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Speaker 1: Good morning, Michael. I would love to have your opinion

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Speaker 1: on these Excel power outages in Colorado today. Yes, it

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Speaker 1: makes sense in terms of trying to prevent wildfires, but

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Speaker 1: do you think it's also another training exercise, activity, whatever

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Speaker 1: you want to call it, and us getting used to

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Speaker 1: having brownouts and power outages in Colorado due to lack

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Speaker 1: of energy. Just curious. Good morning Dragon.

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Speaker 2: Oh on, good morning.

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Speaker 3: Well, now that you mention it, I really kind of

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Speaker 3: wanted to wait until Ross and Gina and all the

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Speaker 3: newspeople were all gone before I launched into my tirade

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Speaker 3: about the wind.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, the wind's going to blow today.

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Speaker 3: We've got all we have sheltering places, we've got places you.

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Speaker 2: Can go with everything. The wind's going to blow today.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, what are we gonna do?

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Speaker 4: Really carefully, you got a little red there. You need

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Speaker 4: to take your blood pressure pill. Already, Girly on the

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Speaker 4: air for about three minutes. That's time to take your pills.

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Speaker 3: Well, actually it started last night, when you know, I

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Speaker 3: tuned in to you know, as I usually do, KDVR,

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Speaker 3: Colorado's most accurate weather. You know, they've got a little

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Speaker 3: tyron thing that says you know rated Colorado's most accurate

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Speaker 3: weather for the past, you know, nine hundred and sixty

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Speaker 3: seven years or something. So I want to hear what

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Speaker 3: Dave Fraser and his team have to say about the weather.

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Speaker 3: And oh, my goodness, I mean, OMG, all capital's OEMG

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Speaker 3: exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point.

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Speaker 2: There's gonna be win today.

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Speaker 3: I was kind of first, can we just calm down,

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Speaker 3: It's weather, and it happens all the time. Color E'll

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Speaker 3: sees wins in excesses. And here's the key. It's got

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Speaker 3: to be seventy five miles an hour or more, because

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Speaker 3: then you can add the phrase to we're going to

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Speaker 3: experience winds of seventy five to eighty miles an hour, which.

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Speaker 2: Are go ahead, hurricanes win?

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Speaker 3: God it, congratulations, mister Redbeard. You're not near these times

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Speaker 3: of why people.

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Speaker 2: Tell me they are? You are? Huh what'd you say?

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Speaker 3: Nothing? Nothing?

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Speaker 2: Nothing, never mind hurricane force winds. Oh my god? Is

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Speaker 2: that on the Richter scale?

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Speaker 3: Which scale is that or is that the Sampson Siffer

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Speaker 3: Fifferiffer scale?

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Speaker 2: Whatever?

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, uh chinook winds Bora wins. Over the

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Speaker 3: past decade, Colorado has had multiple episodes of every single

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Speaker 3: year where the wind guests reach or see seventy five

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Speaker 3: or eighty miles an hour, sometimes much higher than that.

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Speaker 3: And if me, if ever like me, you've actually lived

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Speaker 3: in the mountains south of Boulder, I always like to point

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Speaker 3: out that I used to live in Boulder County. I

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Speaker 3: did not live in the city of Boulder. Yes, there

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Speaker 3: were knights when we were like, okay, well, let's just

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Speaker 3: hope that the house, you know, stays together and we

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Speaker 3: don't end up in left Pan Canyon somewhere in the

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Speaker 3: Front Range foothills. Let's just say Boulder, Golden Netherland, Lions,

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Speaker 3: all that kind of area. Winds in excess to seventy

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Speaker 3: five to eighty miles now hurricane force winds typically occur

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Speaker 3: anywhere between three and six times a year, normally during

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Speaker 3: down slope Chinook or the Boro wind events in the

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Speaker 3: winter and in the spring checks calendar, Oh yeah, it's December.

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Speaker 3: It's the winter time now in the mountains, and obviously

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Speaker 3: in the higher passage you get up the Birth of Loveland, Monarch,

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Speaker 3: et cetera. Hurricanes, Hurricane force winds are obviously much more common,

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Speaker 3: especially in winter storms and when you have strong cold fronts.

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Speaker 3: You know, those events occur every single year all the time.

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Speaker 3: Now across the eastern plains in the lower elevation cities

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Speaker 3: think Denver for Collins, Colorado Springs, Hurricane force winds are rare,

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Speaker 3: but sometimes in springtime, severe thunderstorms can occasionally produce isolated

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Speaker 3: gusts in that range. In fact, those of you that

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Speaker 3: are new to this program, but you made those of

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Speaker 3: you listened to me over on listening to me over

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Speaker 3: on khow know that it's been a few years ago now.

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Speaker 3: I mean I grew up in freaking tornado alley and

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Speaker 3: I've done tornado chasing, and we in my entire life

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Speaker 3: never suffered any damage.

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Speaker 2: From a tornado.

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Speaker 3: But moving to Highlands Ranch, Colorado, about two or three

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Speaker 3: years ago, our house gets hit by a tornado. Yes,

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Speaker 3: brung out the entire side of the garage, lifted the

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Speaker 3: It sounds like a train, sounds like a freight train. Well,

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Speaker 3: So stupid me got up and opened up the sliding

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Speaker 2: And the minute I opened that door just shut.

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Speaker 3: The air just sucked, almost just sucked me right out

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Speaker 3: on the deck and I quickly closed it. The skylights

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Speaker 3: to be like oh, And we go down the stairs

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Speaker 3: I had I did park the car in the garage,

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Speaker 2: So I went outside to check and it was sunshine.

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Speaker 3: The garage was just filled with sunshine, not because the

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Speaker 3: and the walls were the you know, the garage doors

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Speaker 3: were open at least those beams.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 3: And then I discovered and we had to have an

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Speaker 3: support beam that was that was askew. I didn't realize that.

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Speaker 3: Let's go back to December twenty one, the Marshall fire

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Speaker 3: up in the Bolder County foothills. Gus reached ninety t

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Speaker 3: one hundred and fifteen miles an hour, seventy five to

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Speaker 3: the Marshall fire. Excels paid a bunch of money out

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Speaker 3: for that. So if some other people paid up money

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Speaker 3: for that fire. And so now we do what we

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Speaker 3: typically do as Americans. We now realize we knew all

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Speaker 3: we knew all along that the failure to bury underground utilities,

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Speaker 3: particularly electric utilities, all we had to do. You know,

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Speaker 3: every time I give an example of hey, look to

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Speaker 3: an example of something's going to happen. Well, we should

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Speaker 3: not be surprised at all by the Marshall fire. In

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Speaker 3: two thousand and three, the Cedar Fire in southern California,

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Speaker 3: lines during high winds, and of course failure to maintain

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Speaker 3: the forest because the environmental wackos don't want to do that,

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Speaker 3: cause horrific damage all up and down southern California.

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Speaker 2: I spent a lot of time out there dealing with that.

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Speaker 3: So we had the Marshall Fire in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 3: and excuse me, and then just a year later, April

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, there was a strong storm system that

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Speaker 3: and again hurricane force winds along the front Range. And

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Speaker 3: then just in the past two years, twenty twenty three

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, there were several high wind events in

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Speaker 3: in the Boulder, Denver corridor. This is not unusual. The

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Speaker 3: most frequent hurricane force winds occur in the foothills in

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Speaker 2: Oh, we're right in the middle of bench shazam. Can't

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Speaker 3: And it's usually you know, you've got down slope schnook

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Speaker 3: produce sustained winds of at least fifty seventy miles an hour,

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Speaker 3: you if you again, if you watch Day's for Dave

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Speaker 3: Fraser in the weather, you would have noticed that, oh,

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Speaker 3: there is some sort of I forget what name they've

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Speaker 3: a cyclone or something, but it's a you know, some

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Speaker 3: sort of rain trains, you know, coming through the weather.

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Speaker 3: You put all this together, I would say here's a

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Speaker 3: reasonable estimate for the past decade.

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Speaker 2: Along the foothills.

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Speaker 3: Hurricane force winds occur anywhere roughly on average, let's say,

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Speaker 3: the higher mountain passes, Hurricane force winds yes or more frequent,

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Speaker 3: often five to ten times or more per year in

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Speaker 3: the most exposed areas. For the Denver metro area in

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Speaker 3: the eastern plains, hurricanes hurricane force winds are rare but

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Speaker 3: isolated gusts and that range occur about once every one

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Speaker 3: major stormer in a severe thunderstorm. So they're not an

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Speaker 3: everyday occurrence. I get that across the entire state. But

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Speaker 3: they're a regular feature of Colorado's weather in the foothills,

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Speaker 3: it's the news. We need something to hype everybody up about.

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Speaker 3: Because if we're not all hyped up about something, then

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Speaker 3: we're not doing the news right right, So we got

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Speaker 3: to hype up the news. Hype up the news. Oh,

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Speaker 3: it drives me freaking crazy.

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Speaker 2: The weather. The weather becomes the news story.

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Speaker 3: Now to Kathleen's point, you know, I live in an

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Speaker 3: area now in Douglas County where probably I don't know,

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Speaker 3: I'm just guessing now ninety percent of the utilities are

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Speaker 3: all underground. So when the Highlands Ranch community was developed,

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Speaker 3: somebody made, oh, well, you know, what we ought to

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Speaker 3: do is just to save on maintenance and repairs and

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Speaker 3: the weather and everything else, let's bury all the power lines.

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Speaker 3: So I can look all around my neighborhood and I

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Speaker 3: don't see, you know, a bunch of transmission lines. The

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Speaker 3: I don't even know whether I honestly, come to think

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Speaker 3: fenced in, got barbed wire, and in it. Find a

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Speaker 3: because if you want to recavoc if you're a you know,

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Speaker 3: you're a lone wolf, and you want to wreak some

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Speaker 3: domestic terrorism, well go blow up the substation. Yeah, We've

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Speaker 3: had that happen out in California too, so I'm surprised

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Speaker 3: it hasn't happened here. They don't do it for a

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Speaker 3: couple of reasons. Now, first and foremost, to be objective,

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Speaker 3: they don't vary the power lines because well, it's expensive.

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Speaker 3: And to go back into older developments, subdivisions where they're

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Speaker 3: already above ground, to now bury those is incredibly expensive.

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Speaker 3: So you start with the cost. But and what's important

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Speaker 3: about the word but here's what you pay attention to.

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Speaker 2: Why do we not even try to do it now?

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Speaker 3: Well, was it this week or last week we talked

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Michael, that's a great question. It really starts with

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Speaker 3: you could be doing, but you didn't do it because

436
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Speaker 3: you're too busy trying to force everybody onto electrification and

437
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Speaker 3: then using wind and solar to do so.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 3: But then the wind turbines are going to work today

440
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Speaker 3: and you don't have the storage for that, so it

441
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Speaker 3: doesn't make any difference. Oh my gosh, Yeah, ou seventy

442
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Speaker 3: nine to ninety, Mike, it's a big deal today because

443
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Speaker 3: of lawsuits.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly my point.

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Speaker 3: You would have thought that if you've paid out hundreds

446
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Speaker 3: of millions of dollars in lawsuits because you caused a fire,

447
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 3: you were the approximate cause of a fire, that you

448
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Speaker 3: would have learned and you would have thought, hmmm, let

449
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 3: me think, Marshall Fire superioris Louisville, Louisville, all of that area.

450
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 3: Maybe what we ought to do is invest some of

451
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Speaker 3: our reserves and our capital into that area. Because that

452
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Speaker 3: dumbass Michael Brown over on Koa pointed out, how.

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Speaker 2: Oh, these are frequent occurrences.

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Speaker 3: We get anywhere between three to six days every single

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Speaker 3: year where we have chnutzer Boro wins that exceed hurricane

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Speaker 3: force winds. So maybe we ought to do something to uh,

457
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Speaker 3: you know, take care of that instead of just shutting

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Speaker 3: down everybody's power. You know, we we truly are an

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Speaker 3: insane society, and we become so dependent, so solely dependent

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Speaker 3: upon And I'm don't get me wrong. I love electricity.

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Speaker 3: I love electricity. It does so many wonderful things. If

462
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Speaker 3: it drives my car, no it does not. It does

463
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Speaker 3: not drive my car, but I electricity. Yes, it's one

464
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Speaker 3: of the modern modern wonders of American society. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: you can do it. Uh twenty two ninety three Rites.

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Speaker 3: This is freaking hilarious, Mike. You know funny. Oh it

467
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 3: always refreshes. Just wanting to read read one Mike Funny

468
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Speaker 3: yesterday here in Boulder. To your point, you can spot

469
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Speaker 3: the California ports by the freak out factor. Most homes

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Speaker 3: in Shanahan Ridge have hurricane shutters.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm not.

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Speaker 3: Gonna make fun of anybody that puts hurricane shutters on

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Speaker 3: their windows. If they live in an area where maybe

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Speaker 3: they've learned, Oh, sometimes we have hurricane force winds, so

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Speaker 3: we're gonna put shutters on.

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Speaker 2: That's fine.

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00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,439
Speaker 3: Or you could have put extra strength windows because we

478
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 3: don't actually have hurricanes. Do you know why hurricane shutters

479
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 3: are predominantly used in places along the coast. It's not

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Speaker 3: because of the wind itself, because you can buy windows

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Speaker 3: that will sustain hurricane force winds.

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Speaker 2: Do you have to know what it might be? Dragon?

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Speaker 3: Let's see if you can get bat at a full

484
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Speaker 3: thousand yesterday. What do you think really causes the damage

485
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Speaker 3: in a hurricane.

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Speaker 4: It's not that the wind is blowing, it's what the

487
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Speaker 4: wind is blowing.

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Speaker 3: Man. You know what, all this time I just thought

489
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 3: you were just some dumb ass, just didn't you know,

490
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Speaker 3: But wow, you're really pretty dang good.

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Speaker 6: Good morning gentlemen. Mister brown Dragon has informed me that

492
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Speaker 6: there is circling debris in your studio, So please calm down,

493
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:28,360
Speaker 6: get off the meanies or whatever you're on, and take

494
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 6: it easy. It's just the wind blowing. You grew up

495
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 6: in Oklahoma, there's no dirt involved, no tree.

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Speaker 7: You did get a little red in that last specially

497
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 7: sad about that talk back is he's so calm, cool

498
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 7: and collected, which tells me he's woefully ignorant of the

499
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Speaker 7: incredible armageddon that we're.

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Speaker 3: About to face. How do I save that soul? My

501
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 3: job is to say souls here, and I can't.

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00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't save him.

503
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 3: He's he's he's he's willfully blind to the dangers that

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Speaker 3: we face.

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Speaker 2: How dare he not panic? Right now? Exactly?

506
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 3: That's what every that's what the cabal wants us to do,

507
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 3: is to panic. And you know, I guess I have

508
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 3: to now include public utilities into the cabal too. That

509
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 3: cabal is just getting bigger and bigger, and all of

510
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 3: us are getting smaller and smaller. You remember, Look, I

511
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 3: didn't I didn't intend to spend in a full hour

512
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 3: on this, but you guys in your talkbacks and your

513
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 3: text messages, which, by the way, the.

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Speaker 4: Text line is three three one zero three three three

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Speaker 4: one oh three Mike Michael, three three.

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Speaker 3: One zero three keyword Michael Michael, uh ninety four to

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Speaker 3: twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Rights.

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00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 3: All this power shut off does is make us fire power,

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00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 3: diesel and gas generators. But don't tell Governor p or

521
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 3: the PUC and the legislators or they'll ban them too. Oh,

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00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 3: you don't know, they're already working on that. They're already

523
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 3: working on it. Guba number forty nine h six, Michael

524
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Speaker 3: Is you're number one super Gooober from Florida. After thirty

525
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 3: two years in Colorado, I can confidently say that I

526
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 3: have learned to handle blizzards, hurricanes, floods, and power adages.

527
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 3: What I still cannot handle is political dumb assery. Power

528
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:27,160
Speaker 3: companies down here are just as greedy as Excel. Political

529
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 3: dumb assery. Yes, you come here to get that, you

530
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 3: come here to get inoculated against it.

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Speaker 2: And I'm sorry. Farmer's daughter.

532
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 3: I you know, first, I guess I need to start

533
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 3: wearing cans, but I just I don't want to mess

534
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Speaker 3: up my beautiful hair, you know, my no longer existing

535
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 3: receiving hairline.

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Speaker 4: But I didn't recognize the farmer's lide. I wasn't certain

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Speaker 4: when she first started talking either. Then you said it

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Speaker 4: was Kathleen. I said, oh, that could be Kathleen.

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00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 2: And then we found out that it was not. Kathleen

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Speaker 2: was a farmer's daughter.

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Speaker 3: And that you know, you don't want to trust me,

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Speaker 3: You don't want to piss off the daughter because you.

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Speaker 4: Never know, you know, yeah, I'm pretty sure she's castrated

544
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Speaker 4: a thing or.

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00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 3: She probably you know, she's ready to do a little

546
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 3: snip snip, and I'm not ready to be snip snipped.

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00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 3: So just keep her, you know, you can't. We need

548
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 3: to put a mirror here so I can kind of

549
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 3: see back here behind this glass, see I. Anybody shows

550
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 3: up with some shears or some you know, some little.

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Speaker 2: Snippets, some some nail clippers for you.

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Speaker 3: That was good. That was good, Thank you. Let's see Google.

553
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Speaker 3: Ember zero two two five, Michael. Welcome to socialized energy.

554
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 3: Robert Kennedy. That Robert Kenny The energies are Hungarian word

555
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 3: for feces. Colorado spent money on unreliable green energy so

556
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Speaker 3: businesses could be shut down during the most important time.

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Speaker 2: Of the year.

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Speaker 3: Oh, colorad I would never do anything stupid like that.

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Speaker 3: Uh four oh one, Michael. Wouldn't be better if all

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Speaker 3: those schools actually had in place emergency generators with ninety

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Speaker 3: six hours a fuel.

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00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 2: That way, they cannot only continue.

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Speaker 3: To do school work, but they can also be utilized

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Speaker 3: as a shelter because they would have heater air conditioning.

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Speaker 3: Depending on the time of year and all the other

566
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 3: requirements that are necessary for people to be taken care

567
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 3: of these diary emergencies. You see, it's that kind of

568
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 3: logical thinking.

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Speaker 4: Arguably, that's a lot of generators.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of generators. There's a lot of schools.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of schools.

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Speaker 3: It might mean that you might have to cut back

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Speaker 3: on some administrative staff.

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Speaker 2: You can never do that.

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Speaker 3: That's because because the administrative staff is so important to

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Speaker 3: the education of the little rug rats. Forget the teachers.

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Speaker 3: They're just there to, you know, kind of control the chaos.

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Speaker 3: The administrators do all the teaching. Holy crap,