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Geoff Maurer, WOR meteorologist, interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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