Greetings, conversationalists. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson here across the nation. The phone numbers 8779-735. If you want to be on the program, listen, I hate to do this because I know I've got a national audience here with me, but I've got to be very local here real quick because I have two affiliates in Vidalia, Georgia and Dublin, Georgia.

And with power outages and things like that, they can listen to the radio.

They can't listen to the TV right now.

And I need them to know there are tornadoes headed in your direction.

If you are in Baxley or Vidalia or Dublin, Georgia right right now you need to seek shelter because I can see

them on the radar. There are tornado warnings in your area. This is the way it's going to be

for the next probably 18 hours here in my neck of the woods as this hurricane gets closer.

And it's still a long way off. I mean,

it's it's not even supposed to make landfall here for probably another five, six hours. And

then that's going to blow through the night moving north. Everything is tracking north. I am in my

home studio as this hurricane approaches. And we are now supposed to get the brunt of the storm. It has

continued to wobble and

things can continue to change between now and then, but right now we're supposed to get the

worst of it. And those who know anything about hurricanes, the northeast side, really it's the

right side of a hurricane based on its trajectory. So if it's moving to the north, which this one is,

it is the right side of the hurricane.

And particularly the northeast side of the hurricane is the stronger side, given the way the winds whip around.

And it's going to come the northeast side, the right side of it, it's going to be just to the east of me.

So we're going to get some heavy winds and stuff out of it, hoping I'll be able to get out of the neighborhood of the morning. All this is to say, if you're listening to this on a Friday, I'm actually live on Thursday, and if you're hearing this on Friday, it means that not only could I not make it to the studio, that I wasn't able to get something pre-recorded for you, because the power went out. We'll be fine where we are. I'm not expecting to get swept away by tornadoes. Those are this front that's moving in advance of it. But again, if you're in my listening audience in Dublin, Georgia and Vidalya, Georgia, you need to seek some shelter. You've got some heavy stuff coming your way. And those of you in Vidalia, don't be fooled. It's about to stop raining. and the tornado was just on the other side of the end of the rain. So just be careful for you. All right, we got

other stuff we got to talk about in particular. And I want to take your phone calls and I'll try to

start taking your phone calls to this segment. Got people on hold. But I need to talk to you about

the House of Representatives. Yesterday I talked to you about the United States Senate.

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