01-22-25 YMS The South is recovering from a rare winter snowstorm and record temperatures. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have a rundown on how the region reacted, and what is next.

The South is recovering from a rare winter snowstorm and record temperatures. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have a rundown on how the region reacted, and what is next.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on Your Morning show with Michael dil Choo.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Roy O'Neil is joining US our national correspondent. Roy I
just saw meme minutes ago and it's a shot of
what I believe is Houston Hobby Airport just covered in
snow with planes stranded, and the caption perfectly Houston. We
have a problem really from Houston, what all across Louisiana
into Alabama and Georgia. The South is experiencing a rare

(00:30):
winter storm, snowstorm. We'll get to New Orleans in a minute,
with record temperatures to go along with it, right.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Right, and it's significant snowfall. You know, Florida is used
to having these little freakish flurries, but they got eight
inches of snow in Pensacola. They don't know what to
do with that. They don't have a snow shovel, they
don't have an ice scraper for your windshield, they don't
have plows. So this is a problem. And thankfully, in
a lot of places the temperatures will be back over

(00:57):
freezing today and a lot of this is going to melt.
But parts of New Orleans got ten inches of snow.
It's supposed to be thirty six degrees today. I'm guessing
a lot of that snow is still going to be around.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, that's not going to melt. My brother started sending videos,
and I thought, Okay, I lived through what was a
light dusting when I was a teenager. The last time
they had any significant amount. When I say significant, I
mean four inches was nineteen sixty three. The record is
ten inches, which was Valentine's Day eighteen ninety five. And
so he sends me the first vinegar I got tough.

(01:29):
A light dusting there. Oh yeah, I'm thinking, you know
how cute. And it kept coming and coming and coming
and for hours, and the next thing, I know, that's
more snow than we've gotten in Nashville since I've lived here.
In fact, we're going to send him out in the
snow next half hour with a ruler to measure. But
I think they have reached or maybe surpassed that eighteen
ninety five record. What cost all this is this global warming?

(01:53):
Donald Trump, total Trump. Joe Biden. It never happened with.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Joe Biden was pressed, this would have well snow. But
the Houston airports aren't expected to reopen later today. They
did shut them down. Entirely in advance, so that was
a smart move. Hopefully they'll be able to get those
travel networks back online. But that's it's going to be
a disruptive day again.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
And you talked about we're down to like one minute,
but you talked about there's no infrastructure for this, there's
no planning for this. Uh. And then there was I
had one dear friend, Blair Coleman, who is in River Ridge,
uh in Jefferson, and you know they lost power to boot.
I mean, but I would think most people are off
the roads.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
I would hope, right. I mean, that has been the advice.
We knew this was coming. It's a little bit heavier
I think snow fall than they had expected by a
couple of inches. But you know, everyone was aware that
this storm was coming. It's also tough if you're a
first responder. I mean trying to drive a fire truck
or drive an ambulance and the roads aren't plowed. It's
seven to eight inches of snow, and so that's a dangerous,

(02:56):
dangerous job.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
All right, roy O'Neil, he'll be back again, uh later
in the half hour, next half hour, We're gonna talk
a little bit about the large scale deportation beginning.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Miss a little, miss a lot, Miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your Morning show with Michael del
Cherno