Speaker 1: Billy cunning Him the great American, the weather terrif the
Speaker 1: correct all health breaking.
Speaker 2: Loose from your trista.
Speaker 1: In fact, it is on the reestimated what is happening.
Speaker 1: But we're going to have live coverage all day as
Speaker 1: much as we can about the roads, about the bridges,
Speaker 1: about the thoroughfares, about the hospitals and more. Until then,
Speaker 1: I want to check in with the seven or eight
Speaker 1: counties that surround Hamilton County. The most important, of course
Speaker 1: is Butler County and your good friend Richard K. Jones
Speaker 1: and Sheriff once again, welcome on the snowy Monday afternoon
Speaker 1: in the Tri State to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Sheriff,
Speaker 1: what's the status of Butler County? Other emergencies declared? Is
Speaker 1: at one, two or three? The highways, the bridges, how
Speaker 1: we looking? Give me a full report, Sheriff.
Speaker 2: Here's what we got. I started yesterday coming in checking
Speaker 2: the roads out around four pm yesterday as the snow
Speaker 2: was just sprinkling a little bit. The roads were passable.
Speaker 2: A few accidents. At six pm Butler County, we added dispatchers,
Speaker 2: we added our emergency response teams, placed them out throughout
Speaker 2: the County had them on alert. It can help people
Speaker 2: you don't know what happens. We also opened our EOC
Speaker 2: and and we had it operational. We had everybody out.
Speaker 2: We declared a Level one snow emergency in the beginning.
Speaker 2: Level one is just where you can just don't go
Speaker 2: out unless you have to. A Level two is absolutely
Speaker 2: don't go out unless you have two. A Level three
Speaker 2: is it's against the law to go out unless you're
Speaker 2: a emergency worker. We didn't decare declare level two or
Speaker 2: a level three. We declared a level two. Right now,
Speaker 2: it looks like we've got eight to nine inches of snow,
Speaker 2: which is a lot, and people don't have their snow
Speaker 2: legs on. You get snow legs when you have snow.
Speaker 2: Last year, we never had snow. This year we got
Speaker 2: snow or snow. People think they can hit the brakes
Speaker 2: and then they slide and lose control. We've had a
Speaker 2: few accidents. I just got foam with dispatch. I visited
Speaker 2: the dispatch last night and our EOC and right now
Speaker 2: we're maintaining still don't go out unless you have to.
Speaker 2: We still have I think maybe three inches of snow
Speaker 2: depending who you listen to, coming on top of this,
Speaker 2: and I want to put some caution out to people.
Speaker 2: If you go out and shovel snow, a lot of
Speaker 2: people do that. They lose their they don't know how
Speaker 2: much they're shoveling, they get out of breath, their heart
Speaker 2: rate gets up, they die, or the life squads have
Speaker 2: to come out. Happens every year. We have it every
Speaker 2: time all over the United States. And if you have
Speaker 2: dogs or animals outside, take care of them. Remember, and
Speaker 2: small dogs their legs might only be two inches tumble
Speaker 2: and if they go outslide, you got to shovel a
Speaker 2: little spot for him. You got to take care of
Speaker 2: your animals. And when I shovel snow, I got a
Speaker 2: shovel snow for a little dog that I got. Legs
Speaker 2: are about two inches. It's a tough business. But right
Speaker 2: now everything's going well. It's still we're under a level two.
Speaker 2: Don't go out unless you have to, and just be
Speaker 2: careful with everything you do until when you go outside
Speaker 2: you slift fall. But in Butler County there will snow
Speaker 2: emergency level two. I don't see I'm going to lift
Speaker 2: that anytime soon.
Speaker 1: Bill, Well, what about the interstate seventy one seventy five
Speaker 1: is that I think it's passable. But seventy one cutting
Speaker 1: the hill and Stewart Road is a semi that's blocking
Speaker 1: all lanes of the travel. What's the condition of seventy
Speaker 1: one seventy five in Butler County?
Speaker 2: It's drive with caution. Sometimes they'll have the drifting snow,
Speaker 2: the blowing snow. You might have one lane open, stay
Speaker 2: in that lane, Go slow, don't go fast, don't get angry,
Speaker 2: don't try to get around somebody. And if you go out,
Speaker 2: put some clothes in there. You don't know what's going
Speaker 2: to happen. Make sure your phone is charged, warm clothes,
Speaker 2: and so you can get somebody to come get you.
Speaker 2: The best thing is to not go out unless you
Speaker 2: have to, because when you get in an accident and the
Speaker 2: emergency people have to come out, they risk their lives
Speaker 2: get out. So right now the roads are passable in
Speaker 2: Butler County, and Greg Wilkins, the engineer, doing a great
Speaker 2: job with his trucks getting up ahead of this. And
Speaker 2: in the cities they've done a great job. Hamilton, Middletown, Fairfield,
Speaker 2: west Chester, they're all doing a good job. These people
Speaker 2: have been up twenty four hours hitting the snow, and
Speaker 2: it's still coming in most of the time. Like on
Speaker 2: Raine fourth, there's one lane open just on either side.
Speaker 2: Just drive the one lane when you turn, be careful.
Speaker 2: But right now, well, I'm watching the snow. It's still
Speaker 2: flaking down and again it looks like we've had eight
Speaker 2: to nine inches someplace, maybe be more some or less,
Speaker 2: and we've still got more coming.
Speaker 1: My friend and sheriff. I'm looking at the forecast. The
Speaker 1: low overnight's going to be nine degrees. I would imagine
Speaker 1: everything on the roadway is going to freeze. It's going
Speaker 1: to be solid ice. And looking forward to Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 1: the low temperatures are single digits or below, and so
Speaker 1: the snow and the ice there now are are going
Speaker 1: to be there. I'm looking ahead ten days next Wednesday
Speaker 1: of next week, the low temperature is six and the
Speaker 1: high temperature is twenty six. So these conditions will be
Speaker 1: present for the next two weeks anyway. And so what
Speaker 1: if you're an employer, there are something most employees have
Speaker 1: shut down, most of them aren't opening up. Would you
Speaker 1: encourage businesses in Butler County not to open?
Speaker 2: That's up to them. But listen, your employees have to
Speaker 2: make make it to work. I have employees that work
Speaker 2: at the Sheriff's office, the civilian employees, and we had
Speaker 2: to pick some of them up to come in. We
Speaker 2: had a massive swearing in ceremony today where we I
Speaker 2: swore all of my employees in roughly five hundred employees
Speaker 2: and they come to work. It's a massive project. You're
Speaker 2: going to swear them each inn and in groups, and
Speaker 2: then the paperwork that has to be done anytime there's
Speaker 2: a new shaff or a new office holder. So what
Speaker 2: I would encourage people to do is a use caution
Speaker 2: and if you can shut down for a little while,
Speaker 2: it's not going to kill anything. But I'm not I
Speaker 2: don't run your business in a Level two. They can
Speaker 2: still come in, but I would recommend that they very
Speaker 2: very patiently and have caution having people come in. It's
Speaker 2: really not worth it to make an extra dollar. I
Speaker 2: understand the American way, but use caution.
Speaker 1: And Level three means if you're out on the road,
Speaker 1: so you'll be arrested. You don't see a level three
Speaker 1: being declared unless something different occurs.
Speaker 2: I don't see a level three at this time. We're
Speaker 2: still monitoring throughout the county, the traffic, the roads, the
Speaker 2: weather conditions. I've talked to other I talked to Preble
Speaker 2: County Sheriff last night and we were in communication. We
Speaker 2: talked to the road crews. We try to make it
Speaker 2: safe for everybody as safe as we can. And I
Speaker 2: want everybody to be assured that your sheriff's office is
Speaker 2: on this and we're out there. Well, hey, we're out
Speaker 2: there at night, we're out there during the day. We're
Speaker 2: out in the rain, tornadoes, hurricanes, and we're on the road.
Speaker 2: And my emergency response cans they're actually trained for this,
Speaker 2: and they're already out anyway. They have several jobs. They're
Speaker 2: patrolled deputies, they're correction officers, and they're already at work,
Speaker 2: and when something bad enough happens, we can activate them
Speaker 2: and send them out to do what they have to do.
Speaker 2: They've been deployed all over the country. And then when
Speaker 2: it comes to you habit something like this here, we're
Speaker 2: prepared for.
Speaker 1: That bill right because of your work in the South
Speaker 1: and elsewhere, well, you know, we're not used to this.
Speaker 1: I can recall back in the good old days that
Speaker 1: really weren't that good anyway, these winter temperatures were kind
Speaker 1: of normal. This is what happened all the time. And
Speaker 1: I think the last several years we've had one snowstorm
Speaker 1: of great significance. I can't recall the last time we
Speaker 1: had ice and freezing rain and ten inches of twelve
Speaker 1: inches of snow and impassable conditions. It's been a long time,
Speaker 1: and people don't know how to drive in this kind
Speaker 1: of weather if they've done it in a while. But
Speaker 1: we'll see what happened. Sheriff, great job. I'm glad you're there,
Speaker 1: and today was the day that you had to come
Speaker 1: to work. You will anyway, but today's the day you've
Speaker 1: got to swear all the new deputies under your leadership in.
Speaker 1: I know the High Supreme Court's got a big investiture tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and I anticipate I'm supposed to be the MC. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna check which Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy later on from
Speaker 1: Butler County, whether that thing's going on. But Sheriff, thanks
Speaker 1: for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Stay safe and
Speaker 1: thanks for checking in. I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'll be in touch with you. Just everybody just
Speaker 2: drive cautiously and be careful and again Sheriff's suss got
Speaker 2: your back.
Speaker 1: Man, Sheriff Richard K. Jones, you're the best. Thanks again
Speaker 1: for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Sheriff.
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