Sterling 1/25/26

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I know for the longest time people have been saying,
is the forecast going to be accurate?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Snow?

Speaker 3 (00:05):
How much snow are we going to get?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Well, we've been pounded, beaten, beaten down and battered and
it's still coming down and getting around it is not
an easy slog.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
How are you? It's sterling.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's a Sunday afternoon, seven hundred wl W on the
line because she's monitoring things. This is what Kathleen Fuller
does from O dot Cincinnati. Welcome back to the Big One,
seven hundred WLW. Have you been out sledding and enjoying
this or how are we looking here on a Sunday
with more snow just plowing through?

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Have you seen me lately? I couldn't sled if my
life depended on it. I'm enjoying the view. It is beautiful,
but I'm also smart enough to realize my limitations and
the fact that I probably and like everyone else, we
shouldn't be out in this, whether it's driving and if
we're gonna go outside and you know, flooding and building

(01:02):
a snowman, we want to be really careful with that
because it is so brutally cold out there there, and
we don't want people cross fit for us, bite whatever.
We want people to be safe. So I'm staying inside
and keeping warm.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, so you've taken the advice. Meanwhile, all of your
people out there from ODOT are in these plowed trucks
and trying to push this stuff out of the way
as it continues to fall. How are we looking with
the roads right now, interstates around the Try state and
how many people out there do you have cooking doing
it now?

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Well, so you know, everyone knows that this has been
an all hands on deck, all out effort on odoc's part,
every and I'm sure other agencies as well, you know
that are trying to keep up with things. But it
is roads are snow covered.

Speaker 6 (01:46):
It's just that simple.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
I don't think anything should other than that should be
expected right now. It is simply, you know, it is that.
The situation is, you know, we've had nothing but snow
since I don't even know what time it started lift
night now, but it's just been NonStop snow and it
just continues to come down, and so the roads just
continue to stay, to say, steak snow covered. So we've

(02:09):
got I think we've had a few trucks go in
for some maintenance and the crews. You know, we have
anywhere from one hundred and twenty two hundred and forty
trucks out districtwide at any given time, you know, but
if you're seeing any pavement anywhere, it's a miracle because
there's just been nothing but.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Snow as this comes down.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
We've talked in the past Kathleen Fuller, by the way,
for Modaud Cincinnati was Stirling on the Big One. This
is a monumental snow and we talked also about the
extreme cold and how that also once you get the
snow pushed out of the way, and as the snow
was starting to pile up initially, these temperatures also have
quite a bit of an effect on some of the
stuff that you use to melt the ice and so
forth too.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yes, so that's one of the challenges we're going to
have later tonight and tomorrow when the clean up efforts
we hope can begin, is that, you know, we've got
just so much snow on the ground, but again, it's
going to be so cold, the materials aren't going to work,
and it's just that the snow is going to basically
be kind of become compacted and frozen to the pavement.

(03:11):
So cleaning up is you know, going to take a
long time because you know we're not gonna be able
to just push it off the highway.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Is this continues because this is such a long event
stretched out over a period of time, and you know,
there are a lot of people that are gonna obviously
probably be either working from home or off tomorrow, although
there are probably, I mean, I don't I I was
trying to watch how many vehicles I saw out of
the window because I stayed close yesterday or in last night,

(03:41):
so watching I mean, it was some people. I was
surprised at the amount of people initially that were out
and about last night and then early today, but it
was clear that you know, people started to look outside
with not doing it. I'm hoping that there are not
a lot of people with the side of the road
and so forth. In as much as like when I
was a teenager, we just go out and mess around
for fun, go do donuts and parking lots and everything else.

(04:04):
But right now everything else is pretty much like that too.
What's your recommendation to anyone who wants to go? I mean,
it's the usual slow and go and don't go if
you don't have to. But I mean it's sort of
like a broken record scenario. What's the what's the official
take from O DOT don't.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Don't go out? You know, we we do know we're
seeing some people who have you know, lost control their roads,
their vehicles have gone off the road. They you know,
it makes it that much tougher for you as the
motors to be able to get yourself out of that situation.
You also, you know, we've got tow truck operators who
have to work in this then, and you know it's
challenging for them as well, and it's also makes it

(04:42):
more dangerous for everybody. You know, if you don't have
to go out, don't just stay put. You know the
the there are people, of course, we know that are
going to work today. Thankfully, I think a lot of
people have heated the warnings and we are seeing fewer
cars on the road. But still it's it's one of
those things, and I know what you're talking about. It
was always the fun thing to do to go out

(05:04):
and see and look at it and do those doughnuts.
But we don't want anybody doing next. Want everyone to
be safe, and so stay home, stay put, just don't
go out on the roads, and we'll get the mess
cleaned up eventually.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Kathleen Fuller's from Odots, Cincinnati was Stirling seven hundred WLW.
Excuse me as we continue with this ongoing snow event
and the problem that it has been. It's always an
issue with anybody. People drive too fast, too close to
any vehicle, but let alone snowplows, and this is something
over the last I don't know the last snow that

(05:37):
we had. We talked in the number of people who
had had an interaction with a plow truck, which you
don't ever want to have. Those numbers were astounding to me.
How many compared to say, last year or other years.
Do we know if there's been a large amount of
those in this event here with this snow or are
we pretty okay people paying attention?

Speaker 6 (05:57):
What so?

Speaker 7 (05:58):
Because there are.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Peer people wile I think we're having fewer strikes, but
I think there were a few. I'm not sure of
the total number. And this again statewide, we had a
couple of overnight and a few of our counties. I
haven't heard of anything in District AID. So in our
southwest area, I have not been told of any plow
strikes as it's yet, but so I'm hoping, you know,
that's the case. But there were a couple of additional

(06:21):
ones during the overnight, so you know people are likely
going to You know, it's very hard to maintain control
in this kind of weather. And if you are going
to be out driving and you see one of our
plow trucks, please do not attempt to pass the truck.
That's all I can say. You know, I am a
broken record.

Speaker 7 (06:39):
I know that.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
I know all of my family members who are listening
are going to send me emails, tech messages or call
me and tell me. You say the same things over
and over again. But until people get it right and
they listen to us, I have no choice.

Speaker 7 (06:51):
So there's that. Don't go out.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
But if you are out, drive slowly, expect that really
long mute to get to your destination. And again, don't
try to pass the plow trucks, and really don't try
to pass anybody else. Just get in that lane. And
you know, if you've got some clear pavement or any
kind of word, it's broken up a little bit. In
that travel lane, that's where you want to be, you know,
going to give a shout out to one of our

(07:14):
crews up in Clinton County. I was looking at seventy
one and Daniel Crowe's out there. You know, he's got
some he's got some pavement showing. He's got a little.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
Bit of pavement showing a seventy one that.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Doesn't need you need to get out and check it out.
But he's doing you know, he's doing what he can
to get that clear. And show's everybody else.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Everyone's mister Crow getting it done for ODOTD Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Talking to Kathleen Fun again.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
When I say there's pavement showing, I'm not talking about
a lot. It's very, very little. And that's a miracle
that we have any David showing anywhere. So you know,
when you get I don't even know what our accumulations
are right now, we're over ten inches of snow. I
think twelve inches of snow.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
A buddy of mine who lives up towards us Springborough,
has sent me a picture and they get a patio
off the side of the house and I think they
were just shy of a foot and I think that
it was early this morning. I started getting inundated with
text from pictures and stuff which people can tag me
on at Sterling Radio on x as well and we'll
post those. You could do the same Kathleen for that
matter too, when someone I mean, that's got to be gratifying,

(08:13):
because you're just pushing the snow for days and hours,
it seems like whatever else. And then you actually start
to see that asphalt again or that concrete, you see
that pavement. That has to be gratifying, even if it
is just a little stretch like ooh, I saw that
stripe on the road.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Oh somebody, it's right. It's a small section and it's
not very much, but it is a little something. And
what's what will happen is and that's where you know,
I've tried to stress you know, you're going to find
yourself in that travel lane because that's the lane. That's
the right lane, far right lane of the road. That's
the road, the lane that are going to be clearing.

Speaker 6 (08:45):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
You know, we were watching the tandem trucks a few
hours ago on seventy one in Hamilton County and they
were making some good progress there. Remember we talked about
that the tandem driving. We had you know a few
of those doing that this morning on seventy one in Hamilton,
and they can push a lot of snow off if
everybody just stays behind them. And if you're driving, get
in that far right lane, the travel lane, because that's

(09:07):
going to be the most heavily traveled lane and that's
the lane we're going to focus on clearing. But again,
we did have the tandem trucks earlier this morning, and
mister Bruning put out a photo somewhere on a Facebook
page if you look for him and one of his
many different sights that he's on. It was a great
shot of seventy one in Hamilton County as well. So
kudos to those crews. I don't have their names, but

(09:29):
it's kudos.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, we love the gang plowing. It is one of
the funnest things to see. And if you're driving behind it,
you got that nice clean road behind you. Just sit back, relax.
You may drive a little slower, but it makes life
a lot easier. So that's always a good time.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
And I will say this, these roads are probably gonna
put that I'm talking about. They're going to be snow
covered again before the end of the afternoon because the
snow hasn't stopped so expect everything just to stay snow
covered for.

Speaker 8 (09:54):
A good while.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yet it's an ongoing event and we're all over it
like a two ton heavy thing. Andpreciate what you do
and everybody out there in those trucks for ODAD Cincinnati.
Kathleen Fuller, thank you. Maybe we'll check in with you
again later, like you, and like a lot of people
either stuck at work or doing double duty and working
a split. Dan Carroll follows me for a couple hours
so I can rest my brain and my tired throat,

(10:16):
and then we'll be back on after eight too. But
I got a lot of ground to cover this afternoon.
Kathleen Fuller, thank you. Anything else before I let you
go that you did not get out that I did
not ask that is relevant to this situation is the
snow apocalypse, the snowmageddon, the whatever you want to call it.
The white death is all over. It's like a blanket
and evil cold too.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
I'm trying to think. I'm sure there's something that the
broken record here has forgin forgotten to mention. But again,
if you have to go out, please please please please
be careful, use extreme caution, pay attention, give our cruise
room to work. Stay behind the trucks, don't try to
pass anybody at all, but stay stay inside, stay warm,
stay safe, stay dry, and we'll get through this. It'll

(10:58):
be spring before we know it.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, I'd like the way you think. I'm ready for
Red's opening day. Kathleen Fuller from ODE at Cincinnati. Take
care of yourself. We'll check in again, so take care
of yourself. Absolutely. And she mentioned that about like, oh,
it'll be spring soon. I got to say that. I
over the last couple of days, I was a little
jealous of the basketball Bearcats, you know, on the road.
They were at Arizona the other day. They got beaten

(11:22):
last night at Arizona State. But they had a couple
of days anyway in the desert in ten p eighty two,
sixty eighth the final a bear Cat's fall to Arizona State.
But you get to fly home into this and maybe
they stayed.

Speaker 9 (11:34):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm not sure how the airport was working or otherwise.
We'll give the update thousand, that and a whole bunch more.
Chuck is in the building doing traffic. We'll get in
with him. Jennifer Ketchmark from Channel nine because nine, you know,
I think it the still Sands for news. It does,
it definitely does. We'll get the forecast from her and
see how stuff's going and what else we got. Oh,
Gary Sulomon's going to join us also at one thirty five.

(11:56):
We'll talk to him because this extreme cold and the
snow can re kavoc on your home. It's not just
your body, it's not just outside, but there's a lot
of stuff that, especially older houses and so forth, that
you might want to pay attention to. So we'll pick
his brain coming up about one thirty five. So hanging out,
appreciate you being along. Alex Egan producing. We've got Sandy
Collins and news. I don't know if she brought her

(12:17):
puppy in or not. I saw the dog last night
and it was tremendous. The dog was just thrilled about
the snow. That's all I know. Hanging out five one, three, seven,
four ninety seven, eight hundred, the big one.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Let's just do this too.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
We'll open up the phones, give you a chance to
get interactive. If you're working, if you're out and about.
I want to know what you're dealing with, how it looks,
what the situation is, how much snow you've gotten accumulation,
And if you have any pictures or short video that
you want to share, you can do that. Tag me
at Stirling Radio and at seven hundred WLW on X

(12:49):
or Twitter, call it whatever you want. We'll repost those also.
And yeah, we try to have a little fun with this.
I mean seriously in the parking lot here, I just
I was talking talking to a guy I saw in
the garage, and I remember we had these big sleds
that were they look like massive contact lenses. You would

(13:10):
hop on that disc and just slide. And here we
get a little stretch of the driveway here around the
building where we are across from Kenwood Town Center, which
by the way is maybe maybe only the second time
other than Christmas, that I have ever seen that lot empty.
As they look to try to get that snow pushed
out of the way and keep people getting an opportunity
to get there, We'll see how it goes. So, whether

(13:32):
you're working at a gas station, first responder, those in
emergency rooms and everything else. People delivering food and taking
care of our friends and our neighbors, look out for
the aged, the elderly, the infirmed, all the usual things, neighbors,
just to check on them if you can, and family,
and hopefully we can all get through this without too
much of a problem. Maybe the kids go out and
have a little fun. I'm guessing they're going to have

(13:54):
another day or two off between the cold and the
snow cleanup and whoever the hell the storm Fern. I mean,
it is not a soft, wispy kind of warm and
fuzzy kind of thing. This is evil, wicked, bitter cold
and a whole lot of pretty snow piling up in
a big way instill some heavy stuff expected throughout the day. Katherine,

(14:17):
let's say Kathleen Fuller. A little bit later, we'll talk
to her again. Jennifer Ketchmark from Channel nine gonna join
us traffic with Chuck and it's a Sunday afternoon Sterling
here on seven hundred WLW Bern. I should call it
something more threatening. I don't know how you doing seven
hundred WLW Sterling Sunday and later, Jennifer Ketchmark, Channel nine,

(14:37):
I'm gonna join us talk about the snowpocalypse and the storm.
Gary Sullivan after one thirty five, I'm gonna talk about
the extreme cold and how that in the snow can
hurt your house, and how to maybe prevent some of
the damage.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
And Chuck is all over traffic like a madman. How
are you? How is it?

Speaker 10 (14:52):
I only personally I'm doing fine because I'm inside. I
listened to you said you said stays, and I did.
Somebody's got to pay attention. I don't listen to my
advice half the time, so I'm glad somebody might. Absolutely
and people listen to you.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
So you're all over this as you're looking at all
the monitors and keeping track of everything. How desolate and
barren is it? Because I mean just looking in and
around our area from I don't think other than Christmas Day,
and I don't know that even that rivals.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
How empty that lot is over at the town Center.

Speaker 10 (15:25):
Isn't that amazing?

Speaker 8 (15:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (15:26):
I've gone to the windows a couple of times and went,
I can't even get a sandwich, no nothing. All the
businesses are closed, and rightfully so, yeah, because there's just
so much snow that's coming down. In fact, I was
talking earlier with Ken about how I was, Oh, I'm
starting to see a lane, but then the snow comes
through again and it's like I'm not seeing any travel

(15:47):
lanes now, and that's just on the highways, so I
can imagine the secondaries. And then you get further into
the residential streets, there's no way. Stay inside, that's the
way to do it. There's a few spots that are
really bad where I'm seeing trouble on southbound No it's
not southbound. They we get this right westbound Ohio Pike

(16:08):
at the northbound two seventy five ramp where cars have
been sliding, trucks have been stuck, and I'm hesitating because
it looks like I was down to just one, but
now there might be another one that's stuck right there
in that same spot.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
It's going to need a push.

Speaker 10 (16:24):
That's the type of thing that's been happening while I've
been in here this morning. Lots of folks getting stuck
on ramps and even a jackknife tractor trailer or two,
but luckily those have been straightened out.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Well, it's better to be inside, I think, rather than
deal with that. And then you got to get a wrecker.
Somebody's out there making some good money on a Sunday
getting people where they need to go.

Speaker 10 (16:42):
You're right, and I'm just wondering if you're going to
try to make some of that money by selling the
I Survived the storm of January twenty fifth sweatshirts.

Speaker 11 (16:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
You know that's a great idea. We should work on that.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
Let's get it.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Sandy Collins is already all over it. She's already surface mark.
It's already done. She did it online that fast.

Speaker 8 (17:06):
I'm always Shuck.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Good to talk to you.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
We'll check you in with you and again in a bit,
Jennifer Ketchmark on the other side of your twelve thirty report.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
You heard Sandy.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Now she will give you in depth information that you
can use about this fern and the damage done and
the mess that's out there is that snow continues to fall.
More Sterling coming up after Sandy in the news right
here your severe weather station seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Sunday afternoon, Sterling. Beautiful day.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
If you like the snow, if you work for O
dot Cincinnati or any other municipality getting snow out of
the road, this is a high season for you, that's
for sure. Alex Seegan producing. We'll check on traffic again
with Shuck. Here's the thing. It's going to be treacherous
for some time and trying to get Jennifer Ketchmark from
Channel nine on the line. I know her because she's

(17:52):
up like like one or two in the morning, because
that's her schedule. You normally hear, of course, with Tom
Brenneman in the morning here on the Big One to
see hero maybe Channeline before you bust out of the
house to get where you've got to go. This is
not a good day to be getting out to go
just about anywhere. And Jennifer Ketchmark is with us right
now in seven hundred w welw good day to you.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (18:11):
This is sort of like almost your nap time, so
I appreciate you giving us some time on a very
snowy day.

Speaker 9 (18:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:21):
I actually just got done broadcasting. We're still on the air.
Stieve came in and took over, but we broadcasted for
seven straight hours this morning.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
Oh yeah, that's all all like.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
Handing off the baton. It's like somebody else, please take this.
I'm gonna go now. But yeah, I mean the rose
or mess. I just drove what less than a mile
from our studio to the hotel they've got to set
up at downtown. And if I didn't have a four
y four. I wouldn't have made it, There's no way.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
How long did it take in that short little drive?

Speaker 4 (18:53):
Well, I mean I grew up in Illinois.

Speaker 6 (18:55):
So I know how to drive in this, and I
may have had a little fun in it.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Doing donuts in and around.

Speaker 7 (19:01):
Like I'm not doing donuts.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
No, there is no three cameras that has me doing donuts.
But you know, I mean, I've got I've got a
Bronco so I can navigate quite a bit. I went
around several cars up front wheel drive with vehicles and
they're they're not moving. I mean, when you've got what
eight inch is now pretty much on the ground here downtown,
it looks like it has not been plowed. Like the
only thing that you're seeing are just tire tracks from

(19:27):
other vehicles, not from applow moving it out of the way.
It is. It is a MEP. But where they're putting
their efforts is to keep roads open. Like roads they
go to hospitals and emergency centers, or to fire departments
and police departments, like critical services are being the focus first.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yep, I get that absolutely, and then that's one of
those things you start with those priorities, those main arteries,
the interstates, and then you work into the secondary streets
and eventually they'll get to neighborhoods. And then we know
how Cincinnati struggle with that new technology, new equipment. We'll
see what this particular clean up after FIR and the
complaints that will take place with that. How much more
snow are we going to get? A buddy of mine

(20:05):
north in Springboro sent me a picture with his yardstick
in the back patio. They had just about just shy
of a foot and I don't know if it was
drifting or otherwise. It looked actually deeper in and around
their driveway and further out, but all they did was
shovels so the dogs could get to the back.

Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yeah. I had a lady send me a photo. So
she had thirteen inches. She was up in that would
be Liberty Townships. They got thirteen inches there. She had
a snow drift and legit sent me a photo twenty
nine inch snowdrift.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
Oh nice, Why tie?

Speaker 6 (20:37):
We're doing this? So, I mean for the rest of
the afternoon, we're still probably looking at maybe another two
three inches of snowfall at the most. There is a
lot of sleet that has developed in our southern spots.
I know down in Maysville they actually only got about
four inches of snowfall, but they've been getting nothing but
fleet ever since. Then. I don't see the sleet fully

(20:58):
making it into cincinnat But a lot of our very
eastern spots out in a Georgetown, Amelia down to brooksvillet
of Brooksville, Kentucky, they're they're getting quite a bit of
sleet out of this.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Now, I that's on top of the snow, that doesn't
cause too much of a problem, but it's power lines
in everything else, in trees, right with everything that happens.
Then with this extreme cold, that's going to be an
issue too.

Speaker 6 (21:23):
So here's the thing about sleet. You got to remember
what the precipitation type comes to the ground as sleet
is an ice pellet, So it doesn't cling to power lines,
it doesn't weigh down tree limbs, It bounces right off
of them. Now, if it was freezing rain, it would
be a much different discussion. But because it's sleet, it's
just like hail, like it just bounces off of stuff.
It's just very small and tiny. So the fact that

(21:46):
it's sleep is a blessing, you know, like it could
be worse that they're staying down in London Kentucky Summer said,
that's what they actually got, legit freezing rain and they
are losing power because it's weighing down everything. So yeah,
primarily it's a fleet or snow for us.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
So the snow stopping wou do we have an idea
is to win? That's gonna happen or just as we
watch the storm lead to us and then as it
continues to go. But I mean, we have a few
hours more left of this. At least this isn't going
to go until tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
Correct or is no, no, no, The best accumulating stuff
is going to be wrapping up around four. We'll still
see some very light snow left up through about maybe
six or seven, which at anybody going suits sive and
they've got kids, that's true. An it's around that time
that we'll still see a little bit of the light
stuff wrapping up, but it will not be falling overnight

(22:38):
or tomorrow morning. The problem is it just becomes stupid
cold outside. We've got cold weather advisories for tonight, we've
got an extreme cold warning for the following night. We're
looking at windshows tomorrow morning at negative fifteen the following
morning at negative twenty to negative thirty, and the snow
is not moving unless you move it like is doing

(23:00):
its zero favors in the system. So if you want
to road cleared, it's a plow coming through through what
your driveways getting cleared. It's you getting out there with
a shovel of callin a somebody to come plow it.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Now, for those who don't know, this is Jennifer Ketchmark
from Channel nine Sterling on seven hundred WLW talking about
storm Fern, which we're experiencing now for at least a
few more hours and then the cleanup after. When are
we going to see temperatures above freezing, Jennifer, Because this
is I'm tired of this already, and I'm an Ohio kid.
I shouldn't whine and cry. You mentioned it, you know,
being a kid from Illinois and all, but I mean,

(23:33):
I'm over this. I'm ready for opening day in eighty
degrees which probably and I've seen snow on opening day,
but that's a long.

Speaker 9 (23:40):
Time, you know.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
The extended models, even the eight to fourteen day outlooks
shows very very cold there, like the colder that we're
dealing with all this week is going to be around
probably for a good chunk of next week, but getting
above freezing is going to be difficult because, especially when
you have a snowpack, it just intensifies the cold and
it makes it that much harder for your temperatures to recover.
So we've got a lot of ground to cover to

(24:04):
get back to anything comfortable. Just even to get to
like fifty is a pipe threem at this moment.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
You know what has been weird to me? And you
study this is your world when it comes to weather stuff, Jennifer,
When has it been more erratic this year? I mean
because we had early accumulating snow and all that a
while back, and then it got warmer again and then
this whiplash thing. I'm exhausted, It's what I'm trying to say.

Speaker 6 (24:31):
There is nothing steady about winter.

Speaker 7 (24:33):
Winter. It like you used to just settle into it.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
And the pattern would just be cold for a long
time and you didn't have these wonky ups and downs.
But in the ten eleven years I've been here in Cincinnati,
I mean, we have seen just some wild patterns in
the winter season where you do get like earlier this month,
this January we had a record breaking high of sixty
seven degrees this month.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah, I washed my dog in shorts, I did.

Speaker 6 (24:58):
Yeah, it's it's it's a lot, you know. I think
we sometimes forget about the extreme ups and downs when the.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
Season's all over.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
It's just you remember the worst of the worst or
the best of the best, but nothing in between, and
that there are just the doldrum days of winter that
justus and we're just this is one of those extreme
events that you know you will remember, you'll forget about
the other, you.

Speaker 7 (25:22):
Know what, sixteen weeks where it's just as cold.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
And gray and miserable outside. So we definitely had an
early start to our December with snow coming down earlier
than prior years. But I wouldn't call this like the
most wild winter we've ever gone through, like we're we're
going to see wild.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's sternly talking to Jeffer Ketschmark from a Channel nine
and this snow apocalypse or whatever other name people want
to call it, compared to it, I remember, I think
it was ninety eight in the stations were still We
were in Mount Adams and I lived just on the
other side of the hill close to the station. Because
it was convenient, And then of course the phone call
comes that hey you're close. Can you just walk around
the hill and can you go in? Nobody else can
get up the hill there in Mount Adams. I'm like, yeah,

(26:01):
so is this an arrival? What was I think that
was a record snow just in that late part of
the nineties and ninety seven ninety eight somewhere in there
are we looking at record breaking snow accumulation with this storm.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
We are watching it today, so we we would have
to get CBG Pard.

Speaker 8 (26:17):
That was loud.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
It was my apple sauce. I'm very hungry. I've been
eating apple sauce this entire time. Just so you know,
I'm drinking it literally out of like the little container
for a lunchboxes.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
This fiber for you too, that's fantastic.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
Yeah, listen, I'm hungry. I've been working all day.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
I appreciate that. I'm like the planing you mentioned it.
I had no idea.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
You know what I have right here on a paper
plate a half of a cold, wispy waffle. So I
mean that's what. Oh yeah, because I stayed yeah, and
I will eat well you talk, well.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
So when it comes to records. I believe we need
to get around twelve inches for Cincinnati to break the
twenty four hour total. Right now, at CBG we're not
quite there. We maybe just a little bit below it
because it has to be specifically at CBG. Now we
could use a Westchester or a Mason recording, then yeah,
we'd have the record like it's it's already happened there,

(27:11):
but it has to be out there by hebron.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yeah, that's just the official account.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Anything else before we let you go to enjoy naptime
and your apple sauce and a beautiful sunday. Maybe go
out do some sliding in the cold. I don't know,
maybe they gotta. You'll be like me, I'm doing the double.
When are you back in tomorrow morning or what?

Speaker 7 (27:28):
Tomorrow morning?

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (27:29):
So I did.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
Gosh, I worked what three to nine hours today?

Speaker 12 (27:33):
But that's not bad.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
No, that's a good run.

Speaker 6 (27:36):
Yeah, that's a decent run. Six of it was pure broadcasting,
so you know that was fun. But no, tomorrow, way
back for a normal morning show and I'll hang around
until it's safe to get home. Hopefully I can get
home tomorrow. I would love to get back and see
my kids. My daughter's like, hey, Mom, what time you
coming home today. I'm like, I'm not. She goes, oh oh.
I was like, no, you're getting nothing out of me.

(27:57):
There's no Starbucks, there's no seven Broods today. No, friend.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
I hope it's in the refrigerator or her in the
cabinet at the house, in the pantry.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Otherwise she will figure it out.

Speaker 6 (28:07):
He will figure it out. Four It's fine.

Speaker 5 (28:09):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
I was taking the bus downtown going to the library,
going not on a day like this, but I mean, yeah,
she'll survive for sure. But Jennifer, thank you for doing
what you do. Enjoyed the rest of this day, and
you can check out tomorrow with Tom Brenneman early in
the morning here on the Big One and on Channel nine,
maybe on the way out of the house, or maybe
just multitasking doing both. Sometimes I'll do that because I've

(28:30):
got problems. Yeah, all right, take.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
Care of yourself.

Speaker 6 (28:33):
I multichest all right, see you later.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
That's Jennifer Ketchmark from Channel nine sterling hanging out five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
The Big One. We know what to expect.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Could be a record breaker already is in some places
but not necessarily officially unless CBG gets that snow, speaking
of which a whole lot of flights canceled. Talked to
Jay rat Ratliffe yesterday about that aviation expert at the
Big One, and we may give you a little bit
of that conversation and just explaining how they move aircraft

(29:02):
around and how all that kind of stuff works. In
the midst of leading into a storm and then trying
to get back to normal, there's a whole lot of
people who are supposed to be going places or maybe
coming home or otherwise, and it's going to be a
mess slog, if you will, and for at least a
little while. Gary Sullivan's going to join me after one

(29:22):
thirty five after the news then, and we'll talk about
the extreme cold and the snow and your house and
how that affects it. People with plumbers making some good
money as well as county workers. I would imagine between
pipes freezing and houses and maybe busting a lot of houses.
And we'll talk about this with Gary. You know, mid
century houses, a lot of them have that kitchen stuff

(29:44):
right there on that outside wall in what I was
surprised to find out, and I found out the hard
way years ago in a house I had not a
lot of installation was either required, if any, in those
walls at that point. So you find out the hard
way when all of a sudden you come home your
kitchen is flooded because of that, and then the other
things sort of going along with it. It is water

(30:05):
mains and everything else. Somebody sent me something I'm trying
to remember if I think it was Montgomery County yesterday
and I got Family of the dayon area. I spent
time there a lot. I mean, I am dating kid,
and you spend time here back and forth, and they
had as of about two or three o'clock yesterday afternoon
already I think it was Montgomery County. In my notes

(30:25):
here eighteen water main breaks that they were working on.
And you know what, Initially, the one guy and he
sent me a note said they were expecting two to
three hours for the one ended up being six or seven.
And in this wicked cold dealing with freeze and refreeze
and trying to get that that's an issue a lot
of people are dealing with. So hopefully you are not
having that type of nightmare scenario. And if you're a

(30:48):
plumber or somebody pushing snow out of the way. You're
making some good dough, so there is benefit. There's cash
money in this ugly white stuff that is piling up.
Hopefully some good times. You're one o'clock report is coming up.
Your chance to find out what's going on around the
planet and how this snow is affecting us. This is
going to be ongoing and still some more accumulation over

(31:11):
the next couple of hours, and then it's just going
to be cold and trying to dig out. So we'll
get through this together. Hopefully you're safe and sound, and
all those people that are out there working, you know,
gas stations and first responders and everyone else. We appreciate
you what you're doing and gas if you're having to
be on the road or otherwise, just allow extra time
and a little extra room, and hopefully everybody will be

(31:32):
okay as we get through this. Your chance to get interactive.
After the one o'clock report, we had a lot of
ground to cover on a Sunday afternoon, Starling. We'll check
in with my sometimes partner Donna Dee also, who was
unable to get here snowed in, so I don't know
if she's still digging, and hopefully if you're out there
digging manually yourself, you pace yourself, because that's.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
The other thing.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
E R is going to be filled up with a
whole lot of people with heart attacks and other stuff
because people do too much, too fast, and not all
of us can handle that. Straight away, you want to
clock report more sterling coming back, Calm of the rats,
and you're full on coverage of winter storm Fern, which
is really a weak name for a brutal storm. News
Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati. The Americans trying to deal

(32:18):
with the extreme cold, a lot of snow, and in
some parts of the tri State to the south and
are east in fact looking at a sleep as well,
which is not as bad as freezing rain, which we
heard in conversation with Jennifer Ketchmark from Channel nine. Later
on about a one point thirty five, Gary Sullivan's going
to join us to talk cold and snow and home stuff.

(32:40):
You heard the news water main breaks they're happening, and
some problems that a lot of houses as well. Jay
Ratliffe seven hundred WLW aviation expert going to join me
about two thirty five the latest on what's going on
with people trying to get into Cincinnati, out of Cincinnati,
or traveling anywhere. So that's coming up a bit later.
And I'd like to open up the phones. If you're working,

(33:02):
if you're out playing, if you're inside having a cup
of coffee, maybe drinking.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
A lot of people like the party.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
A storm like this snowed in next couple of days,
there's gonna be kids home, gonna be some people off
work or doing it remotely. It's a Sunday sterling five
point three seven four nine, seven thousand, eight hundred to
the Big One. If you could be snowed in anywhere
on planet Earth, whether it's here in the tri State
or anywhere else in the world, and I guess, if
you're snowed in, does it even matter where you are?

(33:29):
I like home personally, I have, you know, unless I'm
in even in a vacation situation. Un Less, I'm just
like crazy, dead, exhausted, tired. I have a hard time
sleeping like in hotel room beds and everything else because
it's just not my bed. And I don't sleep great
even at home for that matter. But if I could
be snowed in anywhere, this is not a bad place.
I'm here with you, having a good afternoon. Sandy Collins,

(33:50):
Jack Crumley, around Chuck, Alex Eagan is here as well.
Everybody here at the Big One. Dan Carroll's gonna follow
me later on, and he's going to be like the
creamy filling in an Oreo cookie. I'm here in front
of him, and then I'll be here later behind him.
After I think it's eight o'clock. If I'm not mistaken,
a couple hours to find food. If I can, maybe
by then the roads will be a no. Thank you

(34:13):
Alex for letting me know that that's my situation. I
have a cold, half soggy waffle, so if I can
make the other half last, I'll be in good shape.

Speaker 5 (34:22):
It'll be good.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Five one, three, four, nine, seven, eight hundred, the Big One,
you know. I can remember also how this was like
the thing is a kid, we would pray for the snow.
We would do with snow dance, we would do whatever
it was that we could to try to maybe somehow
encourage from the heavens above more snow to fall so

(34:44):
that we could have a snow day. And I can't
tell you the number of times where as a kid,
my friends and I and I know it's a shared
experience because we've had the conversation where you'd be up
and you'd be excited and eager. Maybe on a Sunday
or whatever, you maybe spend some time out sledding or
shoveling walks and maybe trying to make a little money

(35:05):
that way, or maybe just getting it done around the
house for mom and dad whatever. And then you start
thinking about Monday in school, and you start thinking, hmm, please,
oh lord, please, I'd love a day off. I could
go make some money shoveling some snow, I could sleep
in and then all night so geeked up and excited
and so forth. Now they tend to cancel and delay

(35:26):
stuff a little early, and we're starting to hear some
of that just in the news, whether it's a courtz
and so forth. If I'm not mistaken, Butler County and elsewhere,
there's gonna be a lot of stuff where stuff is
just shut down, whether people do remote stuff or otherwise.
But as a kid, you know, you barely sleep, and
then you find out that either school was maybe delayed
or then again maybe not delayed at all, and then

(35:48):
the next thing you know, you're still having to go
to school anyway, bleary eyed, exhausted, tired, and that's that's
not a good way to be now. Course, a little
advanced morning makes stuff a little bit easier.

Speaker 5 (36:03):
Overall.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
I'm trying to think of the most snow I've ever
had to navigate, And you heard the news Sandy mentioned
this the one day snowfall up in Dayton, which is
where I grew up, and I was around for that
blizzard of seventy eight. In fact, my dog loved the snow.
Shushy's what we called her because she was always like
making always like weird. It just a shush, shush, and

(36:25):
then it stuck to call her Shushy. She ran away
during that blizzard, out having fun. She wouldn't come back
in the house and got out of the yard, and
then I continually tried to chase her for some period
of time, which was a joy, and then tried to
get her in the house with like delli meat, like
you know, sliced turkey and hot dogs, and she had
ice that was just all over her, and then trying

(36:47):
to get her in the house. Eventually, I think she
was gone overnight into the next day and had a blast,
just had a fantastic time out in the snow at
A couple of people send me some videos. I'll see
about posting some of those at Sterling Radio on X
and love to see like your pictures of where you
are and how the snow looks and everything else that
sort of goes along with It's it's really quite an

(37:11):
experience out there as people are trying to navigates what's happening.
Probably also a lot of streaming and people at home
maybe getting into those watch lists on a pick of
service that you might have, and a lot of binge watching,
maybe some binge drinking as well. A good day to
have some wine, kick back or some drinks with family, friends, whatever,

(37:32):
and just sort of enjoyed the day. Three seven four nine,
seven eight hundred the big one. I love to hear
from you wherever you are and what you're doing, and
carefully hands free if you're on the road. I know
there's not a ton of people out there. Those are
mostly essential people. I don't know if people are just
out looking to run around. Yesterday after the show, running

(37:53):
down the street from here because I stayed nearby, I
saw a lot of people still trying to grab beer
and random food items and so forth. At the grocery store,
ran up the road to Kroger and over to Trader
Joe's whatever. There was a whole lot of that and
a whole lot of empty shells. That's the thing that's
always interesting. This is an occasion where it makes sense,
but it's always those same staple items. Got to get

(38:15):
another gallon of milk, got to get more peanut butter,
Gotta get more bread, and the snack aisle just destroyed,
as well as all the beverage aisle stuff and everything
else that sort of goes along with that too. The
NFL in action at this point this afternoon, you got
Denver doing their thing and we'll see how that goes.

(38:36):
That is a weird matchup. You got Patriots and Broncos
in Denver, which will be pretty cold, but they will
not have the snow that we have. And then later
on it's the Rams and the Seahawks in Seattle. I
was really hoping it was going to be the Broncos
and the Seahawks.

Speaker 5 (38:51):
We'll see.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
It's tough to go anyway, but you lose your quarterback,
that's tough. But I bet I would say here Patriots
Seahawks just might be that does Super Bowl matchup depending
on how it goes to Bellevue to talk to Ernie.
Now was Stirling on seven hundred WLW. How you doing, Ernie?
Have you or how are you weathering the storm?

Speaker 13 (39:11):
Fern Well, I'm not very good at it, stir. I'm
an whin, you know, And but I will say this,
I'm in Bellevue and you know, so I'm right down
the street from you. But wow, pretty good storm, right, Yeah,
there's kids in the street, and I'm really surprised. Bellevue
is really kind of a neat little area. I've been

(39:33):
standing in an apartment down here, and the avenue down
in Bellevue they've been down here is nice little restaurants.
Everything's shut down and they normally get the avenue really well,
you know, the main strip, but even that's snow covered.
So it's a legitimate storm.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
I think, Yeah, I be.

Speaker 13 (39:51):
Go one to call and I know you're on the air,
and I really am a fan. I like you. I
think you just do a great job. I think you're
funny and I enjoy it. So I'm glad you're on
the air, and I I really appreciate you coming in.
But I thought it was my duty to call and
give you an update. See a caller. I know people
are probably doing other things.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
Well, I appreciate it. So here's my question to you.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Have you been out to play at all or you
just hunkered down and fully like stocked in the pantry
and just ready to ride this thing up.

Speaker 13 (40:18):
Well, I went to Kroger the other day and got
a few things. I'm by myself, so I didn't need
a whole lot, but I'm fully stocked, and I'm sixty
years old, so I don't.

Speaker 12 (40:28):
Go out anymore and play in the snow.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah, I like to.

Speaker 13 (40:33):
I remember that blizzard that we had back in the seventies.
You know, I was a kid and we had a blast.
We were off all week. But this is something that's
pretty legitimate out there. I mean I walked out for
a minute. I didn't do anything, but it's a legitimate
storm out there. And then there's a lot of snow
and I'm just gonna sit inside. I guess there's some
good football on today, so it's maybe a day where

(40:54):
you could watch a little football, and you know, there's
there's worse things than stand warm inside.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Exactly right, Yeah, absolutely, Ernie. I appreciate the call. Thank
you for the kind words. I appreciate you listening and
appreciate you being a part of the show. Call back anytime,
and hopefully you stay warm and continue to do that.
It's you know what's funny. And I've had a lot
of people message me and otherwise say this that they
all seem to have and I don't know if it's
a letdown and expectations in the past of storms and

(41:23):
how they were sold to us and we were warned
about them. But the technology is so good now compared
to what it used to be. They're like, yeah, we
could get some snowy, it could be a lot. You
better be prepared and then you might get a dusting
or nothing. Now they are so good just in general
with these models. Did they can even temperature variances go
into that a little bit of how which way wind
blows and fronts move. But I mean that they called

(41:44):
this pretty well. It didn't seem like any real surprise
in it, but a lot of people surprised. I guess
that we really have gotten what we have to this point,
and then we still have a few more hours of
this stuff coming down in the accumulation of it, and
I mean it's it's a mess, and they warned people
pretty regularly, and we will continue to help spread the
word on this that if you do not have to

(42:04):
be out, then you maybe ought not go out, you know,
unless it's close by or maybe to the park or
whatever else. And as cold as it is, just bundle up.
That's the other thing. I mean, you know, you get
out there in it, whether you're shoveling or you know,
you're pushing the snow with the snow blow or what
have you, you get hot, you start to get sweaty,
and you know what right now is let me get
an update on the current temperature. We're up to sixteen now,

(42:27):
how about that, I mean sixteen degrees. We're living large.
You know, in this situation, people get hot, they start
to like peel off clothing and you're sweaty, and then
that can become an issue. And then my grandmother always
don't you put the hat on? Put the hat on,
Moms and Grandma's always know that that's where we lose
our heat, and that is a serious issue. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,

(42:47):
eight hundred.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
The big one.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
You can talk back by the way, the iHeart Radio
app unless you're time shifting and listening on a workday,
or you're headed out and about in the middle of
July and you want to look back at how cold
and it was, you can say, oh, yeah, I remember
that the twenty fifth January close to a record breaking snow.
Still could get over that, depending on what piles up

(43:09):
at CVG officially is We're hot and humid and uncomfortable
and a typical tri state summer. This will be something
to look back on if you want to check out
the podcast. But in the meantime, you can leave a
message there too, on a clicking on that microphone. Love
to know where you are, how this storm has either
affected you, whether you're getting off work or school, if

(43:30):
you actually have had to go to work and you're
out there schlepping away like a lot of us, we
are essential employees. If you're working today, you clearly are essential.
We are carrying the weight in the burden of keeping
this part of the world up and running and safe
as it can be and secure as it can be.

(43:52):
And just be careful out there driving around and hopefully
not too many people slipping and hurting themselves. There'll be
a whole lot of the usual orthopedic injuries and so forth.
The emergency rooms and urgent cares we'll be dealing with
over the next probably a couple of days to a week.
Is people slip and fall, go to catch themselves, mess

(44:12):
up hands and wrists and elbows and all the other stuff.
Hopefully nothing more severe than that, and just pace yourself
out there. It's it's a bit of a mess. Took
a look during the breakout. There not a ton of
people out and about, but those that are seem to
be getting it done and doing it reasonably. Your chance
to get interactive straight away. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,

(44:33):
eight hundred The Big One. Gary Sullivan's going to join
us out home. He is talking about home stuff. We'll
pick his brain after the one thirty report. Also an
hour after that, Jay Ratliffe, our aviation expert at the
Big One, we'll check in with him and talk about
how airlines are handling what we're dealing with now and
what that means over the next couple of days. Trying

(44:53):
to get where you need to go for business or
play or people coming into town, and I mean just
everything in the opera at CBG is just absolutely amazing
how it comes together in its own little sort. It
is its own world basically. As that plays out, quick break,
come back, more to do Sunday afternoon, Stirling, the storm
is here. It's still piling up on seven hundred WLW

(45:17):
and or rut someplace on the side of the road.

Speaker 5 (45:18):
Well, yes, that's why they're making the rev sound.

Speaker 10 (45:23):
Yes, it's trying to hit that gas and move, but
it doesn't seem to be going real well in some SUTs.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Yeah, thank you? Better or worse?

Speaker 5 (45:32):
Now?

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Is it about the same?

Speaker 1 (45:33):
I know it's still coming down, supposed to end in
a couple hours. I mean you talked about jackknife trucks
and people stuck on ramps on rams pretty much the same.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Or what are we looking at you?

Speaker 5 (45:43):
No?

Speaker 10 (45:43):
I think if anything, I would lean towards worse. Oh great, sorry, yeah,
you're like the profit of doom.

Speaker 5 (45:50):
Why are you here?

Speaker 3 (45:51):
Don't just choke it? I love you, I love you.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Named the storm fern? I didn't name the storm fern?
Whoever does that? I think it was the weather channel?
How does and even make any sense? A grandma soft
and fuzzy, warm and loving, wispy plant in the woods
firm Yeah, yeah, we need like dagger or zena or
or frank even. I don't know if it has to

(46:14):
be an F word. I don't know how that works.
Easy now, No, not bad. I didn't see you went
there on your own. I can't dump us. We're not
the ones we should know better.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
We should. Yeah, you never said anything wrong yet.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
No, that's true, but it was in your head, and that,
according to my mom, is just as bad.

Speaker 5 (46:29):
I see.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
Yeah, so you say it's worse in short order, what
are we looking at?

Speaker 10 (46:33):
Well, here's why is that I think it's worse is
because every time folks try to get the pliles, try
to get something cleared out of the way, the snow's
falling fast enough that it covers right back up again.
The trouble spot I'm seeing right now is northbound seventy one.
Got some help to let me know that there's a
broken down right hand side near Stuart, and then there's

(46:54):
another one at ken Wood. Wrote now that pickup truck
was getting some help from some others, but were still
one there, and at one point there were just five
cars as I was starting to talk about it. If
you're coming up the Kenwood Cutting, the hill between Red
Bank and Montgomery Road. Stay to the left hand side.
That seems to be the lane where everybody's making it

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up the hill.

Speaker 5 (47:15):
That's the place to go. Then that is the place.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
It's always good to look where people have gone before.
Occasionally you'll see people just motor by. They're in their
four wheel drive, they got all wheel drive, whatever front
wheel they think they can get it.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
And then you'll just see a motor along.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
And then later on you get that odd feeling of
I knew that idiot was going to end up on
the side of the road exactly, and then you want
to help. But then you're like, I got to get
where I'm going. So it's nice that you saw some
people helping too.

Speaker 10 (47:39):
Yes, and you've never hear that person go, I wonder
why nobody's tried this lane.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yeah, sometimes there's a good reason. All right, mister Ingram.
We'll check with you again a little bit later. Appreciate
you being here doing what you do. And we're a
couple of minutes away from your one thirty report. On
the other side of that. Gary Sullivan going to join us.
We'll talk about extreme cold and snow in the house
and short order I've had about they're going to have
two minutes Mary's in Hillsborough was Stirling on the big one.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Mary, how are you. How's this snow treating you?

Speaker 13 (48:06):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (48:06):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (48:07):
I'm doing okay, what's up?

Speaker 6 (48:10):
Well?

Speaker 14 (48:10):
So just a little different perspective. We own a cattle
farm in Hillsborough, so this has been quite the ordeal
trying to feed the cattle and the pigs and the
sheep and the chickens.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
And they still get hungry.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
How is that getting out there and around and I'm
guessing there are probably someplace covered safe, secure and looking
outside going I'm not trying to get outside either.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
No.

Speaker 14 (48:31):
Actually, cattle, if you ever drive by a field and
see a lot of snow on their back, that is
a good thing. And it's like the roof on your house.
If there's snow on the roof, that means it's well insulated.
So that means that the cows are staying warm.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
They'd rather be out that.

Speaker 14 (48:49):
We have a couple that could go in the barn.

Speaker 6 (48:52):
They choose not to, really, even in this cold.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
That's crazy, but I mean that's what cows do.

Speaker 6 (48:58):
I guess right, okay, it is it is.

Speaker 14 (49:00):
I mean, they honestly, they can if they have a
wind break something to get behind. Now, the chickens, they
won't come out. They hate snow. I've been known to
shovel a path out in the snow out the out
of the chicken yard so that they can come out.
But I'm not even going to try to shovel it until.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
This is all done.

Speaker 14 (49:20):
They absolutely hate snow. The pigs they have a hog
house to get into, so they're they're pretty good. Sheep
they love it. Again, they got snow on their back
and that means that they are well insulated. They've got
enough cover. That's my dog, he wants.

Speaker 6 (49:35):
To go outside.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
No, I'm sure I loves This is a great time
for the dog. You get out and play a little bit.

Speaker 14 (49:40):
Yes, But twice to day we're out there doing this
and it takes twice as long. Usually the morning chores
are about four hours. It took us about six this morning,
and it will go out and you know, start about
three o'clock for the evening chores. Usually we don't start
till six. I work a full time job someplace else.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Oh wow, so this is a full time so you
basically have two full time jobs, especially with work with
the weather.

Speaker 5 (50:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (50:05):
Yes, my husband has another full time job running a
farm in Wilmington, cattle farm, and so we both work
full time and we sell freezer beef and we sell
freezer hag and we sell Thanksgiving turkey. So yes, this
is a full time job. Basically, I married him and
I'm married into this.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
That's what happens.

Speaker 9 (50:24):
Mary.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Thank you for sharing. We're against the wal time with news.
Maybe we'll check you in in later and make sure
that those cattle store the snow on the roof. As
you say, that means they're insulator and doing well. Be
safe and take care of yourself.

Speaker 14 (50:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
Appreciate you listening and being a part of the show
and contributing. It means a lot. I'm sorry I'm a
little late here. You got your one third report. Gary
Sullivan joins me. On the other side at Sterling, your
severe weather station seven hundred wlw. The snow continues to fall,
it's piling up, it's extremely cold Sterling in seven hundred
wlw all over it like a two ton heavy thing.

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And a guy who knows about home maintenance issues and
winner and what the extreme cold and snow can do,
which has cost you a whole lot of money. He's
at home. He's at home with Gary Sullivan right now.
Was Stirling on seven hundred WLW. You may have heard
him earlier in fifty five karrosee, but he's with.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Us now live.

Speaker 5 (51:15):
I am at home.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
How is everything I saw you earlier on like the
video chat thing? You look comfortable, your feet were up, kickback,
nice and cozy at the house, right Yeah.

Speaker 5 (51:26):
And then I got off the air and I got
my snowblower fired up, and I said, I'm gonna go
out there and blow some snow.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
It's fun, isn't it. I'm telling you, it's like mowing
the lawn. I absolutely just zone out and I'm in
my happy place.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
I totally agree. However, I will say, and this is
just for everybody who hasn't been outside. I think that's
the most snow that I've ever used in a snowblower.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
How hard do you have like one of those ones
you see at CVG that's like the super Mac Daddy,
or do you.

Speaker 5 (51:56):
Have like a little one.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
It's a twenty inch okay gass mtd okay, and.

Speaker 5 (52:02):
I've hit it for probably twenty five years and it
still runs. It does the job, but there's parts in
the driveway. I didn't measure it, but we got to
have here in Liberty Township twelve plus inches. Oh yeah,
and it was. It was. It's still fun still than

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waiting three more inches and going out there.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
And it's sort of sometimes good to hit it like
in stages, depending on how it is too which but.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
It's so cold.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
I'm just glad that you're okay, because you know, right
now there's always the constant, like huge influx of people
in rs and so forth who have been out there,
either shoveling or putting, blowing snow or whatever, and people
have some health issues, so we don't want people to
do that.

Speaker 5 (52:46):
Yeah, I was a little worried. My wife kept checking
on me. What's that mean?

Speaker 3 (52:51):
She wants you to be around at hold.

Speaker 5 (52:53):
She didn't stop me. She would just check it.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Off, just checking to make sure that you hadn't fallen
over in the snow or making snow angels or something like.

Speaker 8 (53:00):
It was.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
It's it's clean now, so we'll wait a few hours
till it all stops. But you know, whether you're shoveling,
there's certainly some things you gotta be careful of. Obviously,
know your limitations. But even using a snowblower. There's so
many crazy things that happen with any power equipment. And
probably one of the biggest things you'll love this is
the snow blower. And when the snow's this high, sometimes

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they'll get jammed. Yep. And you know what the impulse
for people is stick their hand in there. Oh, it
happens all the time.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
I've never I've come close to that.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
But I can't reach it without I mean, you gotta
let it not engage, but you shut it down first, right.

Speaker 5 (53:39):
You definitely do, and then use a broom stick. Don't
use your hand.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
So what's the world? I mean, most of these are plastic.
There may be some metal ones depending on the kind
of money you spend on it, right, but I mean
you can lose a finger or you get.

Speaker 5 (53:52):
Some major damage, there's no question about it.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Yeah, that's not good.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
So you know it heads up on that. And also
you know, nobody wants to get this snow blower out there.
And then you put stale gas in it and then
it doesn't start, and then it starts and you got
it going in the garage. No, no, No. One of
the biggest things we'll hear in the news over the
next three days is carbon monoxide poisonings. It'll happen, I
guarantee you be it a generator, be at a snowblower

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that gets started in the garage and it's left idle there,
and then you come back ten minutes later and push
it outside. Not good because you can't smell carbon monoxide,
you can't see it, you can't taste it, and you
can feel like, well, you can feel pretty bad. Makes
you feel like you got the flu and a headache,
and you feel really bad. And then you get enough

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of it and it goes for a long enough period
of time, it can kill you.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
Yeah, nobody wants to be careful. Yeah, I don't want
to do that.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
Gary Solomon, that home making a lot of sense, trying
to keep people alive and safe as they try to
get their houses right. The fuel stabilizer's a good idea
in the absolutely, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 5 (54:54):
If you got if you got stale gas, and I
bet a lot of people do because you know, uh,
grass season ends abruptly. If you have a gas lawn mower.
The can of gas sits there since probably what mid
to early November, that's about right, and you know you
start using stale gay gas. That's the problem. You can
put stabilizer and if that's gonna help, if you haven't any,

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and go buy new gas, don't don't use old gas
or just goof up and you'll be end up shoveling
instead of using a.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
Well, what do you do then, what's what's in there?
You siphon it out? Or do you flip that thing
over and pour it out someplace and light it up
to melt snow? That's probably not a no, no, no,
don't do that. I'm sorry to that's my bad. That's
my bad.

Speaker 5 (55:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Yeah, I just put some stabilizer in there and use it.
If you can burn it up there you go. That
makes good sense, Gary, What else?

Speaker 2 (55:44):
I mean?

Speaker 1 (55:45):
We've talked about this before, and I've dealt with this
in a house some years ago, a lot of mid
century houses that went up, and I had no idea
until we got into the wall when I had water
all over the kitchen and spreading in the house on
the exterior walls where a lot of kitchens are. They
didn't have any requirements for insulation at those times.

Speaker 5 (56:03):
Any people heated a lot of those homes.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
With coal, so it was just that warm. Oh gosh, yeah,
I had no idea.

Speaker 5 (56:11):
I mean, there was no concern. You know, we didn't
start getting concerned till mid seventies when the energy crisis
hit mid to late seventies, gotcha, and then all of
a sudden, the prices of fuel. You know, you got
natural gas, you got propane, start electric and it's you know,
start getting expensive, right, and then all of a sudden,
you have all these homes. There's no insulation in the walls.

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There's water lines underneath the sink that are on a block,
concrete block, and they start freezing and then they you know,
the problem with frozen water lines is when the water
in there freezes, it expands and it puts pressure on
the pipes, the fittings, the joints, and it can cause
the pipe to swell, split, crack, burst, flood, costly, lots

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of bucks going out the door.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
You got to Yeah, even for the just the deductible
is a nightmare. And I remember we had to do
a kitchen tile because that got jacked up. And then
it also had spread because it was enough time that
had passed, it had gotten carpet all the way into
the dining room and through like to the living room.

Speaker 5 (57:16):
It was just a mess. And yeah, and there's you know,
there's still a lot of houses like that. Yeah, I
mean not. You can get foam injected into the walls, absolutely,
and you were way ahead of the game in four
or five years. But if you don't do that, those
conditions still exists. So you know, pipe wrapped those foam sleeves.

(57:38):
That's helpful. Opening the doors, leaving them open at night
or when it's real cold, that helps. You can get
a little lampholder with a heat bulb in there no
led bulbs, they don't admit any heat, So don't do that.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
You'll be wasted'll be bright and still cold. I never
even thought about that. That's tremendous. And also that heat tape,
because I have some of that now on some of
the stuff where it is somehow powered just enough to
keep it.

Speaker 5 (58:04):
Thirty eight degrees thirty eight degrees. And you know, if
you do go to the hardware store tomorrow the next
day and get some heat tape, just please make sure
it's ul listed. Don't buy anything cheap that's not regulated,
and pay attention to the directions because when you put
heat tape onto you know, a copper line or even
a pex line. You can't overlap that tape. It's you know,

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there's an inch and a half two inch gap between
the tape itself. All you're doing is kind of warm
in the pipe, which warms the water, which keeps it
from freezing.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Talking to at Home with Gary Soulin, I'm sorry you
mean to cut you off.

Speaker 5 (58:38):
I was just gonna say. And even a trickle of
water coming out of the faucet, real good idea. You
don't have to run a stream. We don't need to
waste a lot of water, but just a trickle, a
little on the hot, little on the cold. Let them run.
If you got a single lever faucet, just go right
up straight in between the two, so you're kind of
feeding from both the hot and the cold. And just
a drip, drip, drip for you know, moving water. It

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takes longer to free so you're a little bit ahead
of the game.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
There a lot of plumbers, a lot of restoration experts
going to be making a whole lot of dough over
the next few I'll be busy tomorrow, absolutely, And a
whole lot of issues even with water mains and stuff.
Too old infrastructure and this extreme cold can be ugly. Yeah,
oh yeah, oh, no question anything else. That why we
failed to ask a covering ground here. As far as
whole issues with this, I mean because I mean it

(59:23):
gets it's getting deep with the snow. But I mean,
this is just one of those things. It just seems
like every time we have a stretch like this, it
always comes up.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
Yeah, I guess the only other thing. I mean, you know,
safety with generators, same way, they don't go in the garage,
they don't go in the house, they stay fifteen twenty
feet away from the house. Carbon monoxide being an issue also,
But one of the things a lot of people will
do now, especially if it's going to get to fifteen
to twenty below zero wind chill factor in the next
day or two is space heaters. Oh, don't heat your

(59:54):
house with your oven. Very dangerous. Yeah, also very very expensive.
Absolutely if you're using and you buy a space heater
at hardware store wherever, make sure it has a UL listed.
Make sure it has a safety tip over switch. In
other words, if somebody knocks it over, you knock it over,

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or it's not on a stable surface, it should turn
itself off. And that's key and you don't use it
in bathroom unless it says it can be used in
a bathroom. And don't use an extension cord. Those are
designed to be plugged directly into the outlet, not into
a power strip, and not into a an extension cord,

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so placement, keep it away three feet away from furnitures, drapes,
anything that could be combustionable.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Talking to Gary Solomon at home about well he has
at home, but also about your home, in my home
and everyone else. And this is a little off the
beaten path and rel to sound like lance for a
second on a Friday night. But I a neighbor asked
me about this maybe week ago when they were just
first starting to talk about this storm and everything else.
And he was asking, and I'm not the guy to
ask about home repairs. You are and fix up. So

(01:01:08):
it's like, and he's showing me stuff around his sink
in the kitchen and it's an older house. He had
none of the like search protector stuff or whatever around
the kitchen, sinker in the bathrooms.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
I was like, you need to change those out. I mean,
it's a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
It's a serious problem, right, even though for decades and
decades we didn't have them available.

Speaker 5 (01:01:26):
Right right, And you know, like when we were talking
about the space heaters, there's even space heaters that on
the actual core leaving the space heater there's a there's
a search protection on the plug itself. Oh nice. So
that's a really good point. I mean, if you don't
have those in your homes not protected by those, you

(01:01:47):
can you can get a space heater with a search
protector built in into the court itself. So yeah, and
if you don't, you know, definitely change those out. You
need to get protected. And those older home again, we
didn't start putting in surge protectors till maybe the eighties,
maybe seventies somewhere along that area. Are very sensitive and

(01:02:09):
you know, any stray electricity, it just shuts it down.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
I'm very sensitive too, but I too. You know, it's
just one of those things where we were just trying
to help.

Speaker 5 (01:02:15):
People here est guys.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
That's right, Ken, And I don't think it's our ken Brew.
But another Ken just messaged me. He said, please ask
Gary Sullivan what to do in a process with water
leaking in the house. Yes, he must have a pipe problem.
Like step by step, I guess what to do. I mean,
when it's already happened.

Speaker 5 (01:02:36):
Yeah, if it's already happened, really turn off the water.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
See I'm glad you here because I say it and
he bounce back, Who the hell are you to tell me?

Speaker 8 (01:02:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
But I mean I hit somebody call my show yesterday
and they asked, with the freezing temperatures and you know,
loss of power that was anticipated. I think they were
from South Carolina, should I turn my water off? And
I said, well, no, not yet unless you're leaving. Yeah,
but you know, you don't start really worrying, and you

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know it's not preventive. In other words, I mean, it
might take four days for your house to get cold enough,
don't worry about. But once it gets below freezing or
you have a burst or a drip, if you can
isolate and shut off different parts of the piping itself,
and sometimes you can't, especially outdoor faucets, Uh, there's usually
a valve before that, but overall in the whole house. No,

(01:03:29):
I shut my water off and just stop it and
see if you can go ahead and fix that pipe
before you turn it back on, because it's just gonna
keep going. And if it is a joint, that's loose,
or you got some ice in the pipeline and it
gets worse. You know what that's like. If that pipe burst,
then you got you got big problems. So you're swinning.

(01:03:51):
I would definitely shut off the water. Is a pipe.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Directly from at home with Gary Sullivan's mouth, can shut
down the water and call somebody who knows what they're
doing with the plumbing.

Speaker 5 (01:04:02):
It's interesting everybody in your home. Really, this is a
good tip. Anytime of the year. Everybody in the home
should know where the water cutoff is, know where the
gas cutoff is, know where the electric box is. Because
when there's an emergency, that is your reaction. You got
to shut it down. Yeah you got.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
I got to try to find it, and I have it.
I now that you just said that, I have the
main water at my place. Now the handle is a
little jacked up, so I should probably address that unless
I go home and find a sea if uh, well, yeah,
you know what.

Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
We only worry about those things when it's an emergency.
I'd preach all the time on the show, and I
you know, I know what the reality is, and I
preach maintenance, maintenance, maintenance, and it's like yeah, yeah, I'd
get to that, and then when it breaks then it's
like I'm getting to it right now.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
Let's hope I don't go home to that and the
insurance guy's going to go dude. You mentioned the fact
that you knew it was a pre existing issue, where well.

Speaker 5 (01:04:57):
You know, I mean, how does that work, especially, I
mean on a lot of insurance claims. Even if wildlife
or squirrels got in your attic, well, geez, you know,
I mean, you the wood's rotted and you know they're spacing,
and you know we can't cover that. That's just lack
of maintenance.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
But I think raccoon's travel Gary with like a toolkit.
I mean, they will pull your siding off. They will
get I mean they will.

Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
It isn't got goggles, They got the tool belt, they
got the whole work.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
They are ready to get to it. So you can't
blame the human for the aggressive raccoon unless you leave
the door open. And that's a whole other story at home,
Gary Sullivan Course fifty five KR see and of course
you can find them all over the iHeartRadio app as well.
Thank you man for doing what you do. It's always
a pleasure to talk to you and always good information.

Speaker 5 (01:05:40):
Enjoyed. It's Sterling, take care so too.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
That's my man, Gary Sulomon Sterling. Straight away after your
two o'clock report will come back, give you a chance
to get interactive. Jay Ratliffe's going to join us seven
hundred WLW aviation experts about two thirty five or so.
We'll get into his head about how CVG's looking and
what's going on with people trying to get in in town,
out of town and all the other stuff. A lot
of flights canceled or as of this morning. Let me

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see where my notes are with him. I got a
minute or so, don't I Let's see here, No, I don't.
Russ says, I have to stop. All right, I'm stopping.
You're two o'clock reports straight away the news Sandy Collins
got it. And on the other side, we'll have some
fun here on the Nation station, home of the Reds
News Radio, seven hundred WLWS. Because I guess everything has

(01:06:26):
to be given a name these days. This weather is
nothing like any fern I've ever known. In fact, I
don't know that I've ever known a fern. It sounds
like a grandma's name to disrespect if you're younger than
grandma age. But if you're a grandma fern, my guess
is you're warm, fuzzy, nice. Your house probably smells like
vanilla candles in like, you know, cinnamon cookies or something.
And I wish I was there to do snow angels

(01:06:47):
in your backyard and just sort of hang out. But
this fern is evil. I'm just telling you, brutal bad
unless you love the snow. Probably some people looking forward
to doing some skiing in the next couple of days
off Sterling hangs out seven hundred WLW. Later, we'll talk
to Jay Ratliffe seven hundred WLW aviation expert about getting
in and out of town and flight issues all across

(01:07:09):
the country with this storm. Also, we may check him
with Lance. He just messaged me said he's going to
do his third bout of shoveling.

Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
Let me see what he actually said here.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Third round of shoveling is starting at three o'clock, but
he's working at the office at home. We may have
to check in with him and see how deep that
has gotten. There thirteen inches in the Dayton area, which
is more than what they had during the blizzard of
seventy eight, which everyone likes to talk about because well,
it's monumental and this could very well be a record
breaking snow at CVG as well, which is where the

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official total comes from my occasional not Today partner but
co host of course, Don and d Now, without being
too exposing of your residential situation, you do not live
far from where I sit, across Montgomery Road from Kenwood
Town Center, and all I can tell you is this,

(01:08:01):
I'm here. Russ Jackson came in I think from Anderson,
and it took him quite a while to get here,
Alex Egan between Dayton and Cincinnati. A lot of people
live in the in between. That's growing together. I'm not
kapping on you. I'm really not huh. I'm really not here,
Alex Egan said. It took him like an hour and
a half to get here. And you, of course are
snowed in, Donna.

Speaker 7 (01:08:22):
Well, I will say this, well, I will say this.
I do feel after I guess I heard a couple
of year breaks and I'm like, oh, man, Alex is there,
Sandy Collins is there? Certainly is there. I mean, I
do feel a little bit like I could have made
it in but yeah, I chose to not drive my car,

(01:08:45):
which needs two new tires.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's not a good idea. How deep
is the snow at the House.

Speaker 7 (01:08:51):
Of Donna, Well, it's it's definitely seven eight inches here,
maybe more. You know, it's still it's still snowing, and
it's going to be snowing until six o'clock tonight. Maybe
it lets up a little bit, but it's still. You know,
I would it would take me an hour to clean
off my car and turn it on to just that

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alone would take an hour.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
Now we know that O dot we talked earlier, and
I'll have Kathleen Fuller on from O dot Cincinnati again soon.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
You know her, and they've been hitting it right. She
is tremendous.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
And we know about surface streets and you know, you know,
you get your main arteries and stuff to get to
like hospitals and everything else. They try to hit that
stuff first and then work to the secondary roads and
so forth. Neighborhood streets like yours and yours is a
pretty classic Cincinnati older neighborhood vibe.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
In that day, you can almost.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
Reach from one side of the street to the other
to see park cars and then you've got to navigate
through it. So did they tell you to park off
the street?

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
There?

Speaker 5 (01:09:50):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
I mean, are you on the street and just trying
to navigate everything with that too? When it comes time
to go play.

Speaker 7 (01:09:57):
I am fortunate to have a driveway, so I'm not
on the street. And ironically, the street's usually very busy
with cars, and a lot of people have have chosen
not to park on the street, which is great. Our
street is still very snowy and and and I've had
the snow clouds. I've heard them come at least twice

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in our neighborhood already. But you know, these streets are thin,
and it's they're usually very busy with cars, and there's
certainly snow packed, so it's not the easiest to navigate.
And trust me, I feel bad.

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
I'm not with you, No, I understand. I mean, I
get tired. I mean, you know, I how long.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Did I'm trying to think the last time we had
major And by the way, most of these snow events
that have been so big so far this season, we've
been here together because they've hit.

Speaker 7 (01:10:46):
On the week we have been we have and and
that's why I don't feel that bad. Because I've hit
every single one except for this one and last night.
And it's really the snow, but it's also the hole.
Looking outside my I'm looking outside my door and like my.

Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
Car is covered with I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:11:08):
At least six inches and I've already shoveled my walkway
and look my neighbors are out right now getting his
car off. I mean, it's just it's freezing. It's called. Yeah,
it's one of those days where I'm like, Cly, you
got this. Yeah, total motivation and you got this.

Speaker 5 (01:11:27):
And we do.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
It's all good and we still got a bit out
of it here. So I mean, you know, this is
it because you know what everyone is. We're sharing this
experience together. I mean, we carry the burden of helping
people get where they have to go with vital information.
We know that, you know, emergency workers are out there,
a lot of essential workers and and uh you know,
gas stations and doctors and whatever else, urgent care, hospital,

(01:11:49):
et cetera. All that kind of stuff is open. Probably
some people delivering food, if anything is even open, that
pizza would be.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
This is like a snowed in thing.

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
What is your snowed in teary kind of like good,
hunkered down, just kick back and enjoyed life. Donna, you're
talking about your like well Asanna pizza what, Well.

Speaker 11 (01:12:08):
It's definitely not pizza because I don't know anyone that's
going to be out delivering today. But I made the
best potato corn showder so that's my go to for today.

Speaker 7 (01:12:22):
Everything different. But I also love spaghetti and meatball, so
that's that the Italian.

Speaker 13 (01:12:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
I mean it's a stick to your ribs kind of vibe,
and it totally does. It's a chilly kind of like
you know, pork and crouch kind of just you know,
stick to your ribs kind of food kind of thing.

Speaker 7 (01:12:42):
It is how it's cold and you want to be
warm and you want to be comfy. I mean, thank
that we have electricity.

Speaker 11 (01:12:50):
I've thanked, I've thanked everybody under.

Speaker 7 (01:12:53):
The sun that I do energy. I mean everything everybody
under the sun that we have electricity. And you don't
even realize how how grateful you are for electricity until
a storm comes and you're like, oh my gosh, please
don't let my electricity go out.

Speaker 5 (01:13:08):
That's true, and.

Speaker 7 (01:13:10):
Thankfully is still rocking here in Kenwood and all of
my family everybody's got electricity, everybody's hunkered down, and you're
there working, and I'm so proud of you.

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
Oh well, thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:13:22):
That's so nice.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
And that's the other thing too, I'm just kind of
curious about.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
Uh it is a Gus.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
And those who don't know Gus is you're a foster
dog and you've got your old you know, your backyard
and your compound is like massive old you know, growth
trees and everything else. Has a big blockhead Gus who
has a head about half the size of his body.
Is he out there having fun or is he not
like the cold? I mean, because he short haired dog,
it's brutal.

Speaker 7 (01:13:48):
Out he is, you know, probably he probably just hit one,
so he's terminator. Nothing effects his talk. All he wants
to do is get his ball and run outside. Now,
I shoveled a big like pathway for the on the
on my back deck so he can come in easy
without too much snow. But every time he comes in,

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he's got his paws snow, his ball is all snow,
his snow's is all snow, his face.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
Is all snow, and he's.

Speaker 7 (01:14:15):
Having the time of his life. Kids and dogs, that's
where they're at. They're loving it. They don't have school tomorrow.
They're the dogs are having a blast. The little ones
are the little ones. It's harder for them. But this one,
you know, he's loving it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
That's good talking to Donna d of course my co host.
But does she didn't make it end today.

Speaker 5 (01:14:33):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
I'm not tapping on you. I just want to make
that clear. I mean, this does not rival quite as
much as like Seg. Back in the day, there was
an event at some point I recall, I'm trying to
remember if they sent you or if it was McConnell,
but they sent someone to go get Seg because he
was trapped at the house and couldn't get here, and
uh so I thought about that too.

Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
But we have the way to communicate, so it's all right,
It's okay.

Speaker 6 (01:14:58):
Yes, and a listen.

Speaker 7 (01:15:00):
I mean, I have a little tiny suv, but it's
not a great one and I need two tires. So tires, man,
I do for the snow and the and the you know,
the ice, and so otherwise I would it's listen.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
It's you know, for those who don't know, let's put
this in perspective. So a couple of weeks ago, we're
leaving together and uh, we're parked not far from each
other at the time, and I come out and i'd
come from my part's unknown and my car is looks
like it just came out of the car wash. And
your car, I don't you you had snow on top

(01:15:34):
of the car. You had snow on the back windshield
of the car. And I'm scraping off your stuff as
you come out, and you're like, thank you so much.
I don't have a scraper, so I got you a scraper,
so at least you have that. You were completely unprepared.

Speaker 7 (01:15:50):
I this is my problem. It's this is an issue
for me. I mean, it is definitely something that you know,
I don't think about until it has weapons. And I
really I went and got an oil change because I
traveled to Nashville, and I got new windshield wipers, so
I thought it was the game.

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
But you know, yeah, that's all right.

Speaker 7 (01:16:13):
I mean, you know, I just don't think of it
until the time hits and then you know, I have
to make weird decisions.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
That's all right. We're here to help.

Speaker 8 (01:16:22):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
The thing is that because you went to Xavier, you
spent time here you worked at KISS. I was at
the same station for a minute and a half before
I had to go somewhere else in Channel Z. Before that,
of course, is some years ago. So I mean, you're
familiar with the weather here in the Tri State, but
you also had moved to California, so you're then a
California girl before you come back home to Ohio here

(01:16:43):
and start doing this and other work. And so I
understand you're in southern California, you don't need all the
snow stuff that you would have regularly here.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
So I totally get that.

Speaker 7 (01:16:54):
Well, I have been here for three years, and I
lived in Denver for a year, that's true, and they
know from snow.

Speaker 3 (01:17:04):
So yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
See I was trying to give you a window out
to not sound like you weren't prepared, and then you
immediately well, well, no, I know snow.

Speaker 7 (01:17:14):
I am now because I could have gotten in because
I have my scraper and I have you know, all
kinds of gear now winter gear.

Speaker 6 (01:17:23):
I just yeah, I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
I get it.

Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:17:26):
I'm just hoping I don't go home like pipes.

Speaker 7 (01:17:29):
How are you going to get home?

Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
By the way, I'm just gonna wait. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
I gotta wait for it to stop. We'll see how
it is and then we'll hit it, or I'll stay
over again. You know, I have slept at the radio
station before. There was nothing like getting a roll of
paper towels and using that as a pillow under a
console or a desk with your your winter coat or
whatever else. I don't have an office here like I
had in the other building when we were in Adams

(01:17:55):
and elsewhere, because I could just have like on the
love seat or the sofa, kick back and take a nap.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
Those days are gone.

Speaker 7 (01:18:02):
So we literally slept at the station last night.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
No, No, they got me a room someplace or worst set. Yeah,
I'm just saying the worst case scenario. It could be
done right, Yeah, I mean they have heat here, or
I could trudge to your house on foot if necessary.

Speaker 7 (01:18:17):
I told you you could come over here.

Speaker 5 (01:18:19):
I know, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
I'm just saying that there's a lot, a lot of
moving parts.

Speaker 7 (01:18:24):
So it's supposed to stop snowing sterling at six o'clock.
Is that still accurate? I mean, well, let's it says
on my weather app on my weather thing it's ending
at six o'clock, seven eight nine. It's just clouds.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
Yeah, I think that's what ketch Mark said when we
talked to her. We'll get another update and news at
twelve thirty or a two thirty rather excuse me, I
wasn't trying to change time all of a sudden, the
loose two hours, So we'll find out what the update is.

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
That that sounds about right.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
It got here later than they initially thought because it
slowed down, and I don't know if the slowing down
means more accumulated or not, but the experts will tell
us shortly.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
And we got them here a big one.

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
Yeah, so all right, that's good.

Speaker 7 (01:19:06):
And literally, just you know, I am adhering to the
the the you know, the ideas and telling everybody, listen,
stay home if you don't know to.

Speaker 12 (01:19:17):
Drive him anywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
Yeah, I mean, and that's the truth.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
I mean that when I was a teenager, my buddies
and I we would we would just want to break
out and we'd bust out and we'd pick each other
up or meet someplace in the midst of the weather
like this, and then we would find a parking lot
like at the mall or wherever else. I'm not going
to try to get anybody motivated or in trouble. And
I know that we weren't like somehow extraordinarily rare. I

(01:19:41):
think it's a pretty common thing. And you want to
go out and play a little bit and do some donuts,
but you got to do it as safely as you can,
and not really like on a major road, like a
real road.

Speaker 7 (01:19:50):
Yeah, not on a real road. And I wouldn't do
that if you could, if you paid me. I mean
donuts and me and the car. We have to be
very like people each other have. I like this slow
and steady wind to race me drive in the middle.
I don't like bothering anybody. I don't want to come
too close to anybody. But but back in the day,

(01:20:13):
my mom would love donuts. She would she would do donuts.

Speaker 12 (01:20:16):
In the park.

Speaker 6 (01:20:17):
Mom.

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
See mom was cool. That's tremendous.

Speaker 7 (01:20:20):
Yeah, my mom was way cooler than me, for no doubt,
no doubt.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
That's the best. I'm sitting here. I'm trying to look
here at all the Ogo. I love the cameras. See
this is the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:20:31):
I uh.

Speaker 1 (01:20:32):
I can find all the cameras on ogo dot com.
And I'm like Chuck Ingram, I will monitor everything everywhere
at every camera. I'm clicking on just about wherever it is.
Seventy five So seventy five one twenty six snow covered,
although there's traffic moving, but there's snow all over the place.

Speaker 5 (01:20:52):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (01:20:52):
I'm surprised there's really anybody out there too, to be honest,
because you know, we've got we've gotten hit with a
lot of snow and we'll have, you know, at least
three more hours to go with this fallen down. So
I mean, just everyone be grateful for electricity. You can
if you can stay home, stay home, enjoy Like this

(01:21:15):
is one of the cool things about Cincinnati. When you
get snowed in, you have to figure out, like, man,
there's nothing for me to do, so I can just
relax and cook and do the things that I want
to do and chill out and watch Netflix.

Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
What are you streaming?

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
Speaking of that, because it is a big binge kind
of time for a whole lot of people. Imagine, right
aside from listening to us here and getting the information
you need, like you just said, you're gonna sit down
and kick back and chill, maybe eat something good and
stay warm.

Speaker 7 (01:21:44):
Yeah, So it's actually on HBO, Max I think I
got it on Prime. This is a really funny series
John Goodman. It's Righteous Gemstones. So you've heard about that.

Speaker 6 (01:21:57):
Yes, it is hilarious.

Speaker 7 (01:21:59):
I just finished season one. I'm on season two and it's.

Speaker 6 (01:22:03):
Pretty funny, nice.

Speaker 7 (01:22:04):
It's slapstick, you know, like John Goodman's like, you know,
the big Lebowskian stuff. He's very very funny as a
preacher of this church, many churches and it's a big
mega church, and it's very funny.

Speaker 1 (01:22:17):
Nice. Yeah, I've seen a little of it. I didn't
realize it had been on as long as it has.
I mean they've got a few times, I know same.

Speaker 7 (01:22:24):
I just kind of found that it's very good.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
This is the time to try to catch up on.
I guess all of those things that are in the
watch list that there are just there's just I've talked
about this before with Kevin Carr when he's been on
with us and talking to Donna. D if you don't know,
not in the studio. She couldn't get here, she snowed in.
But I'm here, and Santa Collins is here, Jack Crumley's here,
Chuck Ingram's here, and Alex was here and I mentioned

(01:22:50):
Chuck Russ Jackson is here.

Speaker 5 (01:22:51):
He made it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
I remember how long it took.

Speaker 5 (01:22:53):
He said.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
It looks like I don't know why to get here.
So but either way, you know you're in the house
and streaming stuff or whatever. I mean, this is clearly
a big kind of like just kick back and hill
time on all the stuff. But the watch list thing
for pick a streaming service or otherwise. They it is
a weird psychology and they have a name for it,

(01:23:15):
which I escapes me right now, in that people will
go to all the stuff that's coming out soon that
they usually promote right under the immediate stuff, and then
you will go through and add and add and add
and add to the watch list. And then oftentimes you'll
spend a half hour doing that, not watch anything, and
then move on. And so then you kill that amount

(01:23:35):
of time adding stuff to a list that you're never
going to get through. Perhaps this week, in this next
couple of days off will be the time to catch up.

Speaker 7 (01:23:44):
Well, and there's still football going on a pretty big game,
and I mean, I don't know about you. Pretty much
after the build. I mean I'll watch the super Bowl,
but I've lost interest after the Bengals kind of it
just always happens that way.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
Yeah, I mean, and here you go, you got to
Broncos and Patriots later in Denver and the you know,
Nick's got his leg, broken foot, ankle, whatever that was,
ugliness is they got a backup quarterback, so that Patriots
are gonna probably win that game. Seahawks beat the Rams
and they're in Seattle, and that's a six thirty kickoff
in the NFC Championship. So yeah, a whole lot of
football going on, and and I find myself lacking too

(01:24:20):
much interest either.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
But I mean it's it's playoff football in the NFL.

Speaker 6 (01:24:24):
It's selling.

Speaker 7 (01:24:25):
It actually is very good, Yeah it is. And I'm
I think the Rams are gonna win in my opinion,
And I do think the quarterback what's his name, Matt
for the Ram, he's gonna he's gonna probably, you know,
isn't he gonna win?

Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
M VP?

Speaker 7 (01:24:44):
Does everyone think he's gonna win?

Speaker 3 (01:24:45):
If they win?

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
He probably will. But I'm still I'm I'm a Seahawks fan.
I don't I don't know why I'm a Seahawks fan.
I've been to Seattle many times, but even as a kid,
for some reason, I know it was what Steve Largent
used to play for them back in the day or whatever.
I don't know what it was, but at some point,
just like and I mentioned this the other day, the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they sucked and they had you know,

(01:25:06):
those old school unis. I like the uniforms. And then
they were terrible, and I was like, I like an underdog.
Some people like the winners. I like the underdog, you know,
and hopefully the worm terms and they get it. So
I somehow embraced the Seahawks.

Speaker 13 (01:25:20):
I like winter.

Speaker 7 (01:25:24):
Who does I love winners. I love to see people
excel year after year. That's what greatness. That's what excellence is.
When you can because anyone can hit a three point
shot once, but if you do it consistently over and
over again, you start to see this pattern of of
just excellence and winners. And I love to see that

(01:25:44):
in people.

Speaker 8 (01:25:45):
See.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Yeah, I'd like to see the Seahawks turn that corner
and then they can be around for a while. Then
then the Bengals can spend some time playing them later on,
maybe this year, playoffs, super Bowl, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
That's all?

Speaker 1 (01:25:57):
Yeah, anything else before I let you go and joy
your you're uh snowed in life, don a.

Speaker 9 (01:26:02):
D you know?

Speaker 7 (01:26:05):
I am. I'm I'm so grateful that you made it
in even though I'm not.

Speaker 5 (01:26:12):
I get it.

Speaker 7 (01:26:13):
Somebody would have called me. I would have to shovel
from from dust till now my car out and I
would have made it. But I'm I am so glad
to hear that you're on the air and that you're
helping support everybody through this. It's crazy winter storm. It's
nice to hear your voice on the air. I've been
listening all morning or since you've been on air.

Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
Uh morning, still.

Speaker 7 (01:26:40):
A little bit. I get up at six. I got
up at seven this morning, so no, and just just
get everyone gets to where you need to be safely.
If you don't have to go out to just take
the day and be in your pajamas and and do
nothing if you can. That's that's also like a day
to restore. And it's siling out and it's beautiful, smelling,

(01:27:04):
cool air. I mean, some of this stuff is there's
so much to be grateful for.

Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
And we have electricity, so there.

Speaker 3 (01:27:10):
Yeah, electricity is good.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
You want your power, if you you know, and that's
the thing, and it's always a concern and into the
South where there's more of an issue with some of
the rain and the cold. Depending, those people will probably
be navigating a little bit more of that, but we'll
keep you on top of that obviously too.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
We'll enjoy your dave. If you want to check in later.
I'm back on.

Speaker 1 (01:27:29):
I'm here till four and then Dan Carroll comes in
and then I'll be back on after eight.

Speaker 7 (01:27:35):
So yeah, you know, such a long weekend for you, buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:27:40):
I am heavy. Is the crown to help people own
the Try State. I'm doing it. We may even check
in with Willie.

Speaker 1 (01:27:47):
I reach out with him and see how he's doing
his complex of safe security in the deep snow.

Speaker 7 (01:27:55):
Yeah, check in with Willie. See how are you doing there?

Speaker 3 (01:27:57):
You go, Don, I'll talk to you later.

Speaker 6 (01:27:59):
Have a good one, Okay, thank you later.

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
By all right, that's Donna. D Let's see what else
we got going on. Jay Ratliff's going to join me
after the two thirty report. I'm not sure if there's
a tag in tag out, if Sandy Collins is doing
the two thirty or if it's Jack Crumley. We'll find
out together. Unless I quickly could I if I could
get a wireless mic and then run around the other side.
I could figure out who's in there. I have a window,

(01:28:22):
one doo, a hallway in the old studios. Back in
the day, you'd have like Russ Jackson, who's producing the show.
I would see Russ first, and then through his room,
I would see in another pane of glass Sandy Collins
or Crumley or Jeff Henderson back in the day, or
Brian Colmes whomever it would be doing the news at
that point. But now I'm in the dark. I have
TV monitors all around keeping us on top of the

(01:28:44):
conditions and the roads and everything else that's happening. Quick break,
come back. We got the two thirty report with an
update on this storm as it continues to dump snow
in and around the Tri State. Well in an update
on road situations and if you're trying to either get
out of town maybe someplace warm that might be nice,
right or otherwise getting inbound. A whole lot of aircraft grounded,

(01:29:06):
a whole bunch of cancelations. We'll see those numbers were
staggering earlier that Jay Ratliffe sent me. After nine o'clock
this morning, we'll get an update from him, the seven
hundred WLW aviation expert. After your two point thirty report,
it's a snowy Sunday afternoon right here on the Nation station,
your severe weather station seven hundred WLW. Well, and it's

(01:29:28):
Stirling hanging out seven hundred w welw. The rat the
fern or winter storm that's piled up close to record
breaking snow for the tri State continues.

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
To dump on us.

Speaker 1 (01:29:39):
Already a record breaker in the Dayton area minus the
wind and everything. That was nineteen seventy eight in the blizzard,
and was just talking to Rush Jackson's producing the show
off the air talking about the Ohio River at that
time it had also frozen over, if I'm not mistaken.
I don't know if you people were able to walk
on it so well, but it did freeze over a guy.
It's sort of like with the Eagles with their retirement
tour in healthy is over and they're still working.

Speaker 3 (01:30:02):
It's weird how that plays out.

Speaker 1 (01:30:04):
Jay Ratliffe is a seven hundred WLW aviation expert, kind
enough to give us some time on this Sunday checking
in again. This is a monumental storm.

Speaker 5 (01:30:13):
Jay.

Speaker 1 (01:30:14):
We've talked about all the aircraft moving around the country
and trying to figure out how to move those resources
once this stuff gets cleaned up. How big of a
problem has this been for cancelations and moving aircraft around.

Speaker 15 (01:30:27):
It's been huge derling. In fact, when you were talking,
I was thinking about the Ferns. I thought, you know,
I wonder iface sports teams have that named the Ferns.
And I looked it up and you got to go
to New Zealand. There's some women's sports teams that are
called the Ferns. But this has definitely got some teeth
to it. We're seeing it because when you look at
just the top four airlines today as far as what's

(01:30:49):
going on with them, American Airlines has canceled forty seven
percent of their flights, thirteen percent more are delayed.

Speaker 8 (01:30:56):
Delta's canceled four.

Speaker 15 (01:30:57):
Percent of their flights also with eleven percent delay, Southwestern
United thirty three and thirty six percent canceled ten percent
on each that are delayed. Comes out to nearly seven
thousand flights that are impacted just from those four carriers,
And if you average one hundred and fifty people a flight,
that's more than a million passengers right there. So when
you have a million people that are impacted today just

(01:31:21):
from those four airlines, and you have to try to
get those individuals to their destinations when you can. It's
easy to see that this is going to be something
that's going to be a multi day event. I've been
asked several times about how long is it going to
take for us to get back as far as normal,
and I'm thinking Tuesday and Wednesday from a flight operation,
and probably at least that long to get some passengers

(01:31:44):
to their destination. Because when you're talking about a lot
of the airlines that offer, you know, maybe three flights
a day on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday to a specific destination,
what's going to take place as well? If the Monday
flight's canceled, then it's going to be on Wednesday and
Friday they can try to get passengers to those impacted destinations.

Speaker 8 (01:32:04):
And it's just a mess. I mean, when we're.

Speaker 15 (01:32:06):
Looking at the airports, Atlanta's canceled half of their flights today,
Charlotte eighty three percent of the flights into Charlotte's canceled,
Dallas forty eight percent, Kennedy nearly eighty percent. So you're
talking about something that is gripping the nation from in essence,
Texas all the way towards the northeast. When we're seeing
some significant, significant delays and cancelations by some of the

(01:32:29):
biggest airlines. So obviously that's creating all kinds of problems
right now and passengers that are trying to figure out,
you know, the best way to adapt when you're trying
to get somewhere now. One thing I tell people constantly
when they're trying to travel, let's say from hereitting down
to Florida, and perhaps your flight Orlando has been canceled.
One thing that you can do for the airline to

(01:32:51):
try to help out the agent is to tell them, look,
get us to Daytona Beach, Tampa, Saint Pete, get us
to a nearby airport.

Speaker 8 (01:32:59):
We will rent a car and drive.

Speaker 15 (01:33:01):
At our own expense to get a store destination. Because
when you can give an agent four or five destinations,
it's going to work to your advantage. I remember Shery
and I were coming back from Europe and we got
to Kennedy and with nothing but weather, and I told
the American Airlines agent, get me to any airport in
the state of Ohio, and we will drive home and
they were able finally at midnight to get us the

(01:33:23):
last few seats getting into Columbus and we drove home
from there. So you know, these weather events, it can
be challenging and it's going to require a lot of
patience for everybody from the airlines to obviously the passengers
that are impacted.

Speaker 1 (01:33:35):
Talking to seven hundred WLW aviation expert Jay Ratliffe on
a very snowy Sunday, so you know what happens to
these million people if they're not at home, then there
are obviously a lot of hotel rooms that are being booked.
And there is a difference between and we've talked about
this time and time again Jay weather compared to mechanical
issues or airline ups as far as moving equipment when

(01:33:58):
there's not a storm, there is a different and what
they're required to and they're clearly probably unless you've made
friends with somebody gonna come off the cash to get
you a room or food if they don't have to
correct well.

Speaker 15 (01:34:08):
Unless you're like one of their top top top top
top free from flyers, which you know most of us
are not, that's exactly the case. What's going to happen
is you know, if your flight at noon is canceled,
they're going to be saying, Okay, the next flight going
to that city is going to be at six o'clock tonight.
We think it's full. We can put you on the standby.
But there's forty four people already on it. So you're

(01:34:29):
talking about, okay, forty four people don't have to show
up before I'm going to get a chance to maybe
get on that flight. So you know, they might say
we can't confirm you until Tuesday morning or tomorrow night,
and what do you do? You stick around the airport.
Some people are going to camp out for twenty four
hours at the airport that they're at until they can
get out, just just because perhaps the nearest hotel is

(01:34:51):
an hour and a half from the airport, and the
thought is, well, why spend three hours round trip in
bad weather trying to get to a hotel. We'll stay
here so that if something does change at the last minute,
I'm at the airport and I can step up and
say here I am, take me and off you go
type of thing, which is really the best best thing
to do. And it's it's a situation right now where

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it's just it's really difficult for airline agents, and because
what they're trying to do is to get everybody out
as much as they can.

Speaker 8 (01:35:20):
And look, if you've.

Speaker 15 (01:35:21):
Got a flight that's departing and you've got three empty seats, okay,
you got you know, nine hundred and eighty five people
in the gate area, You've got a specific, you know
approach that you have to try to see about getting
people on those planes. It just takes a while to
get everybody to where.

Speaker 8 (01:35:35):
They need to be.

Speaker 15 (01:35:35):
Now, the good news is that this is January, which
is typically a lighter travel period, and that's going to
help out a little bit. Had this happened last month
at this time during the Christmas travel, good Lord, it
would be it would be just nuts. But this is
a little bit better because we're not dealing with quite
the volume of passengers. But that doesn't mean it's not challenging,

(01:35:56):
both for passengers and for airlines. And as quickly as
the storm moves through, we'll see airlines in Texas like
Dallas and Houston snap back into full operations. We're going
to see other smaller airports like Omaha and Little Rock
start their operations back because they're all but closed down.

Speaker 8 (01:36:12):
At this point in time. So as the.

Speaker 15 (01:36:14):
Storm moves through, the airlines will very quickly we're zoom
operations as quickly as they can and then try to
find the crowd as much as they can to get
all the impacted passengers to what is ultimately going to be,
you know, their final destinations.

Speaker 1 (01:36:27):
Jay Ratlis, the seven hundred WLW aviation expert with Sterling
seven hundred WLW. We talked also about the it's sort
of its own little world at an airport and CVG
of course, big facility in what was a massive hub
at one point, at least compared to it's got a
lot of flights now. But the hub helped with the
way they built that out and the way it's operated

(01:36:49):
really helps in these type of situations more than a
lot of other places, doesn't it.

Speaker 6 (01:36:53):
Well, it does.

Speaker 15 (01:36:54):
But you know, now we've got more local traffic than
we've ever had before coming to CBG, and that's evidence
because the fact that we have so many low cost
carriers are going to so many different destinations. In addition
to seeing airlines like American Delta United to increase their presence,
you have airlines like British Airways coming in giving us
their flights to Europe. You've got Air Canada coming in
giving US flights to the West Coast. So yeah, the

(01:37:16):
airport continues to grow, and it's kind of a model
of what otherlines airports would love to see from the
standpoint of emerging from a hub with prices that were
extremely high. Now all of a sudden, you've got a
bunch of low cost carriers that the community is supporting,
and you've got a lot of options in addition to
really low fares, which is the perfect combination. Now, the

(01:37:36):
beauty of it is now is with all those different
destinations to all those various cities, if you're impacted, it
makes it easier to try to get you to your destination.
And that goes back to that previous point of try
to help the airline agent out as much as you
possibly can by telling them if there's another airport that
you might be able to get to. Now, keep in mind,
if they send you to a Daytona beach and you're.

Speaker 8 (01:37:57):
Going to Orlando, you're on your own.

Speaker 15 (01:37:58):
You've got to find a way to get yourself from
that other airport to where you're going. And the other
thing you got to be careful of is that. Let's
say you're in the middle of your itinerary and you say, look,
I'm just going to drive to my next city. I
won't take the flight. I'll just drive to Atlanta and
I'll catch the flight from there. The problem is if
you don't communicate that to the airline's terming, what happens

(01:38:19):
is they have used a no show for your Cincinnati
flight the connection, right, they cancel everything after that. So
if that's the middle part of it, it's in other words,
if your return is still on there, it's gone. So
you have to make sure you communicate with the airline
to let them know what you're doing. Because look, if
you if you want to drive from one city to another, okay,

(01:38:41):
that's fine, you won't probably you're not gonna getting some
sort of a refund. Just say I'm gonna pick up
the flight there. And during times of irregular operations, airlines
do a pretty good job of working with us. But
you've got to make sure you communicate what those changes
are going to be because if you don't, you could
really be a problem because now you've got all this
massive people that are trying to get where they're going.

(01:39:01):
You pop into the airport for your planned return trip
that you've had booked for a while for them to say,
I'm sorry that flight's been canceled, and they're gonna say, well,
who canceled it? Well, you did when you didn't show
up for your Cincinnati flight. Well that's when the problem is.
And simply by just not knowing what needs to happen
is what takes place. So and I've also been asked
a lot from a lot of people, j if I'm

(01:39:22):
at the airport and I don't have an aircraft at
my gate, is there any way to track it coming?

Speaker 8 (01:39:26):
In?

Speaker 15 (01:39:27):
Flight aware dot com is a great site I use
all the time as we do at the airport, and
you can put in your flight number at flight aware
dot com and it'll show you the outbound departure, the time,
all the stuff there. But it also is a link
in the corner that says track inbound flight and you
just click on it. It'll show you where your airplane's
at in relation to where you're at, and you can
actually track the inbound aircraft that's gonna make the outbound

(01:39:49):
segment for what you're going to be traveling. I've seen
gate agents using it. It's a free app. And it
really kind of alleviates the need of asking a lot
of needless questions when you can f that from yourself
in real time where your aircraft happens to be.

Speaker 1 (01:40:03):
I got to say, I don't know how much of
a geek this makes me. And as a kid it
was a teenager it was fun. With my buddies. We
go to the airport sometimes and you could drive pretty
close up and you know, sort of see flights takeoff
and land, which was I don't know, oh awesome. Obviously
security is a little different in getting close now weather
it's a part of this two J Ratless seven hundred
wlw aviation expert was Stirling on the big one. The

(01:40:25):
other thing that was interesting, and we've discussed this before too.
As much as I say, you know, you drive up
seventy one or seventy five or seventy four whatever it
is with O Dott and you see the gang plow
and all those plows together going to work at the
airport CBG and around the country. It is amazing to
see the heavy equipment doing the work it does, trying
to move all that snow out of the way to

(01:40:45):
keep those flights moving. It is spectacular.

Speaker 5 (01:40:47):
To watch.

Speaker 15 (01:40:48):
It would make a great real time TV show because
when you see all that goes on behind the scenes
to keep something as big as a runway clear, you
have you're constantly checking the breaking conditions to see, you know,
if everything is as it needs to be for the
crews coming in. That information is constantly communicated from.

Speaker 8 (01:41:10):
Pilot to pilot.

Speaker 15 (01:41:12):
You have everything from the weather that's being monitored, the
ground equipment, all of it. I mean, it's a city,
as we've talked about, and a lot of times we
just kind of take that for granted.

Speaker 8 (01:41:22):
You get to an airport that.

Speaker 15 (01:41:24):
Doesn't do it quite as well as CBG, and then
all of a sudden, you're like, wait, what's going on here?
Because many times it's not a matter of them just
not having their act together, but sometimes the communication breaks
down and or the weather has a sudden change, and
then all of a sudden, it you know, we can't
use that runway because the winds have changed. Now we've
got to use another one. But it's not clear. We've
got to have time to get that runway clear, and

(01:41:45):
it can create a backlog, which means, okay, we've got
a de ice an airplane.

Speaker 8 (01:41:49):
It's been holding too long.

Speaker 15 (01:41:50):
Now we need to go back and get another glyc
hall treatment because there's a hold over time. Once you're
everything's been done, you can only depart.

Speaker 8 (01:41:58):
An x amount of minutes.

Speaker 15 (01:42:00):
If it exceeds that, you're right back to getting de iced,
which is us airing on the side of caution. So
you don't ever, ever, ever want to get upset because
there's a de icing delay, because that's a safety related issue,
and if you have to be delayed because of that,
then that's that's a good thing, even though a lot
of times people don't look at it that way, because
you know, keeping the contaminants off the wing is what

(01:42:21):
keeps the plane in the.

Speaker 3 (01:42:23):
Sky of flying.

Speaker 1 (01:42:25):
Jay, I don't want to come down the hard way
clean it, did it nice, in pristine, You don't.

Speaker 8 (01:42:31):
Think you got it all, go back and do it again.
I don't care because I want to get to my destination.

Speaker 1 (01:42:36):
It's okay, Yeah, absolutely, Jay, Ratless, aviation expert for the
big one with Sterling. You know you would know this
probably better than anyone. I don't know how many miles
you've accumulated over the years. My guess is a ton,
and you've been to a whole lot of airports. I'm
kind of curious because I have been stuck coincidentally seemingly
repeatedly in Chicago, which is probably pretty common for people,

(01:42:58):
and from Midway and aust so O'Hare Midway was just
a joke as far as trying to sleep when there
was no room. Is there like a top five airports
you can think of if you've got to sack out
and you're stuck at the airport, where you're like, this
is the place I'd like to go if I'm going
to be stuck at an airport overnight.

Speaker 15 (01:43:17):
I like Cincinnati because the fact that it's it's got
the amenities that's there. But look, it's close to home
for us, so most of us are going to go home.
But you know, they ranked the top airports and they
put San Francisco at the top. Now, I don't know
I would necessarily go that way. Now, there's been a
lot of airports that have been revised. They've had some

(01:43:37):
renovations that have just been awesome. I'd yet to see
some of those airports. But you know, the airport chairs,
for the most part, they all have the armo rests,
which prevents you from you know, taking three or four
of them and laying them down across. And that's done
on purpose, obviously, which makes it really really difficult. So
I mean I've got my favorite. I mean, i'd like,

(01:43:57):
you know, I like the Greenville Airport down the Caroline
Is because the parking lot looks like a some sort
of a golf country club. I mean, it's just beautiful outside.

Speaker 8 (01:44:07):
And you know those sites.

Speaker 15 (01:44:08):
Yeah, Dallas seventeen five hundred acres.

Speaker 8 (01:44:11):
I mean, it just goes forever.

Speaker 15 (01:44:13):
And yes, Chicago sometimes is known as the place where
on time flights go to die, but it really depends
on the time of year because a lot of times
when people are flying, this is what they did back
in June and July.

Speaker 8 (01:44:24):
Hey, Jay, you're proud of me.

Speaker 15 (01:44:25):
I made my reservations for January, so I booked well
in advance, and the weather we know in February is horrible,
so I totally avoided Chicago and I booked my trip
through Dallas. Well we get to January, what happens. Dallas
has got twenty hours of freezing rain.

Speaker 8 (01:44:40):
Chicago's okay.

Speaker 15 (01:44:41):
So you really just never know when it comes to
mother nature where things are going to go. And I
tell you that this is a historic storm in a
lot of ways, and even though it's slowing air travel
down a lot, you just really pray for everybody that's impacted,
because you know it's a dangerous situation where there could
be a loss of life life, and that's the real concern.

(01:45:02):
I mean, not only people that are traveling, but people
that are out trying to keep the roads clear, the
line men and women that are out there keeping the
power on in really cold temperatures, and all the law
enforcement first responders. I mean, it's easy for us to
forget all the people that make things work, that we
take for granted until it doesn't work, and then it's like, hey,
what's the problem, what's going on? So obviously proper perspective,

(01:45:23):
at least for me, is what I've got to make
sure I remember, because it's easy to get carried away
with things that we shouldn't and when you get this
kind of a situation going on.

Speaker 1 (01:45:32):
Jay, this is funny. A guy named rand I'm assuming
it's a dude, says, what about SFO. You mentioned San Francisco.
That place has been under construction for my whole life,
and I've floated in and out of there, a few times.
It literally seemed like I kid you not. It was
like a stretch of like four or five trips over
ten year period. I think Rand's right. I don't know

(01:45:52):
about now. I haven't been in a while, but for
a better part of a decade, that place was constantly
under construction.

Speaker 15 (01:45:58):
Are you are you referent? Are you saying it's like
seventy five it's they always always has something going on.

Speaker 3 (01:46:03):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of barrels.

Speaker 15 (01:46:07):
I've had to spend the night at the San Francisco Airport.
I came in one afternoon and it had got until
the next morning, and yeah, it was fine. I mean,
you know, there wasn't anything that I was like, oh wow,
I need to come back and do this again sometimes soon.
But you know, it wasn't bad. And you know, these days,
the airlines and airports have done a really good job
of trying to make the airport's very user friendly. Now again,

(01:46:28):
you've got to be very careful because sometimes they have
these these universal charging stations that are at airports that
everybody can plug in and use. And the Department of
Homeland Security and the FA or NTSA have been warning
travelers that some people are hacking into those. Ye, So
you need to make sure if you're charging your device
at the airport, use your own power device. Don't plug

(01:46:49):
into those because sometimes it's granting access to people to
hack into your your device.

Speaker 8 (01:46:55):
So please, please please.

Speaker 15 (01:46:57):
Make sure that if you're going to be spending a
lot of time at an airport, use your own charging device.
If not, go buy one, do not use the ones
that are at the airport.

Speaker 1 (01:47:04):
Probably worth it to pay the overcharge price, you know
that you get at the airport for one.

Speaker 8 (01:47:08):
It makes zero question, my friends.

Speaker 1 (01:47:11):
It's what happens if you're stuck in the compound. You
got to pay compound prices. It's just the wind convenience.

Speaker 3 (01:47:17):
Remember that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:47:19):
There's a Dave Hatter moment as far as the security
for your devices.

Speaker 3 (01:47:22):
So that was nice. We've entered into that ground.

Speaker 1 (01:47:24):
Jay Ratliff, anything else before we let you go Aviation
expert for the big one and.

Speaker 15 (01:47:30):
A couple hours, I'll be back with the Day and
Carroll as we could give the latest update as far
as what's going on, and obviously make sure the airlines
have a way to get a hold of you if
you're traveling today, tomorrow, or even on Tuesday, just in
case there's any changes to your itinerary.

Speaker 1 (01:47:43):
There you go, Jay Ratliffe, thank you for doing what
you do and making time. I appreciate It's always a
pleasure to talk to you.

Speaker 5 (01:47:47):
Man. Sorry, take care of yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:47:49):
That's Jay Ratlift seven hundred w welw Aviation Expert Rench talk.
And also check in with Lance see how his shoveling's going.
He should be getting ready to make his third trip
out to keep the pile up from piling up too much,
or around to the house of Lancemo mccowister. So thanks
to Jay Rattlete we talked to Donna a lot of
ground cover and we still got an hour to go
before Dan Carroll comes in. And this is my first

(01:48:11):
of a split shift Sunday afternoon evening Sterling Show with
Russ Jackson producing and other stuff to get to you
know what I'd like to do.

Speaker 3 (01:48:20):
I'm kind of curious about this too.

Speaker 1 (01:48:22):
Of all the places you'd like to be snowed in,
if you were going to be snowed in, is this
the place which you prefer to be at home? I mean,
I gotta be honest, I mean I'm glad to be here,
but if I was going to be stranded someplace when
this is going on here, I would almost prefer to
be at like a beach destination or something like that. Going, man,
I got to add a day for the vacation, maybe
two days before I come home to the cold. Five one, three, seven,

(01:48:45):
four nine seven, eight hundred. The big one. And the
other thing is what do you do when you're snowed
in at the house? Is it a binge watching streaming time?
Is it all about the NFL this weekend this Sunday
of course with playoffs and the championships for the conferences?
I mean, what is it that you got going on
that's keeping you good to go? And whatever you do

(01:49:07):
if you're out there doing the snow, just take it easy,
pace yourself, don't get overworked, don't get overheated. This extreme
cold with that is a health hazard beyond health hazards,
and we don't want to have somebody, mainly you, ending
up as a cautionary tail or otherwise. So just be
careful with that. We'll come back after your three o'clock report.

(01:49:29):
We'll see if the lance is available. We'll probably get
him inside rather than outside while he's working. Give you
a chance to sound off, and I think we may
also have Jennifer Ketchmark conversation we had with her just
about snowpocalypse in general as well, So good bit of
ground to cover. Hang out, there's more to do on
this very snow, extremely cold, low traffic. Dig yourself out

(01:49:50):
of this mess of this inappropriately named snowstorm called fern.
Any fern I can imagine is sweet and aged and nice,
or a plant in the woods, not pounding snow in
brutal cold. But what the hell do I know. I'm
just a guy behind the microphone in a room with
a window into a hallway on a Sunday afternoon on

(01:50:12):
your severe weather station, news radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
Used to fall.

Speaker 1 (01:50:18):
It is piling up o dots Cincinnati, northern Kentucky, all
over well a good portion of the country in excess
of one hundred million people dealing with fern and or
the ratfuff, deep snow, wicked cold. Thankfully, not a ton
of wind, no blizzard conditions, but it's piling up near
record levels. Later on we'll talk to Lance at conversation

(01:50:42):
with Jennifer Ketchmark, who you normally get in an air
full of with Tom Brennan in the morning here on
the Big One. You see her on Channel nine, And
I don't know if she just got off or if
she'd had been off or there's a lot of moving
parts in this as we're all sort of pulling duty
trying to make sure the tri State is safe and secure.

(01:51:03):
Uh how how how are you inside outside working?

Speaker 3 (01:51:07):
Not working? Jennifer Ketchmark, how is everything?

Speaker 9 (01:51:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:51:10):
We I actually just got done broadcasting. We're still on
the air. Steve came in and took over, but we
broadcasted for seven straight.

Speaker 7 (01:51:18):
Hours this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
Oh yeah, that's all.

Speaker 6 (01:51:21):
Like handing off the baton. It's like somebody else, please
take this. I'm gonna go now. But yeah, I mean
the the rose or mess. I just drove what less
than a mile from our studio to the hotel they've
got got to set up at downtown. And if I
didn't have a four y four, I wouldn't have made it.
There's no way.

Speaker 3 (01:51:40):
How long did it take in that short little drive?

Speaker 6 (01:51:43):
Well, I mean I grew up in Illinois, so I
don't know how to drive in this, and I may
have had a little fun in it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:49):
You are doing donuts in and around like I'm.

Speaker 6 (01:51:53):
Not doing donuts. No, there is no three cameras that
has me doing donuts. But you know, I mean, I've
got to I've got a Bronco so I can navigate
quite a bit. I went around several cars, front wheel
drives with vehicles and they're not moving. I mean, when
you've got what eight inch is now pretty much on
the ground here downtown, it looks like it has not
been plowed. Like the only thing that you're seeing are

(01:52:16):
just tire tracks from other vehicles, not from a plow
moving it out of the way. It is a mess.
But where they're putting their efforts is to keep roads open.
Like roads they go to hospitals and emergency centers, or
to fire departments and police departments, like critical services are
being the focus first.

Speaker 5 (01:52:33):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:52:34):
I get that absolutely, and that's one of those things.

Speaker 1 (01:52:37):
You start with those priorities, those main arteries and interstates,
and then you work into the secondary streets and eventually
they'll get to neighborhoods. And then we know how Cincinnati
has struggle with that new technology, new equipment. We'll see
what this particular clean up after firm in the complaints
that will take place with that how much more snow
are we going to get? A body of mine north
in Springboro sent me a picture with his yardstick in

(01:52:59):
the back. They had just about just shy of a
foot and I don't know if it was drifting or otherwise.
It looked actually deeper in and around their driveway and
further out. But all they did was shovels so the
dogs could get to the back.

Speaker 2 (01:53:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:53:11):
I had a lady send me a photo so she
had thirteen inches. She was up in that would be
Liberty Townships. They got thirteen inches there. She had a
snow drift and legit sent me a photo twenty nine
inch snowdrift. Oh nice, Why TI we're doing this? So?
I mean for the rest of the afternoon, we're still
probably looking at maybe another two three inches of snowfall

(01:53:36):
at the most. There is a lot of sleet that
has developed in our southern spots. I know down in
Maysville they actually only got about four inches of snowfall,
but they've been getting nothing but fleet ever since then.
I don't see the sleet fully making it into Cincinnati,
but a lot of our very eastern spots out in
a Georgetown, Amelia down to Brooksvillet of Brooksville, Kentucky. They're

(01:53:58):
they're getting quite a bit of sleet out of this.

Speaker 1 (01:53:59):
Now, if that's on top of the snow, that doesn't
cause too much of a problem. But it's power lines
in everything else, in trees, right with everything that happens.
Then with this extreme cold, that's going to be an
issue too.

Speaker 6 (01:54:13):
So here's the thing about sleet. You got to remember
what the precipitation type comes to the ground as sleet
is an ice pellet, so it doesn't cling to power lines,
it doesn't weigh down tree limbs, it bounces right off
of them. Now, if it was freezing rain, it would
be a much different discussion. But because it's sleet, it's
just like hail, like it just bounces off of stuff.

(01:54:33):
It's just very small and tiny. So the fact that
it's sleep is a blessing, you know, like it could
be worse that they're staying down In London, Kentucky. Summer said,
that's what they actually got, legit breezing rain, and they
are losing power because it's weighing down everything. So yeah,
primarily it's just sleet or snow for us.

Speaker 1 (01:54:51):
So the snow stopping do we have an idea is
to when that's going to happen, or just as we
watch the storm lead to us and then as it
continues to go. But I mean, we have a few
hours more left of this at least this isn't going
to go until tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:55:05):
Correct or is.

Speaker 6 (01:55:06):
No, no, no, The best accumulating stuff is going to
be wrapping up around four, we'll still see some very
light snow left up through about maybe six or seven,
which are anybody going suits sive and they've got kids,
That's true, it's a it's around that time that we'll
still see a little bit of the light stuff wrapping up,
but it will not be falling overnight or tomorrow morning.

(01:55:29):
The problem is it just becomes stupid cold outside. We've
got cold weather advisories for tonight, we've got an extreme
cold warning for the following night. We're looking at windshows
tomorrow morning at negative fifteen the following morning at negative
twenty to negative thirty. And the snow is not moving
unless you move it like Mother Nature is doing us

(01:55:50):
zero favors in the system. So if you want to
road cleared, it's a plow coming through through what your
driveway getting cleared. It's you getting out there with a
shovel of calling somebody to come plouette.

Speaker 1 (01:56:00):
Now, for those who don't know, this is Jennifer Ketchmarco
from Channel nine was Sterling on seven hundred WLW talking
about storm Fern, which we're experiencing now for at least
a few more hours and then the cleanup after. When
are we going to see temperatures above freezing, Jennifer, Because
this is I'm tired of this already, and I'm an
Ohio kid. I shouldn't whine and cry. You mentioned it,
you know, being a kid from Illinois and all, but

(01:56:22):
I mean, I'm over this. I'm ready for Opening day
in eighty degrees which probably and I've seen snow on
Opening Day, but that's a long.

Speaker 7 (01:56:30):
Time, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:56:32):
The extended models, even the eight to fourteen day outlooks
shows very very cold their life. And the cold there
that we're dealing with all this week is going to
be around probably for a good chunk of next week.
Like getting above freezing is going to be difficult because,
especially when you have a snowpack, it just intensifies the
cold and it makes it that much harder for your
temperatures to recover.

Speaker 7 (01:56:51):
So we've got a lot of.

Speaker 6 (01:56:53):
Ground to cover to get back to anything comfortable. Just
even to get to like fifty is a pipe three
month this moment, you know what.

Speaker 1 (01:57:01):
Has been weird to me? And you study this, this
is your world when it comes to weather stuff, Jennifer,
When has it been more erratic this year? I mean
because we had early accumulating snow and all that a
while back, and then it got warmer again and then
this whiplash thing.

Speaker 3 (01:57:17):
I'm exhausted. It's what I'm trying to say.

Speaker 6 (01:57:21):
There is nothing steady about winter.

Speaker 9 (01:57:23):
Winter.

Speaker 6 (01:57:23):
It's like you used to just settle into it and
the pattern would just be cold for a long time
and you didn't have these wonky ups and downs. But
in the ten eleven years i've been here in Cincinnati,
I mean we have seen just some wild patterns in
the winter season where you do get like earlier this
month this January, we had a record breaking high of
sixty seven degrees this month.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
Yeah, I walked my dog in shorts and I did.

Speaker 6 (01:57:48):
Yeah, it's it's it's a lot, you know. I think
we sometimes forget about the extreme ups and downs when
the season's all over. It's just you remember the worst
of the worst or the best of the best, but
in between and that there are just the goldrum days
of winter that just suff and we're just this is
one of those extreme events that you know you will remember,

(01:58:10):
you'll forget about the other, you know what, sixteen weeks
where it's just as cold and gray and miserable outside.
So yeah, we definitely had an early start to our
December with snow coming down earlier than prior years. But
I wouldn't call this like the most wild winter we've
ever gone through, like we're we're gonna see wild.

Speaker 1 (01:58:28):
It's sternly talking to Jeffer Ketchmark from a Channel nine
and this snow apocalypse or whatever other name people want
to call it, compared to it I remember, I think
it was ninety eight and the stations were still we
were in Mount Adams and I lived just on the
other side of the hill close to the station because
it was convenient. And then of course the phone call
comes that hey you're close. Can you just walk around
the hill and can you go in? Nobody else can
get up the hill there in Mount Adams. I'm like, great, yea,

(01:58:50):
so is this an arrival? What was I think that
was a record snow just in that late part of
the nineties and ninety seven ninety eight somewhere in there
are we looking at record breaking snow accumulation with the
storm we are.

Speaker 6 (01:59:02):
Watching it today, so we we would have to get CBG.

Speaker 2 (01:59:07):
Pard.

Speaker 6 (01:59:07):
That was loud. It was my apple sauce. I'm very hungry.
I've been eating apple sauce this entire time. Just so
you know, I'm drinking it literally out of like the
little container for a lunchboxes.

Speaker 3 (01:59:17):
Let's for you too. That's fantastic.

Speaker 6 (01:59:19):
Yeah, listen, I'm hungry. I've been working all day.

Speaker 3 (01:59:22):
I appreciate that. I'm not complaining. You mentioned it. I
had no idea.

Speaker 1 (01:59:26):
You know what I have right here on a paper
plate a half of a cold, wispy waffle. So I
mean that's what. Yeah, because I stayed yeah, and I
will eat. Well you.

Speaker 13 (01:59:38):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (01:59:39):
So when it comes to records, I believe we need
to get around twelve inches for Cincinnati to break the
twenty four hour total. Right now at CBG, we're not
quite there. We may be just a little bit below
it because it has to be specifically at CBG. Now,
we could use a Westchester or a Mason recording. Then yeah,
we have the record like it's it's already happened there,

(02:00:01):
but it has to be out there by hebron.

Speaker 3 (02:00:04):
Yeah, that's just the official account.

Speaker 1 (02:00:06):
Anything else before we let you go to enjoy naptime
and your Apple sauce and a beautiful sunday. Maybe go
out do some sliding in the cold. I don't know,
maybe they gotta. You'll be like me, I'm doing the double.
When are you back in tomorrow morning?

Speaker 6 (02:00:18):
Or what tomorrow morning?

Speaker 5 (02:00:19):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (02:00:19):
So I did.

Speaker 6 (02:00:20):
Gosh, I worked what three to nine hours today?

Speaker 12 (02:00:23):
That's not bad.

Speaker 3 (02:00:24):
No, that's a good run.

Speaker 6 (02:00:25):
Yeah, that's a decent run. Fix of it was pure broadcasting,
so you know that was fun. But no, tomorrow, way
back for a normal morning show, and I'll hang around
until it's safe to get home. Hopefully I can get
home tomorrow. I would love to get back and see
my kids. My daughter's like, hey, Mom, what time you
coming home today? I'm like I'm not. She goes, oh oh.
I was like, no, you're getting nothing out of me.

(02:00:46):
There's no Starbucks, there's no seven Broods today. No, my friend, I.

Speaker 1 (02:00:50):
Hope it's in the refrigerator or her in the cabinet
at the house in the pantry.

Speaker 3 (02:00:55):
Otherwise he will figure it out.

Speaker 6 (02:00:57):
He will figure it out.

Speaker 3 (02:00:58):
Fourteen It's fine, oh absolute.

Speaker 1 (02:01:00):
I was taking the bus downtown going to the library,
going not on a day like this, but I mean, yeah,
she'll savive for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:01:06):
But Jennifer, thank you for doing what you do.

Speaker 1 (02:01:08):
Enjoyed the rest of this day, and you can check
out tomorrow with Tom Brenneman early in the morning here
on the big one on Channel nine, maybe on the
way out of the house, or maybe just multitasking doing both.
Sometimes I'll do that because I've got problems. Yeah, all right,
take care of yourself.

Speaker 6 (02:01:23):
I multigest you, all right.

Speaker 1 (02:01:24):
Miss There you go, a conversation with Jennifer Ketchmark Channel
nine talking about the snow apocalypse in this storm fern
that continues to pound us and will for a little while,
and then the cleanup is going to take a bit longer,
that is for sure. We'll talk to Lance McCallister here
a little bit. I think he has finished his third
round of shoveling at the house of McAllister. So after

(02:01:45):
the three thirty reports, which we'll get an update from
Sean Gallagher about what's going on as far as clean
up is concerned, and there's a whole lot of that,
from the streets of Cincinnati, neighborhood after neighborhood to you know,
getting those main arteries and everything else beyond them. And
of course also a conversation I had with Kathleen Fuller
from O dot talking very specifically about just everything that

(02:02:06):
they do and how they get these roads back up.

Speaker 5 (02:02:10):
To doing stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:02:11):
Speaking of which, let me hold on a second, she
sent me a text and earlier she mentioned to me
that she was talking to one of those that are
out there in the truck keeping us safe, which is
there's a whole lot of people all over the tri State,
all over the place for that matter, trying to get
these roads clear and everything so we can get back
to normal. Brian Stevens also been working up in Clinton

(02:02:34):
County on seventy one, so I certainly appreciate him and
all those others for doing that, drinking lots of coffee,
caffeinated beverages, or otherwise hopingly doing it safely and having
a good day as they try to get us back
to normal. And all these people in these trucks, men
and women out there and you know whether it's a
city streets or suburban areas, and certainly O DOT with

(02:02:54):
the interstate highways and so forth, and putting a whole
lot of long hours in as are. You just heard
a catch Mark talk about long day for her. Double
duty for me. Dan Carroll's going to follow me after
four o'clock and then I'll be back after eight to
do a little bit more to keep us on top
of this and get us ready for Monday, which is

(02:03:15):
going to be closed for a whole lot of people.
Buddy of mine, who's an attorney, just sent me a
Texas says they rarely shut the courts. He's got a
day off tomorrow, so he's pretty excited. He's got football
and beverages of an adult nature, so he's a He's
having a fine day. And I don't know if you
put the kid out there to do the snow blowing,
or if they've got somebody on staff that I'm unaware of.

(02:03:37):
That was the only reason for the longest time as
I was a kid growing up that I thought I existed.
It was take the trash out, do the dishes, mow
the lawn, and to win and if the snow comes
get it out of the way, and then I would
go shovel other walks and so forth and make a
little bit of money coming up. I don't know how
many kids do that anymore. I mean, it's a really

(02:03:57):
I mean, it's real work, but I mean you can
make some good dough and what I used to probably
you know, and I would do it for free for
sort of elderly neighbors or people who didn't get around.
And I'll still do that for a couple of my
neighbors that I have time to make sure that they
can get in and out, because I know that it's
a challenge for them. And I think I'm sure, in fact,
I'm not alone in that it's the same type of

(02:04:19):
thing where in the worst of situations you see people's
hearts come out and doing good things for our neighbors
and our friends and people we don't know, just because
it's just the way it goes in general. So I'm
sure that that's taking place in neighborhood after neighborhood all
over the tri State and beyond just in general as
that stuff sort of plays out here over a period

(02:04:42):
of time. Just don't push yourself too much.

Speaker 5 (02:04:45):
And when we had a.

Speaker 1 (02:04:46):
Conversation with Gary Sullivan earlier, of course, at Home with
Gary Sullivan on the iHeartRadio app. You can listen to
it anytime. We were talking about all the stuff as
far as well letting if you're on one of those
houses that don't have a whole lot of insulation on
that out out side wall when it comes to like
your kitchen water, otherwise, you know, you can leave a
little drip going or you know, just so that it's moving.

(02:05:07):
And he says, balance it out between the hot and
the cold that way it's flowing in both pipes, and
keep it running. It doesn't have to be a full
on stream, is what he was saying, So that will
hopefully avoid any freezing pipe situation. I can remember that
as a kid, and Mom's like get the hair dryer
and then having to hold it the d of the
sink on those pipes, hoping to sort of keep it

(02:05:28):
from becoming a worse situation. Nobody wants a kitchen full
of water. I've dealt with that a number of years
ago on my own at a house, you know, built
in the fifties, and they just didn't have those requirements
or the need at that point or the idea that
things would get so bad for those situations. So there's
a whole lot of people making premium dollar rates getting

(02:05:50):
pipes fixed and everything else. And that includes city and
county workers that deal with water works, a bunch of
water main brakes in and around the tri State, and
obviously a whole lot of people in their own personal
situations at home dealing with that. But you know, that's
a serious thing. You know, when you look at the
temperature and you know, here we are now it's it's

(02:06:12):
still at seventeen and the snow is still falling, and
then you've got to you know, somehow navigate all of
that to dig into, you know, into the ground to
find where the water is coming from, to then get
to that pipe to try to get the water out
of there if not stopped, and then fix that connection
or that you know, stretch of pipe, which is I've
had a few people message me saying that they've dealt
with that type of thing too. And then of course

(02:06:34):
the water that's been flowing often then ends up freezing
in this temperature. That makes things that much worse, which
is not a good thing. Quick break, come back more
to do. It's a Sunday sterling on a snowy, snowy day.
As it's piling up. It's going to get colder tonight
in the next couple of days. A whole lot of
people with a day off, maybe some time to dig

(02:06:55):
out from this mess.

Speaker 5 (02:06:57):
On seven hundred w WLW.

Speaker 3 (02:07:00):
It's snowing.

Speaker 1 (02:07:03):
And depending on where you are, could be more than
a foot maybe a little bit less. Still some issues
and freezing or I should say it's sleeped, which is
better than freezing rain. All in all, we'll talk to Lance,
see how his shoveling's going, and maybe talk a little football.

Speaker 5 (02:07:18):
We'll see.

Speaker 1 (02:07:19):
I'm sure he's watching, if not shoveling right about now too,
a whole lot of other people watching it. Broncos leading
seven to nothing against the Patriots right now in Denver.
They might shock everybody. You know, it's I mean, you
lose your quarterback, you kind of figure how good are
you going to really survive this? But maybe we'll see
I picked the Patriots after the injury issues, so we'll

(02:07:39):
see how lucky I am. Alex Egan was here earlier
producing he made it in. He lives between Dayton and Cincinnati,
like a lot of people, do is the two metropolitan
areas sort of have been growing together for a long time.
Let's see here. He said he got to a Dorothy
Lane market and they are open in Springboro till six.
He said there were five other people there and I

(02:08:01):
don't know if that means in their shopping or if
that means working, but he's got some stuff going on
there and he sent me some pictures. So the snow
is spectacular, So that's great. And if you have any
pictures in what you're navigating with the snow and all
that goes along with that, digging out or just what
you've got, maybe if you can measure it in the
back of the patio whatever else. Love to see it

(02:08:22):
at Stirling Radio on x and it just tagged me
as well as at seven hundred WLW, and we may
post those as well and sort of see as we
all get through this together, as this continues to just
be one of those.

Speaker 3 (02:08:37):
It's just it's winter. It happens, you know, and I
like this.

Speaker 1 (02:08:41):
I've had a few people who have been listening, I'm
assuming on the iHeartRadio app just on principle from parts South.
A friend of mine, n in Fort Myers, was laughing
at the misery. And then he sent me a picture
of the backyard and palm trees and stuff, so yeah, good, great,
And then someone else sent me a picture of the
US Department of Interior in a desert scene with an

(02:09:03):
organ pipe cactus National Monument and apparently there is a
you can see a bobcat with its head poking through.
Apparently they don't have a problem with the big cacti.
Is it cactis plural cactus?

Speaker 3 (02:09:15):
I don't know. Russ Jackson knows these things.

Speaker 1 (02:09:17):
It is cactis plural, so cactus individual, right, Yeah, so
a big bobcat tucked away hiding in the cactus cacti
would be multiple bobcats, which you know, would kind of
scare me just a little bit. They're cute, but only
from a distance. I would suppose three thirty report coming
up Sean Gallagher with the latest and what's going on

(02:09:38):
with this ongoing snow event as well as the cleanup
that's in front of us and.

Speaker 5 (02:09:42):
The wicked cold that's with it.

Speaker 1 (02:09:44):
So here's to you staying safe and secure and if
you're out there working and doing it is a lot
of us are we appreciate you, Hopefully we can find
some food here. When I get my break in a
little bit, we'll see exactly how it is. I know
the gas station across the way is open. I have
not seen a whole lot of other traffic. And you
know what is really really incredibly irregular other than Christmas Day.

(02:10:08):
I kid you not, this may be and I haven't
looked recently. There may be people over there other than
cleaning the parking lot. I don't think I've ever seen
a time when the Keedwin Town Center has been this desolate,
other than when the place has been closed full on,
which is of course what we're.

Speaker 5 (02:10:21):
Dealing with with the snow.

Speaker 1 (02:10:22):
But it's a shocking thing daylight hours any other day,
but Christmas, you look over there and it's a sea
of cars, or if I'm going to go grab food
or whatever, and you find a spot if you're not
going to get in the garage, which is probably a
good place to be so you don't have to worry
about cleaning off your ride anymore than you have to.
And lots and lots of people, if not having to work,

(02:10:43):
are going to spend some quality time tomorrow with the kids,
and then again maybe Tuesday. A friend of mine with
some good authority was saying because the temperatures, not just
the snow clean up, the temperatures in the cold may
very well keep some schools closed more than Monday, but
maybe into Tuesday, if not Wednesday, before we start to
see some warmer temperatures. And what Ketch Mark was saying
is that the melt is not going to be happening

(02:11:05):
anytime soon either. So that's just tremendous.

Speaker 5 (02:11:07):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:11:08):
Three thirty report is coming up, an update on what's
going on all over the place for mister Gallagher and
Chuck Ingram had traffic. I don't know if they're still
doing that or not, or if Chuck was able to
go to sleep. He was up early trying to let
everybody know how stuff is going. And we'll see how
it is and just bundle up and be safe. We'll
come back after your three third report. We'll check on
Lance see how his clearing is going, as well as

(02:11:30):
these games that are happening right now. With the seven
nothing lead over the Patriots, a Broncos leading in the
AFC Championship game out in Denver, which looks nice. I
don't see a whole lot of people with short sleeves
in the crowd. But it's much more comfortable than here.
Right now on a Sunday, Sterling on the Nation station
seven hundred WLW, taking the snow briefly. Although I looked outside,
lookug was still blowing around pretty good, a little bit

(02:11:52):
coming down. Sterling, hanging out seven hundred WLW. The snow Apocalypse,
the Snowmageddon. I mean thin, get a few names. Doesn't
seem like doing justice to this storm, Lance McAllister, of course,
mister sports talk, mister out in the snow kind of
How many rounds of digging out have you done clearing
the path in access to the compound of the family? McAllister,

(02:12:14):
Lance Sterling, we just completed three. I'm glad you called now.
Had you called about twenty minutes ago, i'd be sitting
here talking to my underwear. But I've changed out of
my clothes for a third time. I've taken a shower,
and I think I'm effectively done. I'm a child of
the blizzard of seventy eight. That was actually fun when
I was eleven years old. This now, at age fifty nine, sucks.

(02:12:36):
You know what, You're absolutely correct. My dog ran away
during the blizzard of seventy eight. She was gone for
like two days. She came back and my mom sent
me out with like cold cuts and hot dogs, and
she was like, don't give the dog that you.

Speaker 3 (02:12:49):
Use that as bait. I just give her the food.

Speaker 1 (02:12:51):
And then she was like thanks, and then she'd go
run around, so don't get lost, you know what.

Speaker 9 (02:12:56):
You know what, I will never forget about the blizzard
of seventy eight. With the power out. We got out
my cub Scout knapsack and it had like the camping
utensils in it, and we.

Speaker 8 (02:13:05):
Built a fire.

Speaker 9 (02:13:06):
My dad built a fire in the fireplace and we
cooked chili in my cub Scout backpack. I had a canteen,
I had a pot. I had like a little skillet thing.
We cooked the chili in the little pot in the fireplace,
and that's what we had to eat.

Speaker 3 (02:13:19):
That's that's a great memory. First of all. A second one.

Speaker 1 (02:13:22):
I mean, this is perfect chili weather, something that sticks
to your ribs. Some pork and kraut, something anything you
know for tada for that matter, Give me a dozen
eggs and put some vegetables and onions that it and
cook it up with some like bacon and be great, and.

Speaker 9 (02:13:35):
I give you my timeline of shoveling and three increments.

Speaker 1 (02:13:38):
I wish you would because I have to do what
you're doing when I get the hell out of here.

Speaker 3 (02:13:44):
So yeah, I know now.

Speaker 9 (02:13:48):
Now I've faced criticism throughout the day on various social
media platforms for doing it in intervals, and I'm like, well,
who would be dumb enough to shovel, you know, eight, ten,
twelve inches of snow all at once when you could
break it down into different increments. So last night I
went out about eleven, I got about its probably an
inch and a half is my guest. And then this
morning I went back out with Kelly and it was

(02:14:09):
about five. And then we went back out at three
two thirty times for the football kickoff to be ready,
and thought it was about two and a half. So
I walked out into the middle of the yard with
a giant ruler and I shoved it into the ground
and it's right around eight and a half maybe nine inches.
So we took care of that for three intervals rather
than it once.

Speaker 1 (02:14:28):
Well, let's hope that you don't have to go out
there and do too much of that again. Hopefully the
roads will be safe so that you don't have to
like stay at the compound to do the show. By
tomorrow night, hopefully you will be here.

Speaker 9 (02:14:38):
So well, let's be clear, the snow may may not
be done.

Speaker 5 (02:14:43):
I'm done.

Speaker 9 (02:14:43):
I'm not doing a fourth interval. I gave my best
for three. I could feel the I could feel the
days and months ticking off my pacemaker battery as we went,
and I said, I'm out three times and I'm done.

Speaker 1 (02:14:57):
Well, I got to tell you Lance, when you texted
me earlier and you said that you were listening and
that you had been shoveling, My first concern was what
you just mentioned, which was the pacemaker. I'm like, don't
you have staff, don't you have a team other people
to lean on.

Speaker 3 (02:15:10):
I was very concerned for you.

Speaker 1 (02:15:12):
For a number of reasons, because people who don't have
the pacemaker often do what you said at the outset,
which is try to knock it all out at once,
too much, too fast, and then they end up in
an emergency room, which God forbid.

Speaker 3 (02:15:24):
We don't want that to happen to anybody.

Speaker 9 (02:15:27):
Well, you know, it's actually I can laugh at this
because in addition that I also have asthma and as
I'm walking out the door. Kelly threw me my inhaler
from the upstairs down and I caught it on the
fly and.

Speaker 8 (02:15:38):
She said, take this with you.

Speaker 9 (02:15:40):
I was armed and I was ready.

Speaker 8 (02:15:42):
Now what is?

Speaker 9 (02:15:43):
I have discovered something else? And there's a lot flowing
through my head as I think about the last three
intervals of this, But I've reached the point where the
moving up very high on my list of things that
annoyed me at this stage of my life. There's nothing
like getting a smooth glide going which your shovel and
you think you're making some progress and you're just scooting

(02:16:03):
down the driveway and then there's that raised part of
the concrete.

Speaker 5 (02:16:07):
In your driveway.

Speaker 9 (02:16:08):
I feel it brings your shovel, brings your shovel to
a jarring halt, and depending on where the shovel is
either into your midsection maybe a rib is cracked or
maybe lower if you're unfortunate. It is the same almost
annoying thing because you want to just do it, you
want to smooth glide and then chunk.

Speaker 5 (02:16:27):
Terrible.

Speaker 3 (02:16:27):
We've all been there. It is terrible.

Speaker 1 (02:16:29):
And the first thing I can compare that to and
I was feeling it literally sympathy pain, as you mentioned it.
But also I remember as a kid skateboarding it was
the same thing when you hit a pebble that was
the wrong size, except it it wouldn't just like to
hit you and stop you. The board would stop and
then we would keep flying. So at least the snow

(02:16:49):
is a soft landing spot, if in fact that we're
to happen, and.

Speaker 9 (02:16:53):
I will admit I went to bed last night with
the hope and faith that the youth of today might
show up on the door looking for a little side
hustle to make some money. Yes, and understand, we're in independence,
and we have been here for what twenty I guess
twenty six plus years. We've had one youngster come to
the door and ask if they could shovel the driveway.

(02:17:14):
And it happened about a month ago. He was a teenager.
He was kind as could be, and he shoveled the
driveway and I paid him. And that's the only time
it's happened.

Speaker 1 (02:17:28):
You're not talking about this season. You're saying in the
entire run at that house, or there's only been one.

Speaker 6 (02:17:33):
Yeah, I'm saying in twenty six years.

Speaker 9 (02:17:35):
It was one time and it was last month, and
I get him credit because everything he said was yes, sir, no, sir.
He says, sir, my name is Could I shovel your driveway?
And I said I looked around and it wasn't a
big snow at that point, and I said yeah. I
said what do we think? And I said how about
twenty bucks? And he said yes, sir, And so he
went out and did it for maybe forty five minutes.

(02:17:55):
It was maybe two inches of snow. It was much
less than the predicted at that time. And he came
to the door after about forty five minutes and he says, sir,
how does a look? And I said, it looks great.
I said, here's your twenty. I said, I'll tell you
what I said if you keep me in mind the
next time. Here's another five for your efforts. And his
eyes lit up and he said thank you, sir, and
he was on his way.

Speaker 2 (02:18:12):
And I haven't seen a basince.

Speaker 3 (02:18:14):
That's what I was just about to ask if he
didn't come back, that's.

Speaker 5 (02:18:17):
What you think of this.

Speaker 3 (02:18:18):
The kids used to be everywhere. I made so much dough.

Speaker 1 (02:18:21):
I mean I paid for like baseball, I paid for
soccer with mowing money and shoveling money as a kid.
I mean, that's where the money came from. So I mean,
I'm what are the kids doing if they're not out
doing this stuff?

Speaker 3 (02:18:33):
Now, who's doing it?

Speaker 1 (02:18:34):
Is it all professionals or is it people like us
just doing our own because nobody's showing up.

Speaker 9 (02:18:39):
Well, I will say this to cut maybe the entire
youth of today a little bit of slack in this neighborhood.
There's not a whole lot of mobility even if you're
on foot to get through this neighborhood, whether it's street
or sidewalks, forget it. So maybe maybe tomorrow we'll see, Well.

Speaker 1 (02:18:57):
We'll find out exactly how that goes. Listen, I get
people who message me regularly. I'm not as big as
you are on social I need to branch out and
do more. But Marnie messaged me with the DM slipped
in there just now and said, as Lance did he
say that he was talking to you still in his underwear?
I I glossed over that, But apparently Marnie's concerned.

Speaker 9 (02:19:19):
I was, Okay, let's be clear, I'm not talking man
to man in my underwear.

Speaker 3 (02:19:24):
I was I would rather not know in the world.

Speaker 1 (02:19:27):
Do you understand that there's not the personal. I mean,
as long as you, you know, hands were worth they
need to be. I mean, your private time is your
private time. Kelly can take care of you. I don't
need to know these things.

Speaker 5 (02:19:37):
Holy crap, Well, understand, understand.

Speaker 9 (02:19:39):
I came in and I took everything off and put
it in the in the washer because it was all
snow covered. And I took off everything and I sat
down and took a breather in the Who doesn't sit
in their kitchen taking a breather on their kitchen chair
and their underwear every once in a while.

Speaker 1 (02:19:52):
I've done that, not at your house, but at the
house of Stirling. Willie may be doing that right now.
He could be on a sofa right now at the
house of with his better half the judge in the distance,
with his you know, sweatband on his wristbands in his underwear,
watching NFL Conference Championship games.

Speaker 3 (02:20:10):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (02:20:10):
Let's shift to this because this is also your wheelhouse, Lance,
and we were going to carry the games. But of
course the you know fern came through and changed the
world for us all. How surprised are you that these
Denver Broncos are up a touchdown seven to nothing over
the Patriots right now headed to the second quarter.

Speaker 9 (02:20:29):
Yeah, it's pretty I mean, I think the storyline going
in was, man, you've lost Bo Nicks, You've got Jared
Stidham who had a handful of starts in his NFL career,
And how Sean Payton got a game plan for this?
Are they going to just be protective of even take
it easy, try to win with defense. They came out
throwing on the opening drive, March from down the field
put a touchdown on the board and he got settled
in right away.

Speaker 3 (02:20:50):
Good for him, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (02:20:51):
Now, I I I did not want to watch these playoffs.
I tried to avoid them. I'm trying to think of
what game it was as I turned off. It was
one of the first playoff games that it went through.
It was the Bears maybe or something where like the
team was down and I was like whether or not
coming back? And I turned It was the Bears, I think,
And I turned it off and went about my thing,
and I went right back to it a short time

(02:21:12):
and they came back and I turned it off. These
playoffs are tremendous, incredibly entertaining, but I still find it
hard to care. I'm not emotionally attached, which maybe is
healthier than when the Bengals are playing, which is what
we prefer.

Speaker 9 (02:21:28):
I would agree with that point. It is much more
relaxing sitting with no skin in the game, nothing at stake,
knowing I don't have to prepare for Bengals line tomorrow.
After a game, I can sit back and say, just
bring me football and let's have some fun.

Speaker 8 (02:21:41):
You're right.

Speaker 9 (02:21:42):
I mean some of these games, either the Bears game,
you have four or five scores in the fourth quarter
by both teams.

Speaker 1 (02:21:46):
Combined, and it just nut it's been amazing. Do you
have any dog in this hunt? I mean, for some reason,
I've always liked the Seahawks, and I don't know why.
As a kid that was the case, the same thing,
and I don't know if we've talked about this off
the air, and even the Tampa Bay Buccaneers because they
sucked for a really long time and I was like, Oh,
that's terrible for them, and I felt for him, and

(02:22:07):
I was like, they're an underdog, and then and I
embraced the underdog. For some reason, Seahawks are the only
team that I care about in this whole playoff thing,
and I don't even really care that much.

Speaker 3 (02:22:16):
Is that bad? Is that I get?

Speaker 9 (02:22:19):
I'd probably leaned to Seattle if I had a lean.
I like the resurrection story of Sam Darnold who was
giving up on and then has resurrected his career. Now
is one game away from the Super Bowl as the
Seahawks quarterback, and they got a killer defense. But I
just want in the end, I just want good fun
football games for three hours in a block, and then
go to the next game and give me more.

Speaker 1 (02:22:40):
There you go anything else before we let you leave,
you know, And I appreciate you being candid about your
multiple shoveling opportunities. I appreciate you discussing your showering and
other you know, hygiene habits. And then somewhat disturbed about
the the underwear talk. But Marnie was very happy, just pingedid.
I'm glad he's not talking to you in his shorts.

Speaker 9 (02:23:02):
So I mean, can I give you a can I
close on an oddity? I'm on a streak. I'll appreciate this. Yes,
I'm a big egg guy. I like egg sandwiches.

Speaker 8 (02:23:12):
By the way.

Speaker 9 (02:23:12):
Last weekend at art environe and Ryan GUIs. We found
some hot honey sourdough bread.

Speaker 8 (02:23:17):
It's fantastic.

Speaker 9 (02:23:18):
So I do a little hot honey sourdough bread with
an egg, sausage patty and Kolby Jack cheese. Well, I'm
on a run. The last four eggs I have cracked
have been double yolk eggs. Now, you tell me the
odds of four consecutive now one not two? Four straight
double yolk eggs?

Speaker 11 (02:23:37):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:23:38):
Did you get these from like a neighborhood, like a
chicken ranch or whatever? Because I made the mistake, Lance,
let me just say this, I've seen one double egg.
I made the mistake of having the rented chicken people
on the show some months ago. I mean it was
still warm out, and I have two neighbors near me
who have gotten chickens, and one of which lost them

(02:23:59):
and I help wrangle them or whatever you say to
get them back into their little like chicken coop thing
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:24:04):
Else Where is it that you found yourse eggs?

Speaker 8 (02:24:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:24:07):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 9 (02:24:09):
Perhaps from a farm next to a plant that a
hazard is material or something.

Speaker 2 (02:24:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (02:24:14):
It's linked into the chicken coop.

Speaker 5 (02:24:16):
I have no.

Speaker 1 (02:24:18):
You'll you'll have no need for a night light at
the house. You'll be glowing later.

Speaker 9 (02:24:22):
That'll be great, Yeah, Kelly, Kelly will roll over and say.

Speaker 8 (02:24:26):
Why are you glowing?

Speaker 1 (02:24:28):
I've not done anything near Fernald. I have no idea
what you're talking about. Was that an obscure reference?

Speaker 5 (02:24:33):
Baby?

Speaker 3 (02:24:33):
I love the eggs too.

Speaker 1 (02:24:36):
Now do you do a belt as in bacon, egg, lettuce,
tomato or do you just no?

Speaker 9 (02:24:41):
No, I'm not a bacon guy. I'm just a sausage
patty and either Swiss cheese or cold jack. And I'm
telling you I'm just hot. There's a there's a if
I can give them a plug. There's a woman hitting
an Anville who owns a place. It's a micro bakery.
She does it at her home completely an hour ago
and they had boots set up art and vine it
Ryan guys last Sunday and we saw it. Kelly got

(02:25:03):
a cranberry, a cranberry loaf, and I got the hot
honey sour dough. And I'm telling you it is killer sourdough.

Speaker 1 (02:25:08):
It does sound fantastic. You could bring some in at
some point, maybe like on a Friday I follow you
or something. I mean, I'm not begging, but I mean,
or I guess I can go on my own if
I can dig out.

Speaker 9 (02:25:17):
That rationing food right now, Sterling, I can't help you.

Speaker 1 (02:25:20):
Well you know I'll say. What also helps in this
as I do is split. I guess I can't go home.
I finished my waffle left over from breakfast, and I
don't know what is open, and all I have is
like snacks, so I may just be filled on snacks
and caffeine when I come back after Dan Carroll following
him at eight o'clock. We'll see how it goes, because
all I mean, I'm very uncomfortable and hungry.

Speaker 6 (02:25:42):
So that's great.

Speaker 1 (02:25:43):
Thank you for talking about your eggs. Sure, all right,
lad enjoy the football, have a great night. Tell Kelly hello,
the best of the of the family, and all as well.
I'll talk to you. Thank you man, I'll see you later.
That's a Lance McAllister. I didn't mean to prematurely hit
the button on him. See that, it's never personal. I mean,
I know Lance, I love Lance, and I hit the

(02:26:04):
whole button a little bit quicker than I should have,
and then it sounds like a hung hollb on it.
I didn't mean to do that, And now I am
really hungry, so we have to figure out a way
to navigate this. I think we may have popcorn, and
I know last it was last night maybe or or
whenever it was. I'm trying to think of what yesterday.
Somebody had made popcorn, and uh, I think they cooked
it a little long and a little bit of that

(02:26:24):
burnt popcorn. And there is nothing quite worse than the
smell of burnt microwave popcorn. It just other than maybe
like coffee that sat on the burner too long and
got crusty in the coffee maker, and it's just bad
like it literally I can smell it and think about
it right now, and it sort of took a little
bit of the hunger away, So maybe that's that's not

(02:26:45):
necessarily a bad thing. Five point three seven four nine
seven eight hundred The Big One. Give you a chance
to sound off. How deep is it where you are?
What is your I guess regular go to sort of lockdown.
I gotta be careful when I say locked down, because
immediately you are old enough to remember a COVID lockdown.
A lot of us get a little, you know, shaky

(02:27:06):
about it because it was a nightmare scenario. But I
mean shut in with snow and cold. It's very cozy
at the house after you do your shoveling or wait,
maybe put it off or have the kids do it,
you know, sort of hanging around here. I'm just wondering
what you do. I mean, you get football, there's streaming,
there's a you know, family stuff, card playing games, whatever else,
maybe naptime, who knows, But this is not a time

(02:27:29):
to get out and about if you don't have to.
And a lot of people working very hard right now
trying to get this snow out of the way and
to get these roads clear, whether it's odatte Ohio as
well as Cincinnati, every municipality basically in and around this
whole storm, which is affected in excess of one hundred
million Americans at this point, and then the cold with

(02:27:49):
that also a lot of people trying to get to
where they got to go safely, and a lot of
people working very hard to make sure that that's something
that we can all do. So hats off to them.
We appreciate you for first responders. A lot of people
with tow trucks, wreckers of one type or another, and uh,
you know, just making sure that the parking lots are
clear and if if somebody stranded or got a battery
problem or something like that, that they can get around

(02:28:13):
and get it safely done. Uh, let's get to Jeff.
I think he's on the road now. Jeff, you're with
Sterling on seven hundred W LW. How is Fern treating
you this storm with a really wimpy name but a
big punch.

Speaker 16 (02:28:25):
Yeah, driving and is not the bad part. The bad
part is just like taking the dog out and stuff.

Speaker 12 (02:28:32):
That's what sucks.

Speaker 1 (02:28:34):
So yeah, now did you you're driving with the dog
or you just took the dog out?

Speaker 5 (02:28:38):
Okay, Okay I.

Speaker 16 (02:28:40):
Could have, but she's kind of old whatever. But yeah, yeah,
but if anything happened, I would not want to have
to deal with her.

Speaker 3 (02:28:45):
But no, I totally understand you.

Speaker 12 (02:28:47):
To tell you what, I'm just kind of taking it easy,
staying in one lane.

Speaker 16 (02:28:50):
Some of the big portal drive trucks kind of get
on my butt a little bit, and I'm in this
little tiny.

Speaker 12 (02:28:54):
Subrew but you know, it's a sub so.

Speaker 16 (02:28:56):
I don't really care.

Speaker 12 (02:28:57):
I mean, I got no.

Speaker 1 (02:28:58):
They're made for the snow, that's the that's the thing.
There's a blast and you sound like somebody reasonable and
rational when I was young and dumb as I won't
want to say the rest, you know, even though you
may have had a great car for the condition. Oftentimes
people decide that they can drive like it's a normal
sixty five or seventy five degree day, and these are
not those times. So it's good that you're doing it

(02:29:19):
the right way, even though you've got a vehicle made
for it.

Speaker 5 (02:29:21):
That's for sure.

Speaker 12 (02:29:22):
It's nice to get it's nice to get going, but
it's more.

Speaker 16 (02:29:25):
Important to stop, right.

Speaker 1 (02:29:26):
So yeah, stopping helps every time, Jeff, that's for sure.
Now are you out just taking a joy cruise to
see how it is or do you have like a.

Speaker 12 (02:29:33):
Prose believe or not.

Speaker 16 (02:29:35):
My daughter's heading back to Orlando and she has one
of the only flights that doesn't he to be getting canceled.

Speaker 3 (02:29:40):
Oh you're kidding.

Speaker 16 (02:29:41):
I dropped her off and now that she's there, you know,
won't luck have it. But she'll end up having her
flight canceled.

Speaker 12 (02:29:47):
Who knows. But but that's okay because she'll just go
next door to the hotel.

Speaker 1 (02:29:51):
Yeah, and she'll be she'll be set. So now here's
my question. Where were you coming from and how was
it getting to ceveg and back to where you are now.

Speaker 12 (02:30:00):
Getting out of the park you lost and stuff. It's
kind of bad.

Speaker 16 (02:30:02):
I had to pick her up in the sub division
over in East Cape and I left from like close
to the uh Mason ish King's Island area. Yeah, so,
like getting out of my own.

Speaker 12 (02:30:11):
Apartment complex is a bit tricky.

Speaker 16 (02:30:13):
But again, I got a car where I just put
it in reverse and just backed up and went right
out of it.

Speaker 12 (02:30:18):
It's no problem. Everyone else is trying to shovel.

Speaker 16 (02:30:20):
Yeah, yeah, you know would be a because you probably
don't know what a.

Speaker 1 (02:30:24):
Shovel d I I have? They got a shovel in
the car. I have shovel, and uh I have the snowblower,
but that's I don't carry it with me.

Speaker 3 (02:30:33):
That would be different.

Speaker 12 (02:30:35):
Decent plastic shovel in the car is smart idea.

Speaker 17 (02:30:37):
Yeah, it absolutely is a natural, fully natural play. Jeff,
you know you're not gonna be polluting or anything like that. Yeah,
that's a good listen yourselves dropping out. I hope that
doesn't mean bad things for you. Drive safely.

Speaker 1 (02:30:51):
I appreciate you taking time to reach out and give
us an update, and I hope your daughter gets to
Orlando safe and sound, and uh, it doesn't have to
stay at the hotel any longer than she has to
with it all. Take care of yourself, man, Thank you well.
Actually I think he dropped off. See I didn't even
hang up on him, and the phone dropped off. And
I don't know if he hung up because he was
hearing me do that or not. I hope he's okay.
I always wonder in these situations where people drop off

(02:31:13):
into the abyss, we'll hear from them again. Let's get
to the Michigan real quick. Here in Gregory was Sterling
on the Big One short on time, but about two
minutes or so greg before I got a bounce, Where
are you and how is it where you're going or
what you're doing?

Speaker 2 (02:31:28):
Ster Sterling, it's the electrifying mister positive in Shaka Lacay. Hey,
I gotta tell you. I went to Planet Fitness workout.
I got to get this muscular, gorgeous tan body in shape.
And I was going ten miles an hour. I'm going
on Van Dyke and all of a sudden it turns yellow,

(02:31:49):
and all of a sudden it turns red and there
I am going right through the intersection. Thank God, what's
at the end of the yellow light? And all of
a sudden you just read put the horne on in
your back and then you turn into the plaza and
you're going five miles an hour and you don't know

(02:32:09):
if you can make it going five miles an hour.
That's unbelievable, Sterling. Yeah, I mean it was bad.

Speaker 8 (02:32:15):
It was bad.

Speaker 1 (02:32:16):
Well, I'm glad you're okay. Now, are you on the
road now or are you literally?

Speaker 2 (02:32:21):
Yes, I'm on the road right now, but I'm going
very very slow and I shouldn't be texted talking while
I'm driving. But there's no one on the road, and
all it is is a storm and it's unbelievable, Sterling.
You know, So just everybody be careful, go for your dreams.

(02:32:42):
And mister Positive loves you. Thanks Sterling.

Speaker 3 (02:32:44):
Gregory B.

Speaker 1 (02:32:45):
Segment, thank you for reaching out even up in Michigan listening.
That's a beautiful thing. So yeah, drive safely, be careful
out there. It is a mess. Rush Jackson keeping me
online in time or something close to that. Dan Carroll's
going to come up straight away. Sean Gallagher will get
you through news. Dan's going to be here for a
few hours. I'm going to go try to find some food,
and then I'll be back here after eight o'clock and

(02:33:06):
we'll do it all again and see exactly what the
conditions are at that point and what the morning might
look like, whether it's flying or driving or keeping the
water flowing at the house and hopefully not having to
call a plumber.

Speaker 3 (02:33:18):
And also, God forbid.

Speaker 1 (02:33:19):
I've had a few people reach out since I talked
about the water main issue, saying that they've had water
main center and around where they live or where they've
had to go where they've seen it, and a few
workers I talked to yesterday, we're saying that they were
dealing with lots and lots of those with that old infrastructure,
wicked cold and everything that goes with it. All right,
Dan Carroll keeps you going the next few hours, updates
on the weather situation and traffic.

Speaker 3 (02:33:41):
Wherever you are, be safe, be secure. A great guest.

Speaker 1 (02:33:44):
Kathleen Fuller from ODAT, who I'll talk to again later
on tonight to get an update on how they're clean
up his concern. Jennifer Ketchmark from Channel nine, Gary Sullivan
helping with home stuff, and a whole lot more from
Donna d and Jay Rattle. As I mentioned to ketch Mark, Yeah,
I think that's everybody Lands anybody else I don't know,
and Alex Egan for sending pictures doing this and making
it back home. And Donna couldn't make it from the

(02:34:04):
other side of.

Speaker 3 (02:34:05):
The where we are here.

Speaker 1 (02:34:06):
We'll see how it goes, dan Is next, I'll talk
to you sooner than later here Home of the Reds
playing in warm weather. Before you know it, but we
are in the middle of Fern, in her wrath. The
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