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Snow Weather and Roads · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Just in the last hour, in the last hour, a noticeable,
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  Speaker 1: definitely noticeable drop in the temperature out there as we
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  Speaker 1: head into just a frozen folly overnight. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be so cold tonight and actually the next few days.
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  Speaker 1: In case you haven't heard already, Columba City Schools pull
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  Speaker 1: the plug for tomorrow already.
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  Speaker 2: My guess is.
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  Speaker 1: They'll probably do the same for Wednesday, and at that
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  Speaker 1: point they may just take the week as a loss.
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  Speaker 1: But I heard Allison talking about the Pickerington schools. There's
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  Speaker 1: only so many calamity days that are allowed. Okay, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm over simplifying things here, But shouldn't you just
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  Speaker 1: go into the school year knowing we've got to do
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  Speaker 1: this many classroom hours, and if we have to take
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  Speaker 1: some days off due to weather or or whatever, that
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  Speaker 1: we're just making them up at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: The school year gets extended by however many days. Shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: that just be a given instead of having to go
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  Speaker 1: through where we're approaching our limit. There is no limit.
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  Speaker 1: It is what it is. And then you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't need any great then you get out May
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  Speaker 1: twenty third. If you take ten days, then you get
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  Speaker 1: out June second? Is that so hard? Am I being unreasonable?
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  Speaker 1: Thinking we should just be that simple? You just this
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  Speaker 1: is how many days of school we have to have?
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  Speaker 3: No And I don't know how they have only so
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  Speaker 3: many calamity because you can't predict something like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's that whole world, sense, that's that whole world they
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  Speaker 1: want to predict. And it's like a time budget. I
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  Speaker 1: love organizations that put together, here's our budget for the year. Well,
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  Speaker 1: where's your money come from? Well we don't know. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then how do you have a budget? It's a wish list,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. It's not a budget. A budget
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  Speaker 1: is based on what you know is coming in versus
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  Speaker 1: what you know has to go out. But they put
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  Speaker 1: together budgets based on what they hope might come in.
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  Speaker 1: I wish we could all live our lives that way.
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  Speaker 1: But I just i'm I'm I'm perplexed at this reasoning
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  Speaker 1: that we you know, we we have a limit to
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  Speaker 1: calamity days. Folks. I don't want to be you know,
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  Speaker 1: wrap guy, I don't want to be him. But there's
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  Speaker 1: still plenty of winter to come, and after winter come
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  Speaker 1: so a springtime and you know in springtime. Who knows,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they'll say we've got a one hundred chance of
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  Speaker 1: severe weather and the lightning and possible tornadoes. I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen him cancel school for that, but it's I don't
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  Speaker 1: suppose it's out of the question if the meteorologist community
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  Speaker 1: guarantees this is going to happen. So I just just
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  Speaker 1: take it as it comes. Whatever days you miss, you
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  Speaker 1: make up at the end of the school year. And
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  Speaker 1: it's that simple. Everybody's been, you know, moaning and complaining
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  Speaker 1: as we do most years, quite frankly about the state
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  Speaker 1: of the neighborhoods and the snow removal and all that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And I was grousing last night about
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  Speaker 1: the uh about the trash can stuff because apparently Andy
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  Speaker 1: Ginther somebody told me on Facebook. Andy Ginther was on
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  Speaker 1: one of the news programs at like six' twenty that
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  Speaker 1: night and he said, you know, we'll pick up trash tomorrow. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a level three. Nobody's allowed on the street.
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  Speaker 1: It's all this snow falling, right, So I'm like, that's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna happen. Not gonna happen. Then at ten twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: the Mayor's office on the city website said trash will
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  Speaker 1: be picked up tomorrow, and you have to get it
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  Speaker 1: out normal time, and you have to clear out the
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  Speaker 1: area of snow around the trash cans. No, no, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I got enough trouble clearing out an area for my car.
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  Speaker 1: I got a foot and a half of snow sitting
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  Speaker 1: in front of my house, and you want me to
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  Speaker 1: go out, get the cans out first of all, and
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  Speaker 1: then clear the area of snow around the cans. Really, No,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't gonna happen. It was ten twenty three. I was showered,
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  Speaker 1: I was in the bed, I was ready to call
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  Speaker 1: in the night. I'd worked my tail off, and so
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  Speaker 1: the cansas, you know, they got out when they got out,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know that they ever got picked up today,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll be there to pick up next week.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not holding those things back in man.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think mine's a day late, or they're
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  Speaker 3: going to run a day late, So mine's not until
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  Speaker 3: they pick it up on Wednesday for daylight by Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not too worried about it.
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  Speaker 3: But if I tried to get my cans down to
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  Speaker 3: the end of night, I'd have to dig them out.
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  Speaker 4: Because the stove's halfway up to the can.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's it's just too much. If all these
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  Speaker 1: people can't get to work and nobody should be on
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  Speaker 1: the road in the lesson's emergency. How is it you
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  Speaker 1: think you can just prevail upon the citizens And there's
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  Speaker 1: plenty of old people, handicapped people, the thing. They can't
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  Speaker 1: do that right, And at ten twenty three at night
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  Speaker 1: to tell them you as well, the windshill is now this,
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  Speaker 1: so go outside and shovel out an area for your
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  Speaker 1: ca No, No, that's just stupid. But it did bring
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  Speaker 1: me to this discussion that I had on Facebook last night.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody brought up Chicago, and I do remember in Chicago
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  Speaker 1: late eighties when they had a tremendous issue with snowstorms
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  Speaker 1: and so forth, and they had plows. They had snowplows
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  Speaker 1: on the front of the trash trucks. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: that got me thinking, what could we do better when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to getting neighborhoods snow. We got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of contractors out there, and I know that they have
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  Speaker 1: used contractors in the past. Of course, they would have
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  Speaker 1: to be licensed and bonded and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I got two guys in my neighborhood that have trucks
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  Speaker 1: that I have to drive around all the time because
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  Speaker 1: the plow sticks out into the middle of the road
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  Speaker 1: and the roads are small. But there's two guys in
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  Speaker 1: my neighborhood. Why not have those contractors go out? Why
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  Speaker 1: not have I don't know, code and cars.
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: There are so many city vehicles out there. Why not
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  Speaker 1: allow these people to get whatever training and certification they
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  Speaker 1: need so that they can be called on in situations
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  Speaker 1: where we get heavy snows and we need to get
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  Speaker 1: to the neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 3: It definitely wouldn't hurt, It wouldn't at all. Now, Charlie
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  Speaker 3: came up with the idea of just taping snowshovels on
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  Speaker 3: the front of your car that I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know if the tank would be good.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that was good. Yeah, I said,
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  Speaker 3: the problem. The logic is there. I just don't know
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  Speaker 3: if it's sound enough.
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  Speaker 1: Practicality, Well, that's what I'm looking for, though not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: taping stuff on. But ideas, I mean this sincerely, ideas
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  Speaker 1: that you might have where you think this would make
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  Speaker 1: it so much easier, so much better, and we would
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  Speaker 1: get these neighborhoods cleaned up, because that's my Neighborhood's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have a plow go through years of.
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  Speaker 2: No, there's been no plow.
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  Speaker 1: I just checked in with the Queen during the last
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  Speaker 1: break to see nope.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I've seen one go through our neighborhood and I'm
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  Speaker 3: pretty sure the guy just accidentally got lost.
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  Speaker 1: I saw two city trucks today as I was out
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  Speaker 1: there shoveling, and they were like three quarter ton flatbed
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  Speaker 1: type city trucks and they both had, you know, coming
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  Speaker 1: through the neighborhood, they had plows on the front, but
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  Speaker 1: they weren't plowing anything. And I saw them come into
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: And leave the neighborhood just kept on going.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not sure what they are, not sure what
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  Speaker 1: they were doing, but it just you know, they were
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  Speaker 1: out there. Why not drop the plow while you're driving
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  Speaker 1: through the neighborhood? Dropped the plot? Get it done. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think anybody is looking for the formalities. Well, we
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  Speaker 1: don't have a work order for this. Get it done.
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  Speaker 1: People care more about getting it done than whether you
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  Speaker 1: go through whatever protocols is. As long as if you
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  Speaker 1: run into somebody's car. You know, you've got some sort
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  Speaker 1: of coverage.
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  Speaker 2: That's all.
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  Speaker 1: That's all anybody cares about. The city vehicles. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe they have coverage at all because they've got a fleet.
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  Speaker 1: And once you have what is it, ten vehicles, If
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  Speaker 1: you have ten or more, you were considered self insured.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, so you don't.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to have you know, insurance, but then
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  Speaker 1: you basically you file acclaim against the city and the
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  Speaker 1: city takes forever, but they'll pay it out. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't understand. We once upon a time
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  Speaker 1: we had fourteen police helicopters. Every time you turn around,
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  Speaker 1: this administration is throwing more money at something stupid.
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  Speaker 4: Do we need that many?
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  Speaker 1: No, we didn't need fourteen. I think we've got three now,
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  Speaker 1: but we had fourteen. We had more helicopters in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, it was just it was crazy. But we
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  Speaker 1: throw money at stuff all the time that you know, many,
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  Speaker 1: if not most of us, wonder why why. I think
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  Speaker 1: most people would be real happy if you throw some
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  Speaker 1: money at something that allowed them to get out of
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  Speaker 1: their house and get back to work. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: whether it's still on a level three or not. I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea. I haven't paid attention to that because
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  Speaker 1: the level thing, it really it matters, I think, more
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  Speaker 1: on the highways than anything else. It gives odott a
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  Speaker 1: chance to get out there and uh and you know
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  Speaker 1: do that tandem plowing thing that they do, which the
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  Speaker 1: last few years they've done pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: You see like six of them abreast coming up coming
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  Speaker 1: up the road and they stagger just a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a very productive way to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the snow. But it requires everybody being out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that. I just wish we could get
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  Speaker 1: more organized in the city of Columbus and get these
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  Speaker 1: these neighborhoods done. And I can't believe with you know,
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  Speaker 1: this age of citizen journalism where everybody's got a camera
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  Speaker 1: and has a YouTube channel and everything, I can't believe
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  Speaker 1: nobody's visited Andy Ginther's house to see what the streets
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  Speaker 1: look like in front of his place.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sure they're just barely got to.
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  Speaker 2: Shannon Harden's house. See what the streets look like in
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  Speaker 2: front of their place.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure they haven't got to them.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Motill, I would think would be out there with
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  Speaker 1: a camera right now doing that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 4: Can't he He can't get out of there.
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  Speaker 1: They probably can't get out of his house. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: know he's sitting there playing his piano, going, I wish
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  Speaker 1: I could go to the Mayor's crib man take some
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  Speaker 1: bigss to today.
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  Speaker 2: Joe can play piano nicely. By the way, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if here was anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I'm surprised nobody's out and looking to
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  Speaker 1: see whether these these government elected types have nice clean
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  Speaker 1: streets while the rest of us are slip sliding away.
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  Speaker 2: Or maybe I'm a testimist. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, hi, Chuck.
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing good, trying to stay warm. I'm just uh
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  Speaker 5: thinking about there was three trash trucks that came through here,
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  Speaker 5: and that's after they do my traff this morning, and
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  Speaker 5: why not put the plows on those that's one down streets.
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  Speaker 1: You know, That's what they did in Chicago years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I would think that that's actually a good idea. The
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  Speaker 1: truck have to be there anyway, why not have them
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  Speaker 1: drop the plow and plow the snow so you can
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  Speaker 1: get out there and get your cans back exactly.
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  Speaker 6: And when they plowed brig Road, they just plowed all
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  Speaker 6: the big old uh wall up on the side streets.
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  Speaker 6: And now you can't get off the side streets onto
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  Speaker 6: the Briggs Rough because the big old walls snow that
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  Speaker 6: they just plowed up on it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Harry whatever. Harry's just sent me a picture about
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  Speaker 1: an hour ago over on Sullivan Avenue which was kind
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  Speaker 1: of plowed. It wasn't It was kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: lane and a half in each direction was available to you.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, but he showed me somebody right there in
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  Speaker 1: front of Joe Seppe's on Sullivan Avenue with the front
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  Speaker 1: end of a Dodge Ram all torn up and everything.
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  Speaker 4: It's not it's the situation I'm laughing at.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope nobody was heard in that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's that was that. If it was
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  Speaker 1: my grandson's I would call half assery because the street
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  Speaker 1: is right kind of plowed but not really plowed. And
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  Speaker 1: we've got enough vehicles two have done that better. If
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  Speaker 1: it's going to get done, do it better. And if
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  Speaker 1: it's not getting done, find a way to get it done.
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  Speaker 5: Great shock, I agree. I agree pulling people out all day,
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  Speaker 5: all night.
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  Speaker 1: You know that, And I appreciate that. That's a wonderful thing.
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  Speaker 1: I was telling Mark earlier. That's one of the good
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  Speaker 1: things I've seen with all this snow that hit is
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  Speaker 1: people getting stuck and and people coming out of houses
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  Speaker 1: and whatever, and helping push cars out of a snow drift,
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  Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. I love seeing that. I
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  Speaker 1: love seeing that return of just you know, caring for
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  Speaker 1: your fellow man, a little decency, a little humanity, if
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  Speaker 1: nothing else, We got that out of the snow.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Stay warm tonight, do your best to stay warm because
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be very, very very cold,