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It's a national program but a lot of these issues affect the whole nation, even when we talk about specific areas of the country like Florida.

This is a massive hurricane. It's massive in terms of wind, it's massive in terms of intensity, it's massive in terms of size.

It's kind of hit the west coast of Florida, they're not exactly sure where, but it's wind-spaned as enormous.

Florida has over 22 million people, it's now bigger than New York, it's right behind Texas.

And when you're talking about cities like Tampa and Orlando and as it moves east, you're talking about all these areas on the east coast.

And obviously the worst part of a hurricane is when you're slammed by the heaviest of the winds in their rain and hurricanes within them, they have these tornadoes.

And also you see the waves can be 10-15 feet high, think about that.

Slamming up on the beaches. And of course they're talking now about a potential of a foot of rain in some areas, which is just really unimaginable.

We shall see. We shall see, but when I look at the breadth of this thing, they're talking about this massive tropical storm, a tropical storm is nothing to sneeze at either.

It winds up to 100 miles an hour, massive amount of rain. And it looks like at least in part, as the hurricane hits the western part of the state, you're going to have huge swaths of tropical storms across the eastern part of the state.

As it moves through the heart of the state. So that's how it's tracking right now.

I can tell you, having a home there, having a family there, family still there, mostly on the east side, what I do during the course of the year, and be wise for people to do this.

A lot of people living in Florida have never been through a hurricane. Millions of people now in Florida have never been through a hurricane in the last five years.

The time to stock up on water and toilet paper and paper towels and batteries and flashlights and so forth is after the hurricane season.

In other words, during the part of the year when these things are widely available.

When I leave Florida and I often do excuse me between Florida and Virginia, I fill up my car in Florida and leave it in the garage. So it's always ready to go.

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