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October 28, 2024 11 mins
Our friends Rizzo and Jeff from "The Rizzo and Jeff Show" in Asheville, North Carolina talk about the impacts from Hurricane Helene.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
There are.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Lots and lots of threats to our safety here in
the US. In these threats come in many forms, I
mean from like public health crisis, natural disasters, mass shootings,
traffic accidents, whatever. But aside from those types of hazards
that can cause physical harm, you know, there are other
reasons why you should or should not choose to live

(00:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
Do you want to hear this?

Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, we are on in the safest city in America.
According to this survey. South Burlington, Vermont is number one
safest city in America or for a multitude of reasons, Casper,
Wyoming safe, Warwick, Rhode Island, Burlington, Vermont.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
We're on their Boise, Idaho. We're on in Boise too,
aren't we? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:11):
I think so all safe? So the only one Virginia beats.
Virginia's on the list and they're on the ocean. So
I'm kind of wonder, if you know, I don't know,
So I wonder how many people right now are thinking,
should we rethink where we live? Even though you know,
people who live in the hurricane zone love where they live.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's their home. That's why they go back. Yeah, people will.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Why don't they just move because that's their home. I
don't know, have you ever thought about living in a
safer place?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
See, exactly me too. I mean Burlington, Vermont's beautiful, Don't
get me wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
I like to visit on a vacation there.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
They grow great pot up there. It's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Anyway, living in a safe place. So our friend Jeff
from Rizzo and Jeff Show, they're on one O five
nine the Mountain in Asheville, North Carolina. Still still totally
totally affected by what Helene rolled through and did to them. Jeff,
I've known Jeff for many years. You guys have to
Hi Jeff, welcome to our show. How are you doing today?

Speaker 6 (02:13):
Hey, Alvis Rizzo's here with me as well.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Hey Hey Elvis, Hey don't buddy, Yeah, Elvis, you know
on this morning and still doing this every single day,
still in recovery mode.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
Still here. Still no water. There's absolutely no water. We
haven't had it since you know, this kind of whole
thing happened to us. So there's a lot of struggling
and a lot of repairs that really need to happen.
The infrastructure here in Asheville has just been decimated, I
know what or nothing.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
From the outside looking at and you're like, well, wait,
you're in this predicament because of water basically.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
And the funny thing. The funny thing is Elvis. Two
years ago there was some snowstorm. They didn't have water
for three weeks and the Army Corps of Engineers said
they fixed it, says, yeah, yes, they all right.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, it's fascinating to hear where you are in this
game compared to where you know, people on the other
side on the Gulf coast are about to go through again,
and it's just crazy. So where are you right now?
I mean, how's the feeling in town? How are people
dealing with each other? And is it still like Okay,

(03:22):
we're in this together, we're gonna beat this thing, or
like how is everyone feeling?

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I mean, I'll be honest with you. I think we're
starting to hit that frustration wall. We're eleven twelve days in,
nobody has water, nobody can flush toilets. People are starting
to get aggravated. I think mental health is starting to
get affected. We're trying, we're trying to be you know,
western North Carolina strong, but it's real hard when you
can't go to the bathroom, when it takes five minutes

(03:49):
to brush your teeth, when you can't shower, it's really depressing.
It's hard.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
You know, you never thought that you'd be standing in
line at a public shower in a Walmart parking lot
and it would be the greatest shower you ever had
in your life.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, like, you know what, and this is I know
people listening to us across the country going wait, hold on,
what can you repeat that? This is a reality, this
is what's going on. And we were talking about this earlier, Jeff.
Result in the result, We just take things for granted.
You do you walk into a bathroom in flush a toilet,
whatever you just did goes away, and then one day

(04:22):
it doesn't. You're like, well, wait, this isn't the world
I'm used to living in, And but you are so
look as we know.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
We had a man called just before you know, we
came on and literally just as he was talking to us,
his power went on and he started crying, and he
just started crying and he couldn't believe it that his
power had just gone on for the first time. But
you can't cook. I mean, you got to think about it.
You can't cook. There's no Wi Fi. There's no water,
so you need the electric for the Wi Fi. In
the mountains, a lot of people have well well the

(04:53):
well ones on the electric, so there's so many of
these factors that fall into place, and it's.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, flies, it's it's horrifying. And I hope that with
the other storm that's coming to Florida. You know, we're
worried that people are going to go down to Florida
and they need that help, especially if it's going to
be that bad. But if they forget us, I mean,
we have months through years before this is even remotely
the same.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Well that that's where we were going to go with
this conversation. You know, you know how news is, because
you've both been in this business for a million years.
The news will now turn to Tampa, It'll turn to
that that that that that that hurricane zone that that
Milton is creating.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
We can't do that.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
You know, there are people all over the country who
are still paying the price for something that's happened within
the last month, week or years. So what where? What
are you needing now? What what can we do for you?
You and your friends in Ashville, North Carolina.

Speaker 6 (05:51):
Yeah, you know, I think the water is a big,
big thing. I think that's a lot. There's still some people,
they're in recovery mode. Like I said, they're helping out.
But I think the water is a big, big problem.
It's we're getting a few things back. I mean there
was like no gas, you have to wait in line
for four hours to get gas, those types of things.
But uh, you know, stuff like that to literally I mean,

(06:12):
think how simplistic it is all us to flush your toilet.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's just that I would say. I would say that
in Elvis. I'm diabetic. I had to send my son
to New York because I had to get him out
of here. He was seven. Uh, you know, I just
diabetic medicine. Needles supplies a medicine. I mean, it's so
hard to get medicine. I mean it's so bad. I
mean I haven't taken my regular dose of insulin in

(06:37):
in in you know, two weeks. You know, it's it's
it's it's awful, and we're trying to find it. But
we're FedExing it in and FedEx it's stuck in Charlotte.
So you know, we're trying. So we need a lot,
We need water, medicine.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
And what you're hearing now is just two guys in
one community and we're talking about this these stories times
a million and so. But you say to us, we
need water, okay, and we're thinking, yeah, we got to
get them water. Wait, how do we do that? How
do we I can't get you water? What can we

(07:12):
do to get your water turned on? What can we
do to help?

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
I mean I don't know. I think we feel helpless
because we know you need it.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, I mean, I guess the best of what we've
been telling people to do is if they're being honest,
like look on GoFundMe for real families that live in
western North Carolina. I mean that's probably the best thing.
I'm not saying anything bad about, you know, the Red
Cross or anything, but I would just say look for family.
I mean, we've had a family on who lived in
Chimney Rock. They lost everything, they thought they were gonna die.

(07:43):
I mean, we've had so many people who have lost
it all. I saw a guy crying, throwing out everything.
He was saying, everything I've ever worked for. He was
in weeping in uh you know, Canton. I mean, it's
just just things like that. Find those local go fundmes,
make sure they're real, and just reach out and donate
to them. Even if it's five bucks. It means the world,

(08:04):
it really does. We have to survive here. You know,
we're going to lose our advertisers. No business is here.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, you know you know something we Okay, I gotta
turn I gotta turn the camera on you guys. You're
by the way, Rizo and Jeff. They have their show
in one oh five nine in the Mountain Asheville, North Carolina.
What you guys are doing is very important. And you're
talking about a guy you had on the phone and
as you were talking to him, his electricity came on

(08:31):
and he just broke down crying.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
You were there to remind everyone listening that there are
reasons to celebrate these little, these little monumental things as
you move forward to get out of the out of
the darkness. You know what I'm saying, and what you
guys are doing is so important. And I know that
it's taking a toll on you, as it is taking
a toll on everyone in your community, but thank you
for what you're doing. What you're doing is totally priceless.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
Yeah, And I always say, you know, for people don't realize,
and you know, we work in radio where you know,
behind it and all kinds of stuff, but people would
call us and tell us, hey, for ten days, I
had no phone, I had no electric but you know
what I had, I had my radio and you guys
were the lifeline that kept us going every morning, you know,
disseminating information, maybe finding a way to give us a

(09:15):
little chuckle here and there. But literally the only connection
to the outside world that anybody had was the radio,
and so important.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Radio is so important, Elvis, It's so important, and that's
what we're learning here.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
I know.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
I know some people think we're the lowest of the
lowest form of Carni workers.

Speaker 6 (09:35):
But in my past where that could have been the.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, look, we love you, Rizzo and Jeff, Thank you
so much for spending time with us. I know you're very,
very busy, and we're here, you know what. And just
a reminder that once the cameras move from one disaster
to another doesn't mean disaster A is taken care of
because it's far from over. I always remember that. And
thank you for your time and let us know if
you need anything.

Speaker 6 (09:58):
Okay, I appreciate your buddy. Thank you man.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
All right, Rizon, all right, Jeff, take care. Guys. There
you go.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
Well, I'm looking at some of the pictures of where
they are. Oh my gosh, I can't even like wow.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
But you know, so, North Carolina should not be something
that is getting that type of damage from a hurricane.
And that's something you can fathom. They're hundreds of miles
from the coast and most of the time when a
hurricane comes in, you're looking at coastal towns. But a
lot of things went wrong there.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
Can I ask the question, how are they broadcasting? Where
are they broadcasting.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
From that they did not I don't know, you know,
thank god they have a generator or something, you know,
I don't know. I will say to your point too, though,
Froggy is let's look at okay, look at Tampa. Tampa,
right now the mayor is saying get out now, leave
Tampa or you will die. These are people who are

(10:52):
still rebuilding from something that happened, you know what I'm
saying a year or two ago. I mean, this doesn't
get fixed overnight.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
It just doesn't.

Speaker 5 (10:59):
Right, Tampa a week ago got it too.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Yeah, ten days ago a storm was one hundred and
ten miles off the coast, and they have this damage.
And now they've got one bearing down on them. In
less than forty eight hours, it'll be there. I mean
it's and they had gone from having the initial storm.
They went into recovery efforts and they were really doing well.
And now the recovery efforts have all stopped. Now they're
in evacuation mode. The governor yesterday, Ron DeSantis, said that

(11:25):
all lanes of the Interstate going north all three lanes,
and now the two emergency lanes are also lanes. So
they turned the interstate into five lanes, just trying to
get as many people as they can out to try
to get them to safety.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
I just saw more coverage of that, and you know,
it's a triviate jam. But people will get out, but
they have to
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