Speaker 1: It's night time with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Easy
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Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna stick with this topic. Okay, we
Speaker 2: had we thought about doing something dealing with the cost
Speaker 2: of now television scream streaming, streamflation as we call it,
Speaker 2: where it's so much more expensive to get things like Netflix,
Speaker 2: Discovery Plus, Peacock, Disney plus, to name a few. We
Speaker 2: going to talk about cord cutting, but I think we're
Speaker 2: gonna stick with this throughout the hour, and then at
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock we will switch at the twentieth hour and
Speaker 2: we will go to our Super Bowl predictions and we
Speaker 2: will have a prize available. Okay, so whoever comes close
Speaker 2: to prognosticating, you got to pick the winner of the game,
Speaker 2: and then of the group who picks if the Eagles win,
Speaker 2: the people who choose the Eagles. If the Chiefs win,
Speaker 2: the people choose the Chiefs. I'll explain the ground rules
Speaker 2: after the eleven o'clock news. But you have a chance
Speaker 2: to compete and have a won't cost you anything, and
Speaker 2: who knows, you might even win. A nightside, I think
Speaker 2: we're gonna put another coffee munk up on the on
Speaker 2: the table. We gave away a couple last hour, but
Speaker 2: we'll make one that people will earn. Okay, going to
Speaker 2: take a quick Uh, I think, yeah, we got full lines.
Speaker 2: Let's stick with this, Rob. That's that's Rob's call as well.
Speaker 2: Let me go next to John and dead him. John,
Speaker 2: appreciate you calling back. You were next on nightside. John,
Speaker 2: go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Hey, I wonder I gonna mention the high school, but
Speaker 3: after the original call, I feel I kind of have to.
Speaker 3: But A I was a sophomore at Saint colum Kill
Speaker 3: High School there in Brighton.
Speaker 2: How about that you probably knew new Maureen who knows?
Speaker 3: Probably did? It wasn't that big a school. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: remember having three straight weeks off of school stay which
Speaker 3: around the vacation week. And uh, my mother worked at
Speaker 3: same as this hospital in Eternity, and we never saw
Speaker 3: her because nobody could. The nurses couldn't drive to the hospital.
Speaker 3: She was in walking distance, so she wish she was
Speaker 3: there all the time. And never remember my parents from Italy.
Speaker 3: So my mother, typical time mother would tell her people like, hey,
Speaker 3: I got to go home and feed my family, so
Speaker 3: they would let her go home. She'd come home, feed us,
Speaker 3: maybe take a nap, every now and then and then
Speaker 3: right back there. So we highly saw her, you know,
Speaker 3: during that time. But and we lived on a corner
Speaker 3: where they apparently used to plow all the snow and
Speaker 3: you couldn't see off the second floor. It was just
Speaker 3: the mountain of snow in front of the second floor window.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was see. I saw a snow pile
Speaker 2: like that in the well in the winter at twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: They didn't know where to put it. It was just
Speaker 2: so much. I mean, at one point I think they
Speaker 2: were dumping it into the Atlantic Ocean, but then there
Speaker 2: was some question about whether or not it was legal
Speaker 2: to dump it into the Atlantic Ocean and all that,
Speaker 2: you know, so they stopped you, you would know.
Speaker 3: To spend the night when I thought it heard over
Speaker 3: the years that a lot of weather people during that
Speaker 3: time we weren't even predicting your store. They were basically
Speaker 3: saying it was a dusting, was it, Bruce? If I
Speaker 3: say Bruce Waggler was a w BZ with Bruce.
Speaker 2: Schwaggler don kent. I think Norm McDonald probably was still
Speaker 2: there at the time. It was a Barry Burbank may
Speaker 2: have just been starting as a young weather guy. At
Speaker 2: w b Z. They we had another young guy named
Speaker 2: Joe Reardon who didn't stay there too long. So and
Speaker 2: you know, the the other stations had their weather people
Speaker 2: and you know, they it became pretty competitive in terms
Speaker 2: of who predicted the closest. I think Bruce did a
Speaker 2: pretty good job on it. Don Kent had no none
Speaker 2: of the technical stuff, but Don Kent always seemed to know.
Speaker 2: You know, Don was was one of the great weather forecasters.
Speaker 2: If you I don't know if if you remember him,
Speaker 2: but you should remember him if you were sophomore at
Speaker 2: Saint Column Kills, Don was working bs.
Speaker 3: Question was that the pot stands. Did they get stuck overnight?
Speaker 2: Yeah? They did. I think I think that a lot
Speaker 2: of them ended up sleeping at the garden because the
Speaker 2: storm came in, uh and it really wound up. And
Speaker 2: you know, they they were there at the game. I'm
Speaker 2: sure someone will call tonight who were who who were
Speaker 2: were at the bean pot game and and we'll tell
Speaker 2: us some stories about that. But I at least they
Speaker 2: had food, and they had some heat there, and they
Speaker 2: had places you know, you could look. It was okay,
Speaker 2: you could sleep in a chair. I'm sure some decided
Speaker 2: to go home. Uh, and a lot of the kids
Speaker 2: who would have been there for the bean pot. I
Speaker 2: don't know at what point they stopped the MBTA from running,
Speaker 2: but that's it was. It was an experience I remember
Speaker 2: as a younger kid. There were snowstorms when I was
Speaker 2: in elementary school and high school in the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 2: There seemed to be more snowstorms in that era of
Speaker 2: my life. Then, yes, I got older, but the big
Speaker 2: one was always nineteen seventy eight, the Blizzard of seventy eight.
Speaker 2: That's for our generation, and I would count you in
Speaker 2: our generation. You're a baby boomer technically as well if
Speaker 2: you were if you were softmore in high school in seventy.
Speaker 3: Eight, we were building tunnel. We were little kids building
Speaker 3: tunnels everywhere just to get to the side fork and
Speaker 3: definitely different erar.
Speaker 2: Good stories, John Good. Good to hear your voice. Please
Speaker 2: continue to listen and call Knights at any time. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank day, Thanks John. Talk to you soon. Let me
Speaker 2: see why I can get one more in here before
Speaker 2: the break. I don't want people to have to wait
Speaker 2: too long. Let me go to Florence in Groveland. Hi, Florence,
Speaker 2: you were next on nights. I get you right in
Speaker 2: here before the break.
Speaker 4: How are you, hi, Dan?
Speaker 5: How are you doing great?
Speaker 2: Doing great? You were around in seventy eight.
Speaker 6: I assume I wanted Dan, I wish live in. We
Speaker 6: were living in a condo community in North Andover and
Speaker 6: to get to our condo, all the different buildings in there,
Speaker 6: you had to drive in off the main highway and
Speaker 6: down in. It wasn't all level, it went downhill, and
Speaker 6: of course my condo was way down the back at
Speaker 6: the bottom, okay, And when we got that storm, you
Speaker 6: couldn't get out. You could not get out. You felt trapped,
Speaker 6: and you couldn't even drive out because the side road
Speaker 6: along the condos, all the condos was where you go
Speaker 6: in and out, and you had to wait for their
Speaker 6: plow to comment, you know, and plow the roads, and
Speaker 6: then somebody else coming in and plowing all the walkways
Speaker 6: where so people could get out of their front door
Speaker 6: and try and walk up to the road.
Speaker 2: All right, So well the circumstances, Look, it was one
Speaker 2: of those storms that everybody was inconvenienced. How when how
Speaker 2: long did it take you to finally get outside? After
Speaker 2: the storm started on Monday, lasted right into Tuesday, well
Speaker 2: into Tuesday. When did you finally get out of the house.
Speaker 6: About three days? Yeah, about three days?
Speaker 5: Not bad.
Speaker 6: And you know, I was going to say, Dan, when
Speaker 6: my mother had me, she told me they had a
Speaker 6: big snowstorm and had a tough time getting her to
Speaker 6: the hospital to have me. So I have always called
Speaker 6: February blizzard month, and if we don't get snow December January.
Speaker 6: I always tell everybody, you can be sure we're going
Speaker 6: to get the snowstorms in February. You cannot get through
Speaker 6: February without it.
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you. I don't know if we're
Speaker 2: going to get a blizzard, but we're going to get
Speaker 2: a legitimate snowstorm for what the weather guys. We talked
Speaker 2: with Bob Larson last hour. Ye can well see how
Speaker 2: it works out. And maybe there'll be a blizzard later
Speaker 2: on this month. We still have about three weeks left
Speaker 2: in November, so you never know. Maybe it's a Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: They're talking about a big storm at the end of
Speaker 2: next week.
Speaker 3: We get a blizzard, we've got to call back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, back and tell me that.
Speaker 2: Remind me that that you were the one that mentioned it.
Speaker 6: Okay, it'll be on my birthday maybe Sunday.
Speaker 5: So all right, is.
Speaker 2: Your birthday the ninth or the sixteenth?
Speaker 6: My daughter is the ninth and the sixtect.
Speaker 2: All right, well, happy birthday in advance, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: we'll talk to you at some point next week. Thanks Lawrence,
Speaker 2: I gotta roll. I got you before the break. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much, Sea.
Speaker 6: Of Us, the Heir of snowstorm Yep.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll talk soon. Talk next week. Thanks Lawrence. Good night,
Speaker 2: Coming back on night Side. The only line opening is
Speaker 2: six one, seven, four ten thirty Back on Nightside right
Speaker 2: after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World,
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios.
Speaker 2: I'm Easy News Radio, Escape Rolling. You're gonna go to
Speaker 2: Terry down to the Cape, Terry buck that down the hatches,
Speaker 2: it's coming.
Speaker 7: Okay, Hi Dan, how are you?
Speaker 8: Congratulations to you? I know way to five thousand. Now,
Speaker 8: does this make you a goat?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I think it, d Dad, I'm naming you damned the goat.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate the designation. There's there's been a lot
Speaker 2: of people. I don't know how many people have been
Speaker 2: on this beat as long as I have. But we're
Speaker 2: in a we're in year eighteen doing the show and
Speaker 2: still enjoying it as much as when we started in
Speaker 2: twenty oh seven, in large part because of listeners like you, Terry.
Speaker 2: So I thank you for your loyalty, both as a
Speaker 2: calling in as a listener.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much. Dan, that's very kind of you.
Speaker 8: But I think they're a goat.
Speaker 2: Well, I know what goat stands for. It's a good thing.
Speaker 2: It's the greatest of all time.
Speaker 8: So as I would never I would never throw anything
Speaker 8: else your way.
Speaker 2: So which big snowstorm do you remember the most? Everybody
Speaker 2: is saying the blizzard of seventy eight.
Speaker 8: I remember, yeah, I certainly remember that one well. But
Speaker 8: you know, my first one on keepe Cud was very interesting.
Speaker 8: When I first bought my little place down here, everybody
Speaker 8: said it never snowed on Cape Caught, you know, that
Speaker 8: always has been the message. So the first snow storm
Speaker 8: happened on it was Thanksgiving nineteen eighty nine, and oh
Speaker 8: my goodness, we had about twenty inches and I was
Speaker 8: looking out my picture window and down the street came
Speaker 8: this is what they had. Then, this is really true.
Speaker 8: A station wagon that had a little prow in front
Speaker 8: of it trying to prow a main street, and I
Speaker 8: was like, oh my goodness, you've got to be kidding me.
Speaker 8: Clearly thinks we're a little better now. But you know,
Speaker 8: certainly our DTW works very hard and they're very labor
Speaker 8: and so and I'm very grateful for them for way
Speaker 8: back then. That's what they had.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 8: Well, that was it. Well, it was comical. It also wasn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I've seen snowstorms down there in recent years
Speaker 2: that were pretty big. In twenty fifteen, you've got we
Speaker 2: got a lot of snow in the cape, if you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying this.
Speaker 8: We did yump, Yeah, yeah we did, we did.
Speaker 2: But it looks like I don't think this would be okay,
Speaker 2: this one. You're not going to get killed. You're not
Speaker 2: going to get killed by this one. As far as
Speaker 2: I'm going to be.
Speaker 8: Okay, I honestly would rather a little snow versus ice.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, ice, you know, yeah, you know. And this
Speaker 8: little thing that happened a couple of days ago. You know,
Speaker 8: I've known three people that sell on their you know,
Speaker 8: doing little things like getting out of their vehicle because
Speaker 8: they couldn't see that there was ice underneath and foot
Speaker 8: and you know those things are really tough anyway, and
Speaker 8: none of.
Speaker 2: Us are getting any younger. And that's again yeah, absolutely, well, Terry,
Speaker 2: you have a great weekend, stay out of the snow
Speaker 2: and I'll see you soon.
Speaker 8: I've got my Dan Ray night tide mug and I'm
Speaker 8: all set.
Speaker 2: Well. I hope you have coffee or hot coco tomorrow.
Speaker 8: Okay, absolutely, no question, And thank you Dan, and congratulations
Speaker 8: to you again.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Terry, You're the best. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much. Doctor Sue.
Speaker 7: Good time, hy bye, bye bye.
Speaker 2: Let me go. Next we get Alex and Millice in here. Alex,
Speaker 2: how are you, sir?
Speaker 9: Hey, how are you doing? Dan Greening? I remember the
Speaker 9: blizzard of seventy eight. My dad had the coffee shop
Speaker 9: in Dorchester, so we lived in Rossendale and back then,
Speaker 9: I guess they had restrictions about driving, but a police
Speaker 9: police had stopped, uh stopped us. But then they they
Speaker 9: said that's fine because we had you know, uh serving uh,
Speaker 9: you know, we had like an establishment. And I can
Speaker 9: remember the mound of snow that covered the storefront. It
Speaker 9: was it's on Dorchester Ave. And I know, I mean,
Speaker 9: I'm not sure if you know that area. Of Saint
Speaker 9: Mark's over there, Yeah, on the corner Seemn Roads. And
Speaker 9: we made a trench to get into the doorway. So
Speaker 9: reminded me of the Panama Canal.
Speaker 2: That's timely.
Speaker 9: And uh we finally opened up and my dad had
Speaker 9: uh had you know, started uh you know, uh getting
Speaker 9: the coffee ready, and you know customers were coming in.
Speaker 3: Uh. And uh.
Speaker 9: The other thing about this storm, Uh, I don't think
Speaker 9: uh you know, I'm not afraid of snow because we
Speaker 9: got the snow blow up. But we pre ordered these
Speaker 9: win They have a wing that found at our church
Speaker 9: for Sunday for the game and they're pre paid, so
Speaker 9: I hope, uh, you know, they don't cancel that because
Speaker 9: I'll be out.
Speaker 3: Of the wing.
Speaker 9: I'll be out of them.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Who's gonna win? Who's gonna win? Do you think?
Speaker 9: I think it's the Eagles. So the reason for my
Speaker 9: you know, why I want the Eagles is I'm not
Speaker 9: a fan of Taylor Swift and associates Taylor Swift with
Speaker 9: the other team.
Speaker 2: I got you, I got you. Well, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: it's a Parkley is a great running back. We'll see
Speaker 2: what happens.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: You can call back at eleven and put a put
Speaker 2: against in. You know that's a everybody gets a hall
Speaker 2: pass at eleven o'clock, you know that. Okay, Thanks Alice,
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Thanks pretty talk to you soon. Have
Speaker 2: a great night. Good night. Let me keep rolling here.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get Alice in Beverly. Hi, Alice, welcome next
Speaker 2: on Nightside.
Speaker 10: Hi Dan Well, Alice person said, I don't mind the snow,
Speaker 10: but I hate the ice. Well, I been in bed
Speaker 10: for two weeks now. I fractured my petella slipping on
Speaker 10: black ice.
Speaker 2: My brother. Let me tell you, I know a little
Speaker 2: bit about what you're going through. My brother I fractured
Speaker 2: his kneecap last summer and it's been a long recovery.
Speaker 2: How did you fracture?
Speaker 11: It?
Speaker 2: Just fell on ice.
Speaker 10: I fell on I saw as I got out of
Speaker 10: the car. I even had a cane, and I was
Speaker 10: going to thees pharmacy and I saw that there was ice,
Speaker 10: but I I didn't see was the black eyes. And
Speaker 10: when I got to the curb is that's when I
Speaker 10: slipped and my knee went right down onto the curb,
Speaker 10: right on my patella and and but you know what,
Speaker 10: like I have an unbelievable freshold for pain because I
Speaker 10: needed help getting out. But when I got up, I
Speaker 10: went into the pharmacy to pick up a prescription and
Speaker 10: the woman said, I say, no, I just fell. And
Speaker 10: she said to me, no, what am? I Let me
Speaker 10: get the manager and the cay said to me, is
Speaker 10: there anything I can do for you? I said, well,
Speaker 10: I could use a band aid and so, and I
Speaker 10: still didn't like do anything. I got in the car,
Speaker 10: I drove myself home and then it wasn't until I
Speaker 10: was going to go to a WA condo meeting that
Speaker 10: I realized I couldn't get up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so this happened how long ago? How many days?
Speaker 2: How many weeks ago?
Speaker 10: Having done the twenty first of January.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're into this now about two and a
Speaker 2: half weeks. What have you had to have surgery yet?
Speaker 10: No, they're hoping that I don't like. I have X
Speaker 10: rays again on the tenth of February, and I'm just
Speaker 10: in the in the doctor that I saw see somehow,
Speaker 10: people say to me, I look too good, you know,
Speaker 10: like I can't believe I'm seventy six years old. That
Speaker 10: the guys said to me, Oh, you know, the other
Speaker 10: guy sent over the X ray. We'll get Joe to
Speaker 10: come in and put a brace on and I'll see
Speaker 10: you in three weeks. And and you know I was like, okay,
Speaker 10: And then well, if you can.
Speaker 2: Avoid the if you can avoid the surgery, obviously, you know,
Speaker 2: if you have to have it, you got to have it.
Speaker 2: But if you if, if they can simply brace it
Speaker 2: for you and you can nurse it back to hell.
Speaker 10: Oh definitely, believe me, My dance card is full as
Speaker 10: far as surgeries go. So between Halven, you know, seven
Speaker 10: elbow surgeries fresh gme, no, but I but I do.
Speaker 10: I mean, everyone said, gosh, I can't believe that. They
Speaker 10: and I just said from the neck up, I look
Speaker 10: pretty good.
Speaker 3: But forgetting that happens.
Speaker 2: To all of us, Alice, and it doesn't this getting
Speaker 2: old stuff. It's way overrated, way overrated.
Speaker 3: But I.
Speaker 10: I started looking bad well when I was when I
Speaker 10: was like forty two, because I was misdiagnosed with something
Speaker 10: that caused me to have brittle bones. And so but
Speaker 10: you know what, Dan, I already know where I'm going
Speaker 10: after this life. So I just figure out it's between
Speaker 10: that now and the time that God decides to take
Speaker 10: me home that I have to, you know, get through.
Speaker 10: So I'm I'm actually, I'm so glad that I have.
Speaker 10: I have two transistor radios. One of them is on
Speaker 10: always on DZ, and the other one is sports talk
Speaker 10: radio because occasionally.
Speaker 9: I do have to listen to that.
Speaker 2: You know, that's okay, as long as you're listening night side,
Speaker 2: that's all I can. That's all I ask.
Speaker 10: Okay, oh yeah, right, But getting back to Actually, I
Speaker 10: was listening to.
Speaker 3: WBZ during the blizits of seventy eight.
Speaker 10: What happens. I was working at Children's Hospital, and I
Speaker 10: think that they regret I was working in day surgery
Speaker 10: and they sent us home because they really did not
Speaker 10: know that this bad store. People were beginning to call
Speaker 10: up and say that they're you know, because they come
Speaker 10: from all over the place to come in today surgery
Speaker 10: or for any of the surgery the day surgery, you
Speaker 10: come in that morning, and we were getting all these cancelations.
Speaker 10: So then they said, wow, the schedule's wiped out, you
Speaker 10: might as well go home. Well, I think that they
Speaker 10: regret that because you know, other places in the hospital
Speaker 10: nobody could get back in. So I and I try
Speaker 10: to go in. I lived in Peevity, and I lived
Speaker 10: at like the bottom of a hill. Trying to get
Speaker 10: into my driveway and then also my apartment. My my
Speaker 10: apartment was like kind of a basement apartment and the
Speaker 10: door opened in so I actually had to ask a
Speaker 10: neighbor to come so that, you know, like I was
Speaker 10: fuck in there because I couldn't get the door open.
Speaker 10: And so, but then I was listening to the to
Speaker 10: bes and I, you know, at least I didn't lose power.
Speaker 10: And so they I heard them talking about saying, if
Speaker 10: you live near a hospital or a nursing home, you know,
Speaker 10: you know, you're a healthcare professional. You know, maybe they
Speaker 10: could use your help. And I go, well, I don't
Speaker 10: even have a nurse's uniform because I worked in the OA.
Speaker 10: And so I said, well, I'm going to go up
Speaker 10: to JB. Thomas Hospital, which was two blocks away from me.
Speaker 10: It took me about an hour to walk up there
Speaker 10: because I had to walk in the street. And when
Speaker 10: people were talking about it was way it was like
Speaker 10: at least waste time, or maybe above that, it was dangerous.
Speaker 2: It was dangerous that people couldn't see you. They come
Speaker 2: around the corner and you could be you could be hit. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: I was. I walked in those streets too, not it was.
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody was driving.
Speaker 10: But but I thought, okay, I'm going to go I'm
Speaker 10: going to go up there because you know, I got
Speaker 10: let off of my other job, so I'm going to
Speaker 10: say somebody, I can help somebody. So I get up
Speaker 10: there and I just said, sorry, I don't have a uniform.
Speaker 10: But then they go, no, listen where you know, you
Speaker 10: got a license. You know you can help us. And
Speaker 10: then there was a classmate of mine that was working,
Speaker 10: and I said, oh, I'm so glad you here because
Speaker 10: I said, I don't you know, I've never worked here
Speaker 10: on Earth, but you know I can, I can do something.
Speaker 10: And she and I said, and she goes, well, I
Speaker 10: don't work here either. You know psychiatry, you know, and
Speaker 10: so so well, good.
Speaker 2: For you, good for you. Did you get paid for
Speaker 2: that time? Was that volunteer work? Well?
Speaker 10: Then they did pay us, because I think they figured
Speaker 10: they had to because we were you know, we were
Speaker 10: given pain medications and sure, you know, things like that,
Speaker 10: so we couldn't be a volunteer, you know, they wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I hate to do this see Alice, but I mean
Speaker 2: four minutes into the newscast, so I got to let
Speaker 2: you go.
Speaker 10: But all right, take care, thank.
Speaker 2: You for calling, and and get better with that need. Please.
Speaker 2: You're a professional, don't you know. Be careful whichever whichever
Speaker 2: way you go here, either get it done or give
Speaker 2: it a shot. And if it doesn't, you know you'll
Speaker 2: you'll figure it out. But God love you.
Speaker 3: Okay, Thanks Ella.
Speaker 2: Good night. Okay, here comes the ten thirty news. We'll
Speaker 2: finish this up at eleven o'clock. We're going to pick
Speaker 2: the winner and someone I think, well I know someone
Speaker 2: will win. Someone's gonna get very close to the to
Speaker 2: the winning team and the score. Back on night Side
Speaker 2: right after the news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Pete in South Carolina, where they were
Speaker 2: not expecting a snowstorm tomorrow. Hi Pete, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm fine, Dan, how are you?
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 3: I've got two quick stories and I know a lot
Speaker 3: of people are calling in, so here you go. First one.
Speaker 3: The last time it snowed in South Carolina was in
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen. The Eagles won the Super Bowl. Whoa last
Speaker 3: we had three Last week we had three inches of snow.
Speaker 2: Oh you had Florida if you hadn't had, I forgot
Speaker 2: about that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I'm hoping the Eagles win. That's number one. Number two.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a storm in Boston that I know of.
Speaker 3: But in nineteen eighty three, I was snowed out. I
Speaker 3: was living in Philly then working. I was snowed out
Speaker 3: of Philly and had to spend three days in Chicago.
Speaker 3: What were you What I was? I was? I was
Speaker 3: a reinsurance underwriter for a Dutch reinsurance company for life
Speaker 3: Life all right. So when you talked medicine or when
Speaker 3: you have a doctor on, I'm always listening because that
Speaker 3: was my profession for fifty years. Now I'm retired. I'm
Speaker 3: retired here in South Carolina. My daughter lives about twenty
Speaker 3: minutes away with my grandchildren, and we have them.
Speaker 2: We really perfect. Was what was the temperature? Let me
Speaker 2: guess you were in the sixties today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sixties and windy. If you wanted to go to
Speaker 3: the beach and fly a kite, you had a great day. Tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I think we're supposed to be in the seventies. But
Speaker 3: I noticed that Boston's going to get a little slammed.
Speaker 3: And like I said, I know how old you are,
Speaker 3: so just be careful, will you all?
Speaker 2: We're all going to be careful. Oh yeah, I'm still
Speaker 2: I was in the gym today. I'm I'm in pretty
Speaker 2: good shape for for all shape. I was shoveling snow
Speaker 2: this morning. We had a little bit of snow, so
Speaker 2: I was out, uh you know, cleaning off driveway this
Speaker 2: morning and doing a little bit of light snow and
Speaker 2: I'll do something a little bit. Well, yeah, we'll be fine.
Speaker 2: We will be fine.
Speaker 3: I really do as you said earlier, getting old ink
Speaker 3: for the week.
Speaker 2: It is. It's it's it's way overrated. It's way overrated,
Speaker 2: you know, the Golden Years and all of that. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: No, no, no right anyway.
Speaker 2: Pete, thanks so much for checking in from South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Always great to hear your voice. And he so you're
Speaker 2: an Eagles guy. Okay, Well we'll see you know all
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 3: I mean, I remember when the Eagles beat the Packers
Speaker 3: at nineteen sixty, so I go back to the Eagles.
Speaker 2: Is that Norm van Brocklyn quarterback.
Speaker 3: Norm van Brocklyn and Chuck Betten Erik and Retz laugh.
Speaker 3: That's it, you know, God bless you.
Speaker 2: Of course, I know I know my sports. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't do sports per se, but anybody knows me
Speaker 2: knows that I know sports.
Speaker 3: I love when you do your annual baseball show.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, no, no, absolutely. Yeah. My dad was on
Speaker 2: a troop ship coming back from World War Two. He
Speaker 2: was in Chilbourban, India, and Norm Van Brocklan was on
Speaker 2: that troop ship.
Speaker 3: So uh cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Van Brocklin, who of course was a great quarterback
Speaker 2: with the Rams, uh before before the Eagles, and he had,
Speaker 2: you know, great players with the Rams, Less Richter middle linebacker,
Speaker 2: you know, John Arnette, Jaguar, John On, that great runner,
Speaker 2: running back, Danny Toler, a fullback, l Roy Crazy legs
Speaker 2: hirsh yeah crazy right. Yeah, No, I know this stuff,
Speaker 2: trust me.
Speaker 3: I know Dan, I know you know this stuff. I've
Speaker 3: been listening to you for a lot of years, as
Speaker 3: you know. But anyway, I'll let you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah all right, then we'll talk to Thanks Pete. Appreciate it,
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Buddy, appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, we're gonna get
Speaker 2: Angelo and Newton. Angelo, you were next do nights. I
Speaker 2: appreciate your patience. Angelo. We've had a lot of callers tonight.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Angelo, Dan.
Speaker 5: It's okay, Dan, Like you said, when when we were
Speaker 5: in school, I remember we have three four snow sums
Speaker 5: a week and today you don't even see that. And
Speaker 5: I was only twenty one years old when we had
Speaker 5: the blizzard, and I'll never forget that time because we
Speaker 5: were outside getting quitting and ready, and when I seen
Speaker 5: that snow coming, they said.
Speaker 11: It was only gonna be a little bit. I said,
Speaker 11: this is not gonna be a little bit. This is
Speaker 11: gonna be more than a little bit. And it took
Speaker 11: us like a couple hours of cleaning our own yard.
Speaker 11: And one of our garages had a flat roof. We
Speaker 11: wrapped their shove almost snow off the roof. So my
Speaker 11: dad was cleaning out the yard and most of the
Speaker 11: time he says, where am I gonna go?
Speaker 5: I'm not going anywhere. So he made a pad down
Speaker 5: from the front of our house to the one part
Speaker 5: of the main road. And it was like, I don't know,
Speaker 5: two o'clock in the morning and I was watching loose.
Speaker 5: I looked out of the woodow. I said, yeah, dad,
Speaker 5: look it. I don't know how they did it. The
Speaker 5: fightingmen were running down through that snow on the bargain,
Speaker 5: and it came to find out that one of our
Speaker 5: clients down the street had a heart attack, and I
Speaker 5: guess they couldn't find a machine, so there was a
Speaker 5: machine that came later behind them. When they got to
Speaker 5: the front of our house, it was shocked that it
Speaker 5: was plowed, and they said, if we hadn't done that,
Speaker 5: the husband would have died. So they put it right
Speaker 5: up on us and the firemen. And another thing.
Speaker 2: You guys, you guys, that's hey. I'm I'm glad your
Speaker 2: dad was on the ground and you guys were up
Speaker 2: on the roof because you wouldn't want it to reverse.
Speaker 2: You were good kids to be doing that for your dad.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I did a lot, believe me. When
Speaker 5: I was a young kid and I wasn't afaid to
Speaker 5: do it. And even then my dad even put me
Speaker 5: in a large truck call of snow, we'll hollow stow
Speaker 5: for the city looting, and we were getting all the
Speaker 5: snow and dumb it at the Cold Springs playground. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then I was loaded with snow and of the
Speaker 5: truck's lots of break. But I know how to handle myself.
Speaker 5: When I stopped that truck and I call my dad
Speaker 5: and then my dad put me behind the back. Gough.
Speaker 5: I clean all of us know at the high school,
Speaker 5: loading it all on the trucks and they will haul
Speaker 5: on away.
Speaker 2: That's a. That's a that's some good, good talent, good skills. Hey, Angela,
Speaker 2: I hate to do this to you about I'm at
Speaker 2: ten forty five. I got to take a break. I
Speaker 2: got a line of calls behind you. It's always so
Speaker 2: great to hear you. Talk soon.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mauta, Thank you.
Speaker 2: You welcome there. Have a good weekend, Stay warm tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling after the break here quick break, All
Speaker 2: night's coming right.
Speaker 1: Back now back to Dan Way live from the Window
Speaker 1: World Nights Sie Studios. I'm WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: We're going to try to get five callers in Okay.
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Speaker 2: welcome back. How are you good?
Speaker 3: How are you good?
Speaker 2: So you probably are too young to remember the blizzard
Speaker 2: of seventy eight.
Speaker 12: I remember I was. I was for seventy one five
Speaker 12: was I was very young. But I remember my brother
Speaker 12: he had his window up by like the rope area. Yeah,
Speaker 12: we have for a Faniel dog. We have we have
Speaker 12: to put the dog up from the roof that we
Speaker 12: couldn't get the dog out of the front. And I
Speaker 12: remember my neighbors. We lived on the dead end street
Speaker 12: and he was a doctor. He tried walking to the
Speaker 12: talk in the hospital. He was trying to got Boss
Speaker 12: Street going to kind of go to work, and didn't
Speaker 12: he have a heart attack and die and snow bank?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, no, you see it old right by
Speaker 2: my house.
Speaker 12: Yeah, they said fireman had to come down on ledgs
Speaker 12: and everything and hold how old?
Speaker 2: So he died during during the blizzard, the blizzard.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he fell into a snow bank and had a
Speaker 12: hot attack.
Speaker 2: How old a gentleman was he at the time? If
Speaker 2: I could ask Christine, roughly.
Speaker 12: Like sixty six?
Speaker 3: I said, Oh my goodness, what a loss.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that was the first time I've ever It was devastating.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 12: The fireman couldn't even get the fire trucks down the
Speaker 12: street or anything because the clouds couldn't come down because
Speaker 12: it was on a dead end street. All our names
Speaker 12: were helping each other. We all had sleds and some
Speaker 12: people com polls. I'm going up and down on you
Speaker 12: know this, you know, getting chopping for everybody, back and forth.
Speaker 12: I remember it was quite something.
Speaker 2: What a traumatic experience for for you know, you would
Speaker 2: have been seven years old at the time. What a
Speaker 2: traumatic experience. But there's a guy who obviously was not
Speaker 2: going to allow anything to prevent him from getting to
Speaker 2: where he needed to be. Yeah, you know, it's a
Speaker 2: tragic it's a tragic story, but it's inspirational. Folks from
Speaker 2: that generation. They they they weren't going to be stopped.
Speaker 2: He was a doctor and he knew he had a
Speaker 2: job to do. But what a sad boy. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: that's a that is an absolute downer. But thanks for
Speaker 2: sharing the story because it just shows you know what
Speaker 2: people went through. That's there were other people who passed
Speaker 2: away during that storm trying to help others as well. Christine,
Speaker 2: I got to run because I got four I gotta
Speaker 2: get to I'm gonna let you run for now. Okay,
Speaker 2: well maybe we're talked to you.
Speaker 12: Okay, great, Thank you, Dan, have a good night.
Speaker 2: Sank you too, Christine. Keep going. Let's go to Jim
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire Gym next on, Nice, I gotta move
Speaker 2: you a little bit here, Jim Garrett Ahead, Hi, Dan.
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, I won last year for the Kansas City,
Speaker 4: so I don't need to sure if I win this year,
Speaker 4: but I'm gonna predict twenty seven to twenty four Kansas
Speaker 4: City again.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal. I gotta wait until the eleven
Speaker 2: o'clock hour to take any of the predictions. You can
Speaker 2: call back if you like, and it's Nightside Coffee mug
Speaker 2: is the prize this year, So hey right, maybe no one?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: So my story for Blizzard of seventy eight. I was
Speaker 4: fifteen and the police pulled us over because we were hollering.
Speaker 4: But I live in Holliston. We were doing sixty five
Speaker 4: down the streets on the snowmobiles and they were pissed
Speaker 4: at us because they couldn't catch us. They finally caught
Speaker 4: up to us, but they say, let us go because
Speaker 4: we were delivering medications. We would go to the pharmacy
Speaker 4: and bring medications to houses, so they were really happy
Speaker 4: they were doing that, but they weren't pleased that we're
Speaker 4: doing So.
Speaker 2: You so you were? You were? You were on Route
Speaker 2: sixteen probably in.
Speaker 4: Yes, in Holliston exactly.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I lived out by Holliston for about twenty years.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite towns. Did you grow up there?
Speaker 2: You must have spent some time at Fisk's General Store?
Speaker 4: Oh god, yes, yep. And then the Super d across
Speaker 4: the street.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, John and Carrol Paulton area at the Fists General
Speaker 2: Store absolutely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, super Yeah, I delivered, I deliver newspapers with them.
Speaker 4: I get my newspapers here and do my newspaper route.
Speaker 2: But you're up in new you're up in New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: Now you left Holliston.
Speaker 4: You know what's Yes, what's good is I'm in the
Speaker 4: Hampshire and I drive tractor trailer. I'm headed down the
Speaker 4: floor and I'll be down there Sunday morning. So I'm
Speaker 4: going to miss the snowstorm.
Speaker 2: Yay, Well if you're out of town by, they says.
Speaker 2: We had Bob Larson on from ACI Weather and he
Speaker 2: said it's not going to start until well, you'll you
Speaker 2: may hit it. What time you're leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I'm leaving tonight at midnight.
Speaker 3: I'll be down be fine. Yeah Funday morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll be You'll be well well beyond this. Good
Speaker 2: for you, Good for you, Jim. I got to run.
Speaker 2: I'll talk soon.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it all right?
Speaker 4: Thanks, my thanks?
Speaker 2: Let me get u. Who's next? Yeah? John and Brookline?
Speaker 2: Good friend John in Brookline. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well? Three things seconds to bring up quick
Speaker 3: about the blizzard of seventy eight. Sure, I was shoveling
Speaker 3: snow in front of my house and asked for long
Speaker 3: avenue and a police officer. We didn't get along anyway.
Speaker 3: You're gonna arrest me for throwing snow in the street,
Speaker 3: And I responded by saying, well, I only can think
Speaker 3: of one other place to throw it. And that was
Speaker 3: the end of that argument. But then down comes a tank,
Speaker 3: a National Guard tank, taking the Duke in town to
Speaker 3: Governor de Gacas. Oh my goodness, it was so he
Speaker 3: was used to the tanks, as we know. He wasn't
Speaker 3: in the tank. He was in a in a National
Speaker 3: guid truck behind it.
Speaker 2: Didn't He definitely looked better than he looked in when
Speaker 2: he was in the tank. I think it was in Michigan, in.
Speaker 3: Perry Street and come down there. And then the third
Speaker 3: thing was two days after the storm, they had some
Speaker 3: sort of a group, an environmental group, stopping the trucks
Speaker 3: from dumping snow town trucks in the Muddy River.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean I remember they were dumping snow
Speaker 2: into the Atlantic Ocean and they had environmental groups who
Speaker 2: were upset about that as well.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I remember that big view. But it was
Speaker 3: quite a storm. But so that's I know that he
Speaker 3: was not in the tank. He was in the truck
Speaker 3: behind it.
Speaker 2: But well, those that's great stories. That's great. Yeah. I
Speaker 2: interviewed him in his house on Perry Street. He's still
Speaker 2: doing fine. I saw a picture.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ninety years old. He's still walking around the town.
Speaker 3: He does very well.
Speaker 2: I think he's not I think he's ninety two. I
Speaker 2: think he will turn ninety two this fall.
Speaker 3: He's Yeah, he's still picking up papers and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: That's okay. He was the real deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, hey, John, appreciate your call. Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 2: We talk soon. Thanks John, I appreciate it. I'm going
Speaker 2: to try to get two more in. We'll see. I
Speaker 2: got Janis in North Reading. Janis next on Nightsiger right ahead.
Speaker 7: Oh hi, my name is Janet, not Janis, but that's
Speaker 7: all Janet.
Speaker 2: Okay, Janet, welcome.
Speaker 7: Welcome, thank you. So I have a great story to tell,
Speaker 7: so sure. My grandfather, my grandfather, Grandpa Sullivan, bought a
Speaker 7: house on seven thousand Situate with his World War One
Speaker 7: bonus money, and we lost everything in the blizzard of
Speaker 7: seventy eight. We have pictures. We saw the water coming up.
Speaker 7: Everything was destroyed in our house, and our house actually
Speaker 7: floated into our backyard. My dad couldn't find anybody to
Speaker 7: fix our house. He walked, he watched it. He saw
Speaker 7: everybody kind of doing everything the same high. He said,
Speaker 7: something's not right with this. And he had to wait
Speaker 7: a while to get somebody to fix our house. And
Speaker 7: eventually we took it eight feet off the ground and
Speaker 7: the house is still in Our family were third or
Speaker 7: fourth generation. We called the beach house the Sullivan Beach House.
Speaker 7: We were actually on Channel five's twenty fifth universary of
Speaker 7: the Blizzards seventy eight. Our family was on the show then,
Speaker 7: and it's a great, great story. It's our beach house
Speaker 7: and our family still goes there.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's great. I remember being in situate a
Speaker 2: couple of days, you know, into that blizzard and seeing
Speaker 2: the devastation along the shoreline, and it was tough to
Speaker 2: it was tough.
Speaker 5: It was awful.
Speaker 7: I still have pictures, we still have pitches, and we
Speaker 7: saw our house was totally destroyed again. We had a
Speaker 7: house float into our backyard, the mud inside our house.
Speaker 9: This is awful.
Speaker 2: Summers are beautiful, Summers are beautiful along the shores, but
Speaker 2: in winter, winter can be tough. I hate to do
Speaker 2: this to Janet, but I'm up against the eleven o'clock news,
Speaker 2: and we got the twentieth hour a waiting, so I
Speaker 2: gotta let you run. If you want to take a
Speaker 2: shot at a night side mug, feel free on the
Speaker 2: other side of.
Speaker 10: The stack back.
Speaker 2: Okay, correct, You got to pick the football score as
Speaker 2: better than anybody else. So if you're a football officials.
Speaker 7: All the way, babe can.
Speaker 2: Say, all right, thanks Janet, gotta go bye bye, thanks
Speaker 2: very much. If you're on the line you want to
Speaker 2: stay there, you can. If you're not dial away, We're
Speaker 2: going to do a Super Bowl prediction. I'll explain the
Speaker 2: ground rules and pretty simple, pretty straightforward, and we'll get
Speaker 2: it going right after the eleven o'clock news. The twentieth
Speaker 2: Hour will take you all the way to Saturday.