Looks good in Dewbob merch. That's what you're saying. Sure. Sure. All right. Wait, you're saying your wife doesn't look good? Outfits matter, Bobby. Yeah. (28:12) You know what? You jumped into this conversation. Let's finish it. News. News. News is next. Your Omni Broadcasting News is brought to you by McCaskill & Company, the Emerald Coast's finest jeweler. I'm Dan Diamond. The news is the weather again today with Hurricane Icaeus, which is projected to make landfall as a hurricane category two Friday evening west of Pensacola. (28:35) That's why Jim Cantore is there. For Okaloosa County residents, a mandatory evacuation has been ordered for residents living in the coastal areas of Zone A and B beginning at 12 p.m. today. This includes residents living on Okaloosa Island, portions of coastal Fort Walton Beach, coastal Destin, coastal Mariester, and Niceville. (28:56) Please look up your address at myokaloosa.com. Okaloosa County officials are reminding drivers that bridges could also close during severe weather when sustained winds reach 40 miles per hour. The good news is the Okaloosa County schools are closed and the kids get the days off. (29:14) And that's your Omni Broadcasting News. Sponsored by McCaskill & Company, I'm Dan Diamond. Ever wonder what's really in your tap water? The deaf, dumb, and blind kid strikes again. There's the Who's pinball wizard. Just after 8 o'clock. (29:29) Good morning, Emerald Coast. How you doing? Boy, it's a pretty one out there right now, Bobby. 73, a high today of 85, but that's going to change. We are under a hurricane watch. No, a hurricane warning. We're under a warning. (29:44) Until further notice. Yeah, because everybody went off at like 955 last night on their cell phones. Yeah, but they did send an update at 6.56 a.m., which is a 7 o'clock update. Dates every three hours, don't they? Yeah. So we're currently operating off the 7 a.m. update. (30:06) Yeah, another one coming up at 10 later on this morning. And Michael Knight is actually working on on doing hourly updates for the audience on all three of our stations throughout the weekend. So he'll be he'll be doing updates here on 100.3 KROCK on 94.3 FTW and over on 103.7, the ticket as well. So just so you all know about that. (30:31) But yeah, the next National Hurricane Center update, like you said, Bobby, 10 o'clock this morning. Right. And I tend I tend to lean toward going directly to those. So please, God, stay off of Hype's weather page. Hype? That's that's what I call it anymore. Otherwise known as Mike. Hype. It's Hype. (30:50) He's changed his name. I'd say I have changed his name. It's friggin Hype's weather page. Bobby will change the name of the weather page and the storm. That's right. I'm not changing the name. It's Isaias. That's the name of it. That's how he wants to say it. (31:06) And honestly, before all of you start getting your knickers in a twist and the numbers 85089 KROCK, before you all start getting your knickers in a twist, I'm going to tell you right now. This storm originated across the Mexican Strait, right across the it's not really a peninsula, but came across Mexico. Right. (31:25) So to name it is Isaiah's and then pronounce it like you got a friggin Mexican accent. Isaias. Isaias. That is wrong. That is racist. That's cultural appropriation. And no, it is Isaiah's. I say that because I was born in the South and that's what that name is. Isaiah's. (31:45) So do you think we should maybe instead of like show the storm on a radar, like just replace the storm with like a sombrero that like moves counterclockwise? Well, you know, it's the first major storm in the Gulf of America, right? True. There you go. (32:01) Hey, by the way, because of the storm force forcing changes to the Fort Walton Beach Choctaw football game that was scheduled for tomorrow night and the highly anticipated rivalry between Choctaw and Fort Walton has been moved till 7 p.m. (32:18) Monday night, Joe Etheridge Stadium at Choctaw High School, while Niceville's game against Pace also shifts to Monday. We'll have the Choctaw Fort Walton game on ninety four three FTW and Niceville on one oh three seven the ticket. (32:35) So there you have it. All right. Stay with us. We've got more storm updates to get to as we move through the eight o'clock hour. It's the B Team Morning Show. I'm Schuyler Black. He's Bobby Dewrell. We're brought to you by Stripes Pub and Grill in Novar, Okaloosa Gas at Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach on one hundred point three KROCK. (32:54) Here's Tom Petty out loud on the classic rock station. One hundred point three KROCK. It's eight twenty three. This is the B Team Morning Show Thursday, October, October 8th. That's right. I got to get the month right. We've changed the name of the hurricane. (33:09) We've we've changed the name of the month. What are we changing next? Hmm. The name of the soda you're drinking from Coca-Cola to Woka-Cola? No. All right. I got it. I got a question. Oh, boy. Okay. All right. You're riding. You're riding on a horse. (33:30) There is a giraffe right next to you and a lion chasing you. What do you do? Ride the horse. No, you get your drunk ass off the carousel. (33:49) Yeah. Yeah, you should. You should. You should. You've had enough, Schuyler. Back to storm related stuff. We talked about the city of Fort Walton closing their facilities and parks at noon today. (34:07) But the city of Mariester also doing the same in preparation ahead of the storm. That is correct. And a couple of shelters have already opened. The shelters are there. They do have a couple that are pet friendly. (34:25) Now, you know, things to do. Right. So one of the shelters that is open right now is Raider Arena. And that is at Northwest Florida State College, 100 East College Boulevard, right there in Niceville. Now, listen, here's what you need to bring. Okay. Bring yourself some clothes, some rain gear, toiletries, a sleeping bag. (34:46) Bring your identification, your prescription drugs. Okay. Any entertainers, any entertainment that you want with some chargers. Okay. If you have any special dietary needs and make sure you have your insurance cards. All right. So you want to bring all of that. Do not bring weapons or alcohol and illegal drugs. (35:06) You will be arrested at the shelter, at the shelter. So do not bring weapons or illegal drugs, but do bring clothes, rain gear, toiletries, sleeping bags. Right. You need to bring your I.D. Make sure you have all your prescriptions with you, your entertainment for your kids or you and bring your chargers. (35:26) Right. And then if you've got any kind of dietary needs and bring your insurance information. So if you need sandbags, they are now available through Okaloosa County and you can find self-service sand and sandbags available at Stillwell Park, 710 Essex Road in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. (35:49) Or at Public Works North, which is at 1759 South Ferdinand Boulevard in Crestview, Florida. There has been a third location added, according to Representative Pat Maney. The Public Works facility in Destin, 3949 Commons Drive is offering sandbags, limit 12 bags per household as well. (36:10) Right. Right. And a reminder, Alert Okaloosa is one way for residents to receive communications. And you can sign up to receive those emergency notifications via the county's alert system at AlertOkaloosa.com. Or by texting OkaloosaFL to 888-777. (36:31) Okay. 888-777. All right. Hey, it is 827. This is the B Team Morning Show brought to you by Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre. Okaloosa Gas at Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. I'm Schuyler Black. He's Bobby Durrell. We appreciate you hanging out with us as we try to pass along the updates and information on the air this morning regarding this storm. (36:53) This morning, we were actually looking forward to going to the downtown coffee club, downtown Fort Walton Beach, but kind of following everybody else's lead. And with the mandatory evacuations that the county put in place for Zones A and B, which is Okaloosa Island and a lot of downtown and Ferry Park, Elliott Point neighborhoods here in Fort Walton, and in some areas in Chalamar as well in Niceville. (37:22) Most of Destin, in fact, as well. So, a lot of places in the south end of the county under mandatory evacuations. I think we do need to explain that just a little bit, though, Bobby, because you've got people like, mandatory evacuation, we have to leave. (37:38) Look, all that's saying is at noon today, we're advising you to leave the area. If and when storm conditions make it impossible for emergency personnel to get to your area, they will not get to you until the storm passes. (37:56) Right. So, nobody's going to come knocking on your door and evicting you out of your own house. Right. This is not California. You're not going to be arrested. But what that does mean is that, like Schuyler said, you can call 911 all you want. (38:13) They'll note it, and they'll get to you when they can get to you. Right. So, hey, listen, another thing to go check out at myOcalusa.com. If you're wondering, hey, am I in that zone? (38:28) Well, they do have the evac zones there, A through E. So, you can go check those out. You do have the map there that will give you the full GIS map and show you, hey, what zone am I in? (38:46) Well, you can find it out. And the nice thing about it, they have an address search on there. You can plop right in. Just put in your address and hit search, and it will tell you exactly, based on your address, what zone you're in. Good stuff. All right. (39:01) Hey, it's 829. We'll take a break. The B Team Morning Show is on the air on 100.3 KROCK. Stay with us. 100.3 KROCK, the classic rock station. It's the B Team Morning Show. 847 is the time. And obviously, Bobby and I are chuckling off the air. (39:19) Yeah. But we are seriously hoping and praying for the best with this storm. That's right. We are praying that it does break apart, that maybe it steps down a little bit. I mean, it's pretty obvious what's going to happen. But, you know, what we were having a good chuckle and laugh about is, one way or another, we're going to be drunk Saturday night. (39:38) Either in sorrows because of devastation or... Celebration that we made it. But either way, the bourbon will be flowing Saturday night. You can take the roof. Just don't take the bourbon. (39:53) That's right. That's right. But anyway, we'll have another update from the National... Hurricane Center here at 10 o'clock this morning. And I'll be honest with you, absolutely want to preface this. I am in no way a meteorologist or a forecaster or have any knowledge, right? But just looking at the satellite this morning, the intensity of some of those thunderstorms seem to be kind of drying out a little bit. The hot towers that were right there in the middle are not quite there. But what I will say, looking at that in the last couple of hours is that big convection right there in the middle, it's not a burst like it was, but it's spiraled out. So it's almost like it's trying to form its eye. Yeah, I think it is. We'll get another update here in an hour and we'll see where it is on the pressure. But the pressure was still dropping the last time that we saw, down from 985 to 972 millibars. So we're down to 975 millibars right now, but we're anxiously awaiting that 10 o'clock update. And I'm sure Michael Knight will have some updates for you, or maybe we stick around a little late and say something. I don't know. But yeah, it's there. We do have that jet stream coming down. So I mean, there's still hope, folks. There's still hope. But definitely start making your preparations. And that's a smart, prudent thing to do. Be ready. It's 849. This is the B Team Morning Show. Stick tight. Local news coming up in just a few minutes. Right now, Van Halen dance the night away. Again, that's the plans for Saturday night. That's right. One way or the other. Van Halen dance the night away on 100.3 KROCK, the classic rock station. Got to watch Monkey and the Football right now. Jesus, man. I paid that bus fare. Good God. Yeah, I was on the struggle bus. All right. Yeah, definitely. (42:11) Folks, we are going to transition from the B Team Morning Show to the B Team Encore Hour here at 9 o'clock. If you missed anything Bobby and I talked about this morning, find us online at bteamshow.com. Local news at events, daily national holidays, your Ask Uncle Bobby feature, the show on demand. It's all at the bteamshow.com. And storm updates there. Also, storm updates, as soon as they come in, post it at new.emeraldcoastconnected.com. That's right. (42:38) Either go to the weather center and find the storm tracker, or there's usually an alert right at the top that will send you right to the latest updates and the latest storm tracker. But yeah, it's all out there. It all comes direct from the NHC. This is not our commentary. This is not what we think. It's not our hype. It's not our hype machine, right? This is all National Hurricane Center straight to you. It's not hype's weather page. (43:08) It's not. Yeah, there's no sensationalizing this. So again, new.emeraldcoastconnected.com is where you'll find that as well. All right. I want to thank our B Team Morning Show sponsors, Stripes Pub and Grilla Navarre, Okaloosa Gas at Outkast Sushi and Miramar Beach. B Team Encore Hour is coming up next. I'm Schuyler Black. Bobby Dewrell, get us on out. (43:27) Hey, folks. Thanks for listening to the B Team Morning Show, your leading alternative to quality programming right here on the Emerald Coast. Now, we know you have a choice in what you listen to each and every day. We appreciate the fact that you settled down on this wild ride that we call a morning show. But it's come that time of day, we got to mosey on out of here. So you keep on rocking, keep on rolling, never settle for the ordinary. Till the next time, the B Team is out. (43:45) Your Omni Broadcasting News is brought to you by McCaskill & Company, the Emerald Coast's finest jeweler. I'm Dan Diamond. The news is the weather again today with Hurricane Ecaeus, which is projected to make landfall as a hurricane category two Friday evening west of Pensacola. That's why Jim Cantore is there. For Okaloosa County residents, a mandatory evacuation has been ordered for residents living in the coastal areas of Zone A and B beginning at 12 p.m. today. (44:14) This includes residents living on Okaloosa Island, portions of coastal Fort Walton Beach, coastal Destin, coastal Mary Esther, and Niceville. Please look up your address at myokaloosa.com. Okaloosa County officials are reminding drivers that bridges could also close during severe weather when sustained winds reach 40 miles per hour. The good news is Okaloosa County schools are closed and the kids get the days off. And that's your Omni Broadcasting News. Sponsored by McCaskill & Company, I'm Dan Diamond. Tom Rice from Magnolia Grill where they have the finest foods but they also have a museum. Well Zoe, you know we do serve food but we also have a museum setting to do it in. The beautiful old house that Dr. French built back in 1910 is redecorated, is all redone with everything that we could possibly collect from the Camp Walton, early Fort Walton days, and we want to add that to your dining experience. And it's wonderful, you'll enjoy both food and the museum pieces that are priceless. And Zoe, on a serious note, I proudly salute an important place that cares for the spouses of our service members. Known for its mom rule, you may think of it as the Air Force Enlisted Village, Bob Hope Village, or the Hawthorne House, but know that for over four decades its special residents have called this safe place home. (45:30) Our community continues to support this special place and fondly remembers the visits of Bob and Dolores Hope and their support building local and national interest. The need for your support of this village continues. Give me a call and I can tell you more about their stewardship and the mom rule. (45:46) And that's a wrap on today's B Team Redux.