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WOR meteorologist Ray Stagich interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: We will be getting to the great meteorologist Ray Stajic
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  Speaker 1: in about two minutes, so he can give an extended
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  Speaker 1: forecast for what you can expect. But most importantly, right
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  Speaker 1: now it is September 25th. That is 925. Dolly Parton Day.
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  Speaker 1: 9 to 5 Dolly Parton Day is being celebrated across
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  Speaker 1: the country. You are encouraged to wear pink and rhinestones,
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  Speaker 1: which Curtis is doing right now. Thank you for celebrating.
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  Speaker 2: It as well. There ain't no damn way I'm wearing
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  Speaker 2: pink and rhinestones. Why not? Three snaps up. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what, do you think I'm going to be
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  Speaker 2: a drag queen today dressed as Dolly Parton? Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe put two soccer balls under your shirt.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, jeez.
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  Speaker 3: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 4: We just took the nicest thing and just threw it
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  Speaker 4: down the gutter.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the gutter.
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  Speaker 1: She was blessed.
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  Speaker 5: Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 2: Right. I'm not going to be looking like Christine Noem's husband.
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  Speaker 2: You remember him with the false mammary glands. Dolly, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: What a freak. But anyway. Now he'll look okay today.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be celebrating. The point is, it is a great day, celebration.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if, although her extended family and all of
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  Speaker 2: her financial advisors are going to be celebrating, because they
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  Speaker 2: seem to be at war already.
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  Speaker 1: They are at war. But let's put that to the
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  Speaker 1: side for a second and just celebrate the life of
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton like they're doing across the country. In Nashville,
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  Speaker 1: they're making the lights pink. They're putting up giant posters.
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  Speaker 1: In New Orleans, they're doing the same thing. In Manhattan,
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  Speaker 1: what they are doing, they called it Dolly Parton Day.
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  Speaker 1: The borough president came out and it's officially Dolly Parton Day.
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  Speaker 1: And he is encouraging people. And this is really a
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  Speaker 1: good idea. If you can't really go out and do anything,
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  Speaker 1: if you're not going to wear rhinestones today or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that, just take a moment to either donate a
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  Speaker 1: book or donate some money to Imagination Library. You can
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  Speaker 1: find the site online. And that's a really nice way
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  Speaker 1: to honor her legacy. In Staten Island, what are they
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  Speaker 1: doing in Staten Island?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, gosh, there's an organization called Musicians on Call, and
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  Speaker 4: they're going to hospitals all over, including Staten Island University Hospital,
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  Speaker 4: to perform for patients in the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: It is wonderful. I love that. It makes me almost
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  Speaker 2: want to dress up in drag like Dolly Parton today
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  Speaker 2: with pink and rhinestones. I love it.
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  Speaker 5: 925.
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  Speaker 4: To tell you the truth, today is my anniversary in Oh,
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  Speaker 4: happy anniversary.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, I've celebrated for many years. I never
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  Speaker 4: thought of 9-2-5 on September 25th. It never even occurred
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  Speaker 4: to me.
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  Speaker 2: Which anniversary is it? Is it an important one? It's 27. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: coming up on 30. Yeah. That's pretty damn good. I
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  Speaker 2: think all my marriages combined, I don't think, equals that. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: What was your longest anniversary? They end up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: seven-year itch, but I never itch. And then I would
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  Speaker 2: say it's like within 10, 11 years.
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  Speaker 1: 10, 11 years?
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  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden it goes south. But
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  Speaker 2: not this one. This is The Keeper with Nancy. But meantime,
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  Speaker 2: speaking of Nancy.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a second.
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  Speaker 2: One more last question. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Most importantly in your relationships, what was the longest on-air relationship?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was with Lisa in the morning when I
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  Speaker 2: did Angels in the Morning at WABC. So that was
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  Speaker 2: three years until we both got fired together. Three years.
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  Speaker 2: How romantic. Oh, no, that led to the demise of
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  Speaker 2: our relationship. Talk radio will do that. That's why I
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  Speaker 2: had to consummate and make sure this relationship was solid
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  Speaker 2: with me and Larry after the shit-off that Tom Cuddy did. Meantime, Nancy,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, loves Central Park, and she loves going
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  Speaker 2: to the iHeart Global Citizen Festival every year because she
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  Speaker 2: lives in Central Park morning, noon, and night. And even
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  Speaker 2: though we're going to hear from Ray Stajic about the
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  Speaker 2: gloomy forecast in the The iHeart Global Citizen Festival will continue.
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  Speaker 2: Bring your ponchos. iHeart is one of the proud sponsors
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  Speaker 2: of what is really a major event. You've got some
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  Speaker 2: of the biggest stars in the business who will be
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  Speaker 2: performing for all the right causes. So if you were
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  Speaker 2: intent on showing up, show up. Just bring your poncho
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  Speaker 2: just in case. So now let's get to the great
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  Speaker 2: Ray Stajic, the best meteorologist. So this is the forecast
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  Speaker 2: you need to listen to. He has been honing it
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  Speaker 2: over the last couple of days. He hemmed and hawed
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times. But now he's got it down. So, Ray,
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  Speaker 2: what can we expect today?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, from where we were yesterday, gang, we are a
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  Speaker 3: little further west. I think everybody's probably heard that. And
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  Speaker 3: it's more of a slow movement and kind of the
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  Speaker 3: retrograde toward the west and kind of sitting around for
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  Speaker 3: a little while out over the western Atlantic that's going
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  Speaker 3: to make this a long duration. I'd go moderate impact event.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the National Weather Service is saying. So we've
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  Speaker 3: kind of ticked up the language a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: from yesterday, thus saying The Weather Service has put out
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  Speaker 3: the wind advisory. That includes all five boroughs, parts of
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  Speaker 3: southeastern New York. You get into Westchester, Rockland County, Long Island.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually surprised there's not a high wind warning for
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  Speaker 3: eastern Long Island, but we should start seeing the winds
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  Speaker 3: picking up as we head through tonight, tomorrow, and tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 3: Good gusts, 40 to 45, even here in and around
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  Speaker 3: the city. 50, maybe 60 mile per hour winds the
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  Speaker 3: further east you go out onto Long Island. Strongest winds
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  Speaker 3: again as we go through tomorrow and tomorrow night. And
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  Speaker 3: then the rain element, the rain will start picking up again,
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  Speaker 3: same time as about the wind as we go on
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  Speaker 3: through the day. Second half of tomorrow into tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 3: winds could be gusting again or the rain could be
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  Speaker 3: falling a moderate to even heavy at times. And we
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  Speaker 3: could see about one to three inches of rain. There'll
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  Speaker 3: be about three to five as you continue to go
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  Speaker 3: east into Suffolk and Nassau and Suffolk County. So there'll
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  Speaker 3: be heavier rain, maybe a problem with some localized flooding.
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  Speaker 5: And then you've got the coastal flooding.
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  Speaker 3: It's already occurring, and I really think it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be the beaches that are continuing to get chewed up
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  Speaker 3: right now down along the Jersey Shore and the southeastern
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  Speaker 3: beaches of Long Island, Jones Beach, for example, Long Beach.
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  Speaker 3: These are all areas that have already seen flooding, already
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  Speaker 3: seen significant beach erosion. I think we're going to get
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  Speaker 3: more of that, too. And, you know, it's not like
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  Speaker 3: it's been any treat even out ahead of this thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's not even been developed so far. We're seeing numerous
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  Speaker 3: areas already underwater down in the Outer Banks, 12's closed.
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  Speaker 3: It's basically washed out. Very popular highway down there. And
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  Speaker 3: the storm's just developing. So this is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a long-duration event battering the shore. Gusty winds, rainy, probably
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  Speaker 3: through Saturday, Saturday night, and even into a good chunk
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  Speaker 3: of Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: So wait a second. You're saying also not only may
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  Speaker 2: Saturday get wiped out with rain and wind, but Sunday too?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Sunday may end up being a little bit worse
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  Speaker 3: than I think it was yesterday because we got this
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  Speaker 3: little retrograde back toward the west. And it's not going
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  Speaker 3: to be a fast moving system, too. Most of the time,
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  Speaker 3: I would say most when you get these nor'easters coming in,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you get maybe a 12 hour event, maybe
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  Speaker 3: 18 hour event that the storm just comes and it
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  Speaker 3: goes and it goes racing up the coast. That will
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  Speaker 3: not be the case with this storm.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to develop. It's going to come in.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be moving slowly, and then it's going
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  Speaker 3: to move back toward the west and just continue to spin.
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  Speaker 3: So that persistent onshore, northeast, easterly push is going to
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  Speaker 3: continue to push water in. And like I said, even
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  Speaker 3: around areas around New York Harbor, there's going to be inundation.
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  Speaker 3: So the question is going to be, how bad will
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  Speaker 3: it get? There's coastal flood advisories and warnings, all kinds
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  Speaker 3: of advisories on the water, too. But there's no reason, actually,
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  Speaker 3: to be out there, whether it's on a boat or swimming,
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  Speaker 3: unless you've got, you know, unless you're bots or something.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to just stay put. And, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 3: follow what the warnings and the advisors and your local
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  Speaker 3: emergency managers are giving for information.
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  Speaker 5: So, you know, going to be a tough one. Going
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  Speaker 5: to be a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the first time you said slow moving, I grimaced
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  Speaker 1: because I knew that was going to be a longer event.
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  Speaker 1: But how far west is there going to be rain?
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  Speaker 3: I think it'll get far west is most likely into
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  Speaker 3: northwest Jersey, maybe the Poconos and then As far west
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  Speaker 3: as the Catskills and as you go up the Hudson Valley,
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  Speaker 3: most likely going to see that rain get close to Albany,
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  Speaker 3: maybe into the Mohawk Valley. But the heavier rain is
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  Speaker 3: going to be concentrated on about New York City, southeastern
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  Speaker 3: New York, northeast Jersey, eastern east Jersey and out onto
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  Speaker 3: eastern New England and Long Island. So it will rain even.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you going, Curtis?
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  Speaker 5: Somewhere?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Wait a second.
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  Speaker 5: Hold on.
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  Speaker 2: Because each day we talk to you, it gets more dire.
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  Speaker 2: Every time you say it's moving west, it's moving west.
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  Speaker 2: This is not good for me. I got to get
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  Speaker 2: up to Marshall, New York, to rescue the 16,000 beagles.
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  Speaker 2: We're breaking them out out of Marshall, New York. It
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  Speaker 2: is the biggest farm for beagle development that they use
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  Speaker 2: to test and torture and kill. And so I'm already
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  Speaker 2: all geared up, as the crew here has seen. I
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  Speaker 2: got the guardian angel gear on. I look like Senator Fetterman.
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  Speaker 2: I got the hoodie on, man. I'm good to go.
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  Speaker 2: Right into the eye of the nor'easter.
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  Speaker 5: When are you leaving? When are you heading out?
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  Speaker 2: Late tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, bad timing.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 5: You should be fine. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: Look at you. Bad timing. Well, the later the worse.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, Larry. This guy, he's like, come see, come saw.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. Everything's copacetic.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that was yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a little bit more concerned today.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit? Not for me. That's for sure. My
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  Speaker 2: wife is. She told me to bring my galoshes with me.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't heard that term in a month of Sundays.
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  Speaker 1: Galoshes do you even have galoshes i forgot what a
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  Speaker 1: galosh was.
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  Speaker 2: They now call them rain boots.
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  Speaker 1: So it's interesting that you told him he'd be okay
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  Speaker 1: so when is this going to start hitting.
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  Speaker 3: Um we'll start to see showers probably coming in tonight
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't mean it's not going to be raining but
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  Speaker 3: the worst impacts will be as we go through the
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  Speaker 3: second part of tomorrow tomorrow night and probably into at
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  Speaker 3: least the first half of Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to be showery.
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  Speaker 3: I can't even say that word, but there'll be showers,
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  Speaker 3: and the winds have already gusted 20, 30 miles per hour. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not going to be great, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: saying you should be able to get there. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying it's not going to be, like, rainy and a
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  Speaker 3: little breezy, but it'll get– Less rainy and less breezy
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  Speaker 3: the further north and northwest you go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting nauseous here. I'm really getting nauseous. Ray, one favor, please,
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  Speaker 2: when you join us later in the show, because obviously
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  Speaker 2: the weather is the primary story, bar none. I met
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  Speaker 2: a whole tour group yesterday in Midtown. They were going
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  Speaker 2: to the Ed Sheeran concert up at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight he has one, tomorrow. And apparently, I guess, that
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  Speaker 2: New England area is going to get clobbered bad. They
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  Speaker 2: might have to cancel those concerts. So can you give
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  Speaker 2: us an update on that when you join us later?
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  Speaker 5: Yep, we can do that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks a lot, Ray Stajic. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: celebrating Dolly Day 925.