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Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Be Prepared: How to stay safe and get ready for 2025 hurricane season
With the 20205 Atlantic Hurricane Season just days away, it's important for everyone in Florida to be prepared. Here are some of the things you can do to help keep yourself and your family safe. Before the storms roll in, residents should make an evacuation plan. Evacuation maps are available at If you live near the coast, you should know what evacuation zone you live in. The big things you will need are water, batteries, and cash. Experts recommend a minimum three-day supply of water (one gallon per person per day), non-perishable food, flashlights, portable phone chargers, and a battery-powered weather radio. You should also keep mind on prescription medications, important documents in sealed waterproof bags, pet supplies, and board games or books if the power goes out. Florida homeowners should clear their gutters, trim trees, and secure loose outdoor items like lawn furniture and grills. You should also be able to secure the windows of your home with plywood or storm shutters, if possible. Stockpiling sandbags is also a great move now to avoid the long lines at distributing sites, as organized systems directly threaten the state. Download official emergency apps like FEMA or Florida Storms, and sign up for county alerts via text. Don't rely on social media rumors—stick with trusted sources like the National Hurricane Center and WFTV's team of meteorologists. Preparation is your greatest defense before disaster strikes. Channel 9 will continue to cover everything you need to know in the tropics. WFTV will have much more to share at 8 p.m. Friday with our hurricane special, 'Eyewitness To History' on Channel 9. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
Scoop
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
U.S. GIRLS Announces New Album Scratch It Out June 20 Via 4AD
Toronto-based producer, film composer, and author Meg Remy announces her intuitive and adventurous U.S. Girls album Scratch It (out June 20) with the release of an epic and sprawling 12-minute lead single, ' Bookends '. Co-written with Edwin de Goeji, ' Bookends ' is the heart of Scratch It. The sprawling ballad pays tribute to Remy's late friend and former Power Trip frontman Riley Gale, through the lens of Remy's reading of John Carey's Eyewitness To History, a historical collection of 300+ eyewitness accounts of great world events spanning twenty-four centuries. In consuming these first-hand accounts of human history, she began to ponder the thought, 'there is not a hierarchy to suffering, and death is the great equaliser.' ' Bookends ' is also accompanied by a cinematic short directed by Caity Arthur. They explain,' The video is ultimately about death and absolution — how death is one of the only certain things in life; the 'great equaliser,' nolens volens. However, it also subverts the traditional narrative of death as a despairing void, rather, portraying it as a euphoric transitory experience or new beginning through a hallucinatory ensemble cast, a 1960s pop-star performance, and sleight of hand magic. As the video progresses, the TV channels alternate through these scenes as Meg's lyrics evoke death in its various forms.' When an artist follows her instinct, rather than money or trends, she can find inspiration anywhere. When Remy was asked to play a festival in Hot Springs, Arkansas — over one thousand miles away from her Toronto home — it was instinct that led her to enlist guitarist friend Dillon Watson (D. Watusi, Savoy Motel, Jack Name) to assemble a one-time Nashville-based band for the occasion. The performance went so well that she decided to ride that energy right back to where the impromptu band had initially rehearsed, in Music City itself, kickstarting the journey toward Scratch It. In just ten days, Remy and the band — Watson on guitar, Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, Loretta Lynn) on bass, Domo Donoho on drums, and both Jo Schornikow and Tina Norwood on keys, as well as harmonica legend Charlie McCoy (Elvis, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison) — recorded Scratch It live off the floor with minimal overdubs, mixed to tape. Closeness and ease emanate from this core band with Remy's singular voice sparkling on top of every tune, the most relaxed it has ever been. Scratch It weaves together country, gospel, garage rock, soul, disco, folk balladry, and more, with Remy's masterful songwriting threaded throughout. Her choice to discard the computer-based production of previous albums in favor of two-inch tape serves the songs well, introducing an element of sonic shapeshifting expected from an artist nearly twenty years into making records. If instinct was an instrument, Remy would be a virtuoso. Scratch It and see.
