September 25th, 2004.

It was awful. Hurricane Gene.

Weatherweary storm rattled central Florida residents are delivered a third powerful punch.

On September 26th, 2004, most Florida residents are hunkered down inside as Hurricane Gene slams the eastern coast.

One of the storms had just come through, you know, gone just south of Tampa through Port Charlotte,

ripped through the state, and every major airport in the southeast was closed.

But the Schindler's and David Gibbs aren't taking shelter inside.

Instead, they're making plans to head out on the roads into the storm.

They're slated to appear for a full hour on Larry King live in L.A., 2,000 miles away on the opposite side of the country.

Right now, that's looking pretty impossible.

Then, Gibbs gets a call from one of Larry King's staffers.

And she said, can you get to Miami?

Well, I knew Miami airport was closed.

But she said, we have a relationship with a carrier,

and they're going to land at the Miami airport,

and you will be allowed to board.

It's the Schindler's last hope to make it out of the state, so Gibbs hatches a plan.

First of all, I called the Schindler's and said, are you willing to still go?

So we made the decision, okay, we'll go.

So I called my grandfather, and he had one of the big

four-door Cadillacs going out in a storm. I might as well have something big. And then I called

a young single attorney on my staff that I could drive the car back, and I figured, well, if we

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