AM Show Hr 2 | More On The Storms That Punched Houston In The Face

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It's that time time, time,time, luck and load. So Michael
Arry Show is on the air.I'm in a high sweed, mossou don't
do here good. I hear perfectly. The fact that you are a sheriff

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is not germane to the situation.Damn, German's got nothing to do with
it. Why I doc, areyou telling me you built a time machine?
Kind of a doloreate the way Isee it. If you're gonna build
a time machine into a car,why not do it some style. He's
an Alma highway in a new cattlelike. I had a fine bods and

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Gunner had three more in the fat. What a piece of jug. She
may not look like much, butshe's gotta work out, kid. I've
made a lot of special modifications myself. You knee, when ye we back,

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you knee and when listen, dearmother, I was speeding. I
was driving like a maniac. Youcan all be grateful to this man for
stopping us. You see kids crazily, Sir, I'm going back to get
the rest of the carcass off theroad. Peek, Officer Czar. My

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daughter was driving home on two ninety. This is from Cindy close to Barker
Cypress. When it hit. Shewas hysterical, but made it off and
inside pluckers. She ran in withno shoes and left her hazards on.
Everyone inside hung out in the kitchenuntil it passed. A sweet family watched

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over her and even gave her somemama hugs. She was shaken from adrenaline
and they were offering her their jackets. A big thank you to that family
from this mama. My other daughterand I were huddled in our bathroom with
the pets, but only after Iwent outside to look around like a good
Texan seven three one thousand. Let'sgo to Audrey. Audrey, you're on

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the Michael Berry Show. Oh,good morning. Hysterical is the exact word
you know. As a reporter,I have driven through hurricanes in Louisiana.
I have covered serial killers. Thiswas the first, this is the first
time ever in my life to experiencesomething like this. I drove through that.

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I drove through that tornado. Ifelt my truck lifted up off the
ground. There's no way anyone inan electrical vehicle or a small car could
have made it. I don't knowhow they did. Grace of God,
if they did you know it's attimes like this that happened more than we

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realize that you stop and think aboutthings like that. So if the power
is out for somebody for several days, the chargers are down, what do
you do with your automobile. Mydad was the ever ready bunny. We
were prepared at all times for stormsand the light and you know that's kind

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of funny till it happens. Andthat's that's the guy you rely on,
right the people who prepare ahead.The people Ramona's got these big like a
battery, a boat motor, butbigger. They're like towers that you can

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plug into your freezer. So hedoesn't lose, no matter what doesn't lose
what's in his freezer. Because forpeople that you by a cow at a
time. I got an email fromRyan and this is sort of on that
level. Tzar. We live inthe ninety nine slash five twenty nine area.
It was bad, power out,cell phone towers down. We made

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it to my parents' house in thenineteen sixty Champions area. This is where
it gets good. When we arrivedjust before midnight, we get an immediate
house briefing. I have parents whoare seventy five and seventy eight. They're
out of their routine and they needto warn us about a couple of house
updates. My dad takes a setof keys, demonstrates how to use a

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key to lock the back door,shows me precisely where to place the key
on the washing machine so that hecan find it in the morning. Then
the upstairs guests toilet briefing. Yougotta hold that handle down and just let
it flush. Zar that's the trick, hold it down till it's finish.
There's in depth conversation about the weather, the drive over, sharing of storm

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photos, sleeping arrangements, and ofcourse I was offered lunch meat if I
was hungry. We got a planin place for the morning. I think
we got all the bases covered.This is my family, and the problem
is when you're raising a family likethat, you can't tolerate people that don't
plan ahead, people that take outloans and don't expect to pay them back,

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people that you can't you're so you'reso built that way. My dad
believed that if you let your thegas go, if you if you burn
more than a quarter tank without replacingit, that you were you were you
were a ward of the state.Because something happens, you need to be

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able to get out and get inthe car and get away. That may
be the only air conditioning you havein the extreme heat, that may be
your only opportunity to move around.So you shouldn't let the gas run down.
You should keep them stocked up atall times. Everything prepared. And
that's real laughable until that storm hits. And who's the guy on the street.

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You start looking to ray You're onthe Michael Berry Show, sweetheart,
go ahead, Hey Michael, itgot pretty western in Waller last night.
I heard, you know, Ijust got an email from somebody from Waller
with some photos and it was itwas rough. Tell me about it.
Well, i'd gotten home, myhusband's out of town, my son was

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there with me. He's working,and of course, being the the redneck
Texans that we are, we heardthat there was a tornado. We had
to go out and see if wecould find it. And when it did
get a little scary, we wentback inside. But we didn't have much
damage at our house. Our neighborhoodtook quite a bit of damage. Large

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trees uprooted, a lot of treesbroken in half. We had powder poles
that were snapped, and because weare on a neighborhood water system, we
have no water. We have noelectricity and probably won't for days. When
it cleared up, my son grabbeda chainsaw and we got in his work

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truck and went through the neighborhood andstarted cutting trees up so people could get
into their driveways. But the damageis pretty extensive as far as trees.
It doesn't appear that there were manyhomes or any homes damage. But I
don't know when we will get electricityback. And it was a little it

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was scary, but we lost oursales service until about four this morning.
I don't want to have to gothrough it again. And the cleanup is
going to be fun, but youknow, it's Texas. It's what we
do, and it's what we do. Folks will there will be the people

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who will go out take care oftheir own home first, secure of their
own family. Then they'll start nextdoor. They'll go to the little old
lady. They'll take care of herthe way that her late husband would have
for the generation before. And Iwill say this, and I am one
hundred percent certain, and it's sopissed. There are democrats who listen to
the show. There will not bedemocrats out helping. There will not be

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hood rats out helping. There willnot be felons and criminals out helping.
There won't there will be traditional valueAmerican patriot Donald Trump voting make America great
again, people out helping. Andyes they'll help the turds and the lib

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tards and everything else too, justthe way it is, it's always been.
They'll always be young gym man.What you want you kick some of

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that? You know, you knowhow you do it. Man, it's
a trip. People don't even believeme together right now, but tell your
story, you know the what Ilike? I said, Writers on the
Storm, Writers on the storm right, didn't do this house or bar,

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didn't do this world with thrown likea dog without a bone and actor out
of Writers on the Storm. There'sa killer on the road. His brain
is squirming like a toad. JK. Long Holiday, let your children play.

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If you give this man a right, sweet family will die. Killer
on the road Christian Rights. Ilive in the gallery area near the k
h o U eleven news station.Did they move? They used to be
on Allen Park when they flooded.Sober where'd they move to West West Timer?

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Across from Capitol Grill? So onthe north side of West Timer does
there is there signage on the frontof it. So Capitol Grill is that
about Yorktown? So would they beabout there? Fifty seven eighteen West Timers
so between Chimney Rock and Fountain View. So that's further is that the old

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is that near the old Duke building. There used to be the Hesse building
right there. See what the addresson Hess is, because that would put
it right about that. They builtthat theater like the Players Theater that was
about a thirty million dollar deal.They have a standalone I didn't know.

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I can't believe they pulled that offbecause the Alley was always Houston's premier theater
and they got all the foundation moneyand then this, I think it was
the Players Theater. They built astandalone theater on West Timer on expensive dirt.
It took them forever, but it'sthat one you know talking about.
It's curved, it's got all thatglass that had to be all in dirt

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and everything else had to be athirty million dollar project, maybe more,
and that's hard for the theater thatis not the primary theater for the city
in the minds of the people todo. I don't know how they did
it. Hats off to them anyway. So she lives near the Khou news
station. See what else is aroundthere. I was three and a half

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miles away from my house on theroad when I got the tornado warning alert.
I was less than a mile awayfrom home when I got stuck in
traffic and the storm rolled in.The winds were so intense, whipping my
car back and forth. I sawthe transformer blow and knock out the street
lights on West Timer and Chimney Rock. Sat in front of KHOU eleven on

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West Timer for fifteen minutes, butit felt like an hour. Checked my
radar on my phone and the redband hadn't even reached me yet. I
truly thought, if I can't gethome before the worst part of this storm
hits, that I might die inmy car. I just kept praying and
trying to remain calm. Eventually,traffic started moving again and I made it

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home, thanking the Lord above forkeeping me safe and watching over me.
Kristen, We're still a generator,right, What is that clicking it feels
like the power wants to come backon No, Jeff the Builder was the
first person to call Robert on theon the lamb. So there were a

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lot of people who emailed in,but I mean, straight up, Jeff
the Builder was the first one toreach out. And that's a lot of
lamb. That's a lot of lamb. Oh, we haven't done our weekend
review Ramon. It's probably a goodtime. Courtesy of the greatest executive producer
in all the land, Chad KoniKnakanishi, to all beef patties, special

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sauce, let us, cheese,pickles, onions on sesme I probably haven't
heard that in forty years. Toall beef patties, special sauce, lettuce,
cheese, pickles, onions on asesame seed. Let me tell you
something, very family. We're notgood at a lot of things, but
we will put down some fast foodin this household. Somewhere is some divorce,

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say at the bar and some guysgoing, can I buy you a
drink? Hell? Have you know? I'm elviral? What is that?
Okay? You mistress? A No? The song of Viral that's about me?
Oh and your name any times insubvered. Inflation continues to be a
thwort in the side of the USeconomy, new data showing consumer prices rows

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three point four percent. Americans arestill feeling the pinch when it comes to
food, especially when dining out.What are you paying for basic commodities?
You know better than people on nationalnews who often don't know, and some
of them do know and lie toyou because they so desperately want Biden to
be doing a good job. Ifyou're a small business looking to grow and

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market on Facebook, it can seema little overwhelming at first local businesses using
Facebook. Just because you have abusiness and some people are on social media
does not mean you need to tryto promote your Nobody's sitting at home and
going I wonder what the Propane andWealth Service Company has to say it and
it's always boring CG. Welcome tothe program. I guess I'd drive maybe

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five six days a week, justpart time. I'm going to say I'm
just a part time driver. Let'ssee if you can tell me a three
phrases or word pronunciations of JT thatI liked the most, or something like
that, like at like that iscorrectly like just to make a little extra
income. Do it again, remo, just something like that, just to
make a little extra like that.I want to do a regular feature with

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jt it swift me. I gotan email from Robert Roth. All right,

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it might be worth sharing it beinggraduation time. We have two sponsors
that are very busy this time ofyear, Magpie's Gifts and Corey Diamond's and
Design, because those are popular placesand things to do for gifts. But

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Robert writes, Zar, yesterday Iheard you speaking about graduation and the length
of the speeches. I think thatdid that on the evening show. I
have to admit I agree, andI laughed. Something I wanted to share
with you is the thought of agraduation gift. When my son Riley graduated,
I gave him a lifetime resident combinationhunting and fishing license from Texas Parks

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and Wildlife. Although the cost Ididn't sleep well, obviously. Although the
cost is eighteen hundred dollars, itgives me peace knowing he can hunt and
fish without any game word in troublesfor life. Plus, I feel it's
a gift that keeps giving year afteryear, long after I'm gone, And

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most importantly, he's able to providefor his own nourishment needs and selfishly mine.
I just thought I would share,have a wonderful day. Kind regards
Robert Roth and then his phone number. That pretty good idea. A lifetime
license with the Texas Parks and Wildlife. Now if we secede as our own

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country, do you think that wouldstill be honored? Probably? Yeah,
I would be very untexan not toRachel emailed last night at eleven nineteen,
Czar landed after a long delayed flightback from Cleveland. Uber canceled on me.
Waited thirty minutes for a new Uber. Hundreds upon hundreds of people were

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waiting as well. Great nice driverfrom azer Vajean. It was like a
third world country because we had noself service. I got on the airport
Wi fi and managed to get anUber. People were just driving up trying
to sell rides for cash. NearIah, no traffic lights, operable drive

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home is great so far one thousand. After all the chats over to the

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box and the clowns, the callgo too, you can it happened instead
was calmed down, the street dressedand the wind whispers were seven one three,

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nine ninety nine one thousand. Didanybody know there was a tornado warning
for later? And then I hadnot. I am admittedly out of the
loop on weather issues. When whenwe're somewhere, when we're at a sporting
event like kids football game, andyou know there's if there's lightning reported with

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the next number of miles, there'sa siren that comes on and then you
got to wait for a period oftime, so you know till it's safe
okay, And the dads will allwhip out their phones and they're like,
it looks like it's gonna be herefor this lawns and I have I go,
Well, they'll go, I'll say, well, how long do you
think, because I'm gonna go sitin my truck. How long you think

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before we're going to be playing it? Well, I mean, if you
if you see right, No dad, no dad, I don't want to
see it. You've already seen it. Now that you've seen it, how
about you just answer my question.We don't, I don't, we don't
all need to see it together.You just tell me how long you think
it'll be, and I'll trust yourjudgment as being better than mine, because

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all I see is a bunch ofcolors, and I don't really I don't
really want to look at the colors, but yeah, no colors. Just
tell me how long it's going tobe. Well, you see this red
band and right there and look upover there and put your well, I
don't even know what that is.That anna whac Is it coming east or

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west? I don't know what's goingon. It's in New Waverley and right
now we're in clear Lake. Whatdirection is it headed? Because I know
where New Waverley is and I knowwhere, but I can't see that map
that nothing is labeled. It's toofar away, and I don't I don't
want to look at your map.I don't want to get your phone.
I want to look an iPad.And they do every dad whip them out.

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Yeah let's see. Oh oh,and then they swap stories and I'm
the lone dad out here. I'min the middle of the whole group.
Yep, oh oh, hey,y'all see this. Y'all see this.
It looks like looks like oh uh, it looks like it's it's moving,
looks like it's it's gonna it lookslike my just missless look at this.

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If it turns a little bit ketner, Caddy Warmer right there. It might
just barely miss what app you on? Oh I'm on the weather map.
Well v kh O you their map? Oh but I don't think they're updating.
Oh you don't know ABC. Theygot theirs there, Look look theirs.
Look at it says it. Youknow that one? They got them

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coming right through what And all I'mthinking is, could we stop this Monty
Python sketch? And somebody just tellme. I'm going to my truck.
I'm not gonna sit out here inthe stands in case it comes to turngilly
washer. Are we five minutes fromplaying or thirty minutes? Like? Well,
we know there's a twenty minute minimumwhen they do the whoop woop,

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there's a twenty minute minimum till thegame starts. And I'm tempted to start
calling out some of my fellow dadsbecause they're probably all doing their private equity
deals. But their buddies will callthem, bust them for it, and
they know they're guilty. They absolutelyknow they're guilty. And I will admit
I'm like a child when it comesto stuff like that. I don't I

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don't want to pull out my phoneand I don't want to look at your
phone, and I don't want tosee the color band and figure out what
color is what and all that.I just, you know what, I'm
like a woman with the vehicle inthat way. I don't know how any
of the parts work. I justput gas in it and go and then
I take it to skip partly atThunderbolt Motors and Transmissions. Or I go

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to Rona Wallace at Skeeter's Auto andI go check engine light? Can you
make it go away? There's acheck engine light that I don't want to
be on, and I don't wantto get under there because I know just
enough to get myself in trouble andI know just enough to start. Yeah,
I'm gonna take this off right here, and then before you know it,

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I've got stuff unscrewed and off andI'm losing. It's just better.
It's better that I not try todo that for myself. It is just
much better. Let's go to Kevin. Kevin, you're on the Michael Berry
Show. Gohet head, sir.I watched a neighbor last night as the
storms were rolling through down in Paarland. He was mowing his you know ten

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eleven acres out on his zero turn, and I mean didn't even face him
whatsoever. He just mowing his grasslike no big deal. I was like,
that's about the most texting thing I'veseen in a while. You know,
it is? It is? AndI'll tell you, panicking and acting

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foolish, there's no There are peoplewho get really excited, like that's their
super Bowl and they get real excitedand start acting ah. But the flip
side of that, I have changedmy opinion on that. I mean,
if that guy wants to be outthere, but I'm kind of of the
opinion. Now you get these peoplethat when the storm's coming through, they

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will and there is an evacuation noticeand I'm not, ma, I'm gonna
fret it out of fat stay far, tain't a lace thinned. I'm gonna
out here like the rest of them, all you foods, running around right
and foolish. And then six hourslater you got deputies out there, uh
you know, in the high waterrescue boats and they're crawled up on the

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top looking fat and retarded and stupidand disabled, and you go, well,
what you gonna do Now? You'regonna sell wire neck care and wait
on that war to come int y'allvire because we're not gonna come get you
because we doesn't watch paper Day Leftfor fourteen years and this time we're not
gonna come savior, sorry ass andendanger our sails. That it would look

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good, then, would it?So these guys every storm, every storm,
you get these people and they pulltheir their their lawn chairs out and
they tell the yeah, I'm well, you know what they tell them,
and then and they feel so good, got them a six pack and going
okay, all right. And theyalways got the same shirt on, and

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they got the sleeve cut out ofthe shirt of the T shirt and you
can see malmas big old shoulders andthey're sitting out there in their flip flops
and in their shorts, and they'regonna and and they feel like, you
know, we're showing the world wenot gonna do anything. Okay, we'll
show the world when the water isthree feet into your house and people are

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having to risk their lives to comeand get you, because there ain't nearly
the same amount of pride then,is there. I would I mean,
just one time, I'd like tobe the guy who pulled up you know
what, We're not gonna come getyou because you have a couple hours ago
was talking about how you wasn't gonnago anywhere. Now you stuck overres It's
not very good, is it?Rain Fell? A small man make me

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feel so bad on account of mybaby walk off with another man, like
taking nice sight from the blind manand man I found the pond on thet

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woman took my love man and walkon on out of that door and it
soul got corn after bad Fell.Billy Gibbons doesn't just like the blues.

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He is obsessed with the blues.Eddie, you're on the Michael Berry Show,
seven thousand. Once you got sir, Yeah a bron Chinatown up towards

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Clay Road. Hey, Eddie,start start over. But a lot of
the towers are down so so callsare in and out. We didn't hear
the first part of your call.Just start me over, first spring,
branch up and along the Eddie,Eddie, hold on, hold on,
Eddie. We're losing you in andout. Please try to keep your phone
still and right next to your yourface. Sometimes that will cause it start
me over again. We're not hearingyour first book. Okay, I'm calling

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with a gas station report. Okay, go ahead, okay, up along
the Beltway from Chinatown all the wayto Clay Road. There's only one guess
station opened that and there's so muchgrid lock in the parking lot that nobody
can get in. What did youdo? So it's like all again,

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except that one seemed to have losttheir power and it stretches across Spring Branch
over towards where nine Ranches. Andthat's what I got for you. So
that's only on the Beltway. You'renot seeing that on I ten? Do

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you said from ninety nine Ranch tothe to the Beltway? Is that on
you talking about on ten on theon the north side of ten? Or
what? I didn't yet? Cuttingit out? And I came U down
both from my Yeah, Eddie,I think you're moving your head around,
and we've had this happen before.And when you are, we're losing your

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signal in and out. You gotto keep your head steady. Yeah,
all right, Uh Ben, you'reon the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead,
sir, Hey, mister Barry,this has been from Tomball. Yes,
sir, hey, I was callingit well. I always look for
any excuse to call the Great MichaelBarry. But I was a drive.

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I had to get out of mymotor home. I think I told you
before. I told my house,my son and daughter. I live in
my motor home, and I getout of here. Ben, there's there's
a few Ben's out there. You'vegot to give me. You know,
Ben who's a mess and his wifeand lives in his motor home. You
got to you got to give mesome detail. Ben from Tombauld didn't do
it. But we all remember Benfrom Tomball. Now, okay that Ben

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been the mechanic, uh Ben theyeah, yeah, go ahead. Well,
if you know any women out there, I'm willing to let them cheat
on me five times. So thatis not a big selling point, believe
it or not. Women are notlooking for a guy who doesn't you know,
who doesn't get angry if she cheatson it. And there's just not

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a lot of that. I know. That's why I don't have a girlfriend.
But no, I was heading upto Buffalo Wild Wings just but I
don't know if I can say yourname. Well you know I already said
it anyway, Buffalo wild Wings yesterdaybecause I wanted a structure around me,
and I saw four funnel clouds thatwere coming down, but they dissipated real

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quick, and I don't know.I was just trying to chime into the
show there, but it did happen. I mean, but the weather was
really rough brown here. Yeah,where's Oh you're out? You're out off
ninety nine, aren't you well?Kelgi in twenty nine twenty went on twenty

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YEA, yeah, I just rememberedyou being somewhere around that area. John
Rights from Alabama. Linemen were favoritetargets of Marxists and El Salvador in the
eighties. May not want to sharethat, sadly, I've had trees blown
through, roof, power lined down, but no broken windows years ago.

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Prayers for you and all your folksand our country and those folks from Earth
Texas. Would you call them earthlings? City council grittings? Earthlings? That
The fact that there is a towncalled Earth, Texas was the subject of
many emails I received. David writes, you may have seen this on the

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news, how severe weather rolled throughHouston last night. This is what he
posted online. He says, causingdamage to many areas in the city,
including hurricane style damage downtown. Selfishly, I'm glad it missed the big airport
up north for the most part.The wife and I were flying home from
Europe last night and landed at aboutsix fifteen. I was literally sitting on

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a very large airplane watching this unfoldonline on my phone as they couldn't let
us move to the gate. Thenwhen we finally got to the gate,
they couldn't get the jetway to usbecause they, of all things, couldn't
chalk the wheels of the jet dueto the intense lightning. They don't let

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workers work out in the rain whenthere is lightning in the area, with
good reason, keeping in mind thatat six thirty pm this time of year,
we're still very bright at this timeof day, but it was nighttime
dark outside. I have felt thewind on planes on the ground before,
but they were always much smaller planes. This was a seven seven seven,

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and the wind just rocked us likea boat on stormy seas. I don't
know, it's an interest, youpose an interesting question. I got an
email from a fella named Piper Phillips, and Piper said he wanted the lamb
and I sent back and I said, Jeff the builder called ramone Or emailed

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me and then called ramone the emailswhat did it? Within a few seconds
and he was on the phone withRobert and he's on his way over to
get the lamb right now. Isaid, so sorry, but you were
a little late, and he said, well, that's just the way it
goes. On a side note,I met you years ago at Hefley's with
Dwayne and Sabrina. I was oneof the bartenders there. I don't know
if you remember the story, butI drove you home one night and you

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insisted we had to stop by Waterburgerbecause I don't drive if I'm drinking.
In fact, you wouldn't get inthe car unless I agreed to the burger
stop first. I agreed, wegot the food, and on the first
bite, food falls on my floorboard, all over the carpet. It was
all good. Every time I goto Waterburger. Now, I chuckle.
I'm mentioning this because I love thatstory. I don't tell it because I
respect the lifestyle change you've made andmaybe you wouldn't want sloppy bar stories shared.

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But last week or earlier this week, you mentioned Dwayne and Sabrina on
air and it made me smile.So I'm just sending this email to you.
Best wishes to you and your family. Sir, I listen at eight
and five daily. Thanks for keepingit real, Piper, that's a story
right there. You know. Youlike to think after you die, if
people have some stories and you're nota saint in all of them