Andalusia

Our, depending on which party you are, either post-celebratory or post-apocalyptic election day coverage.

With me as always is Tony Hughes in Andalusia.

How are you, Tony?

I'm doing great, Jonathan.

But, you know, we see what happened.

And I tell you, I hope, if anything, that this is a message to the Democrats.

A couple of my Democrat friends up here in Andalusia, you know, have been obviously celebrating today.

And the first thing they said was, well, we're going to pat the Supreme Court.

If you're Michelle Obama, even though you went to Columbia, I think she went to Yale too, does not matter, DEI.

It could be Billy Bob, Bubba, and Skeeter sitting in their trailer in Andalusia, Alabama, and they're much more intelligent and brilliant and erudite than Oprah.

Oprah got opportunities just because she's in a, quote, protected class.

And that's what people believe.

So my grandfather and grandmother raised me.

I'm born in Andalusia, Alabama, small town in Andalusia, South Alabama.

Um, my grandfather, my mother's father was, uh, passed up for 40 years.

I went to church every Wednesday and Sunday.

The resorts really making sure that they were back online.

I mean, if you're some family that worked 51 weeks in Andalusia, Alabama, and then that one week you get in Destin is the week everything's torn up, you don't want to see that.

But we thought this thing was going into Louisiana.

I called my friend Steve Scalise and said, you're like a guy with nine lives, and so you'll probably be okay.

And I've got- I'm so proud of my community in Northwest Florida, uh, the farmers helping one another, the, uh, the resorts really making sure that they are back online.

I mean, if you're, if you're some family that worked 51 weeks in Andalusia, Alabama, and then that one week you get in Destin [laughs] is the week everything's torn up, you don't wanna see that.

But we thought this thing was going into Louisiana.

I called my friend Steve Scalise and said, "You're like a guy with nine lives, and so [laughs] you'll probably be okay," but it took a little warble to the, to the east.

So there's really this corridor northeast of Pensacola heading up through southeastern Alabama, including just west of Dothan, where we have still this core of hurricane force wind gusts that are happening at the moment.

This is what is left of kind of the core of Isaias and it's right in this section here moving in towards Andalusia where we're seeing some of those strongest wind gusts on that kind of northwestern side of where the core of the storm is.

We've also seen an immense amount of rainfall.

In fact, some locations have seen over six inches of rain.

Um, but I'm, I'm, I'm hopeful that we'll end up on the good side here in coastal Alabama and that, that, uh, wind will continue to come out of that east- easterly or even, um, northerly and, and, uh, and, and not, uh, have us on the, the east side of that storm where all the, all the damage is done.

Yeah, and, and, you know, kinda looking at it, I mean, I, I, I think if I'm, like, if we're looking at it from an Alabama-centric point, I mean it's, it's, it's Andalusia, the, the, the northern parts of the Wiregrass into Montgomery that ...

And it's just like we said.

It, uh, you know, those are places ...

And, and we lost that hospital.

We went up to Andalusia.

Hmm.

Then down to Brewton, and then up to Thomasville, which also lost another hospital.