Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm going easy Boston Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, welcome back everyone, and again I want to thank
Speaker 2: the callers. Last hole, we had a really extraordinary group
Speaker 2: of callers for an extraordinary guest, Professor Jeff Myron f
Speaker 2: Harvard University, talking about the federal debt and if that
Speaker 2: doesn't worry about worry you whatever your age is. You know,
Speaker 2: unless you're ninety five years old and you have no
Speaker 2: children and no grandchildren, you're home free. But other than that,
Speaker 2: every person should be worried about it. I just want
Speaker 2: to thank Professor Jeff Myron, who is just a fabulous guest.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine having him as a college professor. We're
Speaker 2: going to change topics. We might get back to that later,
Speaker 2: but we're going to change topics now and we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about something that everybody is interested in, and
Speaker 2: that is the weather. Joining us now is ACI weather
Speaker 2: meteorologist Isaac Longley, who is a graduate of a great
Speaker 2: school in Vermont, amongst others, Linden State College. I know
Speaker 2: some of the the folks in your community, in your
Speaker 2: your air of expertise, Isaac, who have who have either
Speaker 2: taught up at Linden State and welcome to Nightside, and
Speaker 2: I think this might be your your debut experience here.
Speaker 2: And I got to ask, the last few days and
Speaker 2: the next few days are the coldest February days I
Speaker 2: can ever remember as a long time New England or
Speaker 2: correct me if I'm wrong, I probably am. But welcome
Speaker 2: to Nightside. How are you tonight?
Speaker 3: Well, Dan, I'm doing all right here. Thank you for
Speaker 3: the welcome, certainly appreciate that. Also, big shout out there
Speaker 3: to wynn And' State College. A great program out there.
Speaker 3: Learned a lot and still continue to learn to this day.
Speaker 3: So but yeah, really good program up there, and glad
Speaker 3: to still be here in the northeast, so you know,
Speaker 3: can't complain about that. But yeah, you know, going to
Speaker 3: or talking about the cold here, it's been downright cold
Speaker 3: out there and that is going to continue at least
Speaker 3: through the middle portion of this weekend. It's not just
Speaker 3: the cold temperatures, but we have the wind component to
Speaker 3: deal with that as well. Win gus a forty to
Speaker 3: fifty miles per hour that adds that much to it
Speaker 3: and making those temperatures feel that much colder out there.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it has just been extraordinary. The ice
Speaker 2: and the rain and the combination. Look, we've had worst
Speaker 2: weather months. I remember February of twenty fifteen where we
Speaker 2: had snowstorms almost it seemed twice a week for about
Speaker 2: six weeks, and I think we racked up about a
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty inches of snow from around January
Speaker 2: twentieth until March first. You probably were a young child
Speaker 2: back then, but I remember it clearly. But I never
Speaker 2: remember a month this cold. January is normally the coldest month.
Speaker 2: That's when you get that that very deep, deep week
Speaker 2: of cold, at least that's my experience. And then sometimes
Speaker 2: you get the January thaw, which was like thirty five degrees,
Speaker 2: and you thought, wow, this is almost tropical. How how
Speaker 2: unprecedented is this for this amount of you know, sub
Speaker 2: zero temperatures throughout New England wind chill factors. I mean
Speaker 2: the wind out there tonight is well in forty fifty
Speaker 2: miles an hour. I know it's let up a little
Speaker 2: bit in Boston, but I think this is has been
Speaker 2: an extraordinary month. And maybe I'm dead wrong, but but
Speaker 2: you know, am I even close? Am I close to
Speaker 2: the target? Well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're certainly not far off from the target.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 3: And one of the factors that you know, want to
Speaker 3: bring up here is that the past two to three winters,
Speaker 3: maybe four winters, it's been warm in the Northeast, and
Speaker 3: you know, I think that's the factor that we have
Speaker 3: to take into consideration here, because we've become so accustomed
Speaker 3: to these milder winter conditions, especially here in New England
Speaker 3: over the past several winters, that we're just not used
Speaker 3: to the cold anymore. And so, you know, I think
Speaker 3: that is a factor that we have to bring in here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's cold out there. We are below our averages for
Speaker 3: this time of year. Our average for the middle of
Speaker 3: February here should be righted around forty degrees. And you know,
Speaker 3: over the next several days here we are going to
Speaker 3: be seeing high temperatures only in the mid twenties. And
Speaker 3: again those are the actual temperatures. But when you consider
Speaker 3: that wind factor in there, when we do get those
Speaker 3: wind gusts of forty forty five, perhaps he've been up
Speaker 3: to fifty miles prior, like what we saw earlier today,
Speaker 3: that's going to bring those accurate weather real field temperatures
Speaker 3: down to near zero degrees. So we also have to
Speaker 3: factor and win there and even tomorrow those real field
Speaker 3: temperatures only in the single digit So it's gonna be
Speaker 3: one of those days where you just want to bundle
Speaker 3: up outside. That's if you want to go outside some
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Do you think, what do you is there any as
Speaker 2: you look long range? And I know you folks do look,
Speaker 2: Is that this pattern breaking at any point? Or are
Speaker 2: we stuck in this pattern? I'm I'm not a weather
Speaker 2: guy as much nearly as much as you are, but
Speaker 2: I follow it kind of closely, and it looks like
Speaker 2: all of these storms of following a very similar track
Speaker 2: and they're just you're just hitting New England. When do
Speaker 2: we first? When are we going to see a little melting?
Speaker 2: When are we going to see a little warm up?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So I do have some good news at least in
Speaker 3: terms of the long range forecast here. I think as
Speaker 3: we had toward the end of the month, I think
Speaker 3: we're looking at a relatively less story pattern, especially considering
Speaker 3: the extremely story pattern that we've seen for pretty much
Speaker 3: the whole month of February so far. But as we
Speaker 3: head into the end of the month, I think we
Speaker 3: are going to see more areas of high pressure build
Speaker 3: into the east, setting up more tranquil conditions, if you will, so,
Speaker 3: I think overall we're looking at relatively quieter conditions. Can't
Speaker 3: rule out a quick clipper system or two that can
Speaker 3: move across area, but I think those will be relatively
Speaker 3: brief compared to some of these major storms that we
Speaker 3: have been experiencing. And I do think the temperatures are
Speaker 3: going to come up at least close to average. I
Speaker 3: don't think we're seeing any significant warm ups anytime soon,
Speaker 3: but it looks like at least in the longer range here,
Speaker 3: as we head into the early part of next week,
Speaker 3: I think we do finally see those temperatures get up
Speaker 3: at least the high temperatures right around forty degrees, maybe
Speaker 3: even a little higher than that. So we will get
Speaker 3: at least closer to average as we head throughout the
Speaker 3: next ten days or so.
Speaker 2: I'm still waiting for the January thought. That's what I'm
Speaker 2: hoping for, whether it comes in February March, Isaac, thanks
Speaker 2: very much. One of the guys were taught up there.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you ever ran into Joe Delo
Speaker 2: up at Linden State, but he's taught up there for
Speaker 2: many years. And as a great friend and has been
Speaker 2: a guest on this program as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that name definitely rings a bell to me. He
Speaker 3: was before my time up there, I graduated.
Speaker 2: So you look like a young guy. So I got that.
Speaker 2: I got that. Yes, yeah, more or might we called
Speaker 2: vintage here, that's for sure. Isaac. Appreciate your time tonight,
Speaker 2: Thanks very much. Where you've given us at least a
Speaker 2: little hope here that by the end of February it
Speaker 2: might it might get a little more tolerable here in
Speaker 2: New England. Thanks Isaac. I appreciate your time tonight. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much. Yeah, you're welcome, Dan, talk to you soon, Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks very much. All right, we get back. I'd love
Speaker 2: to hear from you, okay, And whether you're a new
Speaker 2: Englander or you're someone new to the region, what's it
Speaker 2: been like for you the last few days? And I
Speaker 2: very rarely do we talk weather, look if there's a
Speaker 2: big blizzard or something like that, but I would love
Speaker 2: to hear from your experience. I mean, I was out
Speaker 2: yesterday in the rain trying to chop up or move
Speaker 2: ice a little bit, and it was just unmovable. And
Speaker 2: today I looked out and this has been as tough
Speaker 2: a month of February. Now I realize we're just a
Speaker 2: little more than half done with February. Okay, but this
Speaker 2: has been as tough a month of February as I
Speaker 2: can remember, unless you go back to twenty fifteen and
Speaker 2: then it was snow. Okay, this is just raw cold.
Speaker 2: So let's talk a little weather here. Let's have a
Speaker 2: little bit of fun. Maybe what have you done to
Speaker 2: walk to keep your house a little warmer? There's all say. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the additional heating costs that all of us are going
Speaker 2: to have inflicted upon us next next bill cycle, it's
Speaker 2: going to be an expensive month. Anything you do in here,
Speaker 2: any tips that we can share. Let's talk weather and
Speaker 2: reaction to weather. This has been a tough, tough month.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about it, and maybe by talking about it
Speaker 2: we can make it go away. Six one seven, two,
Speaker 2: five four ten thirty or six one seven, nine three
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. And if any of you are living
Speaker 2: in other parts of the country and want to brag
Speaker 2: a little bit about how comfortable it is where you are, look,
Speaker 2: I'm happy with New England compared to what has happened
Speaker 2: in other parts of the country. The fires in California,
Speaker 2: the hurricanes in North Carolina, they're still recovering from it.
Speaker 2: So we're blessed in that. Regard the tornadoes that hit
Speaker 2: the Plain States, all of that. I'm not complaining, but
Speaker 2: I'm I want to get this weather out of here,
Speaker 2: and maybe by doing a little bit of this tonight,
Speaker 2: we can convince the weather that it's time for it
Speaker 2: to change. Maybe just from a metaphysical point of view,
Speaker 2: our conversations tonight will help warm things up. We're all
Speaker 2: in this together. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: So talking about what your experience has been with weather
Speaker 2: here in New England for the last month, but specifically February.
Speaker 2: I mean normally in New England you get really cold
Speaker 2: weather in January and you generally have a week in
Speaker 2: January that's the worst winter, worst weather week of the
Speaker 2: year from the point of view of being cold. Just
Speaker 2: like in late July or August. There will always be
Speaker 2: one week.
Speaker 5: When it's ninety degrees and it's you know, June is lovely,
Speaker 5: September is great, most of you know, fourth of July
Speaker 5: June is pretty good.
Speaker 2: Late July, you're gonna get that bad weather week. For
Speaker 2: some reason, it hasn't quit here in New England. Let's
Speaker 2: go to Marty in Florida. Marty, I don't rub it
Speaker 2: in too much, but I'm sure it's a lot nicer
Speaker 2: in Florida tonight than it is in New England. How
Speaker 2: are you well?
Speaker 6: First of all, right, now it's fifty one degrees over here,
Speaker 6: and I heard from some sort you'll excuse my voice,
Speaker 6: I have what I call a global warming throat condition.
Speaker 2: Uhcha? Somebody that.
Speaker 6: Somebody said that in Florida, if it's less than sixty degrees,
Speaker 6: it's called cold. And just to let you know, when
Speaker 6: I was a cop in New York City, New York City,
Speaker 6: if it was thirty degrees or cold, that they called
Speaker 6: it a cold emergency. Jacksonville forty degrees and they call
Speaker 6: it a cold emergency.
Speaker 7: I'm going to ask you a question.
Speaker 6: What do you think is the biggest weather And this
Speaker 6: is not political, the biggest weather killer summer or winter
Speaker 6: in Florida?
Speaker 2: Oh why some summer summer in August in Florida. I
Speaker 2: got the ac running from morning.
Speaker 6: Till night my house that I'm living in now for
Speaker 6: the last thirty years didn't come with air conditioning. We
Speaker 6: had a nut that I bought this house from you lived.
Speaker 6: He was from wherever it was, Ohio, and we had
Speaker 6: to spend a few thousand dollars to have air conditioning
Speaker 6: and heat put in right. So a lot of these houses,
Speaker 6: also in the Rockaways in New York, a lot of
Speaker 6: the houses on the water were not meant for heath.
Speaker 6: My house is a cold house, but I love it
Speaker 6: because it's good when hurricanes come. But also, what do
Speaker 6: you know about El Nino and La Nina.
Speaker 2: Well, I know that one of them says it's going
Speaker 2: to be more rainy or less rainy. I know that
Speaker 2: people assume that depending upon the heat of the ocean
Speaker 2: it's in the Pacific, the Pacific Ocean on the west
Speaker 2: coast of South America, that that dictates our weather patterns.
Speaker 2: As I understand that I'm not an expert in that area, Marty.
Speaker 6: But that's Can I tell you something fast but funny
Speaker 6: that happened to me about eight years ago that I
Speaker 6: think you'd appreciate Again, Joe, it's not political. My wife
Speaker 6: has a cousin in Norway.
Speaker 7: We went to visit her.
Speaker 6: July fifth, we left New York to go visit my
Speaker 6: wife's cousin in Norway. I looked at the mac where
Speaker 6: she lives is above the Arctic Circle.
Speaker 7: So I came.
Speaker 6: From having a barbecue on Long Island. I took my
Speaker 6: winter coat with me and I says to my wife,
Speaker 6: we're enjoying fourth of July, and now you're going to
Speaker 6: have me living in an igolo because I'm ignorant.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 6: We went to a place in.
Speaker 9: Norway and we found out that they have a.
Speaker 6: Little bit of eighty something degree weather. It was warm,
Speaker 6: and also to have a periodical infestation of what they
Speaker 6: call cleagues, their horseflies. So what an idiot I was thinking,
Speaker 6: you know, above the Arctic circle.
Speaker 2: But well, I can tell you this I was. I
Speaker 2: was in Norway, north of Oslo, which is still below
Speaker 2: the Arctic Circle. This has got to be in the
Speaker 2: early nineteen eighties, near the near the city of Bergen,
Speaker 2: which is right on the coast, and we were on
Speaker 2: a mountain I think it was called blastklavin Uh and
Speaker 2: we had a couple of six as a group of us,
Speaker 2: we had a couple of six packs of beer that
Speaker 2: chilled in the in the snow on that mountain, So
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, to get your elevation up a
Speaker 2: little bit. In Norway, you can have snow in This
Speaker 2: was in July. This was called July.
Speaker 6: Her cousin's house had air conditioning, a low air conditioning
Speaker 6: in Norway, and actually if you looked at the scenery,
Speaker 6: it looked like something it could have been on Long Island.
Speaker 9: We had a great time.
Speaker 6: We want to go back, but you're probably your six
Speaker 6: pack is very expensive in Norway, most expensive place I've
Speaker 6: ever been to.
Speaker 2: Well, I could tell you this Norway was beautiful. It
Speaker 2: was interesting looking at the architecture. The roofs on the
Speaker 2: homes often are very steeply pitched, you know, so that
Speaker 2: when the snows come, the snow slids off. In Oslo
Speaker 2: was the only place that I've ever eaten whale meat.
Speaker 2: It was like a whale steak. I remember that well.
Speaker 6: At the same at at the same time, we stayed
Speaker 6: with her cousin's son because it was close to the
Speaker 6: airport and I was I was having a jones I
Speaker 6: was jonesing for bagels. So guess what they did. They
Speaker 6: got us some lender bagels. They weren't new York bagels,
Speaker 6: but in Norway, what do you want?
Speaker 2: It's okay. Now. The year that I went and we're
Speaker 2: also I was in Stockholm and I walked down the
Speaker 2: main street of Stockholm and you can look this up
Speaker 2: if you want. The word for sale meaning you know
Speaker 2: them or sale s A l E is ray r
Speaker 2: e A, which is how my last name is spelled.
Speaker 2: And I thought, what a wonderful welcome. They were all
Speaker 2: flags that said ray ray Ray, ray ray actually and
Speaker 2: had them had it shipped back to America.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that sounds almost like a mystical experience.
Speaker 2: Oh it really was. I'm walking down and saying, aren't
Speaker 2: these people nice? They must have No, I didn't. I
Speaker 2: just thought to myself, this is very cool. I mean,
Speaker 2: you knew that what that meant with sale And he
Speaker 2: asked someone and oh, yes, that shows it is the
Speaker 2: It was like the middle of July. It was. It
Speaker 2: was great. It's Marty. Great to hear your voice is
Speaker 2: always sounds strong. This is the first time you and
Speaker 2: I have talked and politics hasn't come up.
Speaker 6: Nah, we don't need politics. But I want to say
Speaker 6: one thing. The bad the downside about our visit to
Speaker 6: Norway is We found that later on that her cousin
Speaker 6: first cousin's husband he developed als and he died of als.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a tough one than that.
Speaker 6: List in a great show.
Speaker 2: Keep it up, thanks Marny what you call as always
Speaker 2: be there, Thanks so much. Have a great one six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty one line there and a couple of
Speaker 2: lines at six months, seven nine, three, one, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: How are you getting through this month of February? Did
Speaker 2: you get out today? I was out briefly, but the
Speaker 2: wind was unbelievable. I mean, I'm used to Normally you
Speaker 2: get wind here in New England, in Boston in March,
Speaker 2: that's the windy month. Uh. You know, normally February you
Speaker 2: get snow. Okay, but you also know that the sun's
Speaker 2: a little higher, the snow's going to melt the ice
Speaker 2: that we have that's not melting until the temperature gets
Speaker 2: up around forty degrees. I'm telling here this is this
Speaker 2: is tough here in New England right now. And you
Speaker 2: can get in this pattern. I remember in the in
Speaker 2: the winter, it would have been January February twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: That's that was our toughest winter in terms of snow
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty inches or so in the Boston
Speaker 2: area in a period of about six weeks from the
Speaker 2: middle of January to the end of February. The storm
Speaker 2: just kept coming. The year before, For those of you
Speaker 2: who are in the Atlantic region, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia,
Speaker 2: you got hit with snowstorm after snowstorm after snowstorm in
Speaker 2: the winter of would have been twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2: I remember talking to people, that's a winter that you
Speaker 2: remember down there. We got it the next year and
Speaker 2: it just kept tracking over New England and it didn't stop.
Speaker 2: Join the conversation. Let's talk about how you're doing with
Speaker 2: the weather. Is there anyone out there who's enjoying it.
Speaker 2: I have some neighbors who went skiing this weekend. I
Speaker 2: know they enjoyed it. They had a great time. But
Speaker 2: it's been miserable. It's been a miserable month of February.
Speaker 2: The Super Bowl is over. There's nothing left in February
Speaker 2: when you think about it. I mean, we got to
Speaker 2: get to March, and then you get to Saint Patrick's
Speaker 2: Day and maybe it's spring coming back.
Speaker 1: On night side, you're on night Side with Ray on
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Speaker 2: Pegg you much al back to the phones. We got
Speaker 2: a good Bruce in Howell, Bruce. I bet it's a
Speaker 2: little windy in Hull tonight. How are you tonight?
Speaker 7: Oh my goodness. I walked out and I am practically
Speaker 7: got blown over. The wind is so strong. I'll tell
Speaker 7: you it really almost blew me over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had that experience.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, I don't know how long if you were in
Speaker 2: a native New England or not, but you ever remember
Speaker 2: it being this cold in February? Uh?
Speaker 7: Oh? He as a child, I can also remember. I
Speaker 7: grew up in Connecticut. I can also remember throwing snowballs
Speaker 7: at cars going by our our street because there were
Speaker 7: big mounds of snow that ran the whole length of
Speaker 7: the street, covered us up as ten year olds. Oh yeah,
Speaker 7: I've never seen anything like that.
Speaker 2: But the Statute of Limitations and that stuff is run, Bruce,
Speaker 2: So it's not a problem.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, for sure, for sure, it's not the same anymore.
Speaker 2: I just don't remember it being this cold. It's a
Speaker 2: snowy month in New England, and there was never more
Speaker 2: snowy than twenty fifteen. But the cold this close.
Speaker 7: I don't recall the cold either. Yeah, and I've been here.
Speaker 7: Let's see.
Speaker 2: I know the climate people are going to say, well, this,
Speaker 2: this just proves that the Earth is warming and climate.
Speaker 9: Change because.
Speaker 2: We come up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that could possibly come up for sure.
Speaker 2: Are you doing anything? Yeah? What are you doing to?
Speaker 2: I just I'm staying in, to be honest with you.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what I'm doing. I'm limiting my amount
Speaker 2: of time outside.
Speaker 7: Yeah, other than beating my two younger sisters. We're all
Speaker 7: in our seventies. Other than beating my two younger sisters
Speaker 7: three times a week at Rummy Cube, I stay in
Speaker 7: the house when it's cold.
Speaker 2: Is that a card game? I assume? Is that a
Speaker 2: card game?
Speaker 7: Rummy? No, Rummy Cube is is kind of rum any
Speaker 7: rules where you do three of a kind, four of
Speaker 7: a kind or a run three, four, five, seven, eight nine,
Speaker 7: all the same suit, but it's done with with tiles
Speaker 7: like domino, and there are no four suits. There's just
Speaker 7: two colors or four colors. There's no suits.
Speaker 2: Is that like that similar? Is it? Is it like
Speaker 2: a backgam thing or No?
Speaker 7: No, nothing like that gaming at all that I that
Speaker 7: I can think of enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm not good on card games or or
Speaker 2: are those sort of games either. When you said, are
Speaker 2: you saying rummy like Jim Rummy, Jim Rummy, Yeah, you
Speaker 2: say Jim Rummy.
Speaker 7: If you play Jim Rummy. The object of Jim Rummy
Speaker 7: is to get a run let's say, four or five
Speaker 7: sixty seven of spades, yeah, four or four fours of
Speaker 7: each suit, one of each suit, and then you play
Speaker 7: all your cards and out you go. But you have
Speaker 7: to have runs and suits, you know, three or four
Speaker 7: of a kind. Well, instead of doing it with a
Speaker 7: poker card deck, do it with dominoes.
Speaker 2: And that's what Yeah, I'm familiar with dominoes.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, and so.
Speaker 2: That my favorite as a kid, that's domino Oh.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2: Hey, brou thanks very much, stay warm. Got any tips?
Speaker 7: The reason I called?
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I got to.
Speaker 7: The quick reason I called. I'm not sure if it
Speaker 7: relates exactly, but I learned a valuable blessing. My bathroom
Speaker 7: sink has been leaking, not really a major leak, not running,
Speaker 7: just a drip and a drip and a drip and
Speaker 7: a drip. And I heard something on on TV or
Speaker 7: radio that you know these add up? Well, I put
Speaker 7: a cup under it.
Speaker 9: One day.
Speaker 7: I've been I've been losing thirty six gallons of water
Speaker 7: of hot water heated by gas a day for the
Speaker 7: last year.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 7: So a note to your customers when they say a
Speaker 7: drip adds up, man, it does.
Speaker 2: Well, that's interesting that that you had the patience to
Speaker 2: do that. But good for you, and people should be.
Speaker 7: Aware of it because I only did it because I saw
Speaker 7: something on TV or radio.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, no, but but that's that's an incredible
Speaker 2: thirty six gallons a day.
Speaker 7: Incredible thirty six gallons a day. I measured it, and uh,
Speaker 7: that's a.
Speaker 2: Gallon in the half. That's that's a gallon in half
Speaker 2: an hour.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yikes. Yeah, well now it makes it sound get that
Speaker 2: plumber over there. And and even though the bill's going
Speaker 2: to be expensive in the long run, it's gonna save
Speaker 2: you some money.
Speaker 7: Two days later, I had a new sink.
Speaker 2: Good for you. Good for you, Bruce. Thanks for the
Speaker 2: timp really do yep. Bye bye, thank you, Bruce, talk
Speaker 2: to you soon. Let me go next to Karen in Lemonster.
Speaker 2: I know it's cold in Lemonster. Karen.
Speaker 10: I hope you're staying in y col Yeah, and we
Speaker 10: had a We were one of the towns that lost
Speaker 10: our power KA early in the morning, watching TV and
Speaker 10: gonna have breakfasts, and power went out and then came
Speaker 10: back on, and I thought everything was fine, and it
Speaker 10: went out for good around noon, and I called National Grid.
Speaker 10: I get the letter at the notices and braille, so
Speaker 10: I found the customer service, called them up and they
Speaker 10: said I'd get it by two, the power on by
Speaker 10: do Nope, we got it by around six thirty seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: Was this yesterday or Saturday?
Speaker 10: This was today?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 2: Today?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah today. Maybe I didn't make that leak I.
Speaker 2: Got National Grid didn't didn't. You used to have UNITIL.
Speaker 10: I remember when I lived in fitch for a gift.
Speaker 2: Yeah. UNITIL had a really tough time. I think it
Speaker 2: was the winter of twenty eleven. They had more powers. Yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: that was a disaster.
Speaker 10: And even when I lived in Fitchburg they had a
Speaker 10: little some power outers and leave had a couple of
Speaker 10: ice storms in nineteen ninety six. I thought it was
Speaker 10: being a cold winter.
Speaker 7: It wasn't.
Speaker 10: In ninety seven, I thought we're going to have cold winter.
Speaker 10: We didn't. But we we were out of power for
Speaker 10: about a day and a half and people were inviting
Speaker 10: us over to the house, and we stayed home and
Speaker 10: we were happy. When the power came on.
Speaker 9: We meet.
Speaker 2: Well, I would love to know if anybody has looked
Speaker 2: up the Farmer's Almanac and see if they if the
Speaker 2: Farmer's Almanac nailed February, because that should have been very clear,
Speaker 2: you know that the language should should not be one
Speaker 2: of those. Well, sometimes it gets a little chili in February.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, Oh no, it's been really cold, and I've
Speaker 10: stayed in a lot more and I've had cancel I
Speaker 10: get this this therapy, I had to cancel at once,
Speaker 10: and people who come over and do some cleaning us up.
Speaker 10: We've had to cancel days and things. And it's you know,
Speaker 10: I'm of cold winters, but not this gold. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 10: put you remember, I mean that was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that was an extraordinary winter, that one. But
Speaker 2: normally it's January that's the cold month, and then February
Speaker 2: as it warms up a little bit to get some snow,
Speaker 2: and then March you get the winds of March, and
Speaker 2: then April, fine, you're back to the to the normal
Speaker 2: to the good weather. But if anybody's out there who
Speaker 2: has a copy of the Pharmacy Almanac, I would love
Speaker 2: to know what it says about February and New England
Speaker 2: of this day.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but in twenty fifteen, most of February was cold.
Speaker 2: I think, well, snowy.
Speaker 9: I think that, Oh yeah, that was the snow. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, it hadn't snown all winter. And then about the
Speaker 2: middle of January it started to snow.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 10: And I said, and I said, this ship. When we
Speaker 10: weren't getting much snow in January but cold, I said,
Speaker 10: you just wait till February. We're gonna get snowing.
Speaker 2: You could feel it of the day. The other thing
Speaker 2: is I remember, and I guess it was in late January.
Speaker 2: One day I was sitting at the kitchen table and
Speaker 2: just pulling together some of my uh, you know, W
Speaker 2: two forms and ten ninety nine's for tell. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: And I looked down at one point and I saw
Speaker 2: one little drop of water and I thought, gee, what
Speaker 2: you know, did I did? I have a glass of
Speaker 2: war And that was the first drop of what we
Speaker 2: ended up with about forty thousand dollars worth of week.
Speaker 2: We oh no, oh yeah, oh had you know dams
Speaker 2: ice dams on our gutters because the snow was so heavy.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and thank god we had.
Speaker 10: That year it happened.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, this was still this was
Speaker 2: would have been in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 10: Oh yes, we almost had to be evacuated from our apartment.
Speaker 10: We didn't, Thank goodness, stuff it was. We had to
Speaker 10: be evacuated. I was in a car in a van
Speaker 10: and somebody helped me back. And then I got back
Speaker 10: to my apartment and I'd forgotten to pack my pajamas.
Speaker 2: Well, under the circumstances, you probably wanted to sleep in
Speaker 2: warm clothes when you think about it. All right' gonna
Speaker 2: let you run is always. Thanks so much to hearing
Speaker 2: your voice. And I wish it's some better weather in Lemonster.
Speaker 10: Okay, Oh I wish. Oh I think we will, but
Speaker 10: I think we're just gonna have to. You know, we
Speaker 10: get that, We get all the powerholders stuff out here,
Speaker 10: you know, in this part of Messatu and the snow.
Speaker 4: All right, thanks, thanks, good night.
Speaker 2: You too, thanks so much. Let me go to Donna.
Speaker 2: She's out in Berkeley, Massachusetts. Berkeley, Massachusetts. That's down on
Speaker 2: this kind of the South coast, right.
Speaker 8: Donna, Yes it is.
Speaker 2: This is Donna the Diaper Lady. She's she's out on
Speaker 2: her appointed rounds.
Speaker 7: Hi Donna, nice, hear your voice.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm the night yours headed to work, and I
Speaker 4: love your program.
Speaker 2: Oh this is the night I'm sorry I had you
Speaker 2: mixed up with Donna the Diaper Lady. Your voices sounded
Speaker 2: very familiar.
Speaker 4: Oh well, no, I'm a night nurse, but I don't
Speaker 4: do a lot of diapers because I work in maternity.
Speaker 2: Okay, that I was, I kind of I was correct
Speaker 2: for the wrong reasons. So this is it's got to
Speaker 2: be cold on the roads out there today. What's it
Speaker 2: reading on your your car thermometer at this point twenty.
Speaker 8: Something twenty two?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I bet you feel a lot colder than that.
Speaker 4: It is. It is, But I had a cute little story.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 8: My electric bill is unbelievable right.
Speaker 4: Now, and we have that taut municipal lighting plant and
Speaker 4: it has doubled since for the winter, so I'm not
Speaker 4: looking forward to this month's bill. The other thing, with
Speaker 4: the rain yesterday, my driveway is a sheet of ice,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh, I said, oh my gosh, and
Speaker 4: my husband, what the heck are we going to do
Speaker 4: with that? But I had to laugh because I'm a
Speaker 4: true New England or you know, Blizard of seventy eight,
Speaker 4: all that good stuff. But I had to laugh because
Speaker 4: you talked about the different people coming from different areas,
Speaker 4: and I worked with a lot of travel nurses from Florida.
Speaker 8: Yes, I wish you could see.
Speaker 4: Them going out in the morning. I'm going out my
Speaker 4: fleece and they're going out in their North States, bundled
Speaker 4: up Minton's hat, scoffs and everything because they're coming from
Speaker 4: the South.
Speaker 8: And I have to laugh.
Speaker 4: It's really cute to see them coming and going.
Speaker 2: Well, their blood is a little thinner than ours. You
Speaker 2: know what's funny. I only learned about travel nurses seven
Speaker 2: or eight years ago. I don't know. I remember how
Speaker 2: it happened. A friend of mine was spending a lot
Speaker 2: of time in the hospital and I would visit him
Speaker 2: on a fairly regular basis. And this thing about travel
Speaker 2: nurses is it kind of a cool idea. If you're
Speaker 2: a young woman or whatever, you or a man, and
Speaker 2: you and you are willing to travel or enjoy traveling,
Speaker 2: you you're licensed as a nurse in one state and
Speaker 2: you're able, I guess, to use that your license in
Speaker 2: you know, certain other states. They have some sort of reciprocity.
Speaker 2: So you can live in Massachusetts for a few months
Speaker 2: and then southern California. It's you know, if if you
Speaker 2: are kind of footlo footloose and fancy free, you can
Speaker 2: see the country and learn a lot about the country.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you the wonderful women that I work with, strong,
Speaker 4: strong women. You know, they have families, but this is
Speaker 4: something that to get you know, they have to have
Speaker 4: I work with most women, so but they have to
Speaker 4: have a strong support system at home to do what
Speaker 4: they're able to do. And and they you know, they'll
Speaker 4: work and a God bless them, they do twelve hours.
Speaker 4: My feet only do eight. But they'll work seven or
Speaker 4: eight in a row and then they'll go home for
Speaker 4: a few days, you know, And I always say, God
Speaker 4: bless them. I personally couldn't do it. But one nurse
Speaker 4: that I just work with, she's now in Hawaii, so
Speaker 4: she's doing living the dream a little bit. But these
Speaker 4: women work hard for the time frame that they're here.
Speaker 4: It's under I know, but.
Speaker 2: You just think of how many other professions would allow
Speaker 2: you to do that where you can sort of when
Speaker 2: you're young and maybe you're footloose and fancy free. You
Speaker 2: you're not involved in a in a relationship or a marriage,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, you spend a couple of
Speaker 2: months in Hawaii. A couple of months, you could spend
Speaker 2: two months in Hawaii, two months in Alaska, two months
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts, and two months in Florida, and you could
Speaker 2: be in fod really different parts of the country within
Speaker 2: a year for sure.
Speaker 4: And they and they, well, if you're young and free,
Speaker 4: they can do that. But a lot of women I
Speaker 4: work with have families, and it's actually amazing what they
Speaker 4: accomplished for their families.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so well, and nurse And I love doctors, but
Speaker 11: I have a special feeling towards nurses because as great
Speaker 11: as doctors are, doctors are great, Uh, it's the nurses
Speaker 11: who are there to help you when you're really when
Speaker 11: you're hurting, puppy, and they pull you through it much. Yes,
Speaker 11: the doctors prescribe and the nurses describe what's going on.
Speaker 2: It's what I say, that's true.
Speaker 8: True.
Speaker 4: Well, I love your Lightheaded program tonight. I wanted to
Speaker 4: tell you that.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks, I appreciate that. Just wanted to kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, light it up. Last last hour we talked
Speaker 2: with Jeffrey Myron from Harvard University and we were talking
Speaker 2: about the federal debt. That was anything but lighthearted, but
Speaker 2: I'm boning lighted it up a little bit. Thanks to
Speaker 2: be safe, be stafe at work, and thank you for
Speaker 2: what you're doing.
Speaker 4: Okay, Thanks Dan, take here, God.
Speaker 8: Bless right back at you.
Speaker 2: Thanks, don take a very quick break here. Six one seven,
Speaker 2: two five four ten thirty six one seven nine three
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. I got Gary and Jack coming up.
Speaker 2: I got some room for you with those two numbers.
Speaker 2: Six one seven, two five four ten thirty six one
Speaker 2: seven nine three one ten thirty. I am more than
Speaker 2: happy to to take this into the next hour if
Speaker 2: you would like, and just talk about living in New England.
Speaker 2: There will be that ninety degree heat wave this summer
Speaker 2: where for three days the temperature at Logan Airport of
Speaker 2: four days in a row will be over and we
Speaker 2: will be pining for the cool breezes of February. But
Speaker 2: right now we could use a little warm that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Coming back on nights side.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Sight Studios. I'm WBSY News Radio her.
Speaker 2: We're talking weather, cold weather in New England, Gary z
Speaker 2: and Ruber and Gary next on tack right ahead.
Speaker 8: I gotta admit your shows. I don't listen to the
Speaker 8: whole four hours have been awesome Wayley, And I'll tell
Speaker 8: you how because you're not talking politics. You talk about
Speaker 8: human life, which is awesome. And I want to get
Speaker 8: more to the point. Elderly. There's a woman I know,
Speaker 8: she's about sixty five years old, was an elderly complex.
Speaker 8: She pushes her market basket basket from where she lives
Speaker 8: with all kinds of other elderly people up the street
Speaker 8: all the time to go shopping in the morning. My
Speaker 8: question is this, it's winter. Isn't there any services to
Speaker 8: provide a ride to the elderly so they can show
Speaker 8: like decent human beings where she doesn't have anybody in
Speaker 8: her life, no family, nobody give.
Speaker 2: Her ride, so she actually pushes the carriage you mean,
Speaker 2: from from the store to her home.
Speaker 8: She yeah, she keeps the carriage at her house and
Speaker 8: she pushes it because she probably needs that for leverage,
Speaker 8: you know, because after all you're older holding on to
Speaker 8: something that's like a walker.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You other thing?
Speaker 2: Can I make a suggestion, Gary, go ahead, Why don't
Speaker 2: you just someday when you see her ask her on
Speaker 2: a bad weather day. I kind of imagine pushing a
Speaker 2: shopping cart with the squeaky wheels in ice and snow.
Speaker 2: Why not take it upon yourself to say to her, Hey,
Speaker 2: next time you need to go make your list, I'll
Speaker 2: drive you there, I'll do my shopping, and i'll drive
Speaker 2: you home.
Speaker 9: Good point.
Speaker 8: You're exactly right. But one thing is this there. When
Speaker 8: I'm done cleaning offices and I'm done, like a combination
Speaker 8: of five, six, seven o'clock in the morning, my number
Speaker 8: one thing is go to mocketbasket and get home right away.
Speaker 8: I can't be shooting the breeze and set. I'm tired.
Speaker 8: But I heard your suggestion. One more thing. The homeless. Okay,
Speaker 8: the police, the fire departments who are out there. It
Speaker 8: must be like mandatory if you see someone homeless and
Speaker 8: they're out in this weather and so forth, they have
Speaker 8: to be grabbing them, the police and say get the
Speaker 8: uh police. Uh.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, they can't do that. They can
Speaker 2: encourage them, but they can't threaten them with incarceration.
Speaker 8: Talking about putting some somewhere for the nights, being outside.
Speaker 2: Well, they do that in Boston, and they do it elsewhere,
Speaker 2: and they try to encourage people, but there are people
Speaker 2: out there who do not want to be in shelters. Gary,
Speaker 2: I gotta keep going. Do that once with the woman,
Speaker 2: pick out, one time with her, and you know what,
Speaker 2: You'll have a friend for life.
Speaker 8: Good point is all right?
Speaker 2: I appreciate better. All one candle to curse the darkness.
Speaker 2: Thanks pal. Let's go next to Jack down to the
Speaker 2: Cape Jack on Cape Cod.
Speaker 9: Hey Jack, welcome, Hey Dan, You're awesome. That was a
Speaker 9: super suggestion that we we need to look out for
Speaker 9: each other. I really appreciate that. Regarding the current the
Speaker 9: weather that we're experiencing, yes, it it really is indicative
Speaker 9: of the weakening of the magnetosphere of Earth. That is
Speaker 9: that that's the cause of this type weather that we're experiencing.
Speaker 2: And I've never heard I've never heard that explanation. Jack.
Speaker 2: Are you a meteorologist in the navy.
Speaker 9: That's what I was when I when I and.
Speaker 2: What and what is being weakened? Did you say? Could
Speaker 2: could you repeat that?
Speaker 9: The weakening of the magnetosphere of Earth. Now around Earth
Speaker 9: we have the AWL.
Speaker 2: How long has that been going on? What? What are
Speaker 2: we talking about here? Something that's of recent development.
Speaker 9: It's been you know, we've I've been watching it. It's
Speaker 9: been a couple of years. But it's it's it's what
Speaker 9: what What causes the oscillation of the or the disoscillation
Speaker 9: of the jet stream? The magneto, the magnetosphere is this
Speaker 9: kind of a shield around Earth. Without the magnetosphere, life
Speaker 9: on Earth wouldn't exist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that that deflects rays of the Sun, is
Speaker 2: what you're telling me?
Speaker 9: Many?
Speaker 2: Yes, the layer, it's kind of like the ozone layer.
Speaker 9: You here's a thought I want you to file, and
Speaker 9: let's use your producer. Let's find a real atmospheric scientist.
Speaker 9: They can talk about the atmosphere from the surface of
Speaker 9: the Earth into the outer space. You know they're out there, and.
Speaker 2: Take that suggestion earth surface. Okay, sounds great. I jacked up,
Speaker 2: flat up against it because I got the eleven o'clock news.
Speaker 2: But thank you, You've raised an issue that maybe people
Speaker 2: will respond to. Thank you so much some show. Thanks buddy,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. You contributed to it. Thank you much. Here
Speaker 2: comes the eleven o'clock news. I would love to continue
Speaker 2: to talk about this, and if not, we'll pick another subject.
Speaker 2: But feel free to join the conversation back after the
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock news here on night Side