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Holy cow! Storm chaser gets a surprise while chasing Debby
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8/5/2024
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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00:00
You are clearly on the road here.
00:01
Can you tell us where you're headed
00:03
and what you're searching for now?
00:08
Right, so I I'm between Brantford and Live Oak.
00:10
I'll be coming to Live Oak here pretty soon
00:12
and I just wanted to stay in the worst of it
00:14
for this live shot because when you're not
00:16
in the strongest part of the core man,
00:18
it is it's pretty weak.
00:19
I mean, there was a point in time where I was sitting
00:21
and waiting for this next little burst to come through
00:24
and I was like, I can't believe this is a hurricane.
00:26
So whenever the storms hit land,
00:29
they tend to kind of dissipate and become more isolated.
00:33
Oh, we got some cows in the road here.
00:35
Cows?
00:36
Florida cows in the road.
00:37
This is a problem I'm used to having in Oklahoma and Texas.
00:40
I didn't expect this in Florida.
00:41
Oh my goodness.
00:43
Oh, and they saw Mike and they said, no, thank you.
00:44
We don't want to be on TV.
00:45
We're not looking our best right now.
00:47
But you can see the wildlife probably also, you know,
00:49
they're usually very in tune with changes in the weather.
00:53
Not sure why they're so close to the roads here.
00:56
Oh, and we're beating Adam.
00:57
Scoot, scoot, he doesn't want to hit them.
01:00
The things that Mike Scalen, our storm chaser,
01:01
is dealing with here, you know,
01:03
we hear often of cows when it comes to tornadoes,
01:05
but also now dealing with it oncoming with Hurricane Debbie.
01:09
Anything else, Mike, that you want to bring us here
01:11
that you've seen out there?
01:15
Nope.
01:15
You know, the trees down on the fence
01:17
is what's going on here.
01:18
So we had a tree fall down.
01:19
I see.
01:20
And a couple of these guys are getting squirrely
01:21
trying to get to the other side.
01:23
Yeah, well, this is an incredible video.
01:26
I'm so glad you caught it.
01:28
All right.
01:29
Well, that was something we weren't expecting
01:30
to see when it comes to hurricanes.
01:31
Thank you so much for having me.
01:32
Yeah, we appreciate it, Mike.
01:34
Stay safe out there.
01:35
We'll check back in with you later.
01:36
Oh, we love, we love the power of live TV.
01:38
I heard cows and I was like, we got to get back to that.
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