and the stress it puts on the system when the power comes back on because everyone has their power on and what have you, can you speak to that? i don t want to get too far outside of my expertise but this is another area you want to pay attention to what local authorities and local utilities are saying. just as we have extraordinary transportation workers, who are even in these extreme conditions helping you get to where you need to be and getting packages to where they need to be. when you do have these outages, it extraordinary what the line workers and others go through in order to quickly restore power. important to listen to any local announcements about how to make things a little bit easier for them. everyone s priority is to keep everybody up and running and keep people safe. as a former mayor, i know up
it s not completely out of the ordinary. but we are unclear at this moment how many of those are being used and whether it is working at all and indeed if it is the case that people are tending to stay away from a&e today, which is certainly what we have seen so far at the moment, then that might reduce the need for that. dr angela baron is a lecturer in hr and organisational behaviour at the university of sussex. it s good to be with you but are disappointing we are still talking about the strikes. haw disappointing we are still talking about the strikes. disappointing we are still talking about the strikes. how unusual is it that we are about the strikes. how unusual is it that we are seeing about the strikes. how unusual is it that we are seeing ambulance - about the strikes. how unusual is it that we are seeing ambulance staff| that we are seeing ambulance staff going out on strike like this? bier? going out on strike like this? very unusual. going out on strike like this? ver
search and rescue efforts continue. door to door efforts continue under the unified structure for the land, air, and see certain rescue. there will be needs throughout the recovery phase. folks start there trying to get the resources they need to do that. they will be with florida. it is impacting communities throughout. let me ask you about the low hanging fruit. i have been out there on the streets. i ve seen the electrical workers, the line workers. they have done a great job. there s a lot of power back on their. and that, i am staying in naples. the drive here to fort myers beach, they were traffic lights. things were orderly. you get closer into fort myers beach. it was much harder hit. there is still downed trees. there are boats in the street. there are traffic lights that are gone. there are isolated communities. one of them that i visited
and for millions of floridians, they re still in the dark. you know, we have power outages all over the state and it s going to take a long time to get power restored. although governor desantis says that restoring power is going to be a top priority, around thirty three thousand utility and line workers are here in the state right now. they re weathering the worst of the storm and they re going to be deployed all over the state trying to get that power back . but it is going to take some time because these winds are still gusting in many areas and they can only raise their bucket trucks when winds are less than thirty five miles per hour. now, darkness has now fallen, of course, over florida. and many people tomorrow are going to be waking up to scenes of devastation. now for folks out there, they need to watch out for fallen trees and especially power lines in people who are running generators need to be careful with those. they need to keep their generators well away from
biden did finally reach out to governor desantis. but he also declined to cancel a fundraiser tonight to help more, you know, obviously democrats get elected governor. which just seemed, i don t know, seemed off. i don t want to politicize this but it does seem off. and if president trump did that you can imagine what the left would say and you re exactly right leadership matters. we had great leadership from president trump and great from the governor. the governor said they already have 40,000 line workers on stand-by national guard on stand-by. they ve got planes ready to go. i think you talk about air, land and sea ready to help the residents and families of his district and already set up a way to raise money for the families who we re all praying for who are going to be impacted about this and as you point out joe biden is raising money for himself and the democrats the people giving us all the problems unfolding across our country whether it s crime border inflation the last 2