And what's up everyone? Welcome back to the Daily P5. This is episode 128 for Mondays at 10th. 2018, it's 10 o'clock 6 p.m.
here on the East Coast. And I just want to give everyone a quick update. My last podcast was about a potential FEMA deployment for Hurricane Florence, probably down into the Carolina. Since that last episode, there have been five updates from FEMA and AMR, and none of them have been deployment orders, even though the storm continues to grow in intensity and size.
And so the last one was issued three hours ago. And again, we still do not have any deployment orders, which usually is not, you know, too uncommon as, you know, like this is probably 10 hours or 11 hour drive for us to get down to the Carolina. So, and that thing may still be 130 hours away from, you know, landfall or something like that. So to get down there and get in place, we still have a lot of time to show that happen.
So I will continue to monitor all of the communication between FEMA and AMR and to us. And I will continue to update everyone. But we're ready. We just had emergency planning meeting this evening.
And, you know, we're as ready as we can go to the vehicles ready. It's just a matter of getting deployment orders. And then we are out of here bound for itself. Now yesterday, obviously, the remnants of Trump was born Gordon, which hit the panhandle of Florida last week has pretty much decimated Western Pennsylvania.
Pretty significantly. And you can see all of those pictures online. But more importantly here in White Oak, yesterday I had to put on my, you know, borough emergency management hat and drive around for several hours and check for damage assessment and flooding and all of that stuff that goes into being a, you know, part of the borough emergency management team. And so we do have a lot of flooding and a lot of flood prone areas here where I live.
And specifically one of the major roads was completely overrun with some flood water. And I was able to get down there yesterday in the rain. You know, cars were stuck. Cars were floating.
And the crazy thing is, is people still trying to drive through. is we're trying to turn around and tell them don't drive. You know, the, the mindset of people in those moments is they are flipping us off and driving through and screaming at us to get the F out of the way so that they can drive through. You know, here comes this one, you know, rusty scupper, beater of a vehicle, you know, with this individual that just blew right through us.
Hit the water. The whole front of the vehicle gets emerged and comes through that stuff because, you know, the water, you know, drowned out everything under the hood and the car sold and, you know, had to get pushed out. And it's just ridiculous the way people think during emergencies. It's like, why do you think we're standing there getting caught on with emergency vehicles everywhere telling you to turn around?
Right. I mean, and again, it happens all the time. So you know, you know, you're not going to be able to do dumb shit and that's just the way it is. And it's the same thing with, you know, any type of, you know, preparation you always see after the hurricane, the people standing there with dirty t-shirts in the, in the, you know, dirty hair and there's crying and screaming, where's FEMA?
Where's FEMA? And it's like, you know, well, how much, how much prep did you do? You know, before the storm came because, again, there's a lot of preparations that individuals can do if you decide to say and ride out the storm, which is obviously never recommended, but nevertheless, people still do it. But if you're going to do it, make sure you prep, but people don't prep.
And so these are again, these are some of the things and all the frustrations on the other side of what I do that we see in the old with constantly. So we'll see what's going to happen here in the next, you know, three or four days with the storm and whether or not we go, but I do know our May or yesterday declared disaster in the White Oak. And it just, it rained all day yesterday at rain all day today. And, you know, the good news is some of the roads have reopened, some of the flood waters have gone, some of the creeks have gone back down.
So again, that's a good thing. But like I said, more rain could potentially be on the way. So we'll see what's going to happen. But that's my official update.
Tomorrow, as you all know, is the 17th anniversary of 9-11. And if it's a normal day for me and I don't end up getting deployed, I'm going to do a few more podcasts to tell my 9-11 story because I responded to Flight 93 in Jacksonville on 9-11 2001. And that was actually the first time I ever had a photograph and a story published because while I was there, I kept a journal and I emailed that out to a lot of people and they encouraged me to submit it somewhere to get published and I did and it got published on the one year anniversary of 9-11 along with some pictures I took. And, you know, pretty much all of you don't know that you're listening to the guy that took the very first photograph of the very first Flight 93 memorial.
So if I can dig that picture out, I know it's in the magazine, but I'd rather not take a picture of it with myself and I'd rather try to find the original film picture and try to scan it and post it up on social media for tomorrow, but it is going to require me to dig through a lot of boxes and try to find that. But nevertheless, I'll do tomorrow's podcast to tell my story in great detail as much as I can recall and as much as I can remember. So anyways, I'm going to leave it right there for this evening 4-1-2-7-1-4-2-3, I'll probably go podcast.com. Thanks for listening.