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Speaker 1: Hammer and Nigel do you believe these characters are weirdos? Hello,

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Speaker 1: I'm Nigel Jason Hammer right over there with a very

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Speaker 1: special studley muscular bulging in studio guest.

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Speaker 2: And my goodness, this is.

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Speaker 3: Our gift to the YouTube ladies watching on the stream here.

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Speaker 3: It is Matt Bear, the traffic Beast Lady's studio.

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Speaker 2: How are you.

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Speaker 4: I'm fantastic. Rush hours a little bit better this evening,

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Speaker 4: Well it was a little bit better, but it's starting

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Speaker 4: to pick up as we progress into the way home.

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Speaker 2: What happened this morning?

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Speaker 1: Because the Sergeant John Pyrn, Indiana State Police texted you

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Speaker 1: and I about the conditions this morning on the way

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Speaker 1: into work, and you said it was some of the

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Speaker 1: worst you'd ever seen. Poor guy texted us a dash

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Speaker 1: cam video of him slipping and falling on the ice

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the interstate.

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Speaker 4: Unbelievable, I know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So what happened this morning and why is it

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Speaker 1: different right now?

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Speaker 4: Well, the thing is this morning, remember Monday, we had

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Speaker 4: all that fresh snow, so we had a lot of stalls,

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Speaker 4: a lot of snow drifts, stalls. With the very cold weather,

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Speaker 4: the extreme cold right now, cars breaking down and people

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Speaker 4: were getting stuck in snow drifts. We had a couple

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Speaker 4: of crashes, but that was the main thing where they

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Speaker 4: break down of the various vehicles and semis that we

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Speaker 4: were dealing with. Now, you go out and you plow

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Speaker 4: that snow off the ramps, okay, and you leave something,

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Speaker 4: you don't get the whole thing, and that becomes ice,

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Speaker 4: especially in these temperatures. So this morning it was just

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Speaker 4: a show something show as we made our way up

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Speaker 4: and down these ramps. And do you remember during the midday,

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Speaker 4: late morning, right about noon, they shut down westbound seventy

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Speaker 4: it's entirety on the east side for about an hour

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Speaker 4: just to clean up some of these crashes. It was

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Speaker 4: so icy and so brutal to travel on. We had

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Speaker 4: so many racks that they had to give in on

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Speaker 4: time in Indiana State Police time to clean up these crashes.

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Speaker 4: So it was a full closure the westbound side and

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Speaker 4: that leads right into downtown. So this was a big

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Speaker 4: time rush hour, one of the worst ones we've seen

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Speaker 4: I've seen in fact, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And Matt we talked about this the beginning of the show.

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Speaker 3: I kept hearing from DPW, Well, what these freezing temperatures

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Speaker 3: our ice doesn't work. So explain to me how I

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Speaker 3: can go to home Depot and find stuff that works

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Speaker 3: to like minus twenty minus twenty five. But the city

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Speaker 3: of Indianapolis, who's got money to fund a government hotel,

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Speaker 3: they can't afford the stuff that I'm buying at home

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Speaker 3: depot Because my driveway looks great, Why can't we use

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Speaker 3: that stuff?

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Speaker 4: Well, they used it on the third and fifth floor

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Speaker 4: of the new hotels as far as they didn't want

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Speaker 4: people slipping in from the valet parking, so they dropped

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Speaker 4: all the dal You calld for salt is such.

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Speaker 2: A lame excuse.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, get better salt as I understand that there's

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Speaker 4: a threashold like if you drown below fifteen degrees of

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Speaker 4: soul rass effectiveness, and that's kind of what they were dealing. Now.

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Speaker 4: The last I heard from the contractors and DPW is

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Speaker 4: the contractors remember they were brought on to plow the

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Speaker 4: side street, you know, the different side streets and everything,

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Speaker 4: but in HWA neighborhood, essentially the h WAIT takes care

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Speaker 4: of itself. But they are now done, The contractors are finished,

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Speaker 4: and DPW is saying, if your street got missed called

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Speaker 4: the Mayor's Action Center, so there could be some.

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Speaker 2: Streets out there standing by right now just to take

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Speaker 2: your call.

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Speaker 3: The few times I've actually had to call the Mayor's

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Speaker 3: Action hotline, it's the most brutal experience imaginable.

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Speaker 4: Oh, the response time is like that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they get right out there. It's not like

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Speaker 2: they're collected.

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Speaker 4: It's not like they're doing at s crow of all

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Speaker 4: these calls and it'd be like, Okay, we finally got

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Speaker 4: twenty four calls on Fulton Street. Let's go get it.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's right. No, nothing like that whatsoever.

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Speaker 3: The good news, I guess this is good news because

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Speaker 3: the weather and the road's been so crappy. The homicide

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Speaker 3: total in Indianapolis is way low.

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Speaker 2: Right now.

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Speaker 3: We're off to like the best start we've had in

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Speaker 3: terms of homicides in years.

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Speaker 2: Take it so, thank you brutal winter storm.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the storm has cleaned up all the crime. That's

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Speaker 4: all we had to do.

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Speaker 2: The storm greater than Ryan.

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Speaker 4: The best kind of prosecution you can find is India weather. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's it's it's been a storm. And remember I expect

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Speaker 4: conditions to be similar for the rest of the week.

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Speaker 4: And maybe even into Monday. I mean, we're talking about

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Speaker 4: single digit temperatures, double digit temperatures in the teens until

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Speaker 4: we reach Monday, and that's when we get back into

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Speaker 4: the twenties. So even if you did have another work

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Speaker 4: at home today, we still have to be careful. We

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Speaker 4: look at our cameras in the WIBC Traffic Center. I

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Speaker 4: have a great traffic fraternity around me, and we see,

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Speaker 4: you know, actual lines, actual lanes now in the interstates,

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Speaker 4: and that's pretty cool, you know, But it does provide,

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Speaker 4: like I said yesterday, a little bit, it does provide

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Speaker 4: a false sense of confidence in the fact that these

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Speaker 4: interstates are perfectly drivable right now, and that's just not

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Speaker 4: the case.

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Speaker 2: They are still slack.

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Speaker 1: I saw something ironic today in sixty five South, headed

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Speaker 1: into downtown from the northwest side. I saw a.

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Speaker 2: Pickup truck with a plow on the front.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, spun out on the side of the road basic

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Speaker 1: the opposite direction.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't want to hear that. I didn't.

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Speaker 1: There was nobody in it, and there was a police

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Speaker 1: car dealing with it, so I'm assuming it all got

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Speaker 1: RECTI fight, but that was that was that was pure

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Speaker 1: irony for me. I didn't like we'll see that, especially

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Speaker 1: when you're it's very disheartening when you're driving the main van,

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Speaker 1: when you're driving a pacifica met bear. Yeah, did you

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Speaker 1: see a snow a truck with a plow on front

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Speaker 1: wiped out?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a little disheartening.

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Speaker 3: How'd you like to be the guy with the plow

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Speaker 3: he spun out and the guy with the man man,

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Speaker 3: man through.

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Speaker 2: He's never gonna hear the end. Stay it corrected. You're right,

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Speaker 2: it's like a Chevy pulling out a poor.

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Speaker 4: Time.

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Speaker 3: I want to give you time to get back for

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Speaker 3: your traffic hit coming up in just a few minutes.

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Speaker 2: But one more time here, Matt, how are the roads?

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Speaker 3: Are we still seeing some problems with slick spots and

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Speaker 3: what are we looking at it?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and I do expect the rams, the entrance and

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Speaker 4: exit rams, the buggaboos, the demon of this whole thing

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Speaker 4: to still be hazardous tomorrow and they're going to be

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Speaker 4: very slick and the mark the coldest day.

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Speaker 2: Of the week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be the coldest day of the week.

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Speaker 4: There's not going to be a lot of improvement on

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Speaker 4: the roads except for what you see right now. What

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Speaker 4: we've had since the snowfall began. What was a Sunday

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Speaker 4: night having snow Sunday afternoon Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, overnight Saturday into Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much to idiot a statefully Sergeant John

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Speaker 4: Pern for his awesome work and helping me and the

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Speaker 4: rest of the media out and keeping everybody safe with

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Speaker 4: that voice.

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Speaker 3: And man, anybody's got a plow on their rig, God

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Speaker 3: bless you guys. Like people will criticize the roads, Okay,

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Speaker 3: that's part of the gig here, but as we said yesterday,

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Speaker 3: we're not mad at the people driving the trucks. We're

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Speaker 3: upset at the decision makers on where they're sending them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes perfect sense. And the plow drivers right

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Speaker 4: now are doing humans work. I mean, it's it's a

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Speaker 4: tough job, especially when you have a little crappy cars

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Speaker 4: driving around like mine. You know, you can't see it

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Speaker 4: because they're teny blank cars and we're invisible. So I

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Speaker 4: get it. And we're doing the best weekend to help

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Speaker 4: out to plow drivers and you guys are rock stars.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for doing all that you do.

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Speaker 3: Matt, Thank you so much. We'll touch base here in

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Speaker 3: just a few minutes