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I'm not really worried about dying though, I'm not afraid to die.

I'm not trying to be tough, I'm not afraid to die.

But I'm actually looking forward to my funeral, which sounds kind of weird,

because I just like to have fun.

And I'm going to have fun with my funeral,

because I think you should.

It's your last party on Earth.

I think you should spice it up.

I've got a couple things I'm going to do.

The first thing I'm going to do for my funeral is I'm going to have a chunk of money

and send it off to some random celebrity and have them show up at my funeral.

Save up like 5 grand, just for this.

Here's 5 grand, I mail it off to some celebrity, like John Stamos.

There's 5 grand, all you have to do, keep the money, just fly.

It's my funeral, show up, cry, and leave.

That's it, that's all you have to do, just show up, cry.

That's it, you have to talk to anybody or anything.

I just think it'd be great to see all my friends and family at the funeral.

I'm like, oh my God, I can't believe he's dead, man.

He's dead, it's just not right, man.

It's just not right.

Hey, is that John Stamos?

What, what is he doing here?

Did Nick know John Stamos?

Oh my God, he's really crying.

Were they brothers?

Was Nick's last name Stamos?

What an apropos subject, winter driving, starting Christy Wilcox,

and we've seen police deferring us here, good morning.

Good morning.

I see you made it through the blizzard of, the blizzard of 24.

I gave myself time to get here on time, yes.

And that's the key.

Absolutely.

You don't come out at your regular time.

If you come out at your regular time, there's going to be a problem,

because you got extra things to do.

Now, when I go out this morning, I just wipe my card,

and then you do my wife's car, and my wife tears down.

And I looked at the clock and said, oh, perfect timing.

Let's go.

Because I just get breakfast, and I clean the cars off instead.

And I live on Main Street, so it really wasn't that bad anyway.

But still, on ISF extra time, and that's the whole key to this whole thing.

Absolutely.

I mean, how many times do we turn on the news,

and you see these pile-ups on the freeway,

especially out east where they, and the west,

where they had these major snowstorms,

and these 18-wheelers, one into the other,

did just keep going, because 18-wheelers,

they don't have brakes like we do.

And they just keep plowing and plowing and plowing.

And before you know it, you got 50 cars and trucks plowing up freeway,

because people couldn't control their cars.

I have one thing to say to those people, Florida.

You can't drive in the snow.

Go to Hawaii, go to Florida, things like that.

And this morning isn't bad, but I'll bet you they'll be people in ditches,

they'll be people who bump cars together,

because they can't allow extra time this morning.

Let's talk about winter driving.

Now this happens only about maybe a month or so a year,

what we actually, like January of December wasn't really a winter month for us.

No, not this year.

January or AR.

Right.

So these are going to be our two months.

Let's talk about that.

Let's talk about getting your vehicle ready for winter,

because a lot of people don't do that.

They let it go all year long.

You got in.

First of all, do you see the temperatures for next week?

Yeah, super cold.

20 below windshield, I believe, they're talking.

And the antifreeze in your car has got to be up to snuff.

If it's not, it's going to crack your engine block,

and then you're really going to have problems.

Right.

And when you see this green liquid dripping down your driveway,

and that's not going to go away.

No.

So let's talk about things like that.

Let's talk about people have these automatic warmers on their car now.

You can do it from the house, but it doesn't unlock the door.

Correct.

When you do it.

So is that safe?

That's safe.

Okay.

Now you can do what our next door neighbor did once.

She started the car, went in the house, came out her car was gone.

Correct.

That happens frequently.

Now you wouldn't think it would happen at, you know, six o'clock in the morning.

But I don't think thieves work on the nine to five clock.

No.

If they see an opportunity, they will take it.

And that is a big opportunity when your vehicle is running,

and whether it's in your driveway on the street,

if your keys are in the ignition, there are very good chances that it will be taken.

So if you have the automatic car starts, like my daughter,

haven't she lived here?

She started the car, it was all warmed up when she got in there.

But, you know, the door is unlocked.

Correct.

So you can't get in.

And even if you want to put the club on and still start the car,

you know, people see the club and the next car, they won't,

they won't bother because too much of a hassle.

Quick, quick aside, I was watching, you want to use road wars TV shows on A&E,

road wars?

No.

Okay.

This woman is in the parking lot, she steals the car, she carjacks the car,

throws the woman out, gets in the car,

and she's smashing to every car in this supermarket parking lot,

running into cars, backing up forward, keeping the cars,

and she can't get out of the lot because they had a club on the wheel.

And she couldn't turn the wheel.

And she figured, she keep crashing at the cars eventually,

she's going to get out.

Now, stupid as she was, what does she think is going to happen

when she gets on the road and can't steer the wheel?

So eventually she crashed into so many cars, she destroyed the cars,

she was in and it just stopped and she got her out.

But it had a club on the thing.

What do you think she was going with that club?

So anyway, that's starting your car.

Don't leave it unattended because there'll be some opportunist out there

who will steal your car on you.

Correct.

And you guys, how, you run into that a lot.

Very frequently this time of year, especially, yes.

And what do you do?

You go up to the house and say, hey, stupid, did you start the car?

Because that's what I would do.

No, we do not do that.

We take their complaint and take the report.

Well, they found my neighbor's car in Illinois.

They actually found it and they got it back and she used it

up until recently where she traded it in.

But you know, you have a car, somebody stole it early.

It's kind of scusy to drive around and that thing.

What they do it.

Here's the biggest thing.

And this is my pet peeve.

Slow down.

The speed limit says 70 on the freeway.

But it doesn't say 70 when it's snow covered.

Right.

I mean, you got to use your brains a little bit here.

If you hit the gas and you feel the car start to, you know,

you know, you can feel the wheel spinning a little bit.

You think it's slow down, but they don't do it.

No, no, they don't.

So how many times do you have to go on to the roads

and get cars at a ditches, at a someone's front yard,

at a two cars stuck together because they smash into each other?

I mean, you don't cover the freeway.

We do not cover the freeway.

We have all city streets, thank heavens.

But I mean, we still have our fair share of accidents.

Like it's the first time people have seen snow here in Wisconsin.

Yeah, that's the, that's the thing that gets me is.

They say, it's going to snow.

How many years have you been living in all my life?

40 years.

Yeah.

And you're still panic when there's snow outside.

I mean, I could see if someone moved here from Hawaii,

and the first snow storm, they didn't know how to drive in it.

Right.

But that's not the case here.

No.

People know what they should slow down.

You know, would you rather get to work with a car that's not smashed up?

Now, I had an incident.

This was, we had a major snow storm once.

And I live on a, I live on Main Street.

And the plow truck came by, and we have two lanes,

but the plow truck came by.

So one lane was still snow covered.

It didn't have any, you know, it wasn't plowed

because they made their first pass.

So I had to slow down in the lane, the driving lane,

and turn into my driveway from that lane,

because it was about two feet of snow, whatever it was,

from the plow truck.

They plowed all the snow into it.

So I'm going in and a guy on a cell phone, a driver for Jimmy Johns,

smashes into my brand new car.

It just got the car two months before, three months before.

He smashes right into the door because he wasn't paying attention,

and he drove through the snow and smashed into my car,

and he hit the light post.

And he gets out of the car, and he's still on a cell phone, by the way.

He figured, put it down at that point, but it doesn't do it.

So the police come, and my wife ran out, got a yardstick

and her camera.

But the yardstick in the store right next to the police car,

which was parked in the street with the lights on, took a picture of it,

and took a picture of his car with the tracks going through the snow.

So you got the whole thing on all these pictures taken.

I got a ticket for turning from the middle lane into this,

even though it didn't matter.

He got a ticket because he had no insurance.

I can't believe Jimmy Johns let him drive without insurance.

Right.

That was shocking.

But anyway, we got tickets, and I went to the police department

and I went to go with the ticket.

And I said, I want to see the assistant just a attorney

and tell her, I want a jury trial.

And she stared at me.

Just like I'm staring at you now.

And I said, I want a jury trial.

And I showed her the pictures.

And she looked at the pictures.

She goes, what about if we change it to, in a tent of driving?

I said, I want a jury trial.

I've got the pictures.

There was no way for me to turn into, you know, two feet of snow

and you could see the yardstick.

And it's next to the police car.

So, you know, when we took the picture.

And she stared at me again.

What if we put it to a light bulb was out over the license plate?

And I said, okay to that, which I probably shouldn't,

because that's a lie.

The license plate bulb bulb wasn't out.

But that's what she put it down to.

But, you know, what happened?

This guy was on a cell phone.

And I can't swear to it.

But I, I know he wasn't paying attention

because if he was, he would have gone on the left of me

not to the right with me through the snow.

Right.

And hit the light post with no insurance.

So anyway, bottom line is, you got to be careful out there.

Right, pay attention.

Stay off your phone.

How do you guys get through the snow?

And have you snow storm?

Well, we have bigger vehicles.

And however their makeup is, I'm not a car expert.

Not there in that two feet of snow.

The Groundhog Day snow storm.

And you said you got to work because they picked you up.

Correct.

I had to get picked up that day.

How did they get through the snow?

Well, I live on a main street.

So my street, my main, my front of my house was plowed.

So I walked to the corner and was picked up there.

Well, I live on a main street too, but I don't have time.

I'm going to tell you this.

Do I have time now?

All right, quickly.

Well, I can.

I'll tell you after the break.

I get to tell you the story about that day.

Because in radio, you got to come in.

Right.

Because if you don't, there's nothing on the radio like there was at the top of the hour.

There's nothing on the radio.

So anyway, we're going to talk about that.

Also, I want to talk about distance driving.

One of my pet peeves are, even on a, on a, on a clear day, people are dry.

I can't even see their headlights are so close to me.

And they start blinking their lights at me.

I'm going 30 miles an hour in a 30 zone.

And my wife and I are, that's the speed limit.

They do it for a reason.

Correct.

They noticed that number wasn't picked out at random.

30 miles an hour is picked out, anticipating the snow from the night before.

A lot of people go to bed.

Man, that's nothing on the sidewalk.

I should be good by the morning.

No, you're not going to be good by the morning.

It doesn't, it doesn't work like that.

No, it doesn't.

Except yesterday, it worked like that.

Because it was raining and I said, it's not going to be snow.

You got to even anticipate this stuff.

I got to tell you this morning I'm coming in.

And I saw the guy in front of me, never moved the snow off his back window.

Now, the car manufacturers helped you by putting a back window to frost around.

So they gave you, they gave you, they got a head start.

This guy could not see out of his back window because he didn't take one minute.

This was easy snow to brush off this morning.

And he didn't do it.

Lazy.

Lazy and running late for work.

So now he's going to crash into someone's car.

And because he's late for work, it's going to be my car.

Thank you.

Christy, Sergeant Christy Wilcox is here from the Racine Police Department.

We're talking about winter driving.

What a great day to talk about it.

It's snowing right.

Was it snowing when you came in?

It was snowing 33 degrees.

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Martin Christy Wilcox was here from the Racine Police Department.

Talking about people don't clean their windshields when they're driving.

You just say it's laziness, which it probably is.

And they're running late.

They don't have time to take an extra 30 seconds to clean there.

If you're that close to coming in late to work, you deserve to get your salary docked.

We're not coming in.

But you said you get tickets out for that kind of stuff.

I have given tickets for that violation.

Yes.

And they say, what do they do wrong?

I didn't do anything wrong.

What would I do wrong?

I didn't do anything wrong.

I didn't do anything wrong.

And I was telling you, I watched these police videos where they stopped these drunk drivers,

people who passed off sides driving on the wrong side of the road.

What do they do?

I didn't do anything wrong.

What do they do?

Can I call somebody quick?

Can I call somebody?

And these police officers come out of your car.

They're very calm.

I was reading the comments on one of the videos and the person said on there,

where did this police officer get his patients from?

I would have knocked this person's head if they started screaming and spitting at me.

I would have knocked them on the side of the head.

I assume you have one of those patients.

Do they teach patients in the police academy?

No.

Some of us are shorter on patients than other.

I don't know where that comes from.

But there are people that will think we should always be patient.

So you have the people who would be like, why are they being so patient?

But if we weren't patient, then you'd have other people saying, well, you shouldn't act like that.

So we can't please anybody.

Okay, so let's go down the list here of things.

Leaving a distance between you and the person in front of you or behind you.

Correct.

And we should be able to see your headlights.

You shouldn't be that close, or I can't say it.

And there were some people that do drive well.

I don't know what happened, but one day I'm coming to work coming down 16th Street.

There was a truck sitting inside someone's house with bricks all over the front of the truck.

That happened on coming down, not in 16th Street.

It was coming down Memorial Drive.

Memorial Drive?

Yeah, Memorial Drive.

And there was house on 16th and Memorial just up on Memorial.

And the bricks were all the guy ran his pickup truck right into the house.

It was a couple of weeks ago.

And Merry Christmas, you know.

I think the bricks is still sitting out there.

So leave a distance and anticipate a snowstorm.

Now with the internet today, Facebook and everything,

every screaming about the snow.

So if you normally get up at 6 in the morning to go to work,

get up at 5.30 in the morning.

And the worst thing can happen is you'll sit around and relax for an extra half hour.

Right.

If there's no snow out there.

Here's the one we just talking about.

Completely clean your car windows before driving inside and out.

Right, that includes your headlights.

Because a lot of people don't clear off their headlights and their tail lights.

Or the snow even on top of your car.

Because if you stop quick or once that starts to melt,

then that falls down over your windows.

Which again, obstructs your windows.

What does the snowbrush cost?

Three bucks?

Something like that.

Three bucks for a good snowbrush.

My wife got me a year ago.

She got me this big heavy mitten.

It's got a hole in the top.

And you hold on to the ice scraper inside the mitten.

So when you're scraping, it's warm.

I don't know what that cost there.

Two bucks, three bucks, whatever it was.

We have all different types of brushes.

Some that swivels.

So you can push the snow off.

And you got the usual ones.

And I have extra long ones.

So you can reach the whole length of the car with it.

You'd be surprised how many people don't have them.

Where do you have them?

Yeah, I have it.

It's in my house in the basement.

Well, that's going to do you good.

Right.

When you're trying to clear the windows off.

And sometimes the snow's during the day.

When you're at work, you need that.

And you got somebody out there trying to push it off

with a piece of paper and a little paper,

a little tissue they had in their pocket.

Just get the snow brush and keep it in the back seat of your car.

It's not going to hurt anything being back there.

We keep it in the car year-round.

I throw it in the back of my trunk.

Right.

So I don't have to think about it.

You know, it's back there and I get that mitten one,

which is so good.

Check the fluids in your vehicle before heading out.

Especially if you have a long commute.

You want to make sure you've got all your fluids.

Like you're windshield washer.

Even your gas.

Some people don't leave anticipating there might be an accident

where you're going to be stuck in traffic for a long time.

And then you see that little light come on.

Right.

Warning.

You got 10 minutes.

And your car does use gas.

Just sitting there idling.

Just so you know, folks, I'm not driving.

I guess it won't be using any gas.

Right.

Well, did you just wake up?

And you were in a coma for the last 50 years.

Of course, you use gas when you're idling.

So yeah, so check the fluids, the antifreeze.

Yep.

Because nobody checks that stuff.

You just assume it's going to be there.

And all the fluids in the car just check them.

You know, the other day when it said, you know,

run for your lives, 80 inches of snow into the gas station.

I filled up.

I had a quarter of a tank.

What I figured out.

And I live 11 minutes from this place.

And I still loaded up.

I make a walk here sometimes.

So anyway, do that.

Cruise control.

A lot of people put their car.

Oh, you know, when I can't wait to see these automatic cars,

you know, the drive.

Oh, yeah.

Then you can take a snooze.

Could you imagine them in a snowstorm?

Could you imagine?

And they've had pictures.

People have taken up.

People, you know, snoozing while these cars are driving themselves.

I don't know how you can.

How do you relax and rest knowing that's happening?

And you wake up all of a sudden.

Oh, where am I?

You've been asleep in a coma for the last 30 years.

What happened?

Well, your car was not automatic.

Really?

Well, we don't use cars anymore.

So anyway, yeah.

I mean, can't imagine that.

No.

But people, you know, are going to use that someday.

So cruise control.

Cruise control.

So I looked it up because I was not sure about this one.

But I'd heard down the news.

I'd seen on the internet.

The constant speed can increase the chance that your tires will hide your plane

and you could lose control of your vehicle.

If you used to leave it to cruise control.

Correct.

You know, when I used cruise control last,

I was heading out in South Dakota.

And I was on the freeway during the summer.

And you ever go out on the freeway to Wyoming or South Dakota?

It's like nothing.

A straight line for hundreds of miles.

I put cruise control on.

Yeah.

Because I was, I think it was 75 miles an hour, the speed limit.

And I said, it's flat.

I'm going for the next 100 miles before the next gas station.

I think you take a nap.

And I put it on cruise control.

I couldn't even nap.

But I did put it on cruise control.

I really use it because I like that full control of the car.

And I get nervous when I don't have full control.

Accelerate and decelerate slowly.

What about pumping the brakes?

Is that, I heard, do it, don't do it.

Do it, don't do it.

It's supposed to do that pump the brakes.

I know you're not supposed to jam on the brakes because you'll lock up your car.

Correct.

And then that's a good way to spin out.

And there's steer into a, if you're skidding, you steer into the skid.

Correct.

You don't steer out because your car is going to go in circles and fish tail all over the place.

But you know what, when you're turning around and you're in that situation,

all you're learning, all you're book learning, everything goes right out the window

because you're scared to death.

And I don't blame you.

You're headed toward other cars.

And I was never in an accident to my life like that.

Well, good for you.

The only accident I was ever in was that guy hitting my car.

But that was it.

When I was turning into my driveway, I was never in an accident.

So I don't know what it's like to be in that situation.

My father was.

I remember that.

My wife was too.

I think at one time in a bad accident.

But it wasn't during the winter.

But I can't imagine what that's like.

Your car's spinning out of control.

And you don't know what's going on around you.

Right.

You ever in an accident like that?

Not quite like that.

No.

You know, I got asked you to, you know these, when they do these pit maneuvers

with police cars, now you've never done one.

No.

They destroy all these police cars.

And sometimes they'll, you know, two or three police cars will, you know,

banged up and everything from these pit maneuvers.

It kind of takes them out of service.

Oh, it definitely takes them out of service.

So what do you own your own garage or something?

Take these cars.

Can that speak for all the jurisdictions?

I know we do not allow pit maneuvers there.

Okay, good.

We are, they're not trained by us.

And also, here's another thing about when did police cars go out of style?

And they're all SUVs across America now.

There were no more like Mayberry police cars.

Well, the old Crown Vixer were real, real drive.

Which isn't necessarily the best to drive in Wisconsin winters.

Hold on a second.

Sergeant Christy Wilcox is here.

From the received police department talking about winters driving.

More to come at WRGN stay with you.

So I've been enjoying the basketball and hockey championships.

But I have not been enjoying the post game press conferences.

For some reason, they still have not learned

that you need to put a microphone on the people asking the questions.

You're at home watching this.

That's an adjustment we felt we needed to make.

Three, maybe four.

Correct.

Correct.

Definitely.

So if I was the athlete, I would just answer ridiculous stuff.

Nobody knows what's happening anyway, you know?

Correct.

Probably taradactals.

They do this at police press conferences.

When you need to know what's happening,

because something's going down.

They've got the police chief, he's got the bad John.

You're at home. What's happening?

At this point, we don't know how many escape convicts are on.

None chucks and flame throwers.

Yes, that's the neighborhood we think they're hiding in.

You know what?

It's supposed to be an uptempo song.

Alright, let's go back one.

Here we go.

Gotta wake up in the morning.

Elton John with that saw, I ain't gonna do it.

You know, I was on the set of back to the future two and three.

I was taking it to our Universal Studios and they were filming it at the time.

And so we got to see it and they filmed it in that square.

You know, the library scene where they do that.

Remember that they have to go to the clock.

Remember the big clock and they got to hit the lightning and everything.

That's the same building that was used in the Killamockenburgs, the courthouse.

It was also in rock and roll high school, all these movies.

Sure.

But they had all the signs up, whether we're filming back in the future two and three.

So it's kind of just in here.

Yeah, but a great movie back in the future.

A great score to Huey Lewis was actually in the movie.

Yes.

Do you remember the scene where Michael J. Fox is auditioning with his band in the gymnasium?

Yes.

And the guy takes some bull horn and says,

next, that's Huey Lewis.

In one word, next.

Sergeant Christy Wilcox, we're seeing PD is here.

We're seeing police department talking about winter driving.

And today's a perfect time to bone up on winter driving.

Because this is just a taste of what a snowstorm would be like.

Correct.

We're talking about the two feet of snow, the groundhog day.

Yes.

You know, just to, you know, think,

wow, winter's over.

It's February.

No, it wasn't over 24 inches of snow.

And I remember getting out and I live on a busy street and I dug out the driveway.

And of course, you know what happens after you dig out the driveway.

The plot trick comes by and puts it all back.

You can't, and I know people throw snowballs out there when they come by.

What do you want them to do?

They got to plow the snow out of the street.

It's going to go into your driveway.

And it's just a fact of life.

You're going to have to live.

I hear people yelling,

Rob, dead.

I hope you'd die of cancer.

What are you talking about?

The guy's doing his job.

He's plowing the street.

Right.

And these people can angry.

And they're standing.

You just dug out the driveway.

So I get out.

And the street is, even though they were plowing, it didn't help much.

And I'm going over the main street bridge.

And I can't see the sides of the bridge.

It was just such blowing snow.

And I said, oh, we hope I don't hit the railing.

Where's the railing?

And I'm going two miles an hour.

And I still can't see where I'm going.

I'm putting your brights on.

Doesn't help because you just see the blowing snow.

I finally see a police car with his lights on.

And I'm following him.

And he makes turn on to six street.

Or highway 20 turns on highway 20.

I'm watching the avenue.

And I have following him.

He disappears into the snow.

I said, where did he go?

It was like the Simpsons.

He's a ghost car.

And he disappears.

And now I can't see the street light.

I can't see where I'm going.

I can't see the sides of the road.

And there's nobody around.

I just want to light to follow.

And I somehow, I made it down to Ohio.

And they turned down to Ohio.

And I can't get the car across to go to victory Avenue

because the snow is so deep.

So I get the car turned around.

And I have to somehow get down to highway 20.

And I go to Walgreens.

And I go because they're 24 hours.

And I go to Ohio.

And I tell them who I am, where I'm working.

And I park the car here.

I have to walk to work.

So my wife gave me this giant satchel of cans of soup.

And I know where she thought I was going.

It gives me Kansas soup, which I'm.

And she put warm clothing in there.

I'm glad you did.

Because I had a schlep through this snow.

And it was up to my thighs.

And I'm walking through.

And it's hard to walk down Ohio into the snow.

And I'm going to walk down to Ohio.

And I'm going to walk down to Ohio.

I finally get to victory.

And it's worse.

Yeah.

It's almost up to my waist from the blowing snow.

I get to the radio station.

Tom Carc was meeting me to do it.

It throws me a lifeline.

And pulls me into the building.

It gives me water.

I left to three o'clock in the morning.

I got here at 630.

Wow.

Yeah.

He says, you know, you're late for your shift.

And I just, you know, collapsed on the floor.

What I didn't know at that time was my heart was failing.

Oh.

And that was in February 2nd.

April 11th.

I had open heart surgery.

April 2nd.

April 5th.

April 5th.

I had open heart surgery.

I told the doctor the surgeon that he says it's a miracle you didn't drop dead in that snow.

Because your heart is failing.

You're at an eight.

A 10.

Is your out of business.

So somebody was watching over me that morning.

It was nine tenths of a mile.

I had a walk as when, you know, so here's the story.

So I get in there.

How am I going to get out?

How am I going to get out?

So 1 o'clock in the morning.

The sun is out.

The streets are plowed.

The parking lots are plowed.

Everything was done.

By 1 o'clock in the afternoon.

Now I got home and a wife did the shoveling.

The snow drift to go into my backyard was above my head.

The dogs.

We had a shovel of path for them.

It was like six feet tall.

So they get through.

Yep.

And once they got through, I couldn't see them anymore.

I got the walls of snow.

So I, so that day you got in.

How do you handle emergencies on a day like that?

How do you handle them?

Well, it was, it was difficult.

If there was a plow nearby or a fire truck is going to the same call, we followed them.

How do you handle it through?

Well, they, their trucks were bigger.

But still, you're talking about two feet of snow.

We did get caught at one point and luckily a plow.

A city plow saw us and was able to get us out.

But we were on a side street.

But we were getting a lot of calls that day for carbon monoxide alarms.

Oh, yeah.

So we were going around making sure that people were dying from carbon monoxide

because the snow was covering the vent outside.

Oh, you know, you don't think about that.

That's another safety.

Yeah, that's on my list.

Yeah.

It's on the bottom part.

Yep.

Oh, yeah.

Got to clean the vents.

Yep.

Because all that comes right back into the house again.

Yes.

The people who know what their vents are.

I don't know.

As a homeowner, you should.

I know I do.

I know where mine is.

And even even they like open the windows.

If you don't know where your vent is open them.

So let's some fresh air in.

Right.

Well, it's cold outside.

Would you rather be dead?

Or would you rather be a little chilly?

Yeah.

You know, oh, I never even thought about that.

That's dangerous.

It is dangerous.

And you guys, somebody calls out where having an emergency, we need you here now.

And I guess there are some emergencies where you just say we'll get to it later.

My car is stuck and I can't get out of my driveway.

Well, you know what?

That's a AAA problem.

Right.

And you probably didn't get them to come for three days anyway.

Right.

So you don't call the police or that.

They call you stupid things all the time.

My wife was a 9-1-1 dispatcher.

Yep.

And she could probably tell you stories by people calling you.

My cat's missing.

And that's not 9-1-1.

And there is a law against making 49-1-1 calls.

Or nuisance calls on 9-1-1.

Correct.

It's a misuse of 9-1-1.

Yeah.

So you can do that.

You must get some calls when it snows outside.

Yeah, it was some doozy that day.

I remember there was one.

There was a family having a squabble.

And my partner who I was riding with that day,

because we got partnered up.

So no one was by themselves, which is unusual.

We're usually in squads by ourselves.

And he says, well, if you want to help,

you're going to have to come to the corner,

because my partner can't make it to the door.

She'll get lost in the snow, who's talking about me.

So then their problem was solved.

They didn't need us anymore.

I always thought about this.

You know how trains, when the tracks are slippery,

a train has this device where they could pull a lever

and sand that comes out by the wheels.

Oh, I did not know that.

Yeah, it puts sand on the tracks, and they pull a lever.

I've only seen it in movies.

But when they pull the lever, the sand goes in front of the wheel.

So it's not running on ice.

It's running on sand.

I don't know why they can't do that in cars.

Wouldn't that be great?

That'd be awesome.

So now, right in front of your front tire,

you fill up your car with...

People can't even fill up their coolant levels

and their window washer, and I can do this.

But fill it up on a snowy day with salt.

And if you get stuck, you have to lever

and squeeze the salt in front of your car.

They also tell you, put like a welcome mat.

Take a welcome mat, throw it in your trunk.

And if you get stuck with your wheels spinning,

put the welcome mat in front of your tire.

Most cars are front wheel drive now.

Put it in front and it gets you right out.

And then stop and get the welcome mat back.

Don't leave it there.

But we have a welcome mat in our cars.

Just in case, you know, that does happen.

It's covered your list here.

I'm just looking at some of this other stuff.

It's good.

Fire hydrants.

Yeah.

Now, people say, well, that's a semi-responsibility.

Well, no, it's really yours.

Yes.

You know, the sidewalk is owned by the city,

but it's still your responsibility to clean it.

Yes.

And so if you see a fire hydrant out there,

and keep in mind the house burning, maybe yours.

And when they come up, they want it to look for the fire hydrant.

They want to start shoveling around it.

They want to get right into action.

Correct.

So shovel around it.

What does it take you five minutes to do it?

Yep.

And plus the dogs need the fire hydrant.

Correct.

They need that kind of stuff.

Keep all sidewalks clear.

My dogs have been gone now for about a year,

but when I used to walk them,

and I walk them every day, snow or not, you know,

I can't tell you how many sidewalks were not clear.

Yeah.

Sidewalks and like the crosswalks that are going,

that lead to the street without the curb part,

those need to be cleared too.

So for pedestrian traffic,

more important like your male, your male personnel,

trying to get to your mailbox.

If you want male, you might want to have those cleared.

Now, I understand if you're an elderly person or informed,

and a lot of those people are higher kids out.

Yep.

And if the kids are coming by in a snow day,

20 bucks, they'll want, they'll do everything for you.

Yes, they will.

They'll clean everything.

I would put a kid on retainer to come to my house

if I was informed.

Yes.

And they said, what is it, 20?

I'll give you 40, but I'm the first person on your list.

Yep.

And they'll do it.

I see kids walking up and down the block.

Hey, you want your driveway, Clinton?

Now, I'm going to do it myself.

I actually need the exercise.

Right.

But yes, thank you for asking.

And they're walking with their shovels on their shoulders.

So keep your sidewalks clear.

I don't know what the excuse would be.

For two days after the snow stops,

you're not cleaning your sidewalk.

You give tickets for that?

There are tickets for that, yes.

Mm-hmm.

Give them clear access to your mailbox.

You know, Ray and Slyther Snow, they are there.

Yes, they are.

And you know, they can't be going through a foot of snow

to get to your mailbox.

Right.

I mean, have a little mercy on these people

who are schlepping out there with your mail.

And so we always do that.

We always clean the path to the mailbox.

And we actually have mats we put there.

So they don't have to walk on the grass

and sink into the dirt.

There's mats out there to firm the walk on.

And here to all winter parking regulations.

Now what it is on main thoroughfares

when there's snow emergency, you're off the street.

Correct.

And there's a reason for that.

Yes.

So the plows can get do their job

and keep the main street clear

for emergency vehicles to get through

when they need to get through.

And what happens is,

if you don't move your car,

then when you do move it,

there's this big hunk of snow your car was.

Right.

Right.

And now it's going to stay there.

Right.

So adhere to those parking regulations.

Now, during a snow emergency,

is it like every street

or just major arterial streets?

Uh, major arterial streets.

So I just looked up the snow emergency parking restrictions.

So there's no parking on either side

of the following streets

and all streets with parking meters.

So if there's a parking meter on your street,

you can't park there.

All those are supposed to be clear.

Now, what, what if, how do you know

there's a snow emergency?

Now, we know because we have cell phones

and you're on Facebook,

you're on TV, you're on radio.

But let's say you're an elderly person,

you don't have Facebook,

you don't have a computer.

How do you, well,

you're probably not driving

if you're that elderly

and you can get on a computer.

Right.

That's a good question.

I know the city has a phone system

that they will send out text alerts.

Yeah, but if you don't have a,

well, that's true.

You don't get texts.

That's a good.

I mean, interesting to find out how that works.

Right.

So parking regulations

during a snow emergency,

you shouldn't know that stuff by now.

I mean, you really need people to tell you

when there's a footest snow on the ground.

I mean,

you'd be surprised.

Yeah.

You really need somebody to tell you,

you know, you probably should move your car.

Now, I feel bad for people

that don't have driveways

and a lot of people don't have driveways.

Correct. And it's a problem

trying to get them off the main thoroughfare is

to find a spot on a side street

because those are supposed to be

one side or the other also

because you still have your street storage

you have to adhere to.

Now, we haven't have a super long drive,

where you can fit three cars in my driveway

with no problem at all.