Transcripts. Bannon’s War Room. Dave Walsh Gives Update on DeSantis' Well Implemented Hurricane Ian Recovery Efforts. October 3, 2022.

Topic: Dave Walsh Update on DeSantis’ Hurricane Ian Recovery. October 03, 2022.

Transcripts from Bannon’s War Room on Rumble: Dave Walsh Gives Update On DeSantis' Well Implemented Hurricane Ian Recovery Efforts.

Published on October 3, 2022.

Steve Bannon:

Let me bring in Dave Walsh are energy expert.  Dave your assessment of their attack on DeSantis and the preparation and also the mainstream media is spinning I think a very untrue story about the power coming back on and this effort, a united effort of many people particularly working-class men and women to give Florida stood back up immediately Dave Walsh.

Dave Walsh:

For example, I mean the severity of this storm was the equivalent of Katrina in the 4.5 on the scale of 5 being the most severe. Katrina 1,833 deaths, Florida to date 76, very unfortunate but not even comparable. Very actually low death toll, considering what happened and the variability of the event. I've been here 25 years watching these storms.

They're fairly unfortunately regular enough watch them evolve. This one had the unique characteristic of even four days before it hitting the coast here, was a category 60 mile per hour event crossing Cuba on Sunday when it arrived here Wednesday four days later had magnified by the time it hit the coast to 4 1/2 level huge storm but was geared the entire time the forecast we're heading to Tampa.  He's exactly right up through about Tuesday morning was headed towards Tampa, St Pete.

The cone expanded widely then to pick up Fort Myers as closer to Ground Zero, Punta Gorda, Fort Myers became apparent about 36 hours before it struck.  Though no time and he's exactly right.  I myself, I've been in this mode of in evacuation area we're way inland it's pretty safe here in Orlando. A lot of people do not, they’re advisories, they're not mandates they don't come and extract you from your home.

Unfortunately, a lot of people on the coast where you should evacuated decide not to. They exercise free choice in this case a mistake for those who passed especially and have had loss of homes but yeah it is normal, a normal reaction of many folks do not leave their property and this was no different. But the amount of warning on this on this one because of its fluctuation in path and severity uplift in the last 36 hours was kind of unprecedented.

Steve Bannon:

So, what about standing up what about getting power back on all of it cause the media is making it seem like it's taken forever DeSantis is not on top of things, it's disorganized and discombobulated, sir.

Dave Walsh:

Highly the opposite.  I was in error last week, we're already, I was speculating a week to 10 days two weeks.  We're already, in the two major utilities Duke and Florida Power & Light have restored the service 2 1/2 million out of 3.1 million customers already. Duke 90% restored. FP&L have restored the million six out of 2.2 million affected customers already as of yesterday, more online this morning. 

There are going to be about 450,000 folks in Lee County, Collier County and Charlotte County, the most impacted who were looking at probably next Sunday, out of what now looks like a total of nearly 4.2 million people in the state taking off service. And Duke and FP&L and control a lot of that but there are a lot of munis co-ops and distributed energy companies in the state that also have another million folks that were offline. So, we had about 4.2 million people out of power.  Of those about 80% have now been fully restored already as of yesterday. So, this is unbelievable herculean task. FP&L have 20,000 people here on their effort.

Duke, I mentioned last week 10,000.  I met this morning a bunch of folks from Alabama in Orlando at my coffee shop so to speak I won't mention down here to help in the storm, lineman, thanked him profusely for what they've done. We're totally restored up here in Orlando. And statewide again, 80% restoration has been achieved already. It's a miracle, very rapid.

Steve Bannon:

Real quickly I think it was solar power and if didn't have the classic power that Dave Walsh preaches that this would have never happened. We would have gotten through this much better. Is that true or false?

Dave Walsh:

Utterly false. I'll just give it right to the point of this spear on that. All of my neighbors who have panels we're out of power exactly every minute that I was because what they are net net, they're sellers of electricity to the grid while they have it. They don't use their own solar.

That's not how the system works anywhere in the country. Unless you've bought a quarter $1,000,000 worth of storage, battery storage for 16 hours basically what you're doing is selling power into the grid and meaning you're on the grid yourself the whole time.  So, everyone I know with panels was off the grid the same amount of time I was. That's a complete false if they complete false

Steve Bannon:

Walsh how did they get to you over on GETTR?  

Dave Walsh:

Its @DaveWalshEnergy on GETTR.  thanks Steve.

Steve Bannon:

Thank you thank you brother.

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