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NOLA "SNEAUX' DAY/Frozen (2013) Movie Review - Movie Goodness · The K.B. Radio Network

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Hello everyone and welcome to Movie Goodness where we examine life through cinema here on the KB Radio Network.
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I am your host Kevin Reed and welcome to the show everybody.
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We are in some weird times.
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2025 is and we're not even a month in to this year and I've seen some crazy stuff happen.
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And it's like,
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is this real?
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Is this real life?
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You know,
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we witness these wildfires that happen in Los Angeles.
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And
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Los Angeles area,
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the Southern California area,
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is nothing new when it comes to wildfires.
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But for them to rage like they are or were is kind of unprecedented.
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And it's sad in a lot of ways.
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You know,
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a lot of people lost their homes.
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You have people lost their life.
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And it's very weird how those fires just spread,
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you know,
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with the hurricane force winds with no hurricane,
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but just the winds with this climate change and all this here.
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And I know a lot of people don't believe in climate change.
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A lot of people feel that it's.
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I don't know,
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a hoax or just some propaganda that people are spreading.
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I don't get how you can look around and witness,
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literally witness all of these changes that is happening around the world globally and not even consider that there is something different
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going on.
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in regards to this climate.
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It is something strange.
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We are getting some weird,
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weird weather phenomenons that has been happening for the past few years.
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Few,
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I would say the past decade,
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just weird weather anomalies,
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if you will.
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Hurricanes in Los Angeles,
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hurricanes in New York.
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We're getting earthquakes on the East Coast and in the South even.
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Just all around crazy stuff.
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And here in New Orleans,
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you know,
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we have to deal with hurricanes during hurricane season.
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It's the norm.
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You know,
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that doesn't really throw us off.
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But as of late,
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it's become a tornado alley.
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All of a sudden we get tornadoes like it isn't nothing.
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All of a sudden,
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I mean,
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just randomly.
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And it's weird,
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man.
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It feels like we're in Oklahoma somewhere.
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It's just a lot of tornadoes have.
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touchdown in the southern Louisiana area.
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And it's more than usual.
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I know tornadoes can pop up anywhere.
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It is not weird for that sense,
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but the amount of tornadoes,
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you know,
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it's been crazy.
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And we're getting blizzards.
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We got a actual blizzard here on the Gulf Coast.
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this past week and it was it's beautiful it is a beautiful uh thing to see but to experience is another thing it wasn't bad in the sense of like we were trapped in our homes and we were in a foot of snow and all this other stuff we actually were but i mean like waist
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deep snow and we couldn't move around and stuff like that it it was just weird
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And on January the 20th to the 22nd,
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the Gulf Coast region,
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and I'm just going to focus mainly on the New Orleans area because that's where I'm at.
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And we experienced a blizzard.
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This was a blizzard that took place.
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We have gotten snow.
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We have gotten a wintery mix before,
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you know,
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with snow and sleet.
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It never was just flat outs.
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No,
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like we experienced this past week.
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This was the weirdest phenomenon that has ever happened in the New Orleans ever.
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Well,
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not ever.
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I think the last time this has ever happened in this area,
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at least on record,
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was 1899.
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was the last time that the new orleans area had a blizzard and that was the great blizzard of 1899 where they had uh three i think three to four inches of snow and
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the temperature fell to like 10 below um that was the last time on record where it was just this blizzard uh frigid type conditions this was you
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weird because I'm just going by my yard in my yard.
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We had
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10 inches of slow,
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10 inches of snow.
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It was crazy.
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The bottom of the tires were covered up to the door of the vehicles were covered.
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You know,
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that's how high the,
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uh,
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I'm about to say water.
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So we used to floods down here,
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but that's no.
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but that's how high the snow got you know we went outside and we were playing around in the snow a little while with me and the family it it was literally halfway up our shin into the snow and it's it's
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weird because it's kind of scary when you think of the totality of it all like man this is this is unheard of but at the same time is exciting because
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when will we ever see this again the last time this happened was in 1899 so when will we ever get to see this again in new orleans it was so cool and uh yeah now at the time of this recording the
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everything is starting to melt uh the weather has warmed up and it's a beautiful day past couple of days actually the crazy part is every day was beautiful except for i think the
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21st
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on the 21st when we actually got the snow when it was actually a blizzard out here you know standing outside i was you know soaking in the enjoyment of snow falling um when
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the wind was blowing and all that snow you couldn't see nothing it was crazy but it was cool i what made it so cool uh for my
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daughter's birthday when she turned 21 she wanted to go experience snow so we planned this vacation we went up to the uh mountains in tennessee in december and we uh on the day that we got there it was snowing while we were going up because the airbnb
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that we rented this cabin was on top of this mountain and never really thought about it you know you
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we just we just went to go i i never thought that driving up a mountain would be a task you know it sounds good until you get to the mountain so we get there and we're driving up this mountain my wife was driving at the time and
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we're going up this mountain and it was steep it was very steep and there's snow falling and uh the road was kind of
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damp and so it wasn't a very good experience but we got up to the top got up to our uh uh cabin and yeah all that was fine and good but it snowed that day but it didn't snow any other day we were there i think we were there for three days uh
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possibly four i can't even remember now it was what about three years ago and we we were like man we came all the way up here for snow
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We didn't get snow.
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I mean,
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it was snow on the ground and whatnot,
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but not snowing.
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So we went all the way up there for that and really didn't get the experience.
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All we had to do was wait a couple of years and stay home.
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We would have got it.
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And we sure did get it.
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I mean,
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I have never seen this much snow.
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And for all the people up north who's listening to the show,
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thank you for listening,
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by the way.
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But all the people up north in the.
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the north dakotas the michigans the uh wisconsin's they they probably like what he why is he so excited and talking about this and why is it such a thing to him we don't get snow we don't get this this
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is so rare and like i was saying before yeah we've gotten a winter remix before um i want to say in 2008
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We got some type of snow,
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but it was it has sleet and snow and it really wasn't a I don't know an event.
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It probably did that for about a couple of hours and it was over.
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Nothing like this.
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Nothing like this.
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This was straight up snow.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's enough to be excited about.
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But at the same time,
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this wasn't without its problems because
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10 people did lose their lives during this event over the last three days of that event.
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And it needs to be mentioned.
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you know give uh uh thoughts and prayers to those families who've lost loved ones in this because i honestly thought it would have been more to be honest with you because we're not prepared for this this isn't this isn't something that we're ready and you know have
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game plans for or even consider having plans for because what's the odds of this ever happening in new orleans
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I mean,
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let's be real for a second here.
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We know hurricanes are coming.
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We prepare for hurricanes every year.
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We know that there's a threat of a hurricane hitting this area.
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And yet and still,
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there is always some shenanigans that take place when it comes to that.
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And that's something that we know is coming.
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We watch the news.
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We follow these.
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waves that come off the coast of africa for what about four weeks before it ever reaches the gulf of mexico and then we still act all unprepared uh i was looking at a story where
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this woman was trying to get milk for her baby you know during this uh blizzard and
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She was trying to search for a store that was open.
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All the stores were closed.
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Everything was shut down.
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The roads were shut down.
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Everything was shut down.
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And they were telling people to stay at home.
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And she was like,
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oh,
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I need to go.
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I need to get to a store,
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some store that has Similac for my baby.
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She doesn't have milk or the baby doesn't have milk and blah,
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blah,
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blah.
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You knew this was happening.
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We knew since last week that this was...
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going to happen get prepared you know uh over the weekend the weekend before this storm hit everybody was preparing the stores were full of people getting uh things to wrap their pipes getting uh uh essentials
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you know food and you because you didn't know how long you was going to be cooped up in a house and all this here uh getting stuff for generators and in the event that
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you lost power thank god i didn't lose power i know a couple of uh areas in the metropolitan area did lose power but thank god i didn't uh but um yeah a lot of people were getting prepared so why didn't
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you know to get milk for your baby that should have been priority number one it was just people minds are just amazing to me you
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you know their priorities all jacked up but i digress in any event uh january the 20th to the 22nd of 2025 we had the gulf cold gulf coast blizzard
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that is the name that has been given to this weather event that took place over those three days it was an unusual strong winter storm and blizzard that impact the gulf coast of the
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united states uh it brought snowfall into regions of the gulf coast that rarely receives wintry precipitation and and this was the first recorded blizzard in
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the gulf coast in the most significant weather storm in the region since 1895 i had said 1899 before but uh according to the reports they say 1890
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I was the last time that the Gulf Coast region got weather like this.
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The storm originated from an area of low pressure that developed in the western
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Gulf of Mexico alone in Arctic cold front on January the 20th.
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It moved eastward and dropped large amounts of winter precipitation along the coastline before it moved offshore on January.
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The 22nd,
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the storm is unofficially nicknamed Winter Storm
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Enzo by the weather station,
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or the weather channel,
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I should say.
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it's funny everything gets a name now it's it's it's not just relegated to hurricanes now every little storm event gets his own name uh due to the threat of the heavy snowfall in cities such as new orleans uh houston and pensacola florida states
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of emergency were declared in almost every state along the gulf coast during the height of the storm and on january the
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21st a
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A blizzard warning was issued to the coastline of Louisiana,
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further south than any such warning had previously been issued.
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Thousands of scheduled airline flights were postponed or canceled along the Gulf Coast due to this storm.
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Snow accumulations ranged from 6 to 12 inches across the coast.
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In the states of Louisiana and Florida recorded...
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the largest single day snowfall across the state breaking records that had stood for almost a century at least
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77 000 people lost power due to the storm with most of the outage outages being reported in louisiana and florida at least 10 people as i said before have been killed as a result of the storm
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And the financial loss is currently estimated to be at least at least
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500 million dollars in damages.
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Now,
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going back to that blizzard warning that was issued out during this storm,
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this was the first time on record.
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Like I said before,
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the National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning to parts of southern.
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southwestern
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Louisiana and this was due to the heavy snowfall and the wind exceeding 35 miles per hour and
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I can attest to that because when we were standing outside and that wind went to gusting and the snow was falling it was I'm telling you
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I told a friend of mine I was on the phone with him and uh I'm like man this is a blizzard this ain't this isn't just snow falling it's a blizzard and it wasn't any
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ice in it or nothing like that you know it was snow it was it was that soft fine snow so that's good because i think if it was uh uh uh sleet involved yeah it probably would have did more damage you
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know to property and people than what uh we got but it was really just snow and the way it was blowing like i said it was beautiful to look at out the window
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But to stand outside,
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stand outside in it,
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it was it was kind of frightening because you couldn't see nothing.
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You really couldn't see anything in front of your face.
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Snowfall totaled eleven point five inches near
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Chalmette. Chalmette is right on the other side of New Orleans.
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For those of us who don't know or never visited New Orleans,
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never lived in New Orleans or whatever the case,
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Chalmette is on the other side.
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And.
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you got almost 12 inches of snow over there i i have a couple of friends who live in chalmette and uh i can i can uh uh amen that yeah they told they sent pictures i was like my god you know and it was only a two inch difference from what i got at my house but
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it just looked different over there it looked like they was in three feet of snow it was that high it just looked bananas over there uh
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Just across the canal in New Orleans it recorded a downfall of 10 inches of Snowfall new record low temperatures were set in New Roads
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Jennings Lafayette New Iberia dare their temperatures fail to seven degrees seven my daughter the goes to college in
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Lafayette was she was home here
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But that's where she goes to school at.
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And
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I was like,
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yeah,
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I bet you're happy to be to be home right now.
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And it was cold here,
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but it wasn't that cold.
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It's at seven.
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But with the wind chill,
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with the wind chill,
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it was a minus 15 degrees in Lafayette.
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My
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God. No,
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no.
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Nah,
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that wasn't going to work for me.
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Now,
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Baton Rouge,
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the capital of Louisiana,
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for those who don't know,
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and
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Lake Charles.
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Also set a monthly all-time record low at 7 degrees.
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Windchill was at minus 14 degrees in
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Baton Rouge and
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Lake Charles area.
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My God,
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it was cold.
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Now,
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this is the odd part about winter.
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Look,
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I'm going to explain this.
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And once again,
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I'm going to shout out all my listeners,
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my people up north.
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who are accustomed to all this uh who think that i'm talking crazy talk but like i said we don't get this this is new for me this is new for a lot of people down here it wasn't that cold those
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days that it was snowing it wasn't that it was cold the day before it was freezing the day before um on the 20th uh that that monday it was
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freezing cold now that night now at night is different i'm not i'm not counting the night because the temperature dropped at night every night and it was it was freezing cold but i was inside tucked up under blankets so i didn't experience it but i'm
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i'm speaking mainly during the day uh monday on the 20th it was all right it wasn't until i want to say
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five,
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six o'clock that evening when it got freezing.
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Um,
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uh,
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it was freezing cold up until then.
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From that point on,
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when I woke up Tuesday morning and I saw the snow and,
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you know,
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got dressed,
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I put on about 15 layers of clothes and went outside.
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Uh,
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it wasn't that cold.
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It really wasn't.
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Now I say that.
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Yes,
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it was cold.
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It was cold.
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But it wasn't as cold as I anticipated.
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I was expecting minus 10 degrees,
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minus,
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you know,
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the numbers that they got in Baton Rouge and all that there.
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But it wasn't that cold.
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The 22nd,
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it warmed up.
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That's when stuff started to melt a little bit.
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The sun,
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it was no clouds in the sky.
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It was a beautiful day.
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And the sun was out and it was,
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you know,
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the snow started melting.
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It wasn't that bad.
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You didn't have too many layers on that Thursday.
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Thursday was fine.
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Thursday was great.
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Actually,
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to be honest with you,
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going back to Wednesday,
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I had shorts on.
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I had a jacket and shorts.
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I was outside.
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It wasn't that cold.
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And that's what made it so odd to me.
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I thought that when the snowy weather,
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could you watch these movies?
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You watched them all in the snow and all this here.
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And they got on.
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layers of clothes and they're they're frigid they're freezing to death and all this here you know uh that's what i was anticipating but it really wasn't that bad uh so maybe it's just because it's here you know i wouldn't recommend it if you go to colorado or you
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know north dakota or something like that or god forbid uh canada and no i'm i'm saying uh down here you
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It wasn't as bad.
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But with that being said,
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let me express again.
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It was still cold.
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It just wasn't as cold as I thought.
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The heavy snowfall and ice conditions led to the closure of major highways.
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I-10 was shut down.
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All of the other roads.
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I mean,
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every road.
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It don't make sense to list it.
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All of the roads were shut down.
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Because every road in the metropolitan area has either a bridge or an overpass or whatever the case may be.
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And that's where ice develops.
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So everything they shut everything down wisely.
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So to cut down on incidents,
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we still had incidents.
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People still left their homes and drove and they had a few accidents out there to the point to the point that we got an alert.
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It was like an
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Amber alert on our phones about please.
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The state was employing begging people,
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please stay at home because we are getting a large number of accident calls.
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You know that first responders have to go out to you.
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You have to think that you get in these accidents out here.
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The first responders got to go out there to assist.
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And they're getting in action.
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It's not safe for them to be on the road.
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It's not safe for anybody to be on the road.
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So if you put yourself in danger,
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you're putting first responders in danger as well
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And so this is stuff you got to think about when you do stuff like that,
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but in any event
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Yeah, everything was shut down stuff really didn't start opening back up till Thursday the
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23rd and so
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Even then you still had to kind of tiptoe
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Down the street because it was still ice
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You know,
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the snow is melting,
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but it's not melting fast enough.
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By the time it really starts to melt,
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the sun goes down and you've got these wet surfaces now.
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And overnight the temperature drops and it freezes.
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So now you have ice.
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So you can't drive on it.
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I'll do you do better driving through the snow.
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It's the ice.
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That's the danger.
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And.
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Now it's starting to warm up,
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so conditions are getting better.
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But that's what was the big brouhaha,
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the big danger of driving through all of these conditions.
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I know in Colorado,
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I heard from a friend of mine,
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he told me that in Colorado,
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they have heated roads.
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Underneath the roads,
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they have these heated things that heats up the road.
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Whereas,
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It melts the ice.
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You don't get icing on the roads and stuff like that.
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Of course,
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Louisiana doesn't have that because how often do we have this?
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We don't have that.
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That'll be a waste of funds if you were to put these measures in place.
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I mean,
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we can't even fix potholes down here.
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So you actually expect them to put heated whatever's underneath the surface.
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before these roads now i don't think so but yeah uh that's what uh uh we're dealing with as far as the roads are concerned um going back to the closures and the the uh canceled flights most flights in and out of louis
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uh armstrong international airport were canceled all all those flights were canceled uh during this event um the new orleans pelicans the the
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NBA team here in New Orleans,
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they had to cancel their game on,
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well not cancel,
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but postpone their game at the Smoothie King Center on the
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22nd of January because of these conditions.
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I think they were playing the Milwaukee Bucks.
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So that game was pushed back to a later date,
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which is probably a good day for the Pelicans because right now they stink.
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So they need to
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Maybe the break will help them in their quest for NBA championship.
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And trust me,
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that's not going to happen for the Pelicans this season.
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The snow and ice caused disruptions in education as well.
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Of course,
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schools around the state were closed for up to three days.
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As of
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Thursday the 23rd,
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schools are still closed.
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My daughter,
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my youngest daughter,
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she's a school teacher.
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She has yet to go back to work.
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I think she goes back Friday on the 24th.
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So we'll see how that goes.
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But I think they closed that too,
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if I'm not mistaken.
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But we'll see.
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But yeah,
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schools have been closed nine times out of 10.
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They're going to push that back and add those dates at the end of the year like they did for the hurricane a few years ago.
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They had to all those days that were missed.
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by the students and the teachers they put them at the end of the year so school did school normally ends like the first of may and school stretched to the end of may i think you know because they had to make up those dates uh
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i think my kids were still in high school when it happened if memory serves but anyway yeah that's all that took place uh during this event i was talking to my cousin who stays in houston
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And he was telling me like where he stayed,
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it really wasn't that much snow.
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And I said,
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bro,
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that's crazy because we got some snow.
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We I mean,
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we got a lot of snow.
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He said he got some,
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but not as much as we got.
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I was actually shocked on how much snow that we received here in just in New Orleans.
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I really didn't take a look at the rest of the region.
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you know because i've just been enamored by what took place here you know it's just in my house and i'm outside of new orleans i don't live in new orleans i'm outside of new orleans and man it's like i
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have not seen that much snow in my life in my life and i've been a couple of places where there was snow uh my mother she grew up born and raised
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in the northern part of Mississippi.
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She saw snow all the time.
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And she said this remind her of where,
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you know,
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her growing up.
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You know,
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how much snow fell here in New Orleans.
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And this happened up there all the time.
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And so this is a weird,
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weird thing that took place here.
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I hope it's not a normal thing.
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As beautiful as this is,
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as gorgeous as it looks,
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to see,
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to step out.
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When I walked out into the street and turned back and looked at my house and I saw that it was covered in snow.
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My yard was covered in snow.
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My backyard,
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I think I had more snow in my backyard than anywhere else.
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And that's weird.
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I mean,
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I could bury somebody under the snow.
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in my backyard.
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It is so much snow back there.
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I hate walking back there.
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That's where my kids were out there playing.
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And I call them kids.
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They're in their 20s now,
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but they were acting like kids when it was out there in the snow.
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They were out there all day the other day in that snow.
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It was a beautiful thing to watch.
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I tell you,
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bro,
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it really brought joy to my heart to watch them from my warm house.
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and looked out of the window and watched them in that snow it was a cool thing to see but uh yeah it was so much snow in my backyard but to just look at all of the beauty uh i took a walk the
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day of went and walked up to the main highway because once again didn't want to get in the vehicles and nothing like that listen to the reports i'm gonna be a good soldier here and
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and listen to the reports even though people were driving past me and uh spinning out and all this other stuff like you see i'm walking won't you walk if you want to be nosy like i'm being nosy walk don't
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take your vehicle don't get in the car it's too much you don't know what's underneath the snow but they didn't care but anyways i'm walking i'm looking at just
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deadness you know yes there was a couple of cards on the road but i mean a couple it was like dead it was it but it not dead in the walking dead sense it didn't look like the apocalypse it just looked peaceful
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i should say not dead but just peaceful and serene man it was a beautiful thing to see but you don't need to see it every year i don't i don't need this to turn into fargo you
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uh north dakota i just every now and then fine we can get a little snow but not like this this was an anomaly man this was so wild so wild to see to see all of the snow to see the snow cover up the superdome to see the snow cover up jackson square to see the snow just
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cover up i-10 interstate 10 it's it's these are
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things that I never ever in my 45 years about to be 46 years on earth imagined that I will ever see in my lifetime and I managed to see it and I'm grateful that it wasn't as much damage and life's
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loss during this event even though we did have those lives that were lost uh 10 I believe I read earlier 10 lives that uh
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that uh passed away as a result of this storm um but you know with something like this for a area of the country that isn't used to these type of events that's actually a
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good number and i hate to say that when we're talking about people passing away or dying um once again my hearts go out to those families but i mean you would expect more you would expect people
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with their space heaters and you know uh doing just crazy stuff with with with uh barbecue grills and stuff like that to burn their houses down
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I know a house caught on fire not too far from where I live,
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somebody trying to heat up their house.
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Like I said before,
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it wasn't that cold.
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It got cold overnight,
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but it wasn't that cold to where as you had to take these drastic measures.
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I think,
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and I don't want to speak for them,
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I don't know what they were thinking.
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You know,
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I don't want to say what they were thinking,
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but my mind gravitates to maybe they panic,
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maybe they thought,
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that it was going to be just frigid uh below freezing uh conditions to whereas they had to take extra measures to uh uh stay warm in
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this event but you know i my heart goes out to them it really does uh i understand i understand where you could panic and you know probably do something that you normally wouldn't do
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on an average date but that's neither here nor there but yeah that's what took place here in new orleans man new orleans snow day 2025 but let's get into a review let's do a film here let's throw something out that uh that
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is relative to what we experienced here in new orleans this past week for those three snowy days uh those three
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frozen days wink wink uh that we experienced down here let's review a film from 2013 that speaks to what everybody here in new orleans feel everybody here in the golf course reason feels frozen
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the musical fantasy animated film from disney animated studios uh probably one of the most popular
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uh animated films to come out of disney in the past i don't know 20 maybe even 30 years if not ever um is frozen is a film that was directed by uh chris buck and jennifer lee in
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her directorial debut that film and the film star christian bell uh adina manzi uh jonathan groff josh you
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gad uh the film follows anya who sets out on a journey with the ice man christoph and his reindeer and the snowman olaf to find her estranged sister elsa after
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she accidentally traps their kingdom in internal winter with her icing powers this film came out in a time when my children were little my two girls and
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This was like premiere viewing in my house that I had to bite my lip and tongue and go watch with my girls because they wanted to see it.
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And when I walked out,
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I wasn't biting my lip.
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I was actually singing.
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Do you want to be want to build a snowman and whatnot?
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So,
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you know,
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Disney did something that it always does.
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give you something that you think is just for the kids and it's for the entire family.
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Disney understands what a family film is.
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Family film isn't just kids film.
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Family film is just what it is.
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A family film.
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Something for the entire family to enjoy in some shape form or fashion.
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And Disney does it the best.
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I mean they are
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they're the originators they've been doing it since the beginning so they know how to appeal to every member of the family no matter if it's the grandmother the grandpa the dad the dad the mother the the kids even the dog if it needs to be and
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they find a way to get everybody involved and enjoy and frozen is the perfect film for that i mean it's really not much that i can
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add on to frozen that everybody else already know i'm pretty sure everybody has seen frozen if you haven't my god people wait but where have you been where have you been frozen
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is a phenomenal film it truly is uh this isn't pixar you know normally pixar is the home run hitter for for disney uh disney animation
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It's hit and miss over the last few years.
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You know,
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you'll get a good one,
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but then you'll get a meh.
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one or you get a phenomenal one and you get one that's just horrible.
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You know,
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it's like real hit or miss.
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Frozen was a home run out of the park smash.
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It it just it screams pop culture phenomena.
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And
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I mean,
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everything about it.
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You love the film.
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The animation is amazing.
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The voice acting is amazing.
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The songs from it.
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is amazing this movie came out in 2013 and you still sing the song you still was seeing do you want to build a snowman you still sing let it go these are songs that are just burnt into the pop culture zeitgeist and it
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was just perfectly made and it's such a relative story you know uh uh uh with these sisters
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with these two sisters and i guess it really hit home in my house because i had two daughters who happen to be sisters i mean that's how it works doesn't it and they and you know it it relative it related to them and so they really uh uh gravitated to it that relationship there the relationship between uh uh anya and uh or anna and
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kristoff
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Kristoff being a really good character,
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really loved his character.
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Jonathan Groff providing the voice of that character.
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I mean,
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look,
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I don't know what else to say other than this is a perfect film.
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Absolutely flawless.
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We got the sequel in 2019,
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I think it was.
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Yeah,
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it was right before the pandemic.
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In 2019,
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Frozen 2,
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which was also phenomenal.
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We have a third film that's on the way.
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I think that comes out in 2027 or 2028 whenever they announced it but we are expecting a third film from this franchise and quite frankly they can keep going there is no reason to stop they have not disappointed
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me yet uh the first one was phenomenal the second one it was good it wasn't as good as the first one but it was still excellent but uh Frozen from 2013 knocked it out the park
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That's why it gets a letter grade of an A+.
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I absolutely love Frozen.
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I don't care if you don't have kids.
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Oh,
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it's kids.
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I don't want to watch it.
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I don't have any kids.
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You're selling yourself short.
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You are truly selling yourself short in regards to watching this.
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This is a beautiful,
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beautiful film with a beautiful story.
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Oh,
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D.
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the songs.
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I mean,
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you can sing along with the songs.
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You can,
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I mean,
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just have fun.
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You know,
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all of the characters are relatable and you can have fun with them.
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Uh,
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so frozen gets an A plus perfect film,
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zero flaws from me,
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but yeah,
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we were frozen the four,
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uh,
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three days from January the 20th until January the 22nd.
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of 2025 here in the Gulf Coast region,
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here in New Orleans.
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It was a frigid few days,
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man.
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It was,
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I don't know.
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I don't know how to describe it.
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I was anticipating,
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I truly was anticipating,
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you know,
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maybe an inch or two of snow.
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You know,
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people just freaking out for no reason,
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you know,
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and I understand.
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Sometimes you got to go overboard like these meteorologists and weathermen and women.
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they're kind of just overblow things to get the point across where people can kind of see the you know the severity of a situation you know because they don't want to undersell it you want to go overboard so people can really
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be attentive of what's in front of them so i get that and so i was expecting okay they're kind of being over the top with it but i'm expecting
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two to three inches we got that in about an hour two or three inches and then it just took off from there i mean that snow was coming down yeah boy but i will say like i said it was beautiful it was beautiful to watch uh
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you know i would love to see snow again but
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i don't need to see it here because we're not built for it and that's the sad part we're not built for it if we were built for that down here yeah cool we could have it every year you know i would love to have snow every year but we're not people we we are not you're
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not just think about it i haven't been to work all week because we can't we can't get to work you know nobody can get to work my wife um
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She thought she had,
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well,
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they told her to go back to work on Thursday.
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So she got up,
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you know,
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I got up to scrape up the snow and the ice off of her car and whatnot.
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And so she got up and went to work,
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got all the way to her job,
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only to get a text like,
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oh,
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we're not going to open today.
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So she had to come home.
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She had to come all the way back home.
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And it's just that,
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I mean,
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nobody wants to come out in this.
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Nobody wants to come out in this mess,
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you know,
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because we're not used to it.
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But
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I go back to work tomorrow,
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I think.
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I think they say tomorrow.
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But we'll see how they go.
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But,
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yeah,
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man,
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the great blizzard of 2025.
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Yeah,
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the
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Gulf Coast blizzard,
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as they're dubbing it now.
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That's what we experienced.
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I would love to know what.
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do people up north think about what we experienced down here is is it something um that they're used to are y'all used to blizzards like that are y'all used to 10 inches of snow all the time or even a foot of snow in some areas that got it uh i
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don't know how do y'all operate like this honestly how the how how y'all navigate y'all days like this because i mean we couldn't do nothing
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We were literally frozen.
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We were frozen in place.
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We could not do nothing for three days.
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And so I would love to know up north,
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how do y'all navigate through y'all days going through this all the time?
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thank you for joining me for this show today.
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I'm in my office,
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and I haven't been in my office
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for two days because my office sits out from my house in the backyard and like i was telling y'all earlier all the snow that's back here uh i didn't want to go and didn't want to go through it and so uh today is the first day i'm in my office since this uh
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uh uh event started and so i'm all layered up and i had to come out of my stuff midway through this uh show because it is hot in here now it's like i'm telling you out
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this weather is so crazy this is the most bipolar weather you will ever experience anywhere in the world i mean it is not cold at all it's mild i'm looking at the thing now it's
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saying
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56 degrees i don't think it's i don't think it's that low it don't feel that low i am warm in here of course i do have the heater on in the back but whatever the case may be you
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But anyways,
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yeah,
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thank y'all for joining me for this show.
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I had a blast.
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It was good to talk to y'all again.
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Like I said,
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it's been a while since I got in front of this microphone and talked.
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I really was excited to get back here today to talk to all of you.
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I want you all to know that I love you.
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Continue to love everyone.
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And until we speak again,
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you all be blessed.