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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 7-22-26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR and No Curtis Swa
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  Speaker 1: and Larry Minty in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: WOR Well, everything we feared, everything we were told might happen,
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  Speaker 2: did happen. Thunderstorms, tornadoes with an s, a couple of tornadoes, flooding,
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  Speaker 2: heavy rain. All of it happened yesterday. So what I
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  Speaker 2: want to do right away is get to Jeff Maher
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  Speaker 2: seven ten WR Weather Channel meteoroogist Curtis, because he warned
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  Speaker 2: us of all this yesterday, and I guess we hoped
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  Speaker 2: it either wouldn't hit or it wouldn't be as bad
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  Speaker 2: as it was, but it was pretty bad. Jeff, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining us this morning. So tell us the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: How bad was it yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's amazing the rainfall totals, because at the airports
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  Speaker 3: they were all basically JFK close to corvet inch over
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  Speaker 3: half inch at LaGuardia and Central Park just under a corvenach.
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  Speaker 3: But elsewhere Stanford in Connecticut almost five inches of rain,
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  Speaker 3: Montclair and Jersey over three and a half inches of rain,
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  Speaker 3: and Terrytown picked up four point seven nine inches of rain.
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  Speaker 3: So it was quite the delusion. Several spots yesterday and
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  Speaker 3: then we had damaging winds as well, possibly even some
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  Speaker 3: tornado damage. Well, the National Weather Circle's send a team
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  Speaker 3: up to Westchester and they're gonna examine where we had
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  Speaker 3: some damage yesterday, possibly related to either straight line winds
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  Speaker 3: or maybe even a tornado.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Jeff, we saw the funnel clouds in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 4: Our own producer, Natalie not live that far away. I
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  Speaker 4: thought Natalie was clicking a heels like Dorothy and the
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  Speaker 4: Wizard of Oz, saying, take me back to Staten Island,
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  Speaker 4: take me back to Staten Island. Those were twisters. Those
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  Speaker 4: would tornadoes.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff. We don't ever get those.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, rarely do we. But yesterday that was quite the
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  Speaker 3: front that moved through, that warm front, and as there was,
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  Speaker 3: we had all kinds of havoc because certainly developing into
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  Speaker 3: the afternoon and lasting into the early evening hours, several
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  Speaker 3: tornado warnings, several flash flood warnings. Now, fortunately, today just
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  Speaker 3: some isolated showers and thunderstorms as this cold front finally
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  Speaker 3: moves through. I don't think we'll have too much to
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  Speaker 3: worry about, just a slight risk for severe thunderstorm or
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  Speaker 3: too across eastern parts of Long Island. As we headed
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  Speaker 3: the afternoon. But once we get past that, we're in
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  Speaker 3: the all clear starting tonight and right on through a weekend.
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  Speaker 3: We'll actually have a beautiful stretch weather coming up with
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  Speaker 3: sunshine starting tomorrow and right on through the weekend with
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  Speaker 3: highs and the low eighties. But it was a different
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  Speaker 3: story yesterday unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we all.
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  Speaker 2: Saw the pictures yesterday the Bronx River expresswhere the Bronx
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  Speaker 2: River Drive was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: The water was all the.
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  Speaker 2: Way up to the overpass, several feet of water, and
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  Speaker 2: I can understand how that happened. First of all, we
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  Speaker 2: just had a rainfall, so the roads were wet and
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  Speaker 2: not the roads, but at least the ground was wet.
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  Speaker 2: Then we also had four to five inches of rain
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  Speaker 2: in a short amount of time. Talk about the damage
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  Speaker 2: that that can do.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you get it's understorms that can produce one
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  Speaker 3: to two inches of rainfall per hour. Obviously, that's going
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  Speaker 3: to cause some major flooding concerns, and that's unfortunately what
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  Speaker 3: we dealt with yesterday. And you know that water doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have have anywhere to go if especially you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're not only talking about the pavement the roads obviously,
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  Speaker 3: but uh, even on some of the grassy sources that
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  Speaker 3: around saturated due to all that heavy rain we had
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  Speaker 3: last Saturday. So you're right, you know, this is on
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  Speaker 3: top of that, and the end result was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of flooding and it really caused some problems yesterday travel wise.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm on the upper west side and I was
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  Speaker 4: watching the dark ommunist clouds come towards me from the
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  Speaker 4: Hudson Ribbon. It seemed to be coming over from New Jersey.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'll call that tornado alley for descriptive purposes.
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  Speaker 4: So there was no tornado, but I got day log
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  Speaker 4: fifteen minutes when it came down. It came down, and
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  Speaker 4: then it stopped. But I mean, buckets will what causes
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  Speaker 4: just a immediate like almost like a waterfall effect, like
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  Speaker 4: it was the falls and Pattison, New Jersey, right boom
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  Speaker 4: fifteen straight minutes and then nothing. This seems to be
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  Speaker 4: now more more common than the exception to the rule.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, some of these rain events have been crazy lately,
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  Speaker 3: And you're right, Curtis, it was just a deluge yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: When you found yourself under some of those thunderstorms due
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  Speaker 3: to that warm front, a lot of lyft and we
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of moisture to work with, and that
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  Speaker 3: resulted in heavy downpours. As we were saying, maybe an
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  Speaker 3: inch or two per hour in some spots. And boy,
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  Speaker 3: you get those kind of rainfall totals in a short
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  Speaker 3: amount of time. We're talking, we're from three to almost
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  Speaker 3: five inches, and that really is too much as far
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  Speaker 3: as you know, what we can handle. And then we
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  Speaker 3: saw it. We've seen it twice here in the last
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  Speaker 3: few days, Saturday and again yesterday. Now, fortunately we mentioned
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  Speaker 3: just some isolated thunderstorms today, but then high pressure builds
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  Speaker 3: in that's going to result in a stretch of dry
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  Speaker 3: weather starting tonight all the way through Sunday before we
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  Speaker 3: introduce a few showers early next week on Monday and Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all anybody cares about is the weekend. So what
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  Speaker 2: is the weekend going to be like? Exactly?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, beautiful, sunny, low eighties for highs and our low
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  Speaker 3: temperatures down to the mid sixties. So, boy, I tell
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  Speaker 3: you what, if you if you haven't made playing suspensive
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  Speaker 3: time out about this weekend, you may want to go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and do that, because this is going to be
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  Speaker 3: one of the nicer weekends so far. This summer.
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  Speaker 2: Well we deserve it. Jeff maher wlor Weather Channel meteorologists,
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  Speaker 2: thanks a lot, Thanks for the updates, so we'll talk.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jeff. So Natalie.
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  Speaker 4: When I saw those pictures of those two funnel clouds
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  Speaker 4: tornadoes in New Jersey, it reminded me of when I
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  Speaker 4: was young visiting with my relatives on my dad's side,
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  Speaker 4: the Polish side. They had a farm out in lock
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  Speaker 4: for it between Joliet and Chicago, and they had those
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  Speaker 4: storm shelters, those tornado shelters because when those twisters come, man,
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  Speaker 4: you got to go underground. Man, they'll take you up
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  Speaker 4: in the funnel.
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  Speaker 5: You were close, yeah, you know, I'm in Morris County.
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  Speaker 5: So I would say about two five ish, all the
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  Speaker 5: phones went off in the house. The TV went off saying,
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  Speaker 5: you know, seek shelter, go into a basement. And then
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  Speaker 5: you know, we had the hyper local news on. So
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  Speaker 5: they were, you know, plotting street by street basically where
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  Speaker 5: they saw things, where they thought there was potential. It
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  Speaker 5: was it was in Presipity. Well I was closer to Presipite.
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  Speaker 5: It was about you know, fifteen minutes from our house.
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  Speaker 5: And it was funny because where I was and I'm
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  Speaker 5: sure a lot of people witnessed the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't.
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  Speaker 5: We had rain, we had winds, but it wasn't anything crazy.
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  Speaker 5: But there was something about how it felt like the
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  Speaker 5: atmosphere felt like at any second, if you put a
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  Speaker 5: match to it, it would explode, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: It had that feeling. You could feel it in your
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  Speaker 5: your body.
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  Speaker 2: So when you got the warnings and it said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: seek shelter, go in the basement.
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  Speaker 5: Did you you know I've done it in the past.
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  Speaker 5: But I was right by the basement door. So I
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  Speaker 5: stood by the basement, you know, to waiting and correct
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  Speaker 5: girlfriend of mine texted me because she knew it was
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  Speaker 5: by me, and she said, I just heard somebody said
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  Speaker 5: to make sure you keep your shoes on, and I
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  Speaker 5: don't fit to laugh put a bike helmet on. I said, well,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not putting the bike helmet on, but I understand
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  Speaker 5: what you're saying. But you know what, I will put
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  Speaker 5: my shoes on. That kind of makes sense. But what
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  Speaker 5: I did do is I went around the house and
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  Speaker 5: I took all the drapes and I closed them because
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  Speaker 5: I have heard if anything, you know, hit your window,
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  Speaker 5: at least the drapes will stop glass from shattering all
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  Speaker 5: into the house.
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  Speaker 2: So you wrapped yourself in drapes. But you thought the
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  Speaker 2: bike helmet was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I knew it's not ridiculous. I just knew I
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  Speaker 5: would look ridiculous to myself, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: But you never had that experience before, in you colic
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  Speaker 4: New Jersey, where you live with the beavers, with the bear,
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  Speaker 4: with the deer.
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  Speaker 5: That's not true. A couple of summers ago we had
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  Speaker 5: this wherein I actually did go into my basement several
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  Speaker 5: times because but my entire life living in the New
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  Speaker 5: York Tri state area, I never remember getting a tornado warning.
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  Speaker 5: Now I've probably gone through like five of them.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's gonna have to be a lot more
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  Speaker 4: PSAs now because as the expanded time of the severe
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  Speaker 4: hot weather, which is followed by what Larry predicted, the
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  Speaker 4: extreme flooding, you know, the extreme downpours. They do this
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  Speaker 4: all throughout the Midwest. You know, Tornado Alley. They've had programs,
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  Speaker 4: you know, tornado chases, you know, hurricane chases, storm chases.
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  Speaker 4: We think those people are nuts because they try to
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  Speaker 4: get into the eye of the storm. But everyone who
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  Speaker 4: lives out there. We've seen the destruction of when they
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  Speaker 4: really get going the twisters. Now, I gotta believe they
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  Speaker 4: knock down a lot of power lines and knocked down
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  Speaker 4: a lot of trees.
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  Speaker 2: I will say this. You know, everybody thinks that hurricanes
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  Speaker 2: just happen or tornadoes just happened in Tornado Alleys and
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  Speaker 2: in flat Land in Iowa. In covering the news for
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  Speaker 2: so long in so many different areas, there's many times
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  Speaker 2: when I'm sent out to the suburbs and a place
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  Speaker 2: that never got a tornado before. It can happen anywhere,
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  Speaker 2: very literally anywhere, and it can do a hell of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of damage. Even if it's a minor tornado.
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  Speaker 2: It can go down a street and take out houses.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's no fooling around. And when there's a
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  Speaker 2: bad thunderstorm and then they tell you there's a tornado warning,
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  Speaker 2: take it extremely.
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  Speaker 1: Serious, real quick, real quick. I learned a new term.
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  Speaker 4: Although both of you looked at me when we were
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  Speaker 4: doing our show prep like, boy, you're a fuddy duddy
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  Speaker 4: Curtis tornatic threat. I thought that was like shark. No,
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  Speaker 4: I'm watching eyewitness news on my iPhone, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: the guys there's a tornatic thread out there, tornado Why
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  Speaker 4: what the hell is a tornadic thread?
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  Speaker 1: And you looked at me like, where have you.
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  Speaker 2: Been, Curtis You actually texted it out. Yes, and this
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  Speaker 2: is a new term, and I'm looking at it goes.
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  Speaker 2: Does he know how many times I've said tornatic activity
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  Speaker 2: in my lifetime?
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  Speaker 1: I want the news then I must be a still no.
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  Speaker 1: But I gotta tell you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we used to have bomb shelters all over
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  Speaker 4: the city. You know, when we were in the cold
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  Speaker 4: one the sixties, we had ten thousand, now got two
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  Speaker 4: fifty left and they use for storage. We may have
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  Speaker 4: to start getting people to build their own tornado and
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  Speaker 4: storm shelters.
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  Speaker 1: At this rate, I hope not.
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  Speaker 2: I listen these It's still unusual for it to happen
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  Speaker 2: in this area and to happen in know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of areas it does happen at. But I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 2: it can happen anywhere. Listen. This is a shared experience.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody went through something in this storm. So we'd love
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