prepare, the storm has moved so slowly, they are just ready to get it over with. our house is ready we are ready but i m grateful that it s moving out. but it s just i wish it would do something. good god. dorian, go. we are watching what it did in the bahamas, just sit there and spin for days. it just wears on you, you know, you are like come on crap or get off the pot. a quick drive through town and this is what you will see utility trucks lined up and ready to respond to any sort of power outages and downed power lines. florida power and light says it was 17,000 workers on board right now. almost 60 drone teams have enough fuel and beds to get their crews through days of recovery efforts. they also have pre-positioned transformers and poles should any of them need to be replaced. if you talk to any of the emergency responders who have been through a few of
possible. we ve had several days to prepare for it so people have a chance to prepare for it. we ve got utility trucks up and down the coast ready to go in. you have to sort of look at your own situation. ask am i likely to flood and lose power and do i have stuff on hand. and act accordingly. thanks, al, as always. joining me now on the phone is pastor glen roll. pastor, where you i know i have traying to reach your brother who lives elsewhere in the bahamas. where does he live and what s the update? well, good afternoon and thank you so much. people around the world, thank you so much for the opportunity to share what s going on here in the bahamas. we like many others have family in the other island that is grand bahama. you talked about the storm there earlier and abaco. our brother happens to love in abaco.
one of those being they have utility trucks lined up, just getting in place in case the power should go out. they can go ahead and get those trucks out there, maybe get the power restored and clear those roads. the other thing were hearing about from a evacuations getting out some of those high-risk patients ahead of the storm. we are also seeing a lot more people boarding up their windows, putting up hurricane shutters, starting to realize the window to get out is short, is getting more narrow and closing up by the minute. because of that, the local sheriff s department out here is putting out a pretty strong message with people being worried about leaving their home and having looters come in and steal their stuff during the storm. if you want to be a knucklehead and go out there and commit a burglary and liberate your neighbors of their flatscreen tv because they evacuated, if you want to burglarize a gun shop or a
as a processing center for the more than 18,000 men and women from 34 u.s. states and canada who will be eventually restoring power to floridians. as you take a look around you can see that this is a mini army of utility workers and utility trucks. now, if you look closely, you ll see there are different logos, different license plates. here is how it works. these utility workers drive into this processing center. they get checked in. they get a security briefing and then they get dispatched to 20 strategic locations in the state of florida. once power goes out, they will be dispatched to those impacted areas. now, this is volusia county. it is the size of the state of rhode island here in the united states, and mandatory evacuations are scheduled for monday at 10:00 a.m. officials here tell us that those mandatory evacuations will be issued for individuals who live in the barrier islands and low-lying areas. and also those who live in rv
nascar s daytona 500 is doubling right now as a processing center that really if you look at it, it looks like a mini army of utility trucks. this is what you want to see ahead of a hurricane. from talking to fpnl, they hold us there are more than 18,000 men and women from 34 states and canada that have made their way to the state of florida to processing centers like this one. this is one of two in the state. here is how it works. these utility workers drive in from across the country. they sign up. they get a security briefing. then they get deployed to 20 strategic places around the state. once power outages happen, wherever they happen, then these utility workers will be dispatched to those impacted areas. this county is about the size of rhode island. we re expecting for mandatory