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- [Reporter] With Hurricane Michael

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and what's happened here, I mean,

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how does something go
from a tropical storm

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to a nearly Category 5
in a span of 72 hours?

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(intense music)

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- When these tropical systems roll through

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we get a lot of information

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from the National Hurricane
Center and we help relay that,

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but then we also have to
tailor our local forecast

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to make sure we're
meeting Hulburt's mission

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and then get the aircraft out

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if we have any kind of damage coming.

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(helicopter whirring)

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- You have to look at more details

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because you have to figure out like,

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how that cyclone or tropical depression's

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gonna be moving, how it's
going to affect the base

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or anybody in the area.

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And it's not only about our base, as well,

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it's about everybody else around us,

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so we have to basically pay attention

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to every little detail.

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- Weather readiness helps
to keep our aircraft lethal.

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If they don't know the weather,

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they might not know
what they're going into,

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as well as their own limitations.

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If you've got something
that needs to see the ground

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for a mission to go off,
we've got a low deck,

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and they can't see the ground,

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then their mission isn't going off.