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Speaker 1: One of our cities and one of our mayors is

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Speaker 1: on the line. Mayor Frank Pocosey of Warwick is joining

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Speaker 1: me on the seacunk Supply hotline. Give us an update.

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Speaker 1: I know you were out there plowing away. Good morning, Mayor.

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Speaker 2: Good more on the tire And I want to make

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Speaker 2: something very clear from the outset. When you drive around

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Speaker 2: to the bumper of a car and you went down

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Speaker 2: the road, it's called hooky.

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Speaker 3: It is hookey, all right.

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Speaker 2: It was hooky. You hooked onto the bumper. It was hookey,

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Speaker 2: all right, all right.

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Speaker 1: I had to plain hookey was like we used to

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Speaker 1: call it bunking bunking school, so you call.

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Speaker 2: It bunking too. That was that wasn't called hookey. That

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Speaker 2: was bunking.

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Speaker 1: I know we were bunking too, So I think we're

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Speaker 1: in the same wheelhouse.

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Speaker 3: All right, good check that off. All right, hookey. I

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Speaker 3: still have to text my sister and see what she says.

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Speaker 1: So, Mayor, you know, I grew up in Warwick, for

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Speaker 1: the most part, more spread out than Providence, right less,

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Speaker 1: you know, tight tight situations to get through, but still

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Speaker 1: very very busy in Warwick.

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Speaker 3: So give us an update.

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Speaker 2: I think we have just about all the roads open now.

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Speaker 2: We're in the clean up operation. We have to widen them,

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Speaker 2: doing the call, the sacks, the dead ends. We had

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Speaker 2: some equipment breakdown last night, but it's snow equipment. We

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Speaker 2: don't use it. That off and the mechanics worked all night.

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Speaker 2: The guys have been out since nine o'clock yesterday morning.

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Speaker 2: We're in very good shape right now.

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Speaker 1: All right, sounds good. I was just before the news break.

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Speaker 1: I was just talking about school being canceled. You're probably

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Speaker 1: optimistic for school being open tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I haven't talked to superintendent yet. I

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Speaker 2: went by some of the schools and they looked like

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Speaker 2: they were all plowed and ready to go. So that'll

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Speaker 2: be his decision.

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Speaker 1: Okay, do you know if they're virtual learning today?

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Speaker 3: Is that just a thing?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 3: I might have gotten lost in the shuffle here.

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Speaker 2: I guess it is. But Warwick isn't doing it. They

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Speaker 2: chose not to do it for the snowstorm.

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Speaker 3: All right, So the kids are off and they don't

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Speaker 3: have to do it. They don't have to do school.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the kids should be enjoying. They should be enjoying

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Speaker 2: a good old fashioned snow driving around. I see they're

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Speaker 2: doing that, all right.

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Speaker 1: That was my take too, So it's not a total

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Speaker 1: thing of the past. Goes by the district however they

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Speaker 1: want to handle it obviously, right, I mean.

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Speaker 2: We did, we did great, We did great last night.

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Speaker 2: We had a parking van for the most part, a

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Speaker 2: lot of people cooperated. We did tow nineteen cars. Now,

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Speaker 2: I want to give a big shout out to the

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Speaker 2: police department, especially Colonel Lima, because if I don't give

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Speaker 2: them a shout of he'll pope. But they they actually

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Speaker 2: they they actually, uh, he's gonna get me found. They

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Speaker 2: actually go and knock on the doors and ask people

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Speaker 2: to move. They do everything they can because we really

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Speaker 2: don't want to ticket or or tow anyone. But it's

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Speaker 2: just this amount of snow. We had to have the

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Speaker 2: streets cleared, all right.

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Speaker 1: So you're you've got the police patrolling, You've got the

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Speaker 1: fire departments always at the ready.

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Speaker 3: I know you have a great fire department there in Warwick.

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Speaker 2: We do. And the DPW has just been rock stars.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, they've been out since nine o'clock yesterday morning.

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Speaker 2: They're going to be all day today, probably into the evening.

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Speaker 2: Then they get to go home and do their own driveways.

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Speaker 2: But you know they're yeah, I mean some residents are

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Speaker 2: unhappy because of widening the roads now and it's going

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Speaker 2: into their their shoveled driveways. One woman about an hour

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Speaker 2: ago gave me the finger. Uh. They're they're calling, dispatching

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Speaker 2: and screaming obscenities. But it's a big snowstorm. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: have to go up and down multiple times, is just

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Speaker 1: So do you do this for I don't say for

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Speaker 1: a living, but you're just doing it because but you

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Speaker 1: have a plow of your own where you work in

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Speaker 1: a city plow, you know how to work out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I plowed for years when I was a contractor.

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Speaker 2: But my Marig's car is actually a three quarter ton

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Speaker 2: pickup truck and it has a plow with it. So

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Speaker 2: on storms like this, I'll go out and help out.

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Speaker 2: I'll troubleshooting this now, the storm like last week that

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Speaker 2: they didn't need me, but you know they could have

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Speaker 2: used They could use all the help they can get today.

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Speaker 2: I have the truck because a lot of times, as

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Speaker 2: you know, anyone get a hold of me on Facebook

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Speaker 2: or anywhere, a lot of other ways, and they'll say, hey,

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Speaker 2: there's a mattress on west Yard Road or a garbage

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Speaker 2: back and no one's working, so I just go take

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Speaker 2: care of it myself.

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Speaker 1: M All right, Now here's the you know, I just

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Speaker 1: remember I grew up on the street next to Ann

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Speaker 1: and Hope and that you we get these giant snow mounts, right,

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Speaker 1: that's such a big parking lot now it's the U

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Speaker 1: haul right. Companies obviously are responsible for their own parking lots,

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Speaker 1: I would imagine, But yeah, where do you where Where

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Speaker 1: does all the snow from sideways and I mean sideways,

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Speaker 1: highways and everything else go.

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Speaker 2: To the side of the road. I mean where we're

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Speaker 2: going through that right now. The state's redoing the main

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Speaker 2: roads and they're blocking our side roads to go out

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Speaker 2: into the main roads. Then we go and clean that.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a long process. I mean, we'll

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Speaker 2: end the state. We'll be cleaning up for a couple

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Speaker 2: of days. Hopefully we don't get anymore for a while.

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Speaker 1: And so you've got to be asking people in Warwick.

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Speaker 1: This is the Warwick Mayor, Frank Pocozi on the line

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Speaker 1: with me. You've got to be asking the people in work.

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Speaker 1: To keep your car somewhere else because we're still plowing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and to be patient. I mean a lot of

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Speaker 2: people now they have the cars down the road because

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Speaker 2: they're cleaning them off and they're doing their driveways. That's understandable,

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Speaker 2: but you know tonight they should be off the roads

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Speaker 2: parking bench in effect. He'll seven am tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So you mentioned somebody flipped you off.

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Speaker 1: Is that because they don't want you to go up

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Speaker 1: and down the street because eventually the snow has to

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Speaker 1: sometimes go back into some people's driveway.

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Speaker 3: I mean it happens here all the time where I

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Speaker 3: love you get everything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it islo comes. Yeah, yeah, she just saw the

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Speaker 2: plow coming. I'm sure she didn't know who it was.

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Speaker 2: But you know, some people, some people get frustrated. Maybe

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Speaker 2: she was doing it in a friendly way. I don't know,

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Speaker 2: but oh sure, but you know some people are calling

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Speaker 2: up and screaming and what.

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Speaker 3: Do they want to do? We snowed in I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It's not the first snowstone we've had in Rhode Island.

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Speaker 2: It always goes back in the driveway. Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 2: nothing we can do.

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Speaker 3: Damned if you do damned if you don't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got to be a major overtime thing for

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Speaker 3: How do you handle that?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely well, we budget a decent amount for overtime,

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Speaker 2: but you know, yesterday was yesterday was Sunday. They're over

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Speaker 2: twenty four hours now, but we we we you know,

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Speaker 2: assume that in the budget things like this storm storms,

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Speaker 2: so you know we're budgeted for it. I don't know

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Speaker 2: where we are right now, but we haven't had many

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Speaker 2: snowstorms this year. Unfortunately, they keep coming out.

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Speaker 1: Weekends exactly, and I don't want to, you know, bum

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Speaker 1: you out, Mayor, but I think this is another one

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Speaker 1: coming next weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard that, and I also I also get

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Speaker 2: a weather alert. We might have another one to five

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Speaker 2: from this one later on, oh wrap around effect. But

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Speaker 2: hopefully that's wrong. I have to say to local local meteorologists,

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Speaker 2: was we're right on on this storm? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: They were, they were.

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Speaker 1: Everyone pretty much got what they you know, at least

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Speaker 1: a foot, right, at least a foot maybe?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, easily, all of that easily.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, listen, Mayor, go safe and appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time today. Anything else you need to tell us

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Speaker 1: anything about the Warwick Mall or any other Uh you

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Speaker 1: know your good spots. Uh.

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Speaker 2: No, I think everyone's starting to open now. I think

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Speaker 2: a lot of people are out of work. There aren't

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Speaker 2: a lot of cars on the road yet. But it'll

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Speaker 2: start come, it'll start coming live. But like I said,

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Speaker 2: we'll be working all day.

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Speaker 1: And I do believe the it was either the governor

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Speaker 1: or somebody wanted to make sure that you knew that T. F.

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Speaker 1: Green Airport is reopened. But there's certainly not a lot

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Speaker 1: of flights going around. No.

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Speaker 2: I think. I think there's a lot of delays all

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Speaker 2: across the country. So I know one of my one

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Speaker 2: of my highway supervisors, is supposed to be in Fort Lauderdale,

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Speaker 2: but they can't can'tis plight on Sunday mornings, so he

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Speaker 2: came to work.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure he's thrilled.

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Speaker 2: You look.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure he was thrilled. I would love to

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Speaker 3: be here doing my jobs and sitting in Florida.

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Speaker 1: I have received so many text messages and photos from

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Speaker 1: people when I said, what does it look like where

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Speaker 1: you live? And they're like, I'm in Florida. I thought

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Speaker 1: that's such a Rhode Island thing for at this time

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Speaker 1: of year. All Right, Mayor, we'll cut you loose and

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Speaker 1: let you go back to plowing.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks Sarah.

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Speaker 3: All Right, Mayor Frank Pocozzi of Warwick