Clean Up, Rebuild, and Move Forward

Easier said than done, but that's exactly what's being done in neighborhoods and towns across the area following Friday's storms.

Episode Transcript

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Scott Vordies Friday evening. I'm severalhours away as I was gone on Thursday
and Friday, thanks to Glenn Beckfor filling in and listened to nearly four
hours of coverage here on news Radioeleven ten KFAB and listened to every single

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minute of it. I will notethat there was a couple minutes of it
I didn't get a chance to listento. And we've got some criticism from
some people saying, we've got tornadoeshere in the area, and you guys
went to commercial if you were listeningto this radio station as I was via
iHeartRadio, the power went out inthe studio, which triggered a commercial break

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that was only heard to those listeningon the iHeartRadio app. And it happened
for I don't know a minute,two minutes, It felt like an hour.
I was like, wait, whathappened? We didn't go to commercial?
Of course we didn't, and sothat's what happened there. And listening
to all of the coverage, wonderingwhat was going to be left of my

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hometown, feeling horrible for the peoplewho'd lost homes. It's amazing to see
the foundation of a home strong andeverything on top of it just crumpled up
like matchsticks. And everything on topof it is more than a roof and

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some shingles and chimney and the frameof the home. It's what you'd specifically
put on the hearth, over thatfireplace. It's the pictures on the wall,
it's family heirlooms, it's the carpetthat you picked out together, curtains,

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it's uh, you know, hey, you know, I know you've
been complaining about this dishwasher leaving spotsall over the glasses and it wasn't running
like it used to. Well,I just while you were gone today,
I went out and bought and installeda brand new dishwasher. You know,
it's it's it's more than an appliance. It's it means something. This is

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your home and it's all just crumpledup on top of each other like someone
had just dumped a bunch of matchesout, And it's right there on the
your solid foundation, hopefully, andunderneath all that, we're people were our
friends and neighbors. Here. Somewere able to climb out, and sky

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was black as night in the middleof the afternoon. Some had to be
rescued by first responders, some ofthe neighbors that just kind of went from
door to door, anyone in thereyou need any help? Just yelling at
each other. As I noted ina Facebook post on Friday, you know

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one more thing I love about thisarea. And thankfully we're not the only
part of the country that feels thisway. But it's We've seen it time
and time again, whether it's tornadoes, whether it's floods, whether it's blizzards,
when people need help, no one'srolling up with trucks and chainsaws or

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helping hand or boots on, sayingbefore we ask if anyone needs help in
there, I'm curious as to forwhom you voted in the last presidential election.
I'm especially curious about who you're goingto vote for this November, maybe
even in the primary, Like I'ma Republican, Oh yeah, who you're
voting for in the primary Nebraska's seconddistrict. No one asked these questions.

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They just go out and help.So we had this amazing and horrific event
here across the area from Waverley toElkhorn to Bennington to Blair to mend in
Iowa where for this round of stormson Friday, was where we lost one

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person, which is of course unfortunate. That person guy in Minden, Iowa,
named Nicholas. He was freed fromthe from his home on Friday evening,

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was unconscious at the time, takento the hospital, and he died
at Nebraska Medicine and Omaha on Saturdaynight. Considering, I mean, that's
I don't mean to minimize. Whenyou look at mint in Iowa, about
a hundred or so homes in thatcommunity was six hundred people. I think

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half the town was pretty well destroyed. Three injuries and a mister Nicholas Ring
is the lone fatality in these stormsas of now, and I think that
we have a pretty good handle onit. All of this happens throughout the

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day on Friday. We live outin northwest Omaha, as does Lucy Chapman,
and me being several hours away,of course I felt helpless. My
kid was still one of my kidswas still at school. My daughter a
high school student old enough to drive. She was able to get home before

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the storm really hit, and soshe and my wife are at home and
my son was at school, andthen they let him in his I don't
know who was in charge of whatBut they went over to his friend's house,
who lives right next door to theschool, essentially, so I knew
that they I knew everyone was safe. What I didn't know was whether this

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track of storms was going to veerjust a mile or so to the east
and wipe out my neighborhood. SoI'm of course texting my wife and she
responded with the most and I'm soproud of her. She's a Kansas girl,
so certainly a Midwest attitude, butnot a native Nebraskan. But having

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moved her here kicking and screaming againsther will at the time, but having
moved her not totally, but there'sa lot of life change. When we
moved here about eighteen years ago,we had a baby on the way we
couldn't tell anyone about. We justhad our home down in Kansas City.

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We're trying to find a home herein Omaha, and she had to leave
her job that she was getting settledinto. I mean, it was it
was tough. So how do Iknow that eighteen years later she's become a
full fledged Nebraskan with Kansas roots.She still loves her Jayhawks. When I
finally heard back from her as thestorms were happening on Friday, I said,

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well, I got an alert thatthere was a tornado spotted at Flannagan
Lake. That's one hundred and sixtyeighth and Ford. We live in the
neighborhood just Caddy corner from one hundredand sixty eighth and Ford. Are you
okay? And she finally responds,after an anguishing amount of time, said

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yeah, we're fine, missed us. I was outside looking at it so
stupid and so utterly Nebraskan. Wasshe out there by herself? Oh?
No, there was a little partyof neighbors out there. You know who's
got the highest deck that we canlook over these trees and see what's going
on over here. And then afterabout four hours of watching this thing come

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from seward to Lincoln Waverley, travelup I eighty in some cases, cutting
right across the interstate, and fascinatingvideo that people got there, and then
moving on out past Tenant and mendIn Iowa. The time was seven o'clock

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on Friday night, and my wifesends me a message and says, I
know this is ridiculous to ask,but our son has a basketball game tonight
at nine o'clock in Bennington. They'renot still having the game, are they?

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Is there anything on the group chat? I got a special app.
I can go in there and seethe coach leave messages for the parents that
no one will ever read, butI do have it on my phone.
I was like, oh, yeah, we've got a group chat for my
son's basketball team. Basketball season.Isn't that done? Yes? This is

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spring slash summer basketball season. Becauseall my son wants to do is play
basketball. My son has dreams ofmaking it to the NBA, which are
adorable considering he's my son. Hehasn't learned about DNA or lineage yet in
school, so he still has thatdream. He has no backup plan.

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This is gonna be fun here ina few years. But I go on
the group chat and there was oneother parent who realizes this chat exists,
and she said, we still havinga basketball game tonight. The coach responds,
yeah, I think so. Italked to the tournament director and he
said, yep, we're having agame. So our game on Friday night

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Lucy was at nine pm Friday nightat Bennington Elementary School. Bennington was among
the communities that got damage from thetornado. This team is comprised of students
from all over the metro, butat least one player on this team had

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damage to his home, so hehis mom was like, is it okay
if we sit this one out?We just got hit by a tornado.
Coach is like, yeah, Iget he didn't say that. He said,
of course. So our game isat nine pm. The coach sends
a message at eight five and says, I'm here at the school. Neither

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team for the eight o'clock game showedup, you think, But the referees
are here and they said, well, we'll stick around if you guys are
going to play a game. Idon't and the coach, I don't know
how many plays going to show up. I don't know if the other team's
going to show up. Was therepower? There was power, But the

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parents were like, well all right, and the assembled a team. The
other team showed up. The refsare like, well, we're here play
a basketball game. They played abasketball game Friday night in Bennington. Well,
I suppose it's one way to kindof lift up the little spirit there
somewhere. Maybe yeah, you know, it's just further proof that life goes

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on, doesn't it, life goeson, and now we've got the possibility
of severe, strong and severe stormstomorrow afternoon coming in at about the same
time we're looking at two to fivesix o'clock for storms. Tornadoes are possible.

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This is just reporting from a meteorologicalsense more than twenty four hours out.
It could snow tomorrow. I meanthese things anything can happen. But
it does though show you know.They sometimes they're wrong about how severe a
storm might be, whether we'll getany rain, whether we'll get a tornado

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or anything like that. But Ithink what we can pretty much count on
all day tomorrow is even if itdoesn't rain, even we don't see storms
here in Alcorn, Bendington and Blairin Mendon, even if that doesn't happen,
it's gonna be another one of thosedays I think tomorrow where it's just
gonna be stupid windy, and itdoes produce a bit of a ticking clock,

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doesn't it. We got to getthis stuff cleaned up as well as
we can today because tomorrow we mighthave another storm or it's certainly going to
be windy. So these crews areworking really hard today. Again, if
you're interested in volunteering, called twoone one, and they will they'll direct

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you, Lucy where you you werein town. I got back in town
at midnight last night. I havenot had the opportunity, nor do I
feel like I need to, though, I absolutely feel like I need to
go out and take a look atthe neighborhoods that were damaged, and I

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you want to just because, likefor me and for everyone's different, I'd
feel like I want to go outand take a look, just because you
know, these are these are neighborhoodswe drive through. Uh, these are
these these are homes that look likeour homes. And just to empathize with,

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Wow, this this happened in aneighborhood not far from where I live.
This could be my neighborhood. Whatdoes this? What does this look
like? Just to get in thereand empathize and see what I could do
to help. I know a lotof people were tagged with like people are
just coming doing sight seeing. Well, a lot of those people wanted to
come and see what they could doto help on Friday night and throughout the

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day Saturday, and they were toldno, this road's closed, it's only
for neighborhood residents right now, andthey kept out some LOOKI lose, but
they also kept out some people thatwanted to help. Certainly, as I
mentioned, called two one one tosee how you can volunteer. The reason
why maybe I I wouldn't want togo do that is, you know,

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they're not zoo animals. As you'redriving. Have you ever gone to that
that drive through safari out in Ashland. You can stay in your car and
you drive around and you go,oh, look there's an animal, and
then your kid goes where I wentbehind the bushes. You missed it.
But there are other things you cansee out there. It's actually a very

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nice little animal sanctuary. Various Idon't know, bab boons and whales out
there running around. I'm not reallysure. I'm not much of an animal
guy. There's a whole flock ofstorks, a lot of whales out there,
a variety of whales. You gotyour blue whales, you got your

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nar walls, you got your spermwhale, killer, got your killer whale,
your orcas. They're thick out thereand native to Nebraska. A lot
of people don't know that. Andyou stay in your car and you can
drive around and look at those thingsand I always feel like the animals are
looking back at you, going,what is there something I can do for

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you? What am I supposed tolike dance for you? Like, oh,
here comes another car, hey,and they're doing a handbone or something
like that. You know, justkind of feels a little weird. It
does same with the zoo. That'swhy I don't want to go driving through
these neighborhoods. You're just driving throughand it was someone's out there going,
oh, here comes someone, maybethey're gonna help, and you're just driving

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through with your phone out just I'mjust documenting, just documenting this, just
video doing a little video evidence ofthis. Can you look sad? Uh?
This is gonna I'm gonna post thison my social media and get singles
and singles of likes. Can youlook really sad right now? Can you
tear your shirt a little bit toshow that you've been through it? Like

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they're not zoo animals. And soI think that some of these homeowners kind
of feel like that. Sometimes it'sjust a bunch of people just driving through
a neighborhood just going ooh ah,like they're looking at Christmas light. That's
why I don't want to go drivingthrough there. There's there's a couple of
reasons why you'd want to. II lived in Waterloo for about five years.

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It was the other side, althoughthe uh the wrong side of water
Yes, but I don't think thatthat uh the old town Waterloo. I
don't think that they got a lotof damage. I think it was mostly
a river side. I don't knowthat for sure, Okay, but because
I know Sycamore Farms got it.So so that is on the north side.

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They're going to have junk junk thisweekend. It's on. So I
understand you wanting to kind of golook at some of the areas you might
know. But at the same time, I I don't want to see it
because it was way too close forcomfort. My in laws are at two
hundred and second in Blondo, andI was on the phone with her the

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whole time that was rightening. They'refine, Yeah, were you were you
writing it out in the basement?Absolutely? I shared so many of my
thoughts about Friday. I wasn't evenhere. I want to hear from you.
You're you're talking to your in laws. They're right there in the path

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of it. You're not far fromit. Out there in West Omaha.
How are you feeling today? Well, I don't know that you can really
say. I there's just a rangeof emotions. There was part of me
that, as you've heard from meover the weekend, that I felt terrible
that I wasn't here. But thiscame up so fast that it just didn't

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make sense for it. And Iknew that there was a lot of people
here in the studio helping with Yeah, on Friday, now there was we
we had our team assembled. Iwill say, just from a a work
standpoint, I'm glad we had anall hands on deck because we were I
mean, we people here, Emeryand Matt, Craig and Terry, we're

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all here, and you know,these things happen in the middle of the
night and we don't have anyone here, so we got to get people here.
So yeah, so I felt badabout that. But then watching those
storms form on TV, they're justthey're alive, and you're watching this,
you're and you think you're watching amovie because you just your brain can't say

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this is actually happening. A tornadoor a tornado that massive and that wide
is three miles from me, fivemiles from me, whatever, right now,
And do you feel that way becausewe've been we've been lulled to sleep
here in Omaha. Yes, we'vehad tornadoes. We've had big tornadoes around

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us. We've had some damage fromsome tw stirs around us. We had
Bellevue Platte View areas get hit afew years back. It wasn't a neighborhood
wiped out. We had that weirdlittle spinner come up middle of the night

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and Millard near one hundred and thirtysecond in Q notably, that was probably
over a decade ago now. Butyeah, but we've had this the straight
line wind events, which that wasn'tlike a neighborhood here or there, that
was the whole town. And we'vehad not just the straight line wind the

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ratios, but some of these thathave come with hail. I mean,
it doesn't matter if it's a tornadoor one hundred mile per hour winds with
small hail, you just get shelled. You're just absolutely shredded by these storms.
So yeah, we've had our shareof damage. And certainly the floods

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is a problem all and of itself. We've had a couple of five hundred
to thousand year floods within the spanof just a few years from each other.
Might want to reclassify the phrasing ofhow we you know what we call
these things? But in Omaha's recenthistory, it was nineteen seventy five and

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then nothing. I mean, whathappened here in May of nineteen seventy five
where you had a tornado like itwas here for the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting,
just trapesing about town like I'm gonnastart over here in Millard and I'm

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gonna go see what's going on inRalston, and then I'm just gonna head
down to your like seventy second andDodge area. I'm gonna go up and
see what's going on in the KeystoneBenson areas of town. And that the
tornado was like a house guest thatjust wouldn't leave, Like get the hint.
Everyone else has left. No onestays this long. This giant tornado

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in early May of nineteen seventy fivejust ripped diagonally through our town. And
we've this has been covered so manytimes in so many different angles. I've
talked about how my baby book,the Photo Album, is a bunch of

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adorable pictures of me as a baby. But in the pages leading up to
it, because I wouldn't come foranother year or so, all the pictures
leading up to it is the tornado. So you have this, This just
pictures of devastation and before that tornadopictures. I'm kidding, I was going

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to leave it alone. But yeah, that's you. It was just it
was cars on top of each other. The bank where my mom worked,
at the Rawlston Bank there at eightyfourth and L which had its roof carefully
removed by the twister that day anddeposited somewhere in the vicinity of Grandmother's restaurant.

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Kids ask your parents about these landmarks. But so it's just all these
pictures of all of this and thenme and so as I grow up,
these are the pictures I would lookat, Wait, are anything chosen one?
Then out of all that destruction,I didn't come a week later.
It was like a year and ahalf later. But they didn't take a

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lot of pictures. It was hardwork to take pictures back then. You
had to go get them developed,you had to buy film. You had
to be really certain do I wantto waste money on this image. You
wouldn't just just take pictures of everything. You had to like, this is
something we want, because then wegot to get developed. Then I got
to find room for it in ascrap book someplace. It was a lot

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of work, so they didn't takea lot of pictures at that time.
So I grew up. Scott isa point to the story, Not usually,
but if there is one, it'sthis. I grew up waiting for

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another giant tornado to come rip onMaha in half, because that's what I
knew as a kid. We hadthis giant storm in seventy five, and
every time that the wind would kickedup, or the sirens would go off
or there was a tornado watch,I just thought, well, here we
go. I spent all that timelike under a blanket, under a workbench

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in our basement as a kid,thinking this is the day. And I
never felt real comfortable in my basementbecause yeah it was. It was a
subterranean kinda split level house where yourfoundation is underground, but it's not like
way underground. It's you know,the garage goes into the basement. So

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depending on how the tornado hits,I always thought, this thing's going to
come through the garage. It's goingto knock on the door going into the
basement and then it's just come barrelingin there, and like all my Gi
Joe stuff and me are going tobe scattered all over humanity. These are
my constant thoughts as a kid,and nothing ever happened. What I wouldn't
say nothing. I can remember theyou were born in seventy six, all

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of seventy six, sure, becausethere were I know there were tornadoes in
seventy six as well. I obviouslyas I had an all or nothing tornado
ripping Omaha a new one, andI thought every spring, this is the
year. And then you grow up, you go through at all. You

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spend several years not thinking about tornadoes. You're pretty much just thinking about chicks,
man, repeat, it kicks me, thank you. But every once
in a while you think, oh, yeah, tornadoes, there's going to
be and then you think about itdifferent. You think, if there's a
tornado this year, I want tobe near a girl so I can help

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rescue her. But you're still kindof thinking about it, and then here
we are just nothing. Oh,I know where you're going with this now,
since you said you needed to rescuea girl. Yeah, I know
where you're going, I don't knowwhere I'm going with this? Where am
I going? It finally gets andyou're not here. No, I hadn't

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thought about that. No, Ihadn't thought about that. I just thought
that this was just part of whatwas going to be Omaha's normal. Every
once in a while, a tornadojust tears us in half. And from
nineteen seventy five twenty twenty four,we had some damage, certainly, but

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not like this. And I meanwe weren't torn in half, but it's
certainly cut a horrible swath across ourwestern northwestern edge, tore Mendon in half,
mind in Iowa. And you know, we talked about this this winter.

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By the way, do you rememberthis, not sure? The snowstorm
we had in January, the backto back blasts of snowstorm. Yes,
some people said, this reminds meof that winter snowstorm in nineteen seventy five.
Oh, it was about the sametime, early January, I think,
And it was a whole bunch ofsnow. I think that caught us

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in not only a couple of differenttimes over the span of two or three
days, but also it is oneof those things where it wasn't originally forecast
to be a foot of snow.It was a dusting to a couple of
inches, and we just got hammered. And I had a number of people
contact us and say, yeah,this is like that snowstorm in seventy five,

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and we talked about on the radio, said, I hope that doesn't
mean that this weather pattern setting upfor the next few months is setting up
like seventy five, because that wasthe tornado. Well did I don't remember
this, and I know you don't, but I wonder if the tornadoes continued

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after that May tornado in seventy fivefor that year. I'm hoping they didn't.
I'm hoping that this was a oncein every thirty forty year event.
Almost fifty it's almost fifty years,yeah, just about Yeah. I hope
it's just a once every almost fiftyyear event. And maybe tomorrow will be

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just your garden variety thunderstorm. That'dbe fine. It's fine for those who
didn't have damage. If you haddamage, you're like, I can't have
another rain event. But at thispoint, I mean, do you care.
You know, I'm not saying Iwant it to rain. I'm saying
I don't want it to no.I know, there's a difference between widespread

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damage and if you've already had atornado, pick apart your roof and you're
sitting there in your kitchen, You'relooking up and seeing a bright blue sky
and thinking, well, it's goingto rain tomorrow. Go ahead, Hey
what what at this point? Whatwhat? What? Now? You know?
But there's another component to this forthese Have you seen the drone images

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going over these neighborhoods. There's aphenomenon that always happens anytime there's a tornado.
Do you know what it is?Is you look at the damage.
If you've seen the drone over variouswhether it's it's Elkhorn, Waterloo, Bennington,
Blair mind in Iowa. It seemslike this always happens, whether it's

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in a home or a business thatwas heavily damaged, or a neighborhood.
Do you know what I'm talking about. I don't. It's there's always something
that is just completely untouched. Likeyou've got three homes in a row.
Tornado comes and says this one needsto be completely leveled and that one,

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but this one in the middle,I'm not gonna touch it. And it's
just like bang bang and just jumpsover or like all these homes. And
in the middle of all of it, there's one home where there's like literally
a guy out watering his plants today. He's just looking at his neighbors whose

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homes are complete rubble and his home'sfine paint didn't even get stripped off,
like the everything completely. It's likesomeone just built the house today and just
put it there. And this guy'sout there watering his lawn and you know,
watering his flowers looking at his neighborsgoing tough deal, guys, Hey,

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let me know if I can helpwith anything. I don't think that
happens in Nebraska attitude, right,obviously that's not it. But you know,
I bet from the neighbors whose homesor piles of matchsticks, it probably
kind of feels like that. You'relike, how is that guy's home not
even touched? And honestly, justsincerely put yourself in the shoes of that

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homeowner. It must be awful seeingyour neighbors. You know, this is
twenty twenty four, so many ofus don't have any idea who these people
are are next door neighbors. It'sa little different than it used to be
not in every neighborhood, but you'reseeing your neighbors in utter devastation and your

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house is spared, and that's gotto feel terrible, doesn't it. And
how would you feel you didn't evenlose a shingle. These guys lost their
whole house. How would you feelit? Just be It's not the same

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as survivor's guilt. I'm not goingto compare this towards being in military or
you know, other tragic circumstance,but it's the same kind of premise.
And it's like, boy do Ifeel I mean, I'm on one hand,
I'm thrilled my house is fine.On the other hand, jeez,

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look at this. So we've gota lot of emails that have come in
this hour that I have not completelyneglected. We're going to get some of
your thoughts. Do you know wehave a team of people here who assemble
when there's a storm. They goto that area, not for nefarious purposes.

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They go there with barbecue. It'san Operation Barbecue group to feed victims
and volunteers. And we welcome onhere. Their government programs manager Skeeter Stone
is here on news radio eleven tenKFAB Skeeter Scooter, good morning, Hey,
good morning. Thanks for having me. As someone who grew up with

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the name Scott, often being calledScooter, it's good to talk to a
Skeeter Scooter. It's a it's apleasure here. So tell me about Operation
Barbecue Relief. So Operation Barbecue Reliefwe try to go to communities that have
been devastated, whether it be floods, tornadoes, any inclement weather where we've
got displaced personnel, displaced community membersand the first responders responding to that disaster

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as well. What we do iswe want to feed those folks. Whether
you were your house was leveled,you got partial damage, or you know
your neighbor that they could use ahot meal. Sometimes when you're going through
that disaster and trying to pick upthe pieces, food is the last thing
on your mind, or maybe youdon't even have the ability to cook in
your home anymore. And that's wherewe come in. So we want to

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come to the community. We're cookingthroughout the week, and we excited to
do a good assessment to make surethat we're saying as long as the community
needs us, getting out that onehot meal that matters and feeding the community.
Today, We're going to be atthe local Walmart here in Omaha and
also in Blair serving food today fromeleven until we run out for lunch and

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five pm until we run out fordinner. And if you could use a
hot meal, swing by there,If your neighbors could use a hot meal,
absolutely no costs. We love tofeed you and send you with some
for the folks that may need wanttomorrow as well. We have several Walmarts.
What Walmart in Omaha do we know? So we're going to be on
the one closest to Porky Butts Barbecue. I believe it's one hundred and sixty

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eighth and Mapel that's correct, I'mmap and also the Walmart and Blair,
yes, sir, And that isfrom win to win from eleven am today
until we run out for lunch,and then five pm today until we run
out for dinner. All right,And we we do want to reserve this
for people who have actually been victimsof this. But do you also you

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go into the neighborhoods in many instancesand you're feeding victims as well as volunteers
and first responders. You just whatdo you come in there with a smoker
and just start throwing ribs at people, or how does it work? So
we do. We work with alot of great sponsors and we've got some
you know, the menu changes everyday. It might be pulled pork today,

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pork going tomorrow, brisket the nextday, and so our minus will
be posted at OPR dot org everyevery day. We're on our Facebook page.
You to follow that as well.Operation Barbecue Relief and you'll see where
we're serving each day and what themenu will be. Ob R dot org
is an opera Barbecue Relief talking herewith Skeeter Skeeter Stone of Operation Barbecue Relief.

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When you come into a community thathas been hit by a natural disaster,
and you've got medical personnel, firstresponders, you've got volunteers, you
got people like from the Salvation Armyand the Red Cross, and of course
you got these homeowners just looking atthe pile that used to be where their
house proudly stood, and you comein there and go, hey, do

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you need a barbecue pork sandwich?What do you What do you hear from
the people who are in there,like, you know what, I didn't
know I needed a barbecue pork sandwich. But now absolutely I do. And
that's exactly right, Scott. Wesee that over and over again. Sometimes
the community members are hesitant. Somebodyelse's house might have been worse off than

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mine. But a lot of timesone of the great things that just captures
your heart with OBR is you goto give them that one hot meal and
maybe they need a hug, maybethey need a smile. Has been turned
upside down and there's nothing better thana good meal, uh to get you
a good one to to keep youphysically going, but also mostly going.
That comfort food, the smile,the story sharing. It's great to interact

(37:15):
with the community and see the needsand be able to provide at least uh.
I can't come back in and rebuildyour house for it, that's not
what we do. But we canbring a smoker and a lot of equipment
to town and and Fijia and it'sit's really neat hearing everyone's stories and seeing
the community help themselves and and andshare their their the victory that you can
have the small victories or something likethis, and it's it's nice to see.

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And of course, you know,being here in the Omaha Blair area,
you're not gonna have anyone show upand go. That's all finding good.
Do you have any vegetarian options aroundhere? We're carnivores, that's right,
and and you know, and that'sa great point. We do try
to diversify some meals as we aswe go through our menus, but most

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of if you're looking for a goodhot plate of barbecue and a comfort meal,
who's got you covered. Yeah,don't bother with some of the vegetarian
options. You're just going to throwthem out. It's just all gonna be
wasted. Skeeter, I love whatyou guys are doing, and you accept
volunteers to assist with all of this, Yeah, we do. You know
today the community just responded in drones. We've got ten volunteers that showed up

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at our cook site this morning.We got another ten coming at two.
And if you're interested, maybe maybeyou want you weren't affected and maybe you
just want to help out, oror the donation side isn't monetary, isn't
best for you right now? Maybevolunteer in your time a little bit.
You can jump on the website atOBR dot org and check that out and
volunteer. There's no obligation and inthe future, because we responded disasters all

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over we hope that nothing happens inthe Omaha area in the near future.
But you know, if you're resturedas a volunteer, we could send out
a notification to let you know thatwe're responding near you, and then you
have the ability to accept and comehelp or as your schedule fits. Yeah,
this is a really great organization.Thank you so much for coming here

(39:07):
to Omaha and doing this. Andyou're serving today at the Walmart located near
one hundred and sixty eighth in Mapleas well as the Walmart in Blair.
I don't know exactly what road thatis. It's the only Walmart and Blair
is you're coming into Blair from thesouth, that's up on the hill on
the right. We all know wherethat is. If you're in the Blair

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community and you're going to start ateleven o'clock and go until your run out
of food, I hope you haveplenty of food. There's a lot of
people who would be very happy totake advantage of this. Skeeter. Yes,
we do, and we're gonna behere as long as the community needs
us. And we appreciate it.You having us, and we look forward
to helping as many people as wecan and give them that one hot meal
of matter. Thanks a lot fordoing that. Skeeterstone, government programs manager

(39:50):
with Operation Barbecue Relief online at OBRdot org. Skeeter good talking to you.
Thanks a lot for doing this.Thank you, sir, appreciate it
absolutely. Here on news radio eleventen kfab back here to the Zonker's custom
was inbox Scott for he's here withLucy Chapman. Thanks for being with us.
On news radio eleven ten kfab Imentioned about how if you've seen whether

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firsthand or you've seen the images thedrone flyovers of some of the areas hit
by the storms on Friday, inevery single one of these instances, you've
got like three homes in a rowin some instances where the homes on either
side are completely leveled, and thenthere's a home right there in the middle
that completely untouched like the tornado liketurned around and said, oh shoot,

(40:39):
I missed one. I'm not goingback, you know. And to be
that homeowner, on one hand,you're like great. On the other hand,
you've got to feel terrible because ofwhat your neighbors are going through and
I said, this happens every time. Jeez. Now I can't remember exactly
what it was. I want tosay it was when my mom was there

(41:02):
at the Ralston Bank eighty fourth andL in the nineteen seventy five tornado that
just split Almah into and some ofthe worst of that devastation was right there
at eighty fourth and L the RalstonBank, Grandmother's restaurant. My mom was
in the bank at the time,and as people were just running for cover,

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trying to find someplace, of course, she's my mom. She's going
into the vaults and save deposit boxesand just pocketing everything she can, just
shoving money in her purse and likedown in the front of her shirt and
all that stuff. I'm just kidding. So she's down there hiding in the

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lower level with everyone else and theycome up and there's just roof and desks,
papers everywhere, but right in themiddle of the bank as you walked
into the Ralston Bank, the receptionistdesk was right there in the middle,
and I think it was like rightthere on the front of it was like

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a stack of papers or a ketchupbottle. I mean, there was something
there that should have been blown around, like everything else completely untouched, just
a stack of papers or something thatdidn't even move. Has that phenomena ever
been studied? I don't know.I got another example of it here in

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the email though, Luke emails andsays they say, when the tornado went
through Greensburg, Kansas, that wasa I forget. Like some of the
biggest tornadoes are like EF four orfive. This was like an EF twenty
seven. I mean, it wasjust that's a major exaggeration, but it

(42:55):
was a huge tornado that just tookout that town. And if you drive
through it now, it's beautiful becauseeverything's brand new. The whole town is
brand new. You go down thatroad in southern Kansas and you go town
to town and you're like, wow, this town looks like it's seen better

(43:15):
days, no offense. Then youcome up on like Greensburg and what is
it Pratt Kansas some of this area, and it's brand new. Of course
the residents would prefer that it notbe, you know. Anyway, they
said that when the tornado went throughGreensburg, Kansas, according to Luke,
leveled the whole town, wiped outthe John Deere equipment dealer leveled the building

(43:38):
through combines and tractors around like therewere toys. Took a John Deere gator
side by side out of the showroomand flung it for miles. But the
pedestal with the brochure pamphlets in itthat were next to the gator, We're
still on the showroom floor. Notone pamphlet out of place. It's weird,

(44:00):
isn't it. Scott atkfab dot comvia the Zonker's Custom Woods inbox.
I want to hear your thoughts here, scottikfab dot com, says a long
email from Jennifer. Let's dig inhere, Hello, Scott. Our friend's

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house was hit by the tornado onFriday. She lives in Blair. We'd
been talking all afternoon. She calledme because she saw the threat to Euroca
and wanted to make sure I wasokay. An hour later she was texting
me that half of her house wasgone. We headed to Ashland to meet
her and her daughter to take oneof their cats. The other one had

(44:45):
not been found. On Saturday,we ventured back up to help with the
cleanup and hopefully find the other cat. Both my husband and I were apprehensive
about what we are going to find. It was worse than we could have
imagined. The Devis station started tobe visible on the highway. The neighborhood
was unrecognizable, a sea of debris, only eclipsed by the number of individuals

(45:08):
yielding chainsaws and trucks full of whatused to be cherished mementos. It was
overwhelming. You've seen the pictures,so that isn't what I'm writing about.
It's the celebration of the goodness andpeople that I wanted to make you aware
of. While we were working,volunteers pulled up, offering food and water.

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Yards blended as clean up merged fromhome to home. On Sunday,
a company called Advanced Door and DockSystems pulled into the drive and offered to
fix their garage door for nothing.My friend was a bit apprehensive so thanked
them, but said she didn't thinkthey could fix her garage door. Neighbor

(45:50):
came running over and said their doorwas worse and the company fixed it.
They just wanted to help, nostrings. Her daughter is graduating from high
school this year and already you havescheduled for Sunday. Somehow River Wilde's Golf
club contacted the family to offer theirpapillion for the party. Not the town,

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but the papilion like a an eventcenter, a covered outdoor area.
Yeah, outdoor event Thank you.River Wild's Golf Club contacted the family to
offer their I wonder if she meanspavilion. I think I think pavilion.
Yeah, what she means yeah.I was like, that doesn't seem offer

(46:31):
their pavilion for the family at nocost, since they knew the home wouldn't
be suitable. Oh they I guessthey they heard that their home was going
to host this graduation party. That'snot going to work. And River Wilde
said, you can use our youcan use our La Vista. Thank you

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for getting that joke. Lucy laughed, but not into the microphone. Okay,
I'm leavin all right. The managerwrote her saying, graduation is such
an important milestone, and I wantto be sure the community is able to
celebrate her. The support has beena godsend in this climate of hate and
divisiveness. I just wanted to pointout that there are wonderful people in this

(47:15):
great state and this great nation.That is what we should be highlighting.
And good news we found the othercat That is from Jennifer, who sums
up saying thank you to kfab forall the coverage on Friday. As always
very comforting to hear familiar voices givingvital information. Thank you very much,

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Signed Jennifer, Jennifer, I appreciatethat email Scott atkfab dot com Zonker's custom
woods inbox. And it didn't occurto me until right now. You know,
as I mentioned this on Facebook onFriday and said, people are going
around the trucks and chainsaw is justoffering to help, and they're not asking
who'd you vote for? You knowwhat political party? Or you oh you're

(48:00):
a Republican that might be good.Who are you voting for in the upcoming
primary? You know, it's wegot to find ways to divide and hate
each other all the time. Butin something like this, people are just
going out going who needs help?What do you need? They're not asking
who you vote for? And itjust real quick, Lucy, it occurred
to me right now. I haven'tthought one bit today about what's going on

(48:25):
with the Trump trial. What PresidentBiden read off the teleprompter yesterday, how's
everything going on these college campuses withall the protests that blissfully completely blocked all
of it out, and now I'mthinking about it and I don't care,
which is also blissful. I onlybarely care the other times, but I
just it's it's just it's like awhole bunch of who gives a you know,

(48:49):
after something like this. Well,I think that I understand that,
and I somewhat feel that way.But at the same time, this is
the stuff that is going on thatyou have to pay attention to. But
beyond that, you talked about thecat that was missing, and I think
that's something that you don't always thinkabout. When the first thing I did
when I went to the basement,I got the cat into the cat carrier
and I got leashes on the dogs. Now that might not always be a

(49:14):
great thing. Maybe the leash ison the dog and then there's debris,
they get stuck, they get caughtsomeplace, But you do with the best
you can. But did you hearthat storage you read that story about the
I think it was a rottweiler wasin that the kennel. It was a
wire kennel, and it appears thatthat had been the kennel with the dog
and it was picked up and carrieda block several blocks. I'm not one

(49:35):
hundred percent sure, but when itfell, it broke open at that point
and he was able to get out, and they found him on a mattress.
That's kind of waiting for somebody tofind him. Yeah, you know,
And I guarantee the tornado that didthis to that rottweiler was weakened quite
a bit after that tussle with therottweiler. Oh dang, sorry, yeah,
that tornado was like, oh sorry, you know here, good,

(50:00):
good kitty, you know, havea seat. Okay. That tornado went
from an F three to an Fone and a half after the rottweiler was
done with it. And just asa side note, when I was putting
the cat into the carrier, shegot me real good. Oh yeah,
and it was. And think ofthe irony if we managed to get through

(50:21):
all of the debris and all ofthe damage we had none and then I
get cats scratch fever. Right,No, no, no, no,
I've told my wife. I said, look, if this is when we
had cats one at a time.We are not a multiple cat family.

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But we had one, then wehad another one after the one died,
and now that one's gone, butso we're catless. We're not. That's
not me looking for a new cat. By the way, you're gonna get
calls. Cat was there first.The wife had the cat before she had
me. I had to adapt,but I did tell her. I said,
if we're ever in a situation whereI need to get the kids down

(51:05):
in the basement, your cat.She loved it when I refer to it
as your cat better decide to comedown to the basement on its own.
I'll give a real quick try,like, hey, come on, but
if it's not coming out from underthe bed, or if it just takes
a swipe at me or whatever,cat's on its own, no, I

(51:28):
get that. I'm she and she'swiley, and I was surprised that I
was able to just catch her,pick her up right away, and get
her in the My wife would havepreferred I'd been up there, risking my
life and die trying to save thecat to get it downstairs. She did
not like me, saying like,look, if the cat's not coming with

(51:50):
me and it just wants to takeswipe, I'm like, look, okay.
You know all the times that mywife is like, oh, she
understands you, like she doesn't understandme. Now, she had no Oh
what all this means? She hadn'tknow the siren's going off. I'm saying,
you got to come to the basement. Cat doesn't seem to understand all
this, probably because it's a cat. And if it doesn't want to come,
then I'm not risking my life tosave that cat. Good luck to

(52:13):
you, Good day, sir.And I'd go down to the basement on
my own, and my wife thoughtthat was an unacceptable answer. It's like,
well then you better be there,and you know, that would be
the last thing I'd see my wiferunning upstairs as a tornado is actively tearing
apart our house. And before shegoes off like the guy at the beginning
to twist her hanging on to abarn door, She's like, I gotta

(52:37):
save the cat. I was justsure of it. I'm not laughing at
this. This is literally what wouldhappen. It isn't I married a maniac.
I'd have to write, I'm diggingthrough these Zonkers custom Woods inbox and
I had to laugh real quick.I got the latest story here from the

(53:00):
satirical news website The Babylon Bee.Here's the headline Lucy Israel withdrawals from Gaza
after learning a protest by nineteen yearold fine arts major Roxy Barnett. Nicely
done. That's just a quick one, just a drive by shot from the

(53:23):
Babylon Bee. I don't know whoRoxy Barnett is. There probably is no
Roxy Barnett. It's just it's satire. As we've talked about, like somewhere
Prime Prime Minister net and Yahoo issaying, look, I know we want
to go back and get those hostages, but have you seen these angry protesters

(53:44):
on the campus of George Washington University. Maybe we should rethink this. I
mean, do you really need yourfamily members back? That fine Arts major
over there is really really upset aboutthis. Thank you for explaining, She
says, from the river to thesea. She doesn't know which river or
but she's very very feels very stronglyabout it. Back to the emails that

(54:07):
matter. I got a note herefrom our friends at high V and it
says we just heard from the HeartlandHope Mission that they're desperately in need of
donations of baby formula, wipes,diapers, hygiene products in order to provide
these resources for the victims of thestorms. So they're hosting a drive today,

(54:30):
a supply drive today through Wednesday atall Omaha Metro High V locations.
They're collecting these items if community memberswould like to donate, if you're already
going to High V to do somegrocery shop and you can pick up a
package of wipes or diapers or formulaand drop that off in the bin so

(54:51):
they can give that to the HeartlandHope Mission and provide that for people in
the area who are in need ofthese items. So that's going on today
through Wednesday at all Omaha Metro HighV locations looking for that which you would
use to provide for the babies.Formula, wiper, wipes, diapers,

(55:15):
hygiene products. Thank you very muchfor that. Thanks to high V for
partnering with the mission on that one. Back to the Zonker's custom woods inbox
for some of the notes Here fromkfab Nation Trucker Bob says, your time

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at Carney, I did go tocollege at Carney may have acquainted you with
the town the thriving metropolis of Pleasanton, Oh Yeah, small town about twenty
miles north of Carney on Highway ten. He says, I lived on our
farm halfway between Carney and Pleasanton inthe early sixties. When the tornado picked

(55:57):
up the Catholic church, rotated itabout three inches and then sat it back
down on the foundation after God said, ah, put that down, Thank
you for that. Email Bob AdamEmails says, my beautiful trophy wife and

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I were married April seventeenth, twothousand and four. During that time,
it was abnormally hot and windy,windy, windy all the time. My
wife pointed out that this year's Aprilweather seemed very similar to two thousand and
four. We did have several tornadooutbreaks that year, including that was the
Hallum tornado that wiped out our house. Says Adam gave us the opportunity to

(56:46):
live with my in laws for severalmonths while we got our house built.
I presume Adam means that in awhat a wonderful opportunity and what a great
thing we were able to do that. I'll fill this in for you,
Adam. Sure they're listening, andin case you're listening, going, I
wonder if that's our son in law, Adam. He sounds like he was

(57:07):
making fun of us, not atall. That was different. Guy Greg
emails. This tornado outbrook outbrook orthis tornado outbreak is a good example of
being prepared for a disaster, andthat's part of everyday activities, like keeping
your gas tank full, having severalmonths of food stored up, maybe a

(57:30):
chainsaw ready to go, have severalhundred bucks stashed in a safe place,
have a rally point for your familyand friends. Being prepared is probably not
needed, but needed when a problemhappens. Greg one hundred percent and I
I don't know how many of usI speak for when I say I am
one hundred percent not at all preparedif many of these problems happen. How

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many are A commercial every eight minuteson this radio station says, if you
need supplies in case it all goesdown and the world stops turning and the
food stops being prepared, and theshooting starts and everything's on fire, and
you need to get this big oldsupply of dried beans and fresh water.

(58:22):
We'll set them out there wrapped inthe American flag, and you can have
beans and weenies well, strapping AMMOto your chest and being ready to go
over anytime a disaster strikes. Justgo online to big old canna beans dot
gov and will you know, Idon't. I don't know if that's a

(58:44):
website, and it wouldn't be adot gov right anyway. I hear these
ads all the time, be prepared, these meals, ready to eat,
fresh water, all this stuff.Make sure, make sure you're ready.
And I think that's a great idea. And then I think, Ah,

(59:07):
I live really close to McDonald's.I'm sure they'll be open. I'm an
idiot. I'm an absolute idiot.And it's not because I don't think that
anything's gonna happen. I just don'tthink it's gonna happen. I don't like,

(59:28):
is it all gonna be gone?Is this gonna I don't know.
I mean, we talk about thesethings on the radio. We talk about
these communities devastated by this thing orthe other. UH supply lines completely shut
down, problems happen. You think, wow, I never thought this was
How many times do we have Here'sa Fox News story, here's someone talking
about something that just happened where theylive. Cue the SoundBite, and this

(59:51):
person says, I just never thoughtthat this would happen here. And I
think those poor people, well,I'm sure will never happen to me.
I'm an idiot. The best thingI can do for my wife and children
if we're in a situation where thething that we never thought would happen here

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happened there. And they're like,all right, Scott, did you do
you have all the meals ready toeat? Do you have all this stuff?
And I'd say, oh, Igot a lot of stuff that we
can microwave. Like, Scott,there's no power. One of Lucy's EMPs
she's been talking about hit the entirearea. There's no electricity. Like,
does that mean the microwave doesn't Yes, idiot, that means the microwave doesn't

(01:00:36):
work. So what's your other plan? The best thing I can do for
my family at that point is letthem eat me. That's not a good
choice. That's why I'm putting onall this weight. I want to make
sure that they're taken care of.They can probably live for days off of
this. How are they going tocook it? Set fire to my pants?

(01:01:00):
Just put me. I've got abig piece of rebar in the basement.
They can just rotisseriy me. Andthat's what I want to do for
my kids. I've not put anyfood or fresh water away for an emergency.
There is no college fund. Iwent, I go, I went
golfing with their college fund. ButI'm willing to sacrifice myself on a rotissary

(01:01:23):
spit if they need. And sureit might initially be a little traumatizing for
me, but that's basically my plan. My plan is the's McDonald's still open.
That's my plan. Wouldn't it beeasier to disorder something? Wouldn't it

(01:01:46):
be easier to just buy some beansand cans at the grocery store when they
go on sale? So you haveI thought you meant. I thought you
meant. There's a huge disaster.Everything's wiped out, and I just pull
out my phone that doesn't work anddo an Uber Eats order can you get
here? And suddenly Matthew McConaughey fromTropic Thunder is going to show up with

(01:02:08):
my food and my ti Vo tugernuts TiVo. That's that's my plan.
At least I have a plan.What do you have? I have Kansabanes
in the basement. I know you. I also have MS. You're a
can You're a conspiracy theorist and agood one. You live, you live

(01:02:32):
what you preach. In fact,I got a box of Mrs for Christmas
one year. That is no lie, and I loved it. Your husband
really cares about you, he does. I was hoping for jewelry I got.

(01:02:52):
I got a freeze dried Salisbury steak. You know what, though,
that's gonna to tastes great when everythingelse, you know, here's what better
than a diamond knuckles would taste.Here's the other thing, like I can't
like Scott, are you serious?Do you not have I'm not going to
be an idiot like Lucy and sayon the radio whether I have all these

(01:03:14):
things, because then everyone's gonna come. Then someone everyone's gonna come to my
house. Like go to the forgo to vorhees villas. He's got guns
and Ammo and meals ready to eator is it meal ready to eat?
He's got all the dried beans inthe and kegs of fresh water. He's
got it all right there, stacksof cash, he doesn't have any of

(01:03:36):
that. I'm not gonna say onthe radio whether I have the stuff.
I don't need everyone coming to myhouse. You know how you know whether
your neighbor has all that stuff?Snake flag out front don't let them tell
don't let him tell you different.It's like, we just figured that you

(01:03:57):
had everything that that we needed.Why would you think that I gotta don't
tread on me flag in my frontyard nuts. I just like the design.
It has nothing to do with survival. Get out. It's not hard
to have one box of MRIs orjust a few cans of beans and tuna
and peanut butter and some bottled water. That's not hard. I've got a

(01:04:20):
freezer in the basement that will notseveral bags of chicken wings in it.
I'll eat them frozen. Also inthe Zonker's custom was inbox says here,
Billie Eilish is coming to Omaha.In case that is exciting for some she

(01:04:41):
is coming here in November. Ticketsgo on sale at some point, probably
this Friday or a week from Friday. If you're a Billie Eilish fan,
you already know she can be upthere. I thought she was really sullen
and depressed all the time, butI heard her and Phineas her brother in
an interview and she was super funny. So if you're a Billie Eilish fan,

(01:05:04):
now I mentioned that because as Italked about early in this program,
there was a whole lot of well, I mean, life just gotta move
forward. Here, I said,my son still his basketball game nine o'clock
Friday night in Bennington, as therewas debris all over the place and the

(01:05:28):
eight o'clock teams didn't show up,and the coach for my son's team said,
I'm here at the gym. There'sno teams here for the eight o'clock
game, but the refs are here. And they said, well, yeah,
we didn't know. We'll we'll stayhere if you guys want to show
up and play, and the parentsare like, really okay, And then
I said, you know, ZachBryan is in town. Country singer.

(01:05:51):
He's in town and spent the weekendhelping out with debris cleanup, and then
tonight he's gonna rock Chi Center withhis special blend of country rock music.
And I didn't know this, buton Saturday night, Jeff Dunham was in
town. Comedian and ventriloquist who's gotall of his various creatures out there,

(01:06:15):
the Halipino on a steek and Walter, the cranky old guy that kind of
looks like former Omaha mare Jim Suttleachmed, the dead terrorist and all that
stuff. So Jeff Dunham, Accordingto Terry who emails Scott at kfab dot
com, So I went to theDunham concerts Saturday night and Jeff Sutt said
that not only was he scared,all of his characters in the box were

(01:06:39):
all scared. It was his firsttornado experience. Everyone always looks at what
everyone else has and thinks, well, I'm glad I don't live there.
Like when we're here in Omaha andwe see earthquake just hit San Francisco,
like, that's gotta be horrible.I'm glad I to deal with earthquakes.

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Or we look at the entire EasternSeaboard or New Orleans major hurricane just came
through there and go, well,I'm so glad I don't live in Florida.
They do the same thing for us. There are people who spent a
week huddled together under a blanket inthe Superdome in New Orleans in the wake

(01:07:28):
of Hurricane Katrina, who had barelyanything to eat, couldn't you had to
stand in line for hours to usethe restroom, hadn't showered in days,
And they looked at the news onFriday and images on the news of a
big tornado in Omaha, and theythought, that's horrible. I'm glad I
don't live in tornado alley. Everyonedoes that about what everyone else has to

(01:07:50):
deal with, and I probably shouldn'tbe comparing such things, but I'd still
say, and I would say this, if my home were taken out on
Friday, I'd rather take my chanceswith tornadoes, because when a hurricane comes

(01:08:14):
through, everything is devastated. Anearthquake doesn't skip a building or a house
or what. It was, justcracks and everything's just in some instances destroyed.
You know, we have tornadoes here, and as I mentioned earlier in

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the program, I think we kindof felt like we've been lulled to sleep
a little bit because we haven't hada real big one here in town since
nineteen seventy five. Every year,not every year, but every once in
a while it's like, oh,there are a couple of houses damage in
Millard. This area of Bellevue andPlatview was pretty hit, pretty good.

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And we've seen what happened with likeHallum or Pilger, but Omaha hasn't been
direct hit with something like this sincenineteen seventy five straight line wind events excluded
for some reason. I don't knowwhy. I bother to check the Zonker's
custom was inbox. Sometimes it's Scottakfab dot com and I get emails like

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this from Rob that says, asif you're looking, if you're in one
of these neighborhoods that was affected bythe storm, and you're wondering whether the
neighbors are willing to share their meals, ready to eat or whatever they might
be able to have, they'll bewilling to share it with you. Rob

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says, you'll know by the pineappleout front. That means they're ready to
share, not the same rock.You either know or you don't. And
yeah, we are ready to share. So right now, we're still over
twenty four hours out from tomorrow afternoon. Good math, Scott. Thanks Now,

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I just mean anything can change fromnow until tomorrow afternoon. But we
are looking at the possibility of strongto severe weather. They're not ruling out
the possibility of that severe weather includingtornadoes. Looks like strong winds, rain,

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hail could be with these storms here, and it kind of sets up
for the same time frame two o'clock, three o'clock in the afternoon through that
time when you'd be picking up kidsfrom school, when you'd be coming home
from work. So this is anearly early heads up on this. Remember

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Friday when you had this dynamic latein the afternoon and we had severe weather
in the community. Let's make surewe got a plan in place. That
was a hell of a rehearsal onFriday. Scott Boys Mornings Night into eleven,
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