Tim Walberg on the 4 Tornados That Hit His District

0:00Well, we're going to squeeze in our next guest. He deserves a lot more time than we have, but we wanted to get him on, given the turmoil, the weather troubles starting of Friday, and some of the tornadoes in his district, fifth district. And that is Congressman Tim Wolberg. Congressman always a pleasure. Nice to, nice to have you on board. Sorry, it's about this conversation about what has happened and what is now going on, and the investigation about no tornado watch issued or sirens near the, to warn the folks, for example, at Union Lake. Well, Paul W. Thanks for having us on. And those are, those are concerns, but as we find out more and more about it, really most everything that was done was normal. It was supposed to, it works that way. You had a wonderful, um, exposition on, on what a tornado watch, what's required for that with, uh, the weather broadcaster,

1:01um, Scott Lauren. Yeah. Yeah. And he did a great job in, in really delineating what went on, talking with my sheriffs and emergency managers, uh, this morning over in Cass County, and, uh, by that sad, sad site of loss of a 12 year old in Eddie'sburg. Um, it, it seems like the systems did work. Some of the things that are being stated about reductions in funding for the weather service, that's absolutely false. In fact, there's been increased dollars put in for, for the weather service operations. So this was one of those things is, you know, Paul W as well. So the geezers know a lot that life happens, and sometimes it happens in a bad way. And now we find out some of the best, best people in the world, which are neighbors and friends, family members, members show up to help to pick up the, the loss and the needs and meet people's needs. And we're seeing that all over my district from Edwardsburg, where I was at this morning and last night I was at, at the union, union,

2:03uh, city and union lake, where it looked like a bomb had gone off and met one gentleman who lost his wife there at the lake in the, uh, in the tornado. And yet the people are showing up our sheriffs, our emergency managers, um, state police, um, are doing the omen effort. I've been in contact with FEMA multiple times since Friday afternoon. Uh, Christy Nome, who I guess is still a secretary of, uh, home, uh, home land security called me Friday night, uh, offered all the services that FEMA can legally do, uh, and are capable of doing for us. Um, we're going to see what happens on that. We hope, I hope this wakes up my colleagues. And the next time we vote like last, uh, Thursday when we voted to fund Homeland Security that they'll vote with us this time. I can't believe they could again vote against it. Seeing what this is doing with FEMA, uh, with our homeland security at a time when we need it more than ever. And for that matter, TSA, not being paid, those

3:05poor, hardworking men and women and how that's causing trouble. And the Democrats have got to understand this is all falling on them. Even if the institutional media won't blame them, won't point out the truths, uh, they don't point out the truths about gas. Oh my gosh, gas prices might go as high as they were when Biden was president. So I mean, it's ridiculous. They never gave credit to the president when gas prices went down. And then they said, well, they want to 50 cents this week. That's the most they've ever gone up. That's because they were the lowest prices they've been in years. It's, it's just, it gets to be maddening as an observer. And I fear my listeners, no, my listeners understand my listeners are very bright. The best and brightest audience in all of radio. But there are a lot of people who don't get it and then shoot from the lip and say this president's doing everything wrong. He's not doing everything right. But he's certainly not doing everything wrong. Well, that's really true. And in situations that we're seeing

4:09ourselves now in my district with these tornadoes and hopefully we're not going to have another round of them tomorrow, which there is some concern. And I would tell any of my constituents that are listeners to you, uh, if they're listening right now, make sure that you listen to all the warnings. You prepare yourself for this so we don't have, uh, hopefully what to place the, uh, the other day. But it is what happens and, uh, you can't control the weather at times. So control how you respond to it. Also, I would quickly and people can go to my website, walbert.house.gov.gov and get further information. But there's all sorts of, uh, issues and needs that are out there. But we also know you ought to talk to the right entity before you show up. They're working hard to get things opened up again. And we need less traffic than what has been out there. But, uh, we don't need, we don't need rubber neckers, gockers. We don't need people going out there just to see the damage. They're

5:10getting in the way. Did you say walberg.house.gov? Walbert.house.gov is my official site and that has all the updates on it, uh, uh, phone numbers that can be called entities that are working in the area. And I think we also point out that there are scams that are out there. People that are coming in and making a doubt, having a homeowner make a down payment on tree removal. And then they don't show up again or putting new roof on and then they don't show up again. But the homeowner's out thousands of dollars. So go to the locals, go to the local entities, get the information from them and you'll be far better off and safer from, uh, hitting a scams. So we've got both extremes. We've got wonderful people stepping up and volunteering. And we've got, uh, fraudsters that are out there too. So, and they should be prosecuted to the M's degree quickly, at Congressman Tim Walberg with what you know right now. You don't, you're not looking at some big hole or mistake made by the National Weather Service with what you know now. With what we know

6:15right now, no, this was a very, very localized storm and that, uh, when you put a, um, a, uh, tornado warning, it isn't a much larger regional area. This wasn't that. Uh, the warnings that did go off, the silence that did go off that we're supposed to did go off except in one spot in our counter, in our district over in the far west side. And we're checking out why that was the case. But the rest did, but it just was a boom. It happened, uh, almost as soon as there was an evidence that there was one coming and, uh, people weren't able to, to get away fast enough. And thankfully, again, we've lost four lives. We've had, uh, about 20 injuries, three as I understand they were hospitalized, but it could have been so much worse what I saw there like yesterday. Migratious. If you could give us a quick, I hate to cut you short, but a 30 second prayer for the day, Congressman Walberg. God, thank you for being you. Thank you that

7:17you care for us and have demonstrated so many ways. Thank you that you're there for heartbroken people right now. Meet their needs. Give them comfort and encourage people like ourselves to continue serving. And with that, I think we'll get through this and be stronger for it. God bless America. God bless the fifth district and God bless these people here now. It's in the name of Jesus I pray, amen. God bless you, Congressman Tim Walberg. Stand by for news and J.R.F. to noon with the only one and only Ryan or Molly stay here.