• 2 months ago
Storm chaser Mike Scantlin encountered cows on the roadway live on the air while covering the effects of Hurricane Debby as it made landfall on Aug. 5.
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00:00You are clearly on the road here.
00:01Can you tell us where you're headed
00:03and what you're searching for now?
00:08Right, so I I'm between Brantford and Live Oak.
00:10I'll be coming to Live Oak here pretty soon
00:12and I just wanted to stay in the worst of it
00:14for this live shot because when you're not
00:16in the strongest part of the core man,
00:18it is it's pretty weak.
00:19I mean, there was a point in time where I was sitting
00:21and waiting for this next little burst to come through
00:24and I was like, I can't believe this is a hurricane.
00:26So whenever the storms hit land,
00:29they tend to kind of dissipate and become more isolated.
00:33Oh, we got some cows in the road here.
00:35Cows?
00:36Florida cows in the road.
00:37This is a problem I'm used to having in Oklahoma and Texas.
00:40I didn't expect this in Florida.
00:41Oh my goodness.
00:43Oh, and they saw Mike and they said, no, thank you.
00:44We don't want to be on TV.
00:45We're not looking our best right now.
00:47But you can see the wildlife probably also, you know,
00:49they're usually very in tune with changes in the weather.
00:53Not sure why they're so close to the roads here.
00:56Oh, and we're beating Adam.
00:57Scoot, scoot, he doesn't want to hit them.
01:00The things that Mike Scalen, our storm chaser,
01:01is dealing with here, you know,
01:03we hear often of cows when it comes to tornadoes,
01:05but also now dealing with it oncoming with Hurricane Debbie.
01:09Anything else, Mike, that you want to bring us here
01:11that you've seen out there?
01:15Nope.
01:15You know, the trees down on the fence
01:17is what's going on here.
01:18So we had a tree fall down.
01:19I see.
01:20And a couple of these guys are getting squirrely
01:21trying to get to the other side.
01:23Yeah, well, this is an incredible video.
01:26I'm so glad you caught it.
01:28All right.
01:29Well, that was something we weren't expecting
01:30to see when it comes to hurricanes.
01:31Thank you so much for having me.
01:32Yeah, we appreciate it, Mike.
01:34Stay safe out there.
01:35We'll check back in with you later.
01:36Oh, we love, we love the power of live TV.
01:38I heard cows and I was like, we got to get back to that.

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