Waiting to Drop Off Debris...

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vorgie, Lucy, did you have any damage at your house?
We had some very very gusty winds out in northwest
Omaha where you live, and at an appropriate court determined
the distance away. I also live in that part of town.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Just a couple of lawn things just blown over, so
that's about it.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
We had a big old tree limb from the neighbor's
tree that came down on our fence. Thankfully no damage
to the fence, but got that done and then decided, well,
there's a lot of tree limbs down, and then there's
a lot of those that are kind of broken and
it's still up in the tree. So on Saturday I
cleared the worst of it, and then yesterday I went

(00:42):
back out and thought, well, if we have a tree
limb drop off location, I'm going to take advantage of
that and going to I got a new purchase yesterday,
a chainsaw on the end of a pole. I can
now murder people from several feet away.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
It's not really a chainsaw, though, is it.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
It's it is. It's not a real great.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's more like a motorized clipper.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, well, it's if you if you stand within reach
of that and you stand still, I could do a
lot of damage with that thing.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I believe that.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
No, it served my purposes perfectly because yeah, so I
can't fell a tree with it, but I can take
off annoying little dead branches from several feet up in
the tree. And if I get up on the ladder
that I can even higher with it. I'm just up there,
just whacking away. And you know those those little chainsaw

(01:43):
things on the end of poles, they work best because
otherwise it gets to be a little unwieldy if you
if you try and hold it at an angle, it's
harder to be able to control the chainsaw on the
end of the pole. So it really works best if
it's straight above you. That way, you can hold it

(02:04):
up there and you can take advantage of the physics
of it to take off that tree limb. The issue
when you're cutting off a tree limb that's directly above
you is they do tend to fall straight down. And
who's straight down from the that tree? Me? So I'm

(02:27):
getting pelted with tree limbs. I've got gashes on my
neck and shoulder area.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I tell you what.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
It just goes to what I always say here, losing
no one, and I mean, no one has it worse.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Than I do.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I don't know I have an injury more worse than yours.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
No, it's not open for debate or competition. And really
it's sad that you're going to try. No one has
it worse than I do. And a rather medium sized
tree limb fall down to sort of scratch my neck.
I tell you what, just be glad you're not me.
So I did that yesterday, and then I thought, all right,

(03:10):
it's towards the end of the day, I'm gonna go
out to that Elhorn Tahazooka Park storm debris drop off location,
drop off my storm debris. I'm still in line. I'm
broadcasting right now from the line there along that street

(03:31):
in Elcorn.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I turned around, like, can you tell them who you were? Yeah,
they mocked me when I told them who I was.
I went in there and said, hey, I'm Gary Sadelemeyer.
Move and got mocked. Yeah, that's a very very long line.
I don't know that the people, and I didn't know
yesterday that they'd opened up. I guess yesterday the second

(03:57):
tree drop off location at Heflinger Park along Maple and
that's one hundredth ish and Maple Street that had been
opened up, I guess at some point yesterday. But initially,
and this is kind of funny, initially they just closed

(04:22):
off Heflinger Park, which upset a lot of people in
Omaha because Heflinger Park isn't just a park where you
go in there and walk around and there's a little
playground and all that stuff. It's the dog park. So
this is the place where. This is the only reason
why single men buy dogs, little dogs, cute little dogs,
because they go to the dog park and they try

(04:43):
and meet single women with dogs. This is the only
reason why these guys buy these dogs.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Then you'd have two dogs. If you guys hooked up,
if you got married, got together, you know, you got
two dogs.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
It can work.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
It can absolutely work. So these guys are like, hey, hey,
I had all my best game going and I tried
to go out Saturday and it was all closed down.
Because they couldn't have just put a sign up that
said no storm debris drop off and let people go
and enjoy the park. They just closed down the whole thing.
The street going up to the park was all shut

(05:16):
down because they didn't want people to assume that this
would be a drop off location. And why would people
assume that because in the past has been a drop
off location, and yesterday they're like, all right, they opened
it up as a drop off location. They couldn't have
done that on Saturday. Now, look, I I also I
don't want to sit here and be like, have come

(05:37):
they didn't.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Bet.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
It is very nice that the city does this. They
don't have to. You know, this could be on you
to either put us in your own vehicle a truck,
rent a truck, try and convince a buddy with a
truck to take your storm debris and drop it off
at a I don't know, a landfill or a receptacle

(06:05):
of some sort that you were allowed to use for
such thing. They didn't have to open up these free
drop off locations. So at the same time, I'm saying, look,
I'll just state the facts. When we like last year
we had storms blow through here, Mayri Stothart had I

(06:26):
think five drop off locations opened up immediately. The new
administration opened up a drop off location in the middle
of the afternoon after very early morning storms, which was good,
and then the next day like, all right, fine, will
open up another one because people were complaining they were

(06:47):
waiting in line to drop off their storm debris that
one drop off location all day on Saturday, and then
all day on Sunday. They're out there waiting. Even if
you think, well, i'll the debris drop off location opens
up at seven am, I'll just go get in line
at six thirty. There's a long line there at six thirty.

(07:08):
Everyone else had the same idea. So as much as
people were complaining, hey, I've been out here waiting for hours,
they don't have to do that. The City of Omaha
does not have to open up a drop off location,
and it doesn't have to be free. So please consider
what you're complaining about. If you had just a storm

(07:35):
that had some damage at your house or in your neighborhood,
that would be on you to cut it up into
little pieces, put it in the approved leaf in yard
waste bags. I don't know if we're in a period
of town time right now where they'll come and pick
up your yard waste bags for free, or if you

(07:56):
have to buy those little stickers to put on there
that says I paid for you to pick up my
yard waste. There's only a couple times throughout the year
that they'll pick up those yard waste bags for free.
I don't know if we're in I would assume that
we would not be in one of those times. We
would wait till the fall when everyone's got their leave
bags out there. So, if this had just happened at

(08:18):
your house, there wouldn't be a free drop off location.
You wouldn't be able to put that stuff at the
curb for free. If you put it in your trash bin,
you can put it out there for free. But if
it's in the lawn and leap bags, that's not free
right now. So then you'd have to find someone to
haul it away and don't ask a lot of questions
as to where they're gonna dump it. That's what you
have to do if it had happened to just your neighborhood.

(08:40):
But because it happened to so many people across the area,
they've benevolently opened up a free drop off location. And
we're like, hey, great, and we go to the free
drop off location and there's a long line, you know,
think about and then people are in line calling up
the city on Sunday. No one's answering your call on Sunday.
They're barely answering it. Today they're in there, they're going,

(09:03):
I'm waiting the line for this thing. Meanwhile they'd wait,
you know, it'd be like sitting there at Universal Studios,
like I'm waiting two hours for this Hagrid ride, this
roller coaster at the Harry Potter Universe. It took me
two hours. You should open up another one, like hey,
and that costs a lot of money. Costs a lot

(09:23):
of money to go to Universal. The drop off locations
free at the end, I admit it's not as great
as the Hagrid roller coaster, which is awesome. If you
do have the opportunity to get down and do it,
I highly recommend it. But you know, it's it's free,
and people are complaining about free stuff that the city
didn't have to do. But track record has been established

(09:47):
in the past. There have been several drop off locations
opened up. And once you've offered someone something for free
and then it's not there the next time, you're gonna
get an ear full Welcome to the Mayor's office, John Ewing.
But today we've got the two drop off locations. We've
got half Linger Park one hundredth ish and Maple and

(10:12):
then at two hundred eleventh ish and Maple, that's where
you got the entrance into taha Zuka Park. Do we
know which way you can come in there? Because there's
two ways you can come in from there? Do we
have long lines? Because that line coming in the other
way would stretch into downtown Elcorn, you wouldn't be able
to go to Boyd and Charlie's.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh I thought you were still talking about half Linger. Yeah,
but you're right. There is two ways for down Park
as well.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, well technically there's two ways. And actually, here's my
little tip today. I want to try and make this
a useful segment and not just sound like I'm babbling
forever waiting for President Trump to start his news conference,
which hasn't started yet.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well I don't.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
I am doing that, but I don't want to make
it sound like that's all I'm going to do. Going
to offer you a tip in case you're on your
way to say, well, I was listening to you and
I've got a whole truck full of tree debris.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Now what do I do? Here's what you do.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
And I don't know one hundred percent whether it's set
up like this, but I know in the past, it
has been. You go to Halflinger Park one hundredth ish
and Maple Street. There are three entrances into Haflinger Park.
If you're coming on eastbound Maple, there's gonna be really

(11:35):
really long line of trucks down that shoulder and they'll
they'll move off the road. You can still get traffic
through there, but there's gonna be a really long line
of trucks in that shoulder. Coming on westbound Maple to
take a left into the park, that's even going to
be a bigger mess because you can only you only
got so long that you can be in that line.

(11:56):
And then when your light turns green, you got people
already waiting because they didn't stop. They took a right
into the park, and now they've blocked up the whole entrance.
So anyone taking a left can't get through there. So
maybe you get one car in a left arrow. That's
no way to spend your day. But there's a third way.

(12:17):
You go into the business parking lot across the street.
There's a bank there, I think it's a Wells Fargo,
and like a gas station and some other stuff. You
go into that business park, you whip it around and
now you have got a light that turns green where
you can go straight into Heflinger Park. That's going to
probably be your fastest route.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Do that, no, because you're still going to have those
cars that are turning that are coming from eastbound. Yeah,
blocking all the way out to the road.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Kinda, but you can still kind of wedge in next
to them, but en and that way when when they move, Now,
that's like, well I got to let this guy in.
He he's blocking the whole world Kinschen and there's usually
no one else going straight there.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, so it's gonna be just you.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Well, can't you get in there from BLONDEO. I thought
that road went all the way through. It kind of
goes into like there's a little section that's on a
neighborhood street, like a really short section.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Boy, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
I don't either. Don't try it.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
I think you got a soccer fields and stuff in
the way down there.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Maybe now people looking to.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
People with their dogs.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
So I would say go straight through that that business
area and then you can go up there and you
can get a taco at La Mesa or a drink
at Icehouse. There's a lot going on in the Yeah,
here's another tip if you if you're like, yeah, that's great, Scott,
but I'm I'm going to Elkhorn, all right. So here's
what you do. You're you're on the other side of

(13:41):
Tahazuka Park, like you got all the football fields and
the tank and the skate park and all that, and
then to the west of that, you've got a creek
and like there's a train tracks in there. You just
you load up all your stuff in an old like
nineteen seventies Dodge charger orange if you can do it,
you paint a Confederate flag on it, You put all

(14:04):
the stuff there, strap it to the top or put
it in the trunk or whatever, and then you just
dukes of hazard it right over the train tracks and
that creek. You'll come down on the football field hopefully
there's no little kids out there doing flag football practice,
which is adorable, and then you can just you know,

(14:24):
around and you'll be right there at Tahazuka Park and
be like where this guy came from? Come from? Please grammatically,
h where where did this guy came from?

Speaker 3 (14:36):
In park? And and then you just whip it around.
You're like.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
You've dukes of hazarded your way into the park by
jumping the train tracks in the creek.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
And the realistic person of this show says, do not recommend.
The adult. The adult here this morning says, do not recommend.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
All right, well recommend.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
I watched that show like a documentary, like a documentary series.
I know how to jump train tracks and creaks. You
just lean back, you step on the gas and lean back.
Your car will go up. So I watched it on TV.
All right, we're still waiting for the president. Still waiting.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Scott Vories News Radio eleven ten, Kfab.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Scott atkfab dot com. Rich and several other people said,
Haflinger Park, see, I was going on the wrong side
of one hundred and eighth. I was not like one
hundred eighth one hundred ish. It's not about one hundred
and twelfth ish. And Maple for Heflinger Park, LA says,
correction to your rant on free drop off sites. It's

(15:47):
called taxes paid for by we the branch droppers. Excellent point. Yes,
yes it is, But at no other point in the
throughout the year can you just go drop off whatever
you want in a park. It's very nice that they

(16:10):
do this, but they don't have to.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
No, it's not nice. In fact, I told them to
take that part out and give me my money back
for that, because I don't have any trees.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Okay, you don't have any trees. No, thankfully you got
those bushes I hide in.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
No, we've got trees all around us, but none of them,
none of them are ours.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Well, no, wonder you didn't have any damage.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Probably I had some of those limbs down, but nothing
like what you described.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
My next door neighbor had a big tree come down
on her roof and damage your roof, bend up her
gutter pretty good. She had a team of guys come
out yesterday. Here's the fun party they took basically took
out half of this tree. And so now because of
when you take out half to the top of the

(16:56):
tree bottom the left half, when you take got half
of the tree, it looks like that this tree is
now leaning to the other side. On the other side
is my house. Oh now, I'm saying that it has
one hundred percent of the root system. So I don't
think that this tree is going to just uproot and

(17:18):
fall over onto our house, though it does kind of
look like that.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
On the other hand, it could snap somewhere during the
next big windstorm and come down on my roof. My
wife was thrilled when it was pointed out to her
that if my neighbor's tree falls on my house, you
know who's fall You know who gets to own the repairs? Right,
one hundred percent of the costs.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Right.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
I have been in this situation before, but it don't
remember because it was just it wasn't a very expense.
It was just a fence.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
It's the homeowner.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
In the Yeah, look is my tree fell on their fence?

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Right, Yeah, it's on them to repair their fence. Now,
less you're a decent person, then you go to your
neighbor and say, look, it's not fair. You have to
bear the brunt of this, and either I'll pay your
deductible or let's figure it. They're like, no, you don't
have to do that. Well, now that works out for negotiating,
and you try to figure out who's going to pay what.

(18:18):
I don't know. This is where I'm just going to
start being a better neighbor. To my neighbor with the
leaning tree, Well, yeah her tree falls, Yeah for her,
if her tree falls on my house, I want to
be in good graces I did when I was loading
up branches and stuff. She at that point she hadn't
had a crew come out and do anything. She has
some big branches in the yard. And this is before

(18:40):
I even thought maybe there was an angle to work.
I took her branches and I'm going to take these.
We're taking a whole tree loaded junk out. I'm gonna
take your big branches. She's like, oh, thanks, which I
took to me. And if my tree falls in your house,
I'll pay your deductible.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
That's what I Yeah, you've got the.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Kind of stuff you got a really be clear about.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
You got to know on this stuff.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
All right, let's see. Don says, yes, you can get
to Heflinger Park from Blondo. Huh, well yeah, if you
go tearing across the ball fields.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Okay, I thought there was probably they're probably a road
in there. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
I don't I don't know if they want you to
take agree debris through there. But hey, if it's a
road and I'm just going on the road, like, are
you taking tree debris? We would prefer you do that
from the north side. No, I'm here with my dog
and a whole car full of tree debris, but that's
for the dog to play with. We we play a

(19:41):
game where it chases sticks. I just happen to have
a whole truck full of sticks.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Dog's chasing you down the road.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
He's got a whole truck a little that's right. Scott
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