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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's ob D saying about that?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Right now, we're sitting at right around nine ninety three
hundred overall and about eighty seven hundred in Douglas County
of those who are still without power at this time.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Okay, so they did get it under ten thousand, which
I know was the goal. What about I don't know. Like,
let's say you live in a house in an older neighborhood.
Can you see on the map kind of where the
majority of these are.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I can. Yeah, it's mostly in It's mostly in North Omaha.
You're looking at areas of Benson here, Fontenell Park area,
mostly concentrated there. You're talking about, as they talked about
with the electricity grid, you know, older neighborhoods, older neighborhoods
with electricity lines that are above ground and bigger trees
(00:50):
that potentially could be hazardous if knocked over to transformers
or to the lines themselves. Look, if you're in one
of these spots and this happens, how are you to
want to move, like to get out, to go somewhere else,
to decide to sell your house and move somewhere else.
And that's a lot to ask for many people who
may not have that option. But I mean, I, given
(01:13):
the rarity of an event like this, what's the likelihood
it'll ever happen again? Yeah? Pragmatically, you know when is
this going to happen again? It could, but it's relatively unlikely.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, I suppose. Does that change how your viewpoint and
a lot of this stuff, I guess, Or do you
really feel like in your heart of hearts, like I
never want to do this again and I would like
to repair, replace, put this on the market before anybody
else gets any ideas that this is something that could
happen to them. Or do you have to wait long
enough for people to forget right because they'll be like,
(01:44):
it wasn't this one of the neighborhoods that had like
a major power outage for over a week.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It just and it impacts people so differently. It depends
on you know, your age and what you need and
your ability to What about your fridge, dude, Like, what
if you're a family that you know really goes out
of your way to stock up and cook from home,
and you probably had like a couple weeks worth of
groceries at least, and all of a sudden your fridge
(02:11):
wouldn't work anymore. I mean, do you have friends you
can call that have power and you could just take
a cooler over and load up their fridge and maybe
like bunk with them or something. That would be my
first thought. I'm not letting all this food go to waste.
Do you have a reliable car that can get you
to the library so that you can charge your phone
or do whatever you need to do with electricity? I
mean I didn't even think about that. Charging your phone? Yeah,
(02:33):
now I do that every day at work. You see
me here and throw on my phone always. It's an
old phone, so I carry my charger around, but most
people probably is just like when I go to bed,
I charge it, you know what I mean? So I
don't know, man, I would call somebody and just like
ask if I can move in. Now it's a little
bit more complicated than that because I have two dogs
(02:53):
and a wife. Also, you know, having just one guy
versus having two people and two large animals probably would
make it a little more difficult for that to happen.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And I also don't know, you know, you want to
know something else. I don't mind it being hot, like
I'm sure my wife would be just absolutely miserable if
it was eighty degrees in the house the whole time
and we just had to like roll with the windows open,
but you couldn't turn a fan on, you couldn't have
air conditioner, the central air is not working properly, Like,
what do you do in that scenario? Right? For me,
I think I'd be okay. I'd be probably pretty hot,
but I think i'd be okay. I'd be able to
(03:24):
make it work. Every other aspect of this, I don't
think I could kind of like a I like sweating.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I don't mind it either, you know, on a day
like today, though, it's a lot easier to get through
the day without power. I would think just temperature wise,
because if you're locked in your house and it's one
hundred degrees outside, it's going to be even hotter inside
and there's no air moving at all.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, I mean, if you have all your windows open,
there's some ventilation at least, I mean, the air at
least movement. It's not moving that much, but it's at
least moving, right, I don't know a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah. Anyway, so we're looking at nine thousand or so
people still yep, and we still have today and tomorrow
to get your stuff out to the curb, out to
the city strip. Right this the city strip where they're
going to pick up stuff starting Thursday morning at seven
am around Omaha for your tree debris. So if you
(04:15):
haven't done that yet, do it. I'm doing that tonight.
Guess what I'm doing. I'm going to do a little
mo action because who knows how long that's going to
be sitting on my city strip because they said it
could take three four weeks to get to everybody in town, right,
so you can't make any assumptions that that thing is
going to be disappearing from the front of your house
anytime relatively soon. If you want to make sure it's
gone forever and you got a vehicle equipped to do that,
(04:38):
there are still five locations that you could go to
to drop these tree debris off if you have the
ability to do so. And those five locations are Levi
Carter Park that is forty four oh five Carter Lakeshore Drive.
They want you to enter from Abbott Drive and exit
toward thirteenth Street, Alvy's Park which is sixty five six
(05:00):
South sixtieth Street north of Harrison Street. That is those
are two that they said still have a lot of
space that if you want the easiest access and plenty
of space for that, you can take your tree debris
to Levey Carter Park in Alva's Park and that'll be
really easy to do. Also three other locations Heflinger Park
(05:20):
at one twelfth in Maple Greenbrier Park at twenty six
to oh one two zero six to Soho one Park Road.
I think that's probably the way I should say that,
Greenbrier Park and also a football field located at f
Street and one hundred and fifty sixth Those are green debris.
So anything from your bushes, your trees that fell off
and it's in your yard and you want to get
(05:42):
rid of it, do that, but don't take a lawn back.
Just if you got a truck, you got all this
other stuff, you pick it up, you grab it, and
you toss it into your truck and you drive it
over there. And that's what you can do. That is
going to continue through next Wednesday, every day seven am
to seven pm. But keep in mind if you can't
do that, they will be picking up blonde debris starting
(06:04):
Thursday at seven am at various points throughout Almaha. For
the next several weeks. You just have to have your
tree debris on the city strip between your sidewalk and
the street. Are we good?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Everybody get that?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
All right?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yoh? Any questions, shoot me an email. I'll try to
help you out. If you want to call us, you
also can do that too. Four h two five, five,
eight eleven ten. Brian's on the line. Hello, Brian, what's
on your mind?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Hey? So, I was just listening to you say that
you'd be okay in the heat, and that's exactly how
I was until day number five, and like, we go
camping a lot. I know you like camping. So day
number one I was like, cool, yeah, all right, no
no power. Day number two, I'm like, ah, weekend camping trips.
(06:47):
When we got that day number four, I was like, oh,
come on, it's ridiculous now. So you end up going
five six days and yeah, you try to open the window,
but then you can't decide should I open the window
or keep them closed because there's a zero mile an
hour wind also, and it's ninety five degrees outside. So yeah, no,
I get you. I get you. It's easy to say,
(07:08):
like I know a lot of this neighborhood that I'm
in the Exarvant area, and a lot of the people
had power like twelve hours later.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, we weren't there. We weren't there, Brian. But our
neighbors said our block turned back on like overnight on
on that Thursday. So we were very lucky, right, you.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Really were, like my neighbor, I'm looking at my neighbor's
house right now and they're like, oh, it should be
back on my Wednesday of this week. But yeah, I know.
So Like even me, I was like, no problem, we
got candles, we got you know, we'll just grill our food.
No problem. But after like five days, you feel it,
You feel it all right?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Fair enough, fair enough, Brian. I guess I don't have
enough experience too, especially the kind of heat that we
were having here over the weekend that probably would have
made that a lot worse. But I appreciate you calling
in and making sure that I I knew to put
it in perspective that it's not a one day thing.
He didn't sign up for the week. But you know what,
after a while, it does wear you out. I appreciate
(08:08):
the call.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
We love camping. We love camping absolutely. Two days cool yeah,
all right, man, have a good day.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, see it, thank you, all right, three forty eight,
we'll wrap up this hour. How you know we haven't
done in a while. We haven't given away an F
in a while. Let's do you get an F next?
On news Radio eleven ten KFAB and
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Maurice Soner on News Radio eleven ten KFAB
What's ob D saying about that?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Right now, we're sitting at right around nine ninety three
hundred overall and about eighty seven hundred in Douglas County
of those who are still without power at this time.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Okay, so they did get it under ten thousand, which
I know was the goal. What about I don't know. Like,
let's say you live in a house in an older neighborhood.
Can you see on the map kind of where the
majority of these are.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I can. Yeah, it's mostly in It's mostly in North Omaha.
You're looking at areas of Benson here, Fontenell Park area,
mostly concentrated there. You're talking about, as they talked about
with the electricity grid, you know, older neighborhoods, older neighborhoods
with electricity lines that are above ground and bigger trees
(00:50):
that potentially could be hazardous if knocked over to transformers
or to the lines themselves. Look, if you're in one
of these spots and this happens, how are you to
want to move, like to get out, to go somewhere else,
to decide to sell your house and move somewhere else.
And that's a lot to ask for many people who
may not have that option. But I mean, I, given
(01:13):
the rarity of an event like this, what's the likelihood
it'll ever happen again? Yeah? Pragmatically, you know when is
this going to happen again? It could, but it's relatively unlikely.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, I suppose. Does that change how your viewpoint and
a lot of this stuff, I guess, Or do you
really feel like in your heart of hearts, like I
never want to do this again and I would like
to repair, replace, put this on the market before anybody
else gets any ideas that this is something that could
happen to them. Or do you have to wait long
enough for people to forget right because they'll be like,
(01:44):
it wasn't this one of the neighborhoods that had like
a major power outage for over a week.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It just and it impacts people so differently. It depends
on you know, your age and what you need and
your ability to What about your fridge, dude, Like, what
if you're a family that you know really goes out
of your way to stock up and cook from home,
and you probably had like a couple weeks worth of
groceries at least, and all of a sudden your fridge
(02:11):
wouldn't work anymore. I mean, do you have friends you
can call that have power and you could just take
a cooler over and load up their fridge and maybe
like bunk with them or something. That would be my
first thought. I'm not letting all this food go to waste.
Do you have a reliable car that can get you
to the library so that you can charge your phone
or do whatever you need to do with electricity? I
mean I didn't even think about that. Charging your phone? Yeah,
(02:33):
now I do that every day at work. You see
me here and throw on my phone always. It's an
old phone, so I carry my charger around, but most
people probably is just like when I go to bed,
I charge it, you know what I mean? So I
don't know, man, I would call somebody and just like
ask if I can move in. Now it's a little
bit more complicated than that because I have two dogs
(02:53):
and a wife. Also, you know, having just one guy
versus having two people and two large animals probably would
make it a little more difficult for that to happen.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And I also don't know, you know, you want to
know something else. I don't mind it being hot, like
I'm sure my wife would be just absolutely miserable if
it was eighty degrees in the house the whole time
and we just had to like roll with the windows open,
but you couldn't turn a fan on, you couldn't have
air conditioner, the central air is not working properly, Like,
what do you do in that scenario? Right? For me,
I think I'd be okay. I'd be probably pretty hot,
but I think i'd be okay. I'd be able to
(03:24):
make it work. Every other aspect of this, I don't
think I could kind of like a I like sweating.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I don't mind it either, you know, on a day
like today, though, it's a lot easier to get through
the day without power. I would think just temperature wise,
because if you're locked in your house and it's one
hundred degrees outside, it's going to be even hotter inside
and there's no air moving at all.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, I mean, if you have all your windows open,
there's some ventilation at least, I mean, the air at
least movement. It's not moving that much, but it's at
least moving, right, I don't know a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah. Anyway, so we're looking at nine thousand or so
people still yep, and we still have today and tomorrow
to get your stuff out to the curb, out to
the city strip. Right this the city strip where they're
going to pick up stuff starting Thursday morning at seven
am around Omaha for your tree debris. So if you
(04:15):
haven't done that yet, do it. I'm doing that tonight.
Guess what I'm doing. I'm going to do a little
mo action because who knows how long that's going to
be sitting on my city strip because they said it
could take three four weeks to get to everybody in town, right,
so you can't make any assumptions that that thing is
going to be disappearing from the front of your house
anytime relatively soon. If you want to make sure it's
gone forever and you got a vehicle equipped to do that,
(04:38):
there are still five locations that you could go to
to drop these tree debris off if you have the
ability to do so. And those five locations are Levi
Carter Park that is forty four oh five Carter Lakeshore Drive.
They want you to enter from Abbott Drive and exit
toward thirteenth Street, Alvy's Park which is sixty five six
(05:00):
South sixtieth Street north of Harrison Street. That is those
are two that they said still have a lot of
space that if you want the easiest access and plenty
of space for that, you can take your tree debris
to Levey Carter Park in Alva's Park and that'll be
really easy to do. Also three other locations Heflinger Park
(05:20):
at one twelfth in Maple Greenbrier Park at twenty six
to oh one two zero six to Soho one Park Road.
I think that's probably the way I should say that,
Greenbrier Park and also a football field located at f
Street and one hundred and fifty sixth Those are green debris.
So anything from your bushes, your trees that fell off
and it's in your yard and you want to get
(05:42):
rid of it, do that, but don't take a lawn back.
Just if you got a truck, you got all this
other stuff, you pick it up, you grab it, and
you toss it into your truck and you drive it
over there. And that's what you can do. That is
going to continue through next Wednesday, every day seven am
to seven pm. But keep in mind if you can't
do that, they will be picking up blonde debris starting
(06:04):
Thursday at seven am at various points throughout Almaha. For
the next several weeks. You just have to have your
tree debris on the city strip between your sidewalk and
the street. Are we good?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Everybody get that?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
All right?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yoh? Any questions, shoot me an email. I'll try to
help you out. If you want to call us, you
also can do that too. Four h two five, five,
eight eleven ten. Brian's on the line. Hello, Brian, what's
on your mind?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Hey? So, I was just listening to you say that
you'd be okay in the heat, and that's exactly how
I was until day number five, and like, we go
camping a lot. I know you like camping. So day
number one I was like, cool, yeah, all right, no
no power. Day number two, I'm like, ah, weekend camping trips.
(06:47):
When we got that day number four, I was like, oh,
come on, it's ridiculous now. So you end up going
five six days and yeah, you try to open the window,
but then you can't decide should I open the window
or keep them closed because there's a zero mile an
hour wind also, and it's ninety five degrees outside. So yeah, no,
I get you. I get you. It's easy to say,
(07:08):
like I know a lot of this neighborhood that I'm
in the Exarvant area, and a lot of the people
had power like twelve hours later.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, we weren't there. We weren't there, Brian. But our
neighbors said our block turned back on like overnight on
on that Thursday. So we were very lucky, right, you.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Really were, like my neighbor, I'm looking at my neighbor's
house right now and they're like, oh, it should be
back on my Wednesday of this week. But yeah, I know.
So Like even me, I was like, no problem, we
got candles, we got you know, we'll just grill our food.
No problem. But after like five days, you feel it,
You feel it all right?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Fair enough, fair enough, Brian. I guess I don't have
enough experience too, especially the kind of heat that we
were having here over the weekend that probably would have
made that a lot worse. But I appreciate you calling
in and making sure that I I knew to put
it in perspective that it's not a one day thing.
He didn't sign up for the week. But you know what,
after a while, it does wear you out. I appreciate
(08:08):
the call.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
We love camping. We love camping absolutely. Two days cool yeah,
all right, man, have a good day.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, see it, thank you, all right, three forty eight,
we'll wrap up this hour. How you know we haven't
done in a while. We haven't given away an F
in a while. Let's do you get an F next?
On news Radio eleven ten KFAB and
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Maurice Soner on News Radio eleven ten KFAB
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