MidDays with Gerard Gibert 2026-06-18

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Get ready to go beyond the headlines and join a meaningful conversation with people from around the state. You're listening to MidDays with Gerard Gibert here on SuperTalk Mississippi.

**Gerard Gibert** (1:01)
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to MidDays, SuperTalk Mississippi. I'm your host, Gerard Gibert, along with Rhino in the Element Wealth Studio, guiding you through the middle of your day with facts, fodder, and fine music on this Friday Eve. It's a monsoon out there. Man, that is a bunch of rain.
What's going on across the state? I know the southern tier of the state, in particular, has been absolutely inundated, and there's flash flooding going on. Haven't heard of any severe weather as of yet? Have there been any reports, tornadoes, severe thunderstorms?

**Rhino** (1:44)
I haven't seen anything severe. I saw some suspected tornadic activity, but it could have just been wind, but it was very limited.

**Gerard Gibert** (1:52)
Yeah.

**Rhino** (1:53)
But yeah, if you're looking at the radar, like I'm looking at the live radar right now for the whole state, and it looks like the Delta is really the only part of the Magnolia state that's not getting completely drenched. They got some spotty showers in places, but South Mississippi, south of I-20 is pretty much just a big block of green, red, yellow, and orange.

**Gerard Gibert** (2:15)
Yeah.

**Rhino** (2:16)
And then if you follow the line of, say, like the Natchez trace into central and northeast Mississippi, it is just a whole bunch of yellow, red, and orange.

**Gerard Gibert** (2:27)
So my fellow bandmate, by the way, Steve Lott, he's been on the program before. He plays lead guitar in the house band, represents George Lusdale area, Stone County, I believe is also in his district. But he sent me a note this morning talking about the Mima app. He said it's quite useful. So I'm giving them a little bit of props here. He said, you can set notifications up in your area. Says it does a great job of very timely sending of alerts.
Of course, he makes the point. You and I have talked about this before, all these tools we have now at our disposal, because we all walk around with something connected to all that information. You don't have to be sitting in front of a television like we did in the old days or listening to your radio off air.
So yeah, shout out to Mima. Representative Steve Lott said he's been using it. They've been getting drenched in his part of the state, as you know. And he pointed out, Peking in particular said they have received an inordinate amount of rain, and it's starting to cause some swelling of the creeks and the lakes, the ponds, the rivers, all the bodies of water causing problems in that area. Sort of south central, southwest Mississippi. And that's because there's a tropical storm. Arthur, I believe it is, named Arthur in June.
It doesn't appear to pose any threat with respect to wind, just a bunch of dang rain. Unusual weather pattern, I would say, for this time of year. Such a contrast to the droughts that we have experienced in the last few years. But here we are. So stay safe out there, folks. That's the main thing. And take your time driving, and stay weather aware. Make sure you got your hands on the wheel, and feet on the controls underneath you there, and most importantly, your eyes on the road. Because one thing's for sure, Rhino, stuff happens quicker when you're on those wet roads. So be aware of that. So shout out.

**Rhino** (4:47)
I'm just seeing an update. We were talking about potential tornadic weather. It's not much, but it is the only thing I'm seeing.
Is there is one of those angry red polygons running from roughly New Orleans all the way across the Mississippi Gulf Coast, snagging Hattiesburg and Laurel in the polygon, all the way over to Mobile, Alabama, up to Monroeville. Wow. And they are saying there is a 10% tornadic risk in that area.

**Gerard Gibert** (5:20)
Okay. So some of that...

**Rhino** (5:22)
It's still a low risk, but we were just talking about it and it popped up.

**Gerard Gibert** (5:27)
Some of that embedded sort of stuff, right? I think it's what we're looking at. You got the rain forming up and you get a little clash of the air, boom, tornadoes can spin up. So be aware, folks, the Supreme Court has made a ruling on a law that bans drug users from owning guns. This is the same one used to prosecute Hunter Biden. And so the court ruled that the government cannot prosecute a man for owning a firearm just because he habitually smoked marijuana. That's what they decided today. This clarifies a section of the Gun Control Act that forbids a person who is, quote, an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance from owning guns. So that seems pretty straightforward. So I'm not really sure what the nuance here is that caused the Supreme Court to rule this way. So I think the case that they considered involved searching the Texas home of who was thought to be a drug dealer.