Yeah.
Like I went over to check on his parents and tornado came through the guy jumped in.
the bathtub with his mom.
That's the only thing that survived.
Dad got thrown 30 feet out of the house.
Wow.
It's amazing.
He's like standing there talking to her mom.
It's a tornado coming.
And I was like, wow, thank God he was there.
Okay.
Everything I was reading about that, because it is kind of fascinating because here we are, you know, again, we can put people on Mars now, basically.
live on the moon if we wanted to.
Do you know what I mean?
But there is something right there in Mother Nature that's just like, you know what?
There's nothing we can do.
I remember.
Yeah.
Okay.
I remember.
I remember literally.
We were at a ball game.
My sister was having a softball tournament or something and we were there and I got in line to get something to drink, you know, at the, at the concession stand.
Beautiful day.
Everybody's having fun.
Got my soda turned around.
Sky is black and people are running for their cars.
Wow.
I've seen ever was and we're joking about this, but when I was in the parade for the miss Wisconsin teen pageant I was like the one of the judges emcee or whatever nosh gosh.
No, is that the pioneers really?
They did a really nice parade.
That was a big deal.
Yeah, they still have that.
Do they not sure I don't think so Yeah, okay, um nice girls.
I mean the nicest, you know, it was all super okay, but
Halfway through the parade the sky's turned to color like nobody'd ever seen before it was like a weird orangey greenish yes thing yeah, and they sirens up they had to end up parade Early because it was so eerie and I'll never forget that I'm driving back to Green Bay from Oshkosh and as right by the the weather station thing and like to kind of ish channel five I called Murph
I said, Murph, you're, I don't know where you're going, but I'm gonna try to get some pictures for the show tomorrow.
This is mind boggling.
He said, don't worry.
He says they're all over a Facebook right now.
He says, we don't need, there's like a thousand of them.
Cause it was so freaky.
Everybody was taking a picture of that.
Yeah.
I've always had this I've this is a dilemma.
I've had my mind for years.
All right, there's video
I don't think it was a Hindenburg.
Maybe it was, but it's one of the big balloon things back in the day.
The, um, we call them the Zeppelins Zeppelins.
Yeah.
And a guy's holding one of the ropes and it's taken off and he's hanging onto the rope, hoping it comes down.
And at what point do you realize I'm past the point of no
I'm finishing up a story with these two great guys from Vietnam, okay?
And he was talking, they had to get on the run on this mission and they all ran out to the helicopter and the helicopter was full.
But he knew he couldn't stay back because then the guys would, you know, so he had to hang on outside the helicopter.
to basically, you know, where the foot thing is and the, he had to hang on.
Is that thing's flying around at a hundred miles an hour?
He said, I can't believe I held on that long.
So the same thing happened with this guy.
I can't believe I held on and didn't let go.
But he was able to use his arms, right?
If you were just
plane with a few
Yeah.
know with the with the Zeppelin Hildeburger, whatever But at that thing it's he's like, okay now he's a hundred feet.
Yeah, that now he's okay.
I'm going along for a ride no matter what Yeah, I might
My stomach is doing flip-flops right now thinking about it.
And I'm not joking.
My stomach is doing flip-flops thinking about how I never want to be in that situation no matter
I agree.
I agree.
Yes.
I agree.
I'll tell you what I would I would if I'd had a gun with me I would have put two in my temple if I was one of those poor people In Crandon was it where they were trapped upside down on that ferris wheel last summer?
Yeah, okay?
I would end it quickly before because ferris will scare me as it is
And I'd be, I would be, I don't know what I would be upside down in that thing.
That's just, yeah.
Really?
That scares you that much?
An upside down Ferris wheel?
Yes.
Oh, I got stuck in the bullet one time.
You know, that's just the two things on either side.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I got stuck and we were up there for a minute.
Daughters a little freaked out
I don't say if I wasn't doing something like that I'd be a do so one of my friends would be speaking someplace I'd go watch them.
Yeah And that's what did last our great friend Chuck up in Ocanto great speech.
So I would do something I always do something on that data.
Yeah, oh, yeah, you know to honor
Todd, you're sitting with the Caribbean food and everything.
Yeah.
Want to hear about that?
Yeah.
We got a lot of bleep going on today, folks.
We got a phenomenal lineup.
One of my girlfriend's birthdays today.
Didn't remember that.
Sorry, Laney.
I'll make it up to you.
What do
I was wondering.
That was us.
That was us.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Cause it was the, it just, it brought me, it's like I had to do a stuff.
It was like, oh my God, am I in my living room on a Saturday morning?
My sister's about to vacuum cause we had winter or something.
The four freshmen.
Yeah.
They have old school, older music.
The four freshmen.
Not even a question.
And then you hear about, like if you want to, and we talked about, you know, bullets, but you want to take down a community or something, you can do it through banking, through, you know, self-service, but
Yeah, this has been a little bit of a hassle.
Now, I think texting still works, which I do a lot of that.
But
And there's, there's an area, you know, between Iron Mountain and, excuse me, between Escanaba and Menominee.
Terrible.
Like if you're trying to listen to music, terrible service, terrible service, terrible service.
So you'd have to know where your spots are almost.
Okay.
Yeah.
If you break like I kind of broke down that last time we're in up there and I pulled over to side of the road in the middle of no place and called, you know, Marquette called the Kia dealer or whatever.
I don't know what I would do now.
Can you text AAA?
up.
I didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't.
Mayor Schmidt.
It's not me.
This isn't me.
was me, and that's
Kangaroo.
Doesn't he?
come see
Go figure good old Canada.
you know, just drop down behind that same system.
So it was a big low pressure system that moved through.
And what happened is we saw that warm front move through on Thursday.
That was the severe weather.
Then we had the cold front move through behind that on Friday.
And then we had the clouds just kind of lingering and hanging around with the gusty winds still.
So we weren't allowed to drop as cold until the clouds left us.
Now that the clouds are pretty much gone.
We crashed below, you know, where we really wanted to be.
I pretty much think of clouds as a blanket.
They keep us warmer overnight
And I mean, they're going just north of where Jim's daughters live.
Kentucky.
Just out of control.
I mean Jim was talking about how it's not so bad if it's narrow And you know one farm here doesn't get touched this one's completely destroyed in trailer part But did I read this wrong?
This was a mile wide tornado.
I did
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they can and those are usually we call them the wedge tornadoes those usually have multiple vortices within that
big, mild tornadoes.
This is why sometimes one house will get hit and the other house won't get hit in their neighbors or something like that.
You've seen this before.
Right.
I thought that
Why would you not have a fallout shelter at you like your farm or maybe a backyard just even get like Something some big old round piece of metal dig a hole like a culvert to used culvert dig that down ten feet in the hole
have the one escape thing or whatever, and just have that just in case.
Wouldn't you?
Yeah, I agree with you.
And you know, this last outbreak just here, Thursday, here I am a meteorologist.
I'm renting a town home, right?
I'm upper level.
I don't have a bottom level, so a main floor.
I don't have a basement.
I called the town of Wausau.
I called the police.
I called different people out here.
I said, where's our community shelter?
We don't have one.
there's literally nowhere to go and not to mention gas stations Just so you know if you're ever out on the road trying to seek shelter in a tornado warning goes off most of them lock their doors You gotta hope you have a nice good gas attendant or someone working there that wants to actually open it up and let you in but a lot of people get locked out in these situations so
We do not.
You know what?
Actually, we're kind of like like a former president who's who's a documentary, not in him, but during with George Bush.
He, and I, you know, I met George for whatever.
But all I'm saying is he can place whole thing was making sure he had people smarter than him all around him.
Wow.
It's Tang.
Oh, okay.
It's Tang.
It's my Tang.
Do you drink Tang?
It's
Yeah.
Um, yeah, you know, what we've got.
We had a little outbreak, but they were all weaker tornadoes.
You know, none of them got over 125 mile per hour wind gusts.
And EF2 was the strongest it was rated.
I mean, not to discount that, that does a lot of damage and stuff.
But when you get to the stronger type, a whole mile wide, the strength that those are packing and how much ground that they are covering, it can take the house completely off its foundation.
There's nothing.
And you know you hate to say tucky Let's talk to that person that worked for the Red Cross one time said a lot of those injuries You think would be really gruesome and they're not there might have been like one two by four that went flying through the The sky, you know and hit a person and then there's no other mark on them Wow, but they're just the force of everything that's flying around is beyond belief.
It's just beyond belief
And I have heard, too, of people being in their basements, thinking they're completely safe and fine, and huge farm silos crashing into the basement once their house is removed.
So you got to think about, I go into the basement, under the stairs, put stuff over you.
You got to just think about, if everything were to be gone and the debris still flying, people get so lucky.
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That was pretty good Scottie Schaeffler winning over John Rom.
He won pretty big though, didn't he?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He pretty much ran away with it.
Everybody like faltered, faltered, faltered.
He's just, he's so steady that not, not the slightest bit of emotion.
Yeah.
I mean, not the slightest, just you, you would have no idea if he was 10 shots in a lead or 10 shots off the pace.
And it just, I've never seen a more calm, phenomenal athlete at his level.
Never seen anything like it.
Um,
As you mentioned today is Laney Wilson's birthday 33 her boyfriend her fiance is duck Hodges who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers all right, and he has the nickname duck why
Just different, um, text here.
Mine was just talking about Dale race.
I just saw the paper.
He died a couple of weeks ago.
He was Ken Anderson's assistant coach at old Claire.
Great guy.
Terry.
Yeah.
We did Terry and Dale, I feel bad.
I don't think there's going to be a public service for him.
Um,
Dale was a longtime assistant coach here at UW-Green Bay.
Phenomenal coach at Minnesota Duluth, coached at Milton College, coached at Eau Claire for a lot of years.
From Marinette, I think he was the first guy, one of the very first people put in the Marinette Sports Hall of Fame.
He was instrumental with getting the Hall of Fame going in Marinette.
Marinette guy and who never, even though he's been all around the state after that, never lost his roots for Marinette, which was always cool.
Right.
And then, and then there's always you go through that and it's like, well, there's a private service or there's not a service.
And then, then you scroll down, it's like plant a tree.
You know, I don't know.
I guess you can do that, but send flowers.
I guess you can't do that because there's no service.
But there's other things you can do or donate to this cause.
But just to have even two hours, hour and a half, the tree thing.
Yeah, is dumb.
Well, OK, I have done that.
Why?
So did I I even I felt really stupid because when I was in the reception line Yeah, I even asked her one of the daughters.
I said hey, could you tell me where the when you know where the tree is gonna be?
Could you let me know?
I'd like to go.
She's like what?
And we're the tree that I planted.
I don't know Wow.
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