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Lancaster Report: Debby strikes in waves. County layoffs pile up Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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🗓️ 10 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Lancaster Report: Debby strikes in waves. County layoffs pile up Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

1945 Lancaster PA

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0:00.0

This is CBS I and the world. I'm John Batchett. To Lancaster County, the best county in the

0:05.1

Keystone State now being pummeled by Tropical Storm Debbie, formerly Hurricane

0:11.2

Debbie. I grew up in Philadelphia and so did Jim and we remember those hurricanes that would come

0:19.6

across Jersey and hit Philadelphia. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain rain very humid of course Philadelphia is always

0:26.2

human and then the sky would clear Jim a very good evening to you are you in

0:31.1

the sky clearing part or the raining part in Lancaster County?

0:35.4

Good evening to you. Good evening John. Well right now the rain has stopped but it's

0:40.3

still cloudy. We see bands of Debbie coming through like every 30 minutes with some

0:45.8

regular I already will have a downpour but you know I have a little Kanawago Creek in my backyard.

0:52.5

It's not over its banks.

0:54.7

The plants love this.

0:56.2

We had, you know, we've had a rain shortage here

0:58.6

in Lancaster County.

1:00.1

It's great for the sweet corn.

1:01.8

So my theory is that the TV news has,

1:06.8

they have small budgets, and it's easy to cover the weather

1:10.9

and they deploy their troops to cover the weather and when

1:14.3

Debbie is a downer in terms of intensity they tend to hype it so you know Debbie

1:20.3

it's just a a, needed rain here in Reichester County.

1:25.8

All right, to hype, that would be the markets, Jim.

1:28.6

Good heavens.

1:29.6

The world ended up, apparently Monday afternoon.

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