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Speaker 1: It's nice with Dan Ray. I'm going you easy Boston's

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Speaker 2: Well, come on in as we Thank you very much,

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Speaker 2: Dan Watkins, as we move into our second hour here

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Speaker 2: on a Monday night. This was a huge snowstorm, a

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Speaker 2: Department of Transportation, the State Highway Commissioner, Major Ed Blackwell

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Speaker 2: of Troop D of Massachusetts State Police, with Chris Laird

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Speaker 2: of National Grid. We are now delighted to introduce to

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Speaker 2: you Ryan coholand Ryan I hope I'm doing okay with

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Speaker 2: the pronuncia pronunciation on your last name co holand.

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Speaker 3: That was fought on perfect.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, well, thank you sir very much

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Speaker 2: for joining us tonight. Ryan is the chief operating officer

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Speaker 2: of the MBTA and this had to be a crazy

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Speaker 2: dave for the MBTA. Love to get sort of the

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Speaker 2: the box score, if you will, as to how the

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Speaker 2: to get back on track tomorrow morning. I'm sure that

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Speaker 2: there will immense problems you had to face throughout the day.

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Speaker 3: So today's been a NonStop day as you can imagine.

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Speaker 3: That actually began, you know, two days prior, as we

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Speaker 3: was going to be during this weather event. Without a doubt,

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Speaker 3: The schedules that we implemented today across all them BTA modes,

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Speaker 3: if we've talked about earlier tonight, almost three hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: Okay, so let me let me ask you on a

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Speaker 3: Today today was absolutely fractional. The schedules that we built

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Speaker 3: Talking single digits, but it's days like today, where you know,

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Speaker 2: But those those critical workers, they have to be within

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Speaker 3: Well, I think as we've been watching the recovery from

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Speaker 3: MBTA go app. But those those schedules are essentially built

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's great, Ed. I really do excuse me, Ryan,

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Speaker 2: I really do appreciate the clarity of the information. So

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Speaker 2: the bottom line, if people want to get back on

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Speaker 3: Correct NBTA dot com or one of the most useful

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Speaker 2: Sounds great, Ryan co Holland. I know it's been a

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Speaker 2: I appreciate your time, Ryan, very very much.

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Speaker 2: You're very welcome. Okay, when we get back, we are

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Speaker 2: But I want to hear what was your experience today,

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Speaker 2: Let's get a little positive. We will always be able

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Speaker 1: If you're on night Side with Dan Ray, I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you Boston's News Radio, We're.

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Speaker 2: Gonna go to phone calls. We will be talking with

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Speaker 2: Ken mahon of the Boston Globe briefly at nine, well

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Speaker 2: been a while. Welcome back. How are you?

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Speaker 4: Hello? Damn one of those nights I said I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: Well you nightside every night. How was your day to day?

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Speaker 4: Just kind of lackluster. My area in Brockton, a lot

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Speaker 2: Thank you thought you soon. Let go to Tim and Duxbury. Tim,

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Speaker 5: Hi, yes, Dan, Fortunately it came back on for us,

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Speaker 2: So did your did your generator save you today? Or

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Speaker 2: Was out for a while, I came back in, out

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you calling in. You're a loyal nightside listener.

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Speaker 5: Fortunately, I took your advice and took the weight loss

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Speaker 5: a great program that it has stood.

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Speaker 2: By me for ten years. It will stay by me

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Speaker 2: for the rest of my life. Tim, stay right, stay

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Speaker 2: right there. Give all that information, including a phone number

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Speaker 5: Yeah, God bless you and all the listeners too. Thanks

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Speaker 2: Then we're gonna talk to Ken Mahon for the Boston Globe.

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Speaker 1: Thanks with Dan Ray, I'm Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Like to welcome Boston Globe meteorologist Ken Mahon. Hey, Ken,

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Speaker 2: it's been a busy couple of days for you. How

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Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, I'll tell you honestly, I'm tired, but uh,

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Speaker 2: television needs help. They poured out and helped push the

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Speaker 2: end out of the snowbanks. True.

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Speaker 6: That is a remarkable story. Oh my gosh.

436
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Speaker 2: As always, thank you so much for spending some time

437
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Speaker 2: with us tonight. Buddy. Well thanks. We will next talk

438
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Speaker 2: with a more seasonable and a quiet weather pattern.

439
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Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I like that. Give me a minute in

440
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Speaker 6: the next couple of weeks and I'll be like, hey,

441
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,199
Speaker 6: we have nothing to talk about with the weather. This

442
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 6: is great news.

443
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Speaker 2: That's okay, We'll take it. Hey, Ken Mahayana the Boston Globe.

444
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 2: Thanks so much. Ken. Many people don't know that the

445
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Speaker 2: Globe has their own meteorologist, and it is you of

446
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Speaker 2: whom I speak. Thanks so much, Hey, appreciate it. Talk

447
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Speaker 2: to you, Ken. Good night. All let's get back to

448
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,879
Speaker 2: phone call. It's going to go to Donna in framing him. Donna,

449
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Speaker 2: I haven't talked to you in a while. How are you, Donna?

450
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Speaker 7: I'm okay. Blues of seventy eight. I've just to mention

451
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Speaker 7: it this very quickly. I was a French and Spanish

452
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Speaker 7: teacher at dad Him High School, and I lived in Sharon,

453
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Speaker 7: and so I got home just before all the cars

454
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Speaker 7: got stuck on one twenty eight by a about maybe

455
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Speaker 7: half an hour.

456
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Speaker 2: The timing is everything, you know, daughter, Either you have

457
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Speaker 2: good timing and bad timing. You had good timing for

458
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Speaker 2: a good time, for a good day.

459
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Speaker 7: That's okay, So okay, so here we go. I appreciate

460
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Speaker 7: all the experts you've had on tonight that have been great.

461
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 7: It was one. There's one lacking, however, Okay, here here

462
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 7: it is. I have my electricity, I've had it all day.

463
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Speaker 7: Nothing to report there, but no cable, so I can't

464
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Speaker 7: couldn't watch the news or anything like that. And of

465
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Speaker 7: course you can't go in your compute or either when

466
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Speaker 7: the cable is out.

467
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Speaker 2: Well, thank god you got radio. Thank god you got WBZ.

468
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Speaker 7: Right, you want to know how much time I took

469
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Speaker 7: a nap this afternoon and listened to the radio.

470
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Speaker 2: That's okay, listen to the adultson tones of Ben Parker

471
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Speaker 2: Er the gold Davis. Absolutely So.

472
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Speaker 7: Anyway, I they text you now, So they text me

473
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Speaker 7: that something was going on like at eight o'clock this morning.

474
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 7: Yeah they haven't. They haven't been any updates. But I

475
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Speaker 7: could tell you I don't have cable and I can't

476
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Speaker 7: use my computer, but I looked and I saw something.

477
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Speaker 7: Not that I'm really looking for something like this, but

478
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Speaker 7: when you have Infinity, if you haven't had cable for

479
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Speaker 7: twenty four hours, you can get a credit. Probably what

480
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Speaker 7: a credit is probably fifty bucks or something.

481
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Speaker 2: I don't know what I'll take.

482
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Speaker 7: Yeah, So evidently, if I wake up tomorrow and I

483
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Speaker 7: still don't have cable, that'd be twenty four hours and

484
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Speaker 7: Exfinity gives you a credit.

485
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Speaker 2: But I will promise you that we will keep you

486
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Speaker 2: informed and entertained all the way until midnight. After that

487
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Speaker 2: you're on your own.

488
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Speaker 7: Well, I'm a lot happier tonight that I'm going to

489
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Speaker 7: be tomorrow night, because we all know what we're gonna

490
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Speaker 7: talk about tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk a little bit about that, will give

492
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Speaker 2: everybody an opportunity resident State of the Union address. We'll

493
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Speaker 2: listen to his speech and the speech of the Democratic

494
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Speaker 2: whoever's chosen I'm not exactly sure who will be to

495
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Speaker 2: give the Democratic response, and then we'll give people an

496
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Speaker 2: opportunity to talk about whatever they want to talk about.

497
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Speaker 7: So it's going to be totally different twenty four hours

498
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Speaker 7: from now.

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Speaker 2: That's okay, that's that's good. That's good.

500
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Speaker 7: For the show, because at least at least I'm always

501
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,640
Speaker 7: reading a novel so I could read during the day.

502
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Speaker 7: But I am starting to get a little bit bored.

503
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Speaker 2: Well, we'll we'll keep you. We'll keep you entertained from

504
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 2: now until midnight. Okay, that's as sorry as we can go. Don,

505
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Speaker 2: It's always great. I'm great. Great to hear your voice,

506
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,640
Speaker 2: and we will talk soon. Call more off.

507
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Speaker 7: Alrighty, thanks, Donald, I will thanks, bye bye bye.

508
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 2: All right, let me keep rolling here. I'm going to

509
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 2: go very quickly to Linda in South Waymouth. Linda, you

510
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 2: were next on night side to get you in before

511
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Speaker 2: the break. Gotta be quick for me. How how'd your

512
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Speaker 2: day go today.

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Speaker 7: Linda, I mean real quick.

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Speaker 8: Well, I was kind of bored. I was anxious, had

515
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Speaker 8: a lot of I had about six feet of tige

516
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Speaker 8: of snow, about six feet or seventh four feet which

517
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 8: wise of snow at the end of the driveway. I

518
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 8: have an appointments all this week and I needed to

519
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Speaker 8: be getting a number to pick me up to take

520
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Speaker 8: me and just reminiscence of the blizzard of seventy eight

521
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Speaker 8: and where I was back in the seventy eighth.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I had the same sort of flashback today. You know,

523
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Speaker 2: it's almost like a flashback experience. And it was funny.

524
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Speaker 2: The snow didn't start on time, but it started around

525
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Speaker 2: the same time as the blizzard of seventy eight, late

526
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Speaker 2: morning at least where I am.

527
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Speaker 8: Oh, really, I had a neighbor that I had reached

528
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Speaker 8: out to and really had to get them to help

529
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Speaker 8: me the driveway, the end of the driveway clear out.

530
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 8: That was my big concern. My other guy has forty

531
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Speaker 8: two people, so I said, I'm not going to pressure him.

532
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 8: I just want to drive end of the driveway clear

533
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Speaker 8: out so he can get the driveway itself right.

534
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Speaker 2: Take take you, Halbert, Tomorrow you'll be more relaxed. It'll

535
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 2: be pretty anxiety You'll be in anxiety stricken.

536
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Speaker 8: I'm not driving in this south for you. Thank you

537
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 8: for having the yet speakers that you had.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Thanks Linda, appreciate it much. Talk soon. Okay, thank

539
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 2: you very much. Buy a quick break here on night Side.

540
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Speaker 2: I got one line at six one seven nine and

541
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Speaker 2: one line at six one seven four ten thirty. Back

542
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 2: on night.

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Speaker 1: Side Night Side with Dan Ray, I'm telling you Bzy

544
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.

545
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 2: Back to the phones. We go. We're gonna go to

546
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Speaker 2: Kathy in Ludenberg. Kathy, are you back home?

547
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Speaker 9: I am then, And we didn't lose power through the storm,

548
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 9: which was great given.

549
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Speaker 2: Given the track record.

550
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Speaker 9: The track record, Yeah, well that's a good one.

551
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 2: So did you not get a lot of Did you

552
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 2: not get a lot of snow up there?

553
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 9: Oh? No, We we got about two feet thereabout.

554
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 6: That would be a guestimate.

555
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Speaker 9: And I think I just you know, I heard bits

556
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Speaker 9: and pieces that it wasn't as much, of course as

557
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Speaker 9: everybody else. And this really was just a coastal storm.

558
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 9: I know, talking to my daughter in Boston, they got

559
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Speaker 9: about a foot.

560
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 2: So I think the wind was what really caused the problem,

561
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 2: both in terms of power lines and trees. There was

562
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Speaker 2: some flooding and all of that, but there were it

563
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 2: was tough, tough. There are a lot of people out

564
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Speaker 2: in the road, probably more people than wanted than should

565
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Speaker 2: have been. We talked in the first hour with representatives

566
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Speaker 2: of ever Source and National Grid, State Police, as well

567
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Speaker 2: as UH the Department of Transportation, John Jonathan Gulliver and right,

568
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 2: I don't know what anybody was out today.

569
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Speaker 9: I know no one should be, but you know, I

570
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 9: feel bad for these people who are or maybe out

571
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 9: for an extended period of time, And just a footnote

572
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 9: to that, if they have the capabilities to log on

573
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,479
Speaker 9: the internet and go to mass dot gov, BackFlash DPU,

574
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 9: they can pull up their company's emergency response plan thanks

575
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 9: to what we went through seventeen years ago, which seems crazy,

576
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 9: it's been that long. Yeah, and we fought for what

577
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 9: is now known as the Storm Response Legislation. Yeah, and

578
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 9: what it does does give a layer of protection, and

579
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Speaker 9: it outlines protocols that all these big utilities, all of them,

580
00:31:54,680 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 9: not just UNITIL Resource, National Grid, Western Mass, they all

581
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Speaker 9: have to follow the same level of protocols and timeline

582
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Speaker 9: and respond accordingly. So they each should have an emergency

583
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Speaker 9: response center open. They're supposed to have communication levels that

584
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 9: are a requisite, which you know everybody's saying, Oh, it's

585
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 9: so great because now we can get text alerts. I mean,

586
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 9: those things weren't available years ago. And this law actually

587
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 9: hasn't been updated since twenty twelve, and I really do

588
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 9: think it needs updating. And I'm thinking of a few

589
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 9: good senators and reps that I'm hoping they take that,

590
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 9: buy those horn and run with it too, because I

591
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 9: think it's important to especially with the weather patterns we

592
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 9: seem to get into, to keep that updated.

593
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Speaker 2: But I totally agree with you. So now you're out

594
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 2: of Florida, you're back here for a while. So yeah,

595
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 2: I hope the way I have you brought some good

596
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: warm weather back with you. Okay, that's all.

597
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Speaker 9: I heard. Forties this weekend. Of course, I'm looking at

598
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 9: my camera in Florida and it's eighty degrees and I'm

599
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 9: thinking what am I doing? And the property tax law

600
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 9: is now passing in Florida, so I won't be here

601
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Speaker 9: next year.

602
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Speaker 10: For sure.

603
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Speaker 2: All right, Kathy, Kathy, thank you so much for calling,

604
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Speaker 2: and please.

605
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Speaker 6: Keep stay warm.

606
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Speaker 4: Yep, Okay, good night.

607
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Speaker 2: Let me go to Suzanne and Newton. Hi, Suzanne, how

608
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 2: are you?

609
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 10: I'm a chilly, but I'm fine. I'm a very grateful

610
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Speaker 10: that I'm a assisted lip. You did sucklessly for four days.

611
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Speaker 2: Please tell me that you didn't lose power?

612
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Speaker 10: I hope, No, we did not. We have a generator.

613
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Speaker 2: Oh good for the whole building, right.

614
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I need you know, people stupidly open windows and doors,

615
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Speaker 10: but yeah, I don't you know. I have I have

616
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 10: a friend in New York and I called her because

617
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 10: you know they've had a mess. So she said, oh,

618
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 10: I'm doing well. I'm on the eighteenth floor. It was

619
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Speaker 10: a supply of ice cream, but I'm downsizing my lot.

620
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Speaker 2: Okay, well that's that is a good thing to do

621
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Speaker 2: at any age, a supply of ice cream. There's no doubt.

622
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Speaker 2: There's no doubt about that.

623
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Speaker 10: No, no, And I have my helpers stuck with me,

624
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Speaker 10: you know. But that's why I'm just resistingly to put

625
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 10: on my bathroom by swish it with slippers the runout

626
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 10: in the parking loss to distribute chocolate.

627
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Speaker 2: No, I don't no, no, no, no, no, no no.

628
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Speaker 2: I think you want to stay warm, Suzanne. Always good

629
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Speaker 2: to hear your voice. You stay warm, and hopefully everything

630
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 2: will stay running perfectly where you are and for everyone

631
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Speaker 2: else will get their power back as well.

632
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Suzanne, Thank you, thank you.

633
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Speaker 2: Let me go to Alex and Milis Alex night side.

634
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 4: Go right ahead, Hey Dan, how are you right?

635
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 2: How is it out at Mills today?

636
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: Uh?

637
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Speaker 11: I got I got almost like two feet of snow

638
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 11: and I wanted to say they should have called animal

639
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Speaker 11: controler on punks of Tony Phil.

640
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Well, I mean I think that's a bit

641
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 2: of a scam. Anyway, Hey, I think that there should

642
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 2: have been a lot of celebration in Milliic's didn't. Didn't

643
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 2: Millis have one of the players in the American hockey

644
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 2: the American the USA Hockey team yesterday this kid?

645
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, that's right. But I didn't see anybody on

646
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 11: the road even you know, it was really that CBS

647
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 11: had closed market Basket, which is a couple of times

648
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 11: over closed at twelve.

649
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 2: What were you doing out on the well, what were

650
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 2: you doing out on the road today? Crazy?

651
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Speaker 11: Oh, I didn't go. I went out just for like, uh,

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Speaker 11: you know, to pick up some medication for my life.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well that's legitim, Yeah, that's that's yeah. We talked

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Speaker 2: to we talked to a lot of the the officials

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Speaker 2: in the first hour, and and the state Police major

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Speaker 2: informed me that people who are out on the road

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Speaker 2: and don't have the authority to be out of the

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Speaker 2: road can be fined upwards of five hundred dollars. So

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Speaker 2: that's an interesting piece of information you want to put

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Speaker 2: in the back of your mind. Whenever.

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Speaker 11: And our mailbox second time it got it got hit

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Speaker 11: and uh, it's like one of about four or our road.

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Speaker 2: What get what get hit?

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Speaker 11: I'm sorry the mailbox. The plow uh you know knocked

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Speaker 11: it over.

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Speaker 2: Well that seems to happen all too often. But but

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Speaker 2: with all the snow that has been you know, built up,

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Speaker 2: and the you know, look at I'm throwing snow on

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Speaker 2: my driveway and it's like, I'm not sure where I

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Speaker 2: can throw it anymore.

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Speaker 11: I've used my snowblower, and but I I have we

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Speaker 11: have a big yard. I don't know, I like, but

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Speaker 11: I was basically trying to you know, accommodate it and

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Speaker 11: make a couple of trails in the backyard for our

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Speaker 11: dog so he could he could run and you know

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Speaker 11: take care of business.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's tough. It's tough on all the animals

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Speaker 2: at this time of year, not only the house pets,

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Speaker 2: the dogs and the cats. But how would you like

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Speaker 2: to be one of these little squirrels or raccoons or

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Speaker 2: whatever who are running around in the all the federal cats.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea how feral cats survive at this

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Speaker 2: time of year, because, yeah, it's it's tough. I've seen

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Speaker 2: federal cats during the summer and they won't even approach you.

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Speaker 2: You go to approach them and you want to leave

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Speaker 2: them a little bucket of water or something like that,

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Speaker 2: and they get real skittish. And I don't understand how

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Speaker 2: they survive during the winter, that's for sure. And then

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Speaker 2: the other thing, which I say, I see that the

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Speaker 2: put the footprints in the snow, and it's like, interesting,

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Speaker 2: how many little footprints there are. And you when you

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Speaker 2: got some snow in your yard, if you look carefully,

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Speaker 2: it's more than your realize, right.

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Speaker 11: I was just curious to would you prefer this to

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Speaker 11: one hundred degrees in humidity in a few months.

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Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with you. I will take the

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Speaker 2: one hundred degrees because the one hundred degrees I can

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Speaker 2: control little air conditioning. Most of us don't lose our

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Speaker 2: power with one hundred degrees. We do lose our power

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Speaker 2: with snowstorms. And it's just a reminder that maybe this

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Speaker 2: climate change thing, maybe we need to take a second

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Speaker 2: look at it.

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Speaker 11: Alex I think, yeah, I think there's something to it,

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Speaker 11: but I don't know. We'll get another snowstorm, but hopefully,

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Speaker 11: you know, yeah, well.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully the worst is over, because by this time next

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Speaker 2: week it'll be March, and that's that's a good that's

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Speaker 2: a good sign. Alex. I got to run. Thank you

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Speaker 2: very much for your call, my friend, talk later. Thanks,

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Speaker 2: Thanks alex, I have a great night. We'll take a

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Speaker 2: quick break here on Night'side, coming back right after the

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