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04/03/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Kent Carper, Lance Wheeler, Ben Salango, Matt Sutton, Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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we've actually posted that in several places this morning, just so you know.
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Also, we have all three Kadan County commissioners on the show today and a
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little bit later on Delegate Mike Pushkin will be stopping by as well. Let
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me bring into the show Kaah County Commissioner Kent Carper, who's on the phone
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with this morning. Commissioner Carper, Good morning, welcome to the show.
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Thank you, Dave, Good morning. WI sure we're under better circumstances.
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I also had the other two commissioners in there in studio with me, Commissioner
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Ben Selango and commission President Lance Wheeler. Good morning, gentlemen. Thank you
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for being here. I appreciate morning morning. I appreciate you all being here.
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The Commissioner Carper, let's start with you. You've seen a few of
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these storms throughout your time in office, but I don't know that we saw
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anything quite like what we saw yesterday. Maybe maybe the the ratio would come
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just about as close to your thoughts, well, it would come close,
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and the last big flood would come closed. But the truth of the matter
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is your station whs sent up more alarms yesterday than in the history of You're
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at radio station. I mean, it was constant. This was a tremendous
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risk for everyone here, and we were very fortunate we didn't have a loss
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of life. So, no matter what else has said, no matter what
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else somebody wants to talk about, thank god, we did not lose anybody
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during this. When you look at some of the signs that went down,
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for example in Canall City, I mean it was like a giant flyshwater and
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it had there been a car out in the lot or someone in it,
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they had been killed. And that was all over the county. Giant trees.
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Now, why did that happen? I believe that one of the reasons
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why we didn't have significant loss of life was the warning system. The warning
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system worked. It worked as well as it's ever worked since we've implemented it.
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You know, the consolidated nine one one system now is just about twenty
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years old this year, I believe. And the fact we have every town,
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every all of our fire departments, all of our police agencies, our
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MS agencies, all with a unified command, with one consolidated system. In
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the warning systems we have between the sirens and the ring downs and everything else
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that we have. It worked. The public was aware once we got we
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I think we activated the EU seed about nine o'clock and by ten thirty we
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had a tornado warning, so we were on top of it. When I
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say we, I get total credit to those that did the work, not
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me, not us, but them. They did the job. The nine
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one one people performed splendidly. Yeah, exactly. Commishion President Wheeler and also
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Commissioner Slango in studio with me this morning. Commissioner Weeler, I know you'll
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echo the comments of Commissioner Carper. Yeah, we like that. Commissioner Carper
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said, we received a notification of the massive storm coming in and it wasn't
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breaking down. You know, we've been following this for the last couple of
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days, seeing it come across the country and come into Kentucky and we see
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how the storm was building and building and it wasn't breaking and we immediately,
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UH send out a WILLA. That's what the text messages, the notifications you
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see on your phone. We had the sirens go off and C. W.
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Sigmund, a director of our emergency Management, has been going around last
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night UH and talking to people, and they've said that the the the sirens
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saved their life, that they were out with their kids. Uh, they
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heard the sirens, they got the notification, and they were immediately able to
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find shelter and uh and and save themselves. And I think that if it
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wasn't for the siren and and everything from the news whs here sending out the
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alerts, that storm came in quickly. You know, it was calm,
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calm, and then ninety miles per hour wind. And so having that announcement
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that early to tell people get shelter, because people here in Kannall County,
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and you know southern people, we like to look at the storm as it
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comes. And so I saw the memes on social media. I'm sure you
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two people like setting on the store, sitting on the roof, for sitting
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on the front porch watching, But you're right, that's kind of what we
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do in Southerwes. And now I'm one of those people. I like to
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be on my porch watching the rain come in. But you know, when
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that siren goes off, you know that this is serious and you need to
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get shelter. And this isn't just residential. This was Daycares this was schools.
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I mean we saw damage at the Pratt Elementary School with the roof coming
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off, the rubber roof flowing off because of these winds. If it wasn't
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for that shelter in place, I think Commissioner Carper's right. We were lucky.
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We did not have any casualties fatalities yesterday, and if it wasn't for
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that, we may have. Well. I think there were some very close
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calls. You know the billboard out in Dunbar that came over onto that guy's
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car. But you know, when I was I was downtown when the storm
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hit, and before the siren went off, I was getting text messages about
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what was coming. I looked outside and Capitol Street was packed. I mean
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there were people walking around, it was sunny. It was hard to believe
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that in the next you know, thirty minutes, that we were going to
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have a storm like that roll in, and it did. But those warning
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sirens got people off the streets, and I think that's what saved lives.
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You know, our Metro nine one one did a great job. They filled
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it over sixteen hundred calls in less than four hours, which if you can
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imagine that kind of call volume. They did a wonderful job. Our entire
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team, the city of Charleston did a great job. I know they're firefighters.
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Their police officers were out, you know, battling this. Our Sheriff's
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department was out battling this. They did a tremendous job. So hats off
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to them, mister Carper. Let's go back to you, just for a
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couple of moments. A herculean effort yesterday, as the other commissioner said,
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by everybody involved in this. But where are we now? What are you
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hearing about again? We have rain in the forecast today. We do have
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a floodwatch, but thankfully nothing like what we saw yesterday. What are you
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hearing from the various areas out there now, sir? Well, what I'm
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hearing, and of course been around for a while. People are very concerned
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about property damage to their home, their business. They're relieved that no one
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got hurt or killed. When I say no one got hurt, actually several
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people got hurt. I think we transported seventeen storm related to injuries with the
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KNAU camer and AMA's authority loan, but none of them appear to be life
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threatening. So what I'm hearing right now is people wanted to know what to
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do next. So what we've done and great in the middle this, we
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were in contact directly with Governor Justice's office, and the governor himself reached out
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to Kanall County like he does many times, knowing we were getting hit pretty
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good. So we'll try to go after a FEMA declaration for disaster declaration.
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We'll see if that will give people aid. But one good thing about a
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windstorm as opposed to a flood, generally speaking, generally speaking, your insurance
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will pay for damage for wind damage. So that's a big, huge difference.
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If you have insurance, you should and you've got wind damage, whether
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it's your roof, whether it's your fence, whatever it is, you should
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check and see if you've got insurance arens. That will be very important to
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make yourself whole again after this terrible storm. Christian Carper, you mentioned that
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you're one that's been around for a while, You've seen a few of these
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storms. Just I mean one street over from us here, sir, on
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Courrier Street down for the music shop, and we're the building that was next
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to where where Danny Jones had his restaurant. Just to see those bricks out
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on the street. It was a surreal situation after the storm, Sir,
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I've never seen anything like that in downtown Charleston. I've seen bad wind damages,
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I've seen flooding, I've seen all types of things. I've never seen
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that type of wind damage all over the place. That is frightening. That's
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one of my persons told me friend that they were frightened over this, and
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I'd be frightened too. They were down there when the bricks were raining down
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on their car. Yeah. I mean again, floods are and we've certainly
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seen our share of a fair share of West Virginia, gentlemen. But floods
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are one thing, as Commissioner Carper said, but when it comes to flying
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debris and things of that nature, you can avoid water to a certain extent,
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but couldn't avoid what we saw you afterday Ben, and I don't remember
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there being structural damage from the Durraicho from whenever that was ten, twelve,
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fifteen years. I don't remember there being any buildings come down, but we've
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had. You know, you look at what happened to South Charleston. You
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know the stamp, the roof came off, Joey Hollins's new construction over there
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had significant damage lots of trees, which happened during the last Duaicho, but
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this one seemed to pack a bigger punch, at least when it first rolled
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into Charleston. When I saw it, and I had not seen structural damage
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to buildings, the old Stone and Thomas building down on Lee Street, the
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windows were blown out. One of my friends who has a law office downtown
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windows blew out and actually created like a vacuum effect in his office and pulled
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a door off the hinges jees, which you know, we hadn't seen that
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before. I mean, I mean, go ahead, Commission Carper, No
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we haven't, and then why don't you let him know what the status says
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of shawn A. We've never seen a thing like that before. No,
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yeah, it's it was a lot worse than what I first thought. We
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you know, we've got four scoreboards on our front soccer fields, three of
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the four on the ground right now, our flag poles over which is easily
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fixed. But we've got turf damage. We have fenced damage. The perimeter
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fence is down. There is a lot of a lot of work, and
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we've got a major tournament coming in this weekend, two inner teams, teams
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flying in from Canada. You know, it's going to be a ten to
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twelve million dollar event. So we're out there working right now trying to get
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it, you know, ready for play, and that tournament is going to
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go on. It's going on as you know. Yeah, Kent. On
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the baseball side, we lost the roof on a dugout or two, which
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you know they're going to try to fix. Got some trees down. But
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but the goal is right now we're going to play the tournament because I think
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it's still operational. The facility is still operate, rational and the turf.
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The issues with the turf is not actually on the playing surface, it's outside
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of the playing surface. So hopefully we'll be able to prevent injuries. We'll
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just put cones up around those. Yeah, I mean, it's amazing.
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Commissioner Wheeler, President Wheeler. Uh. You know when we talk about the
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recovery, you know, people ask me about these disasters, and I always
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say, the real work comes after the storm's passed. And I think we're
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seeing that today. We're seeing that here in the next couple of days and
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even weeks. But you know, when we talk about Shawnee, we talk
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about, you know, the destruction on some of these buildings. One of
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the things that we're going to be focusing on is making sure that we get
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that declaration from the FEMA so we can get assistance to the people of Kennell
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County as soon as possible. I was on the phone this morning with C.
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W. Sigmund with Emergency Management Kennell County and he tells me that we've
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already been in touch with the state Jim Justice's Office and Emergency Management of the
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state will be working with us and hopefully working with the Red Cross. We're
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going to get a survey done to be able to go out and assess some
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of the damage. So to the listeners out there, if you have anyone
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and it comes to your front steps or your property asking you about a survey,
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please answer this because this is the evidence that we used moving forward for
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the federal government to come in with FEMA for that assistance. You know,
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we see the damage, as Commissioner Slango and Krper has been mentioning about.
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You know, you can see it, and you know how devastating this dorm
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was. But we have to prove this in DC, and so we have
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to have this evidence ready and the sooner we can collect this evidence and show
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how much damage was really done and why it's important for FEMA to come in
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here with some small business loans and just general assistance with the public. You
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know, let's talk about the utilities. You know, we were having water
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and sewer facilities calling Metro saying, hey, we're running on generator right now,
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but we don't know how long we can run on it, and if
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we lose the generator, the whole plant will go down. I mean,
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these were some of the things that Metro nine on one was working, and
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I was fortunate enough to see it firsthand, being in there with our telecommunicators
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taking these calls. And the best way I can describe this as organized chaos.
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I mean, there's no other way that they were able to handle the
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sixteen hundred calls in four hours, as Commissioner Slango mentioned, and being able
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to talk people through get their emergency prioritize it. We were getting a lot
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of people calling Metro just to tell us, hey, my neighbor's fence fell
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over, and of course we're understanding that you want to call Metro now on
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one to tell us that, but we have to prioritize some of these calls
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because we were having entrapments, we were having roads were blocked. We were
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trying to list those to get those the Department of Highways so we can get
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those roads open. We were trying to work with the school system to make
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sure that you know, let's say a school bus goes out and tries to
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take a kid home and the road's blocked, and we had commit I was
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on the air late yesterday afternoon with Jeff Jenkins. We had Superintendent Schools Tom
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Williams on and we had that very situation there yesterday where there were places that
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they just couldn't know the parents or and or the school bus is just simply
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couldn't get to those areas. And we were working with the school system with
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that, making sure that if the school bus had to go back and a
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parent could not come and pick up the kid, what's there going to be
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food? There was there going to be power at the school? You know,
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we were working with those logistics. There was a lot of moving parts
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going on, and I think it again the accomplishment of what we saw from
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our first responders and Metro Namu one yesterday really just shows how important it is
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that we continue these investments that we've been doing. And in the sirens,
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in the Metro namin one, in our employees, I'm proud of everything that
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they did, and I know I can speak as the commission We're very proud
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of them. Now we've got a lot of clean up to go, and
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the Governor is due to do a media briefing at eleven o'clock this morning that
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I'm sure he is going to address that Commissioner Carper before we let you go,
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because I know you get some things to do. Any final words from
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U, sir, Well, what we do now, following our normal protocol,
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is we will establish the telephone number we will have. Our folks will
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be going out doing damage assessments. We will be working with the FEMA and
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the state, our partners Red Cross whoever. We will be sending the number
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out and if any every one is listening to us right now and is in
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distress, they don't have electric and they feel that they're in danger, their
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parents are elderly, no one's taking care of them, then just call nine
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one one. I got in trouble one time for that I know a little
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bit about the nine one one system. That's what it's for. So if
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you've got someone in distress over this storm, or you can't get to them,
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or you're worried about them, or you just don't know what to do,
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just call nine one one and we'll send somebody. All right, Commission
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Carper, I appreciate you joining us this morning. As I said, you're
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a veteran of this sort of stuff. I appreciate you being here. Thanks
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a lot, seeing too much to be honest about it. All right,
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Thank you, Commission KNT Carper. It is nine to twenty three. Text
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says Dave Canok County Commission are the best. When we flooded on Campbell's Creek.
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They were there that day helping people. Can't say that about the state
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of West Virginia, says a text. Texter says. The outpoint of help
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supported love we all have for each, for each as neighbors and honestly our
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state wide Westernia family that we saw yesterday is who we are as Americans when
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we don't focus on D or R after a name and don't let others dictate
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Matt Sutton, who's going to be up next to a little bit later on,
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the county commissioners. I have two of the of the three left, I
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have been Selango and commissioned Preident Lance Wheeler. We're going to get to Matt
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Sutton, chief of staff for the Goodwin administration, coming up momentarily, plus
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a little bit later on Delegate Mike Pushkin will be stopping my guys. I
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know you guys have got some clean up and things that you've got to get
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to. Want to give you tity to say any final words go ahead.
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Well, first of all, I agree with whoever texted that that our telecommunicators
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need to need to raise But let me say this. You know, Commissioner
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Carper and Commissioner Wheeler have worked very hard to make sure that the retirement bill
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went through this year, so that is that was a big, big event
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for them, so now they actually have retirement. We've had a lot of
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trouble of retaining nine one one telecommunicators. It's an incredibly stressful job, very
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difficult job, as they you saw from yesterday. And I think they even
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did a little video from inside command center yesterday while they were doing that,
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so, you know, we appreciate all them. It's remarkable that we didn't
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have any fatalities yesterday. When that came through, I thought we were going
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to have some. I attribute that to our first responders in that warning system
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that we had. Yeah, and I was actually in the building yesterday and
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heard the I mean, I'll tell my story a little bit later on,
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but yesterday, I mean, because you always, you know, we always
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let people know when we're doing and the testing of those of those tornado sirens,
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but to hear them for real yesterday, it was like, oh crap,
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this is the real thing, you know, So it definitely they definitely
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did their job yesterday. And let me throw this out here, real quick
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because I talked to Matt Sutton about this a little bit earlier to get Matt's
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standing by get the MMA in a couple of moments. As it pertains to
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trash service in Charleston and this is in Kanas City, the crews are out
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doing their best. It's business as usual, as the mayor put it,
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when it comes to trash pick up in Kanas City. But there are some
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streets and alleys that may be blocked. They're going to do their best to
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try to get to those. If they don't get to them because of that,
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they're making a note and they will go back and take care of that.
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Trash Service Commission President Wheeler Well, speaking of trash, this is something
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we already had scheduled on the books and it's kind of going to work out
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for the timing of it. But we're going to have our spring clean up.
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The Conk County Commission always has a spring and fall clean up. A
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lot of people are aware of it and it's something that we get asked about
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day in and day out. And so actually this Saturday, April sixth,
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in Sissonville, located in Cistonville Drive Hasdor Road, we're going to be having
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our spring clean up. It's going to be from eight am to four pm.
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We're going to be taking solid waste, large appliances, air conditioners,
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computers, metals, car batteries, electronics. The only thing we're asking people
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that they cannot bring is gas pro paint tanks, hadra's weights, paint chemicals,
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or motor oil. So if it's not one of those that I just
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listed that we cannot accept, you can bring it. It's free of charge.
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We get a lot of people that come out to these, so we
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always ask people to come early because I think we're going to see a large
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line, especially due to all the destruction we saw from the storm yesterday.
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But this is just an excellent opportunity that the can All kind of Commission always
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offers for people to be able to get some of this trash and debris moved
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away. You know, we originally do this to make sure that this trash
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doesn't end up in rivers and embankments, you know, causing more flooding.
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This is just the way to clean up the county and so no questions asked.
22:56
Come bring a driver's license to make sure that we can verify you.
23:00
And if you've got recyclables or trash. We'll take care of the cleanup.
23:04
All right, guys, I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot.
23:07
One thing I did want to ask you guys in this. I want to
23:10
catch you off guard on this. But the announce this is totally unrelated to
23:12
the storm yesterday. The announcement became official yesterday that the postal facility is going
23:18
to be closing. I'm going to a conspiracy theorist that I am saying,
23:22
Well, we've got all this storm activity going on, and they decided to
23:26
put that release out there yesterday in the middle of all this. Maybe it
23:29
was just a coincidence. I don't know, but it was made official that
23:32
that postal facility will be closing, despite the public meetings, despite the work
23:36
of Senator Mansion and Capital, it is going to be closing. Any comments
23:38
from me to one of you. You know, we worked with Senator Mansion
23:41
and Senator Capitol's office on this. We sent numerous letters. This was something
23:45
that outside of the control of Kennall County Commission. This is a federal matter,
23:51
but we did everything we can to voice our input. I know Commissioner
23:53
Slango was working hand in hand on this. One and having conversations with the
23:59
union and working with some of the employees and the offices. But you know,
24:03
this is just another another moment where we're losing opportunity. When we gain
24:07
opportunity, you know, sometimes it feels like two steps forward, one step
24:11
back. So uh though that this announcement was made, rest assured can all
24:15
count Commission will continue to fight because nothing's permanent in the federal government and decisions,
24:19
and we can always continue to fight and see if we can bring that
24:22
back. All right, guys, I will leave it there. I appreciate
24:26
you guys being here. Thanks a lot, Thanks very thanks as Commissioner's Commission
24:30
President Lance Wheeler and Comic Commission Bensilango. Also earlier, mister Kent Carper,
24:34
thanks guys for being here. Now, now get to work because you've got
24:37
a lot of work to do. Now, speaking of a lot of work,
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morning, Good morning. I do want to before we get to the storm
25:00
to echo the comments about the Postal Service. And we were obviously very busy
25:06
yesterday, so I'll go ahead and quote Center Capito when she said, with
25:10
over twenty eight hundred public comments submitted by West Virginians, I do wish USPS
25:14
had listened and taken those concernants into account fully. I think we echo that
25:18
as well. I mean, there were the mayor was at a lot of
25:21
those meetings and was out with the union. The post a union a lot,
25:23
and it Center Capital of the Center Mansion worked very hard on Disappointed.
25:27
Didn't seem like they listened, but it also seems like they're still going to
25:30
fight. So what the commission said, well, we'll be sitting in that
25:33
fight with them as well. Well. The union president said. And by
25:37
the way, we have a story posted about a WV Metro News dot com
25:40
the union president said something to the effect of, we don't consider this a
25:42
defeat. It's just a little bit of a setback. So I read that
25:45
this morning. We have to see what happens about that. But again the
25:48
story's posted on that at wv metro news dot com. What a day Matthew
25:52
and the City of Charleston yesterday, it was a day I will echo exactly.
25:56
I won't go back through it. That ill echo what the county commissioner
25:59
said, and that the alarm system worked perfectly. You know, I think
26:03
that we were all kind of planning on it for a little later in the
26:04
day and then all of a sudden, here it was. And so I
26:08
was literally standing over in the in the street over on the west side talking
26:11
to a friend of mine, and they were like, what are these sirens?
26:14
I said, they mean you need to go inside. I mean you
26:17
need to go inside, and got back to the city hall. Course,
26:18
I was one of those people that was kind of like, well, let
26:19
me stand out here look at this for a little bit. And then the
26:22
wind came and then it was to get inside. But it was tremendous communication,
26:26
and I think not only to the public with the sirens and with the
26:29
text messages, but also internally because one thing to think about is is we
26:33
had this shelter in place that also means that that is everybody. So that
26:37
meant our police department was sheltered in place, our fire department was sheltered in
26:40
place, our street department, and what we needed was some kind of assurance
26:44
that when they could go back out, when could they get back out into
26:47
the streets. And that was again all the credit in the world to the
26:49
Metro nine one one and especially c W Sigmun because I can remember the mayor
26:53
saying very vividly to somebody who said, can we go, And she said,
26:56
we'll go when CW tells us we can go. And that's how which
27:00
we all trust each other and trust CW in these situations. And because you
27:03
know, once the storm was clear enough for our street departments to get out,
27:07
our fire department to get out, our police department to get out,
27:10
it was just one of those really eerie moments where everything was very quiet and
27:14
then it got really noisy once everybody got to get out into the streets and
27:18
assessed the damage. Again, thankfully no major injuries, but we have a
27:22
lot of cleanup to do today. A couple things for me to hit on
27:26
I hate to read on the air, Dave, you know that, but
27:27
a couple of them that I better go ahead and do. The Canal City
27:30
Rec Center is closed today due to a power outage, so that's not going
27:33
to be open to folks. Everybody else is. Yesterday we had nor Charleston
27:37
Rec Center was down for a little bit, but it has power today.
27:40
So the can All City Community Center is closed. You already hit on the
27:42
trash service that will continue as is, and as it relates to down power
27:48
lines and trees, our crews are out working diligently to remove the storm debris
27:53
removal, but please be patient. If new issues have come up that you
27:57
haven't already called about, please call three four three four eight six eight five
28:02
zero. If there are active power lines involved, please call nine one one.
28:07
If not, it's just a tree or something in the road, please
28:11
call us through that. Don't touch down power lines, and most importantly understand
28:15
the patients. We can get very quickly to down trees and roads, and
28:19
especially major roads, we can get to them very quickly assuming there are power
28:22
lines involved. When there are power lines involved, that's when it slows down
28:26
in process a little bit. Obviously, the power company is working as fast
28:29
as they can, but we most of I will say most of the tree
28:33
damage we had yesterday involved some kind of power line. It's just how it
28:36
operates and how it works. So it's going to be a day of assessment.
28:38
The mayor's heading into Kanas City right now. She's out with our public
28:42
work folks trying to figure out exactly the damage and how we can get it
28:48
cleaned up as fast as we can, but really and truly communicating with us,
28:51
communicating with the county and letting us know where the debris is, but
28:55
understanding that when there are power lines involved, that we've got to take all
28:57
precautions to make sure that we don't harm anybody or cause more damage. It's
29:02
already there, you know something. And again we're talking with good when Chieve
29:04
of Staff Matt Sutton. One of the things that occurred to me, Matt
29:07
last night was we live and not to be too philosophical, but we live
29:11
in an era where we're all connected now, you know, and we have
29:15
the emergency systems that we talked about. Everybody gets alerts on their phones and
29:18
so on and so forth. But even over the last thirty or forty years,
29:22
you know, we've had the emergency what I know is the old emergency
29:25
broadcast system, which is now the emergency alert system, and so very few
29:29
weather phenomenons take us by surprise, as they did once before, one of
29:37
the one of the good things of technology. But imagine, you know,
29:41
again, this means absolutely nothing to anybody but me, But I think about
29:45
these things. Imagine what this would have been seventy eighty years ago. I
29:47
mean, with this kind of a storm that rolled in because this is and
29:51
I think in talking to me the urologist Brian Hughes and Spencer Adkins and some
29:53
of these weather folks that are a lot more knowledgeable about this what you and
29:56
I are, this is going to be one that they're going to be studying
30:00
for a long time because very rarely do we have quote unquote pardon upon the
30:06
perfect storm, and that's what this was yesterday. They started predicting this thing
30:10
last week, saying we got concerns about Tuesday, and then we're focusing on
30:15
the storm here, Matt that hit Charleston, you know, around you know,
30:18
ten forty five to eleven fifteen or so yesterday morning, the clean up
30:22
there after. But even last night, this system persisted. I was watching
30:26
television last night and watching the coverage in areas like Siota County, Ohio,
30:30
and Pike County, Ohio and in those places. So this was a big,
30:33
old weather system and we're still seeing issues out of it now, not
30:38
nearly thankfully what we did yesterday, but we still have the floodwatch. We're
30:42
expecting, I mean the wind, and so when I left my house this
30:45
morning at seven o'clock, the wind woul knock you down out there still this
30:48
morning. This one there that they're gonna be looking at for a while.
30:51
Yeah, it's gonna be I mean, it's something that people will and I
30:53
know that's essentially what happened after the Dray Show as well. Right, it's
30:57
to study to prepare for the next and I think that's what we're really good
31:02
at, and that's what we need to do. I mean you say that,
31:03
like I when this kind of sort of came up on us, and
31:07
I think everybody was ready for it. But then, of course, you
31:11
know, you can always say you're ready for it, and then in the
31:12
minutes that it happens, you're nobody's ever ready for it. But you know,
31:15
I have friends that I played tennis with that lived down in Ashland,
31:18
Kentucky, and I was texting them to see what was going on down there,
31:19
because they, you know, touched down there first and just to follow
31:23
the storm and how quickly it got from there to hear. And you know,
31:27
I don't really you know, I'm with you. I prefer not to
31:30
think about what happens if we didn't have the alerts, because I think it
31:33
would have been devastating. I mean, it really would have been. Because
31:37
you know, it is funny to see the memes that you reference were you
31:40
know, we're all standing out in the street, but that's how we are.
31:41
We all know it. It's only funny because it's true. And we
31:45
have been sitting there looking at the looking at the storm I mentioned during our
31:48
coverage yesterday afternoon, and I kind of stuck around and helped Jeff and the
31:51
folks out a little bit yesterday. My yesterday afternoon, I was upstairs and
31:55
our morning guy on our sister station, Superstar Country ninety six to one KWS
32:00
Real, Rob is from Indiana, and Rob and I were setting in his
32:02
office up there, which is on the I guess would could be considered the
32:07
third floor here, and there's a window that overlooks a parking lot and now
32:12
of course, you look out that window. You see a power pole that's
32:14
bent sideways out that window right now. But we were up there and just
32:17
kind of being radio guys, laughing and joking and whatever. And then I
32:21
saw Rob get up and I saw him look out the window and he looked
32:24
at me and said, it's time to go to the basement. I said,
32:27
all right, Well, when the guy from Indiana looks at me and
32:30
says it's time to go to the basement, it's time to go to the
32:31
basement. Yeah, Because we were just kind of laughing, not really laughing
32:35
at all, but just kind of okay, well, well for the storm
32:37
to pass. And when Rob Real, who's from Indiana, says we need
32:40
to get downstairs, and I'm gonna listen to what he has to say,
32:44
I would say. My wife was on an airplane and was out at Jager
32:47
and sitting in an airplane and when the sirens were going off, and she
32:52
called and said, what's going on us it's a tornado warning? Where are
32:54
you? She said, I'm sitting on the airplane. I said, we'll
32:57
get off. Get off, and so she said, okay, let me
33:00
see what's going on. And then two minutes later, she texted me,
33:01
and she goes, I can't they just shut the door instead, We're leaving,
33:04
and I mean they probably left ninety seconds before everything hit. Literally,
33:07
she said, the pilot just said, we're getting out of here, folks,
33:10
let's go. So, I mean, everybody's going to have those stores.
33:14
But in that, I think is the kind of the amazing part I
33:16
was. I was kind of looking out in the street. I was like,
33:17
this is weird, Like I don't really see anything, and then all
33:20
of a sudden you felt the wind. And that's that's the kicker. I
33:22
mean, you know, I think you kind of alluded to it earlier.
33:24
You know, water is, water crosses a lot of damage, and flooding
33:28
obviously has devastated many of our communities, including Charleston and key parts of Charleston
33:34
over on the west side and others, and you know, we always have
33:36
flooding issues. But the wind was was really what it was because there's no
33:39
hiding from that, and it was just to kind of look down and see
33:43
what had happened. When it was all over, we had the you know,
33:45
the billboard flew off over in the in Kanall City there about thirty fifth
33:49
Street bridge. We weren't sure when it first initially happened whether it had had
33:52
crushed the Windy's building and could somebody be inside, But getting there was hard
33:57
because there were so many, so many roads that were blocked. So being
34:00
able to find that out, you know, we had. We have damage
34:02
obviously, what happened on Courier Street that you allude to earlier, with the
34:06
bricks coming off the building, all those things could have happened with somebody underneath
34:09
them and didn't. And so that's the that's the key to all this.
34:13
We can fix stuff. It's gonna take us some time, but we're out
34:15
there working hard. I know our folks are out there, and we do
34:19
appreciate everything from the county commissioner to the Governor's office to all of our I
34:22
could see the I know you got delicate push can come in here, who
34:25
was checking on us all day yesterday and asking how they can help. Like,
34:30
we have an amazing community, and I think that's the that's the one
34:32
thing that we can always lean on. I only know what I know.
34:35
I've worked in Charleston and Kennall County in West Virginia my entire life. Man,
34:38
nobody comes together better and it's all personal differences aside or whatever it is.
34:42
It's all about helping people and that that kicked into gear yesterday and it
34:45
was it was as flawless as it could be given the circumstances. That's the
34:50
best way I could put it. And and again that you know, thanks
34:52
to everybody out at Metro because they took a lot of calls because the radios
34:55
were dead silent until they weren't and then they were on and we can just
35:00
you know. And then also I think this is also a time where when
35:02
you have really active members and elected officiers in community, because we just started
35:07
text chains with city council members. Goes just you tell us what you're here
35:08
and get it to us one central location. We put everything into our system
35:12
and got it out and that really worked well yesterday with a lot of our
35:15
council folks who were just saying, you know, please please don't. It's
35:19
not a Facebook time. This is a time to gather information and send it
35:22
to us so that we can assess what's really going on out there, because
35:24
and I thought we saw a lot of that yesterday because the last thing you
35:27
want to do in those type of situations yesterday is to get into a social
35:30
media battle where people were you know, I know there were fake photos flying
35:34
around and all kinds of stuff. We saw a few of those. Yeah,
35:36
we don't that's not necessary. There's enough real damage out there. But
35:38
real communication was the key, and that's what we had yesterday. And now
35:42
it's just it's gonna be a lot of work. The rain's not going to
35:44
help anything and the clean up. But it's better than what we saw yesterday.
35:46
All Right, may man, I know you got to get back to
35:49
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and mat Yep the county mentioned they're cleanup up in Cistonsville. The city Drawson
38:45
also has a clean up this weekend in Kanas City and South Hills in particular.
38:50
That was already scheduled for Saturday, April sixtard and nine am. That
38:53
was supposed to last till one, but my guess is it's going to last
38:55
a lot longer this year. You can come to the Canall City Rec Center
38:59
and pick up supply. You can use those at your home as well,
39:00
or go around the streets and pick up These historically have been ones where we,
39:05
you know, a lot of folks gather and then go out in the
39:06
communities and gather trash and then our folks pick it up. But this will
39:08
also be a great opportunity if you do have debris, or you do have
39:12
stuff that you need to get out of your alleys or out of your streets,
39:15
just bag it up, put it there. Our refuse drivers will be
39:16
out there picking up everything that we can. Hopefully you know the power obviously,
39:21
and the streets will be clean clearer by then. But Saturday, April
39:24
sixth, from nine to one is the plan. Can All City Rec Center
39:28
come out and help clean up both of our communities and can All City in
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39:32
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you good morning? Thanks for having me back on. Yeah, well,
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here's the funny story about mister Pushkin. He was scheduled to be on with
40:01
Dave Wilson, who's in for Hoppy this week on talk Line and that I
40:07
guess, Scott, what was your situation? Were you about to go on
40:08
or had you got I was upstairs. I didn't even know you were in
40:10
the building. I was exactly where you are sitting right now, so possibly
40:14
the safest place to be in the entire state, in Dave Allen's chair.
40:20
But so you didn't make the appearance yesterdayn Wilson is that I was on for
40:22
a few minutes and then I was on the air when the when the gust
40:25
of wind came through and the power went out. So now you're coming back
40:30
on Wilson today? Are you gonna be on the show? Yeah? He
40:31
invited me back on, very nice back on. Yeah. I was.
40:37
You know, I'm like, I was on my way here. I guess
40:40
I like live under a rock. I was not like a lot of people.
40:44
I wasn't aware of what was coming. And I was on my way
40:46
here and my phone started going off and you know, driving but glanced at
40:51
it, saw what was going on, and then the you know, the
40:53
warning sirens started going off. I was like actually driving right by them on
40:58
the on the boulevard as they were going off. And this is not good.
41:02
But you know what a credit to everybody. First of all, you
41:06
just had Matt Sutton on them to see at Charleston, they have done a
41:08
tremendous job and and you know, first assessing the damage and now with the
41:15
cleanup, and we can't say enough good things about the refuse department, Streets
41:19
Department, our first responders, the Charleston Police Department, fire department, They're
41:23
just doing a tremendous job. Right now, on my way in, I
41:25
passed the commissioners the County is doing an excellent job, and there's a great
41:30
job going on across the state, an effort to clean up after this just
41:35
you know, crazy weather event that we had yesterday. Yeah. Yeah,
41:38
I was on my way here and luckily got into the building right before you
41:44
know that it hit. Yeah, and you know you got to hang out
41:47
with us for a little bit yesterday once we came out of the basement wall
41:52
coup. And you're sitting in the green room yesterday till it was all over.
41:54
Yeah. For some reason, I wasn't allowed in the basement, So
41:57
good thing it did. But I had and I would have the privileged honor
42:01
of sheltering in place for a little while. I would have allowed you in
42:05
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Who does want to talk to about price gouging? The Attorney General?
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Let me ask you about this, and because I ask all the other
42:34
people that were here as well. Despite the efforts of many elected officials and
42:37
people from the community, the postal facility out of South Ridge is closing.
42:43
But again got some a little bit of hope in talking to the commissioners and
42:47
talking to Matt Sutton this morning that maybe they just are sending it as a
42:51
bump in the road that are going to continue to fight this thing. Your
42:53
thoughts, I'm with them, We're going to continue to fight this thing.
42:55
And I got that email yesterday as well as incredibly disappointing after all of the
43:01
public outpouring of support for that facility up there in South Ridge, that the
43:07
US Postal Services is continuing to go down this route. We need to keep
43:12
our facility here in West Virginia. We do not want it to move to
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Pennsylvania. We want it right here, and we will continue to fight whatever
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we can to hopefully change their minds. Hopefully that's the case. We're going
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to continue with Mike Pushkin after the break. I do want to throw this
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out there. Originally I had other guests scheduled for the Pushkin was already scheduled,
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but I had Leslie Grace, who's a candidate for magistrate in Kanawha County,
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and I talked to Leslie yesterday. Leslie will be on the show now
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Monday instead to talk about the Grace for magistrate campaign. Also, I had
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Kids twelve and under will get in for free. Mike Pushkin is here
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with what are you hearing as far as storm clean up from your constituents.
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I know that you're a guy that's always on the phone checking on your people.
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What are you hearing? Yeah, I mean I've gotten a lot of
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calls over the past, you know, past twenty four hours, like like
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a lot of us have, and just trying to make sure everybody's okay.
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Luckily, you know, lucky. And it's really nothing short of a miracle,
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uh that there were so few injuries reported. I mean, if you
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look at the what happened right right in the middle of the district, I
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represent, right over on Quarrier Street with all those bricks blowing off the top
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of a building, and you know nobody was hurt there. That's a miracle.
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And with all the damage you're seeing I think there as far as the
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county wide goes, in this county, it looks like most of the damage
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was in Dunbar, South Hills and can Asoit. A lot of people without
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power, to a lot of people without power, with a lot of folks
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on the east end. Some some residences on the west side, I believe,
48:39
are still without power, and across the across the state we have you
48:43
know, thousands, yeah, out power. And you know what we're being
48:46
told is it could be as late as tomorrow night. Well, and I
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think, but I think that's like a worst case scenarios. Yeah, but
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and I think, and we want what we want people to understand too,
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is I mean, everybody, I've been without power during the in the ratio,
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even though I didn't live in Charleston, we were without power for over
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a week, and everybody wants some power restore. But you got to do
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it when it's safe. And that's the thing. You can't put the workers
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at risk. And right now, we still got some pretty and not what
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we had yesterday. Don't get me wrong, but we still got some pretty
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stiff wins out there, and there's rain and it's just not a safe situation
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for the workers to be out there. I want to ask you about this
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press conference you guys held a couple days ago. I'm talking about it.
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It seems like a week ago. It just happened with the Democrats, but
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I do have a text for you, says Mike. I'm pretty conservative,
49:30
so I don't vote them anymore. That's said to have a super majority like
49:35
the Republicans do. It sickens me the lack of real legislation getting done on
49:38
things such as foster care and adoptive services. Do they realize voters are starting
49:43
to get fed up. I know you have fought for some of these things,
49:45
and I appreciate it. I just want meaningful legislation. Well, I
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think we all do, and I think the West Virginians deserve that. I
49:52
don't think any you know any secret that West Virginia has a whole host of
49:57
very important issues that need to be addressed, and in this legislative session was
50:01
far from serious. Unfortunately it was. They took up all the time arguing
50:07
over these hot button culture war type issues because it's an election year, many
50:12
of them are in primaries and they're trying to, you know, push each
50:15
other further to the extreme. Right, But West Virginia needs us to take
50:20
up things like childcare, like a foster care. We need to But that
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was that was basically the point of our press conference the other day. We're
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going into a special session. We have a budget that we know is just
50:34
falling way short of the needs of West Virginians. We need to readdress that
50:37
budget. And that was really the point that we were trying to make.
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Let's stick to what's important. Let's not waste time during a special session,
50:45
you know, on the taxpayer's dime. Let's not waste time with all these
50:50
divisive culture war issues. That was our messages House Democrats and to your Texter,
50:54
say, you reconsider that that position of never voting Democratic because it looks
51:00
like lately we've been the adults in the room and we've been the ones fighting
51:06
for working on common sense legislation that's actually needed. Unfortunately, when you have
51:09
a supermajority, oftentimes they don't do what's needed. They just do what they
51:13
want, and we need to do what's needed. Well, the text said,
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just for clarification that the person doesn't vote them anymore. I didn't say
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never, They just said they just didn't vote anymore. So I mean they
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could. And this is what I've told my Republican brethren. As easily as
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you got it, you can lose it. Nobody ever thought that the Democrats
51:31
would lose control after eighty three years either, but they did, and it
51:36
can do it just as easily turned around it. Maybe I don't think it's
51:37
going to take that long. Well, if they keep it up, it's
51:42
what they're doing. I hope people would soon realize that they're not doing the
51:45
job that needs to be done. And when you're wasting time with meaningless issues.
51:50
A lot of them didn't even pass. A lot of the culture worse
51:52
stuff, you know, luckily didn't even pass, but it still took up
51:54
a lot of time, and we weren't able to address things like access and
51:59
affordable of childcare, which is a workforce participation issue. That is something that
52:05
is keeping people out of the workforce, keeping people from moving, keeping businesses
52:08
from moving. Here is the lack of affordability access to childcare. Now.
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I could go on, but I hear the music plank. All right,
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Mike. I appreciate you being here, man, thanks you for a lot,
52:17
and I know that you've, as I said, you've been in contact
52:20
with your constituents and you're going to get right back out there at it.
52:22
So I appreciate you taking time at your schedule to honor your appearance this morning
52:25
on the show. Thanks a lot money, Thanks very and you're gonna stick
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around to be on talking. You know what time you'll be on t around
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ten thirty, round ten thirty. So let's stay out of my office,
52:32
stay out of my snack draw up there. Okay, all right, we
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got to go. Thank you so much for Ryan Nichols and our producer and
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Oliver County commissioners and good one chief was staff Matt Sutton for stopping by clean
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