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Speaker 1: I name, it's Nigel Jason Hammer right over there. We

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Speaker 1: Indiana State Police. My man, it has been quite the

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours in terms of whether I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: this kind of accumulation of snow and the roads for

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Speaker 1: a long time. Troopers in the Indianapolis District have been

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Speaker 1: very busy the past twenty four to thirty six hours.

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Speaker 1: What have you seen, sergeant, that's been chaos.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just make people making terrible decisions when

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Speaker 2: they're out driving. I mean a little bit of common

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Speaker 2: sense and some basic driving skills would really go a

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Speaker 2: long way when we get this snow. But we're just

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Speaker 2: responding to call after call, if people stuck, people crashed,

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Speaker 3: NonStop, Sergeant, Is that because of maybe poor decisions on

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Speaker 3: the driver's behalf like going too fast or is it

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Speaker 3: a situation where maybe somebody's got to get to work,

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Speaker 3: they've got to pick up a kid from daycare and

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Speaker 3: the roads are just unpassable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I get that. I know there's a

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Speaker 2: central travel but I mean I've been driving around for

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Speaker 2: I've been able to navigate his fine. So the roads

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Speaker 2: aren't causing these crashes.

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Speaker 1: What have you done? Like, I know you are the

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Speaker 1: public Information's officer, but you I see your I see

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Speaker 1: your feet on social media. It's not like you're just

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Speaker 1: standing in front of a camera. You're out there personally

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Speaker 1: along with the other troopers helping people out of trouble.

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Speaker 1: What's the most common thing that troopers are doing. Does

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Speaker 1: it involve as shovel, does it involve you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: common common stuff.

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Speaker 2: A little bit of everything. But I'm gonna give you

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Speaker 2: a hypothetical, Nigel. Let's imagine you're you're driving on four

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Speaker 2: sixty five in the man van.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Do you see your exit coming up and on your

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Speaker 2: deep snow. Do you either a trying to drive through

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Speaker 2: should go to the next deck that where it's probably clear. No,

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Speaker 2: they're just piling into this deep snow and we're end

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Speaker 2: And that's the frustrating part is people think they can

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Speaker 3: Sergeant, have we made any progress at all throughout the

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Speaker 3: day today, Like I understand that this storm didn't really

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Speaker 3: wrap up until I four or five o'clock yesterday. We're barely,

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Speaker 3: you know, twenty four hours removed from the end of

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Speaker 3: the snow Here have we made any progress out on

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Speaker 2: Get lots of progress, but we're kind of in this

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Speaker 2: scary time. This is the time I don't look forward to.

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Speaker 2: I never looked forward to any of it. But you

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Speaker 2: see some dry pavement and what that means to some

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Speaker 2: people is they think they're back to green flag racing

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Speaker 2: and then they hit the ramps, they hit those slick

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Speaker 1: How important has it been for businesses to be closed?

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Speaker 1: I know, I just got the text that our school

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Speaker 1: Time for Beach Grove to Oh really okay? So, Like

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Speaker 1: I was on my way to work this afternoon, probably

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Speaker 1: that's important for these snowplows to be able to do

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Speaker 2: Oh for sure, And we really appreciate all of the

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Speaker 2: people that heeded those warnings that they stayed home. They

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Speaker 2: maybe didn't really want to, but they did and it

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Speaker 2: was helpful. We also want to have people that had

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Speaker 2: to be out that didn't want to be. But again,

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Speaker 2: it just comes down to common sense, driving safely and

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Speaker 2: not driving selfishly. So many people are so selfish when

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Speaker 1: I saw a guy wipe out today creeping up on

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Speaker 1: Tell me about your the Indiana State Police cruisers specifically.

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Speaker 1: Are they equipped to handle the icy conditions and the

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Speaker 1: if you know where to go and not to go.

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Speaker 2: We're both little both we've really evolved. Most of our

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Speaker 2: and plowing through this stuff. So again, it just a

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Speaker 3: And Sergeant to piggyback off what Nigel was asking. I

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Speaker 3: was wondering this myself. So crime doesn't just happen out

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Speaker 3: on the interstates, right. We always assume that the state

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Speaker 3: the interstate, But if you have to go somewhere where

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Speaker 3: it's pretty bad, but duty calls like, how do you

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Speaker 2: We're pretty creative when it comes to things like that.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, we're not stuck to the interstates. We're not

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Speaker 2: a highway patrol. We do patrol all over. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: just for instance, in this last two nights of snowstorms,

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Speaker 2: And in the snow, I mean, so wow, the crime

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Speaker 2: doesn't stop just because it's snowing. But we have to

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Speaker 3: This may be a really dumb question, but how can

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Speaker 3: you tell somebody's drunk in these conditions? Like cause, I

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Speaker 3: mean people right now there's no lines in the road,

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Speaker 3: they're sliding, they're drifting. Well, how can you tell.

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Speaker 2: Because they're stuck in a snowbank and we walk up?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, no adventure to.

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Speaker 2: Guess most of those are result of crashes or slide off. Share.

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Speaker 1: How do you see the next week going? I mean,

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Speaker 1: the temperature is not going to hit the thirties until February.

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Speaker 1: It looks like right now, I mean we've got snow,

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Speaker 1: we've got still ice in What do you see this go?

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Speaker 1: Where do you see this going the next week? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think everybody you have to anticipate those slick spots

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Speaker 2: no matter where you're driving, where you're going, Understand that

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Speaker 2: the road might look like it's drive but it's probably

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Speaker 2: if people would just drive slowly. I know that's a

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Speaker 2: hard concept for some folks, but man, if you just

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Speaker 3: And Sergeant, I'll ask you the same question I asked

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Speaker 3: Matt Are traffic reporter, just based off what you've seen

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Speaker 3: problem spots out there right now? Are some areas better

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Speaker 3: this area right now, it's pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm telling you. Today on I seventy on the

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Speaker 2: west side of Anneapolis, we got absolutely slammed with slide

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it was icy down there, if

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Speaker 2: the snow was blown around, but our troopers in that

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Speaker 1: What kind of supplies do the troopers carry with them

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Speaker 1: as salt shovels obviously, what other things do you.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've been doing a lot of digging. We can

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Speaker 2: get a lot done with the snowshovel, So most of

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Speaker 2: the carry snowshovel to try to dig these people out

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Speaker 2: of these snow banks and help. But you know what's funny,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you the story is sometimes people they think

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no.

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Speaker 2: It just didn't help them much, you know. So you

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Speaker 3: Sergeant John berryan Indiana State Police with US. Sergeant, last

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Speaker 3: thing here before we let you go one more time,

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Speaker 3: please tell our audience anybody listening right now, maybe they're

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Speaker 2: Well, first leave early. Nobody wants to get up earlier

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Speaker 2: than they have to. I get it. But give yourself

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Speaker 2: you tend to drive safer. And that's going to be

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Speaker 2: the key for the next several days, is just anticipating

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Speaker 2: those rapidly changing road conditions, being as safe as possible

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Speaker 2: some extra blankets, throw a snowshovel in your car, be

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Speaker 3: Sergeant John buryan Indiana State Police, thank you so much

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Speaker 3: for your time. We always appreciate you and be safe

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys. Take care,