Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Thang you, Nicole. Hope everyone is nice and toasty warm
Speaker 2: as we get ready for a couple of little snow
Speaker 2: events this last week of January. Good evening everyone. My
Speaker 2: name is Dan Ray, the host of Nightside. Always an
Speaker 2: honor and pleasure to work with Nicole Davis, who's one
Speaker 2: of the true broadcast professionals, not only in New England
Speaker 2: but in America. As far as I am concerned, I
Speaker 2: cannot heap enough praise on my friend Nicole Davis. Nor
Speaker 2: can I heap enough praise on my great friend Rob Brooks,
Speaker 2: who's the producer of this program. We've been we are now.
Speaker 2: I am in my eighteenth year, and I think Rob
Speaker 2: has been with me about thirteen or fourteen of those years.
Speaker 2: We have to go back, Rob and figure out exactly
Speaker 2: what year you began so we can give you proper credit.
Speaker 2: But welcome to all of you listeners. I say old,
Speaker 2: I don't mean I don't mean old in terms of age,
Speaker 2: but listeners have been with me for a long time,
Speaker 2: and perhaps if you're listening tonight for the first time
Speaker 2: anywhere across America, around the world, feel free to join
Speaker 2: and participate. We'll take phone calls beginning after nine o'clock
Speaker 2: with our guest. Tonight, we're going to talk about the
Speaker 2: legislature in Massachusetts maybe getting serious finally and banning cell
Speaker 2: phone usage by students in high schools or in all
Speaker 2: schools here in Massachusetts. We'll talk about the state senator
Speaker 2: about that, and then later on I'm going to talk
Speaker 2: about the standoff that occurred between the presidents of the
Speaker 2: United States and Columbia over the weekend, and it looks
Speaker 2: as if the President of Columbia came to came to
Speaker 2: his senses and caved on that. We'll talk about that
Speaker 2: at ten. But first off, did the earth move for
Speaker 2: you today? I was asked that question by a friend
Speaker 2: of mine today and I smiled, No. I was not
Speaker 2: impacted by the earthquake off the coast of York, but
Speaker 2: I know that area of New England very well. And
Speaker 2: with me now is a guest that I don't I
Speaker 2: guess I haven't talked to in about twenty or so years.
Speaker 2: Boston College professor John Ebel with the Western Observatory, who
Speaker 2: monitors all of these movements. Professor, welcome to Night's side.
Speaker 2: For the first time, and nice. Nice to renew our
Speaker 2: acquaintance of many years ago.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed it was an earthquake a long time ago,
Speaker 3: now that I had the pleasure of medium.
Speaker 2: I think it was early in the morning, if I recall.
Speaker 3: It was, Yes, Yes, we both got roused to the
Speaker 3: observatory about something like two in the morning, and we
Speaker 3: were both a little bit bleary.
Speaker 2: I would say, yeah, I was working the morning shift,
Speaker 2: but that was one of the more the earlier morning
Speaker 2: morning assignments that I was. I was literally I wasn't
Speaker 2: shaken out of bed by the earthquake, but I would
Speaker 2: have been shaken out of by an overnight a phone
Speaker 2: call from the overnight producer at the time, whoever that
Speaker 2: wonderful person was. So this today it generated a lot
Speaker 2: of publicity. I was watching the noon newscasts on Channel
Speaker 2: five and also Channel four, switching back and forth. You
Speaker 2: got a lot of time on television today. Where were
Speaker 2: you when the earth moved?
Speaker 3: I was actually at the observatory, sitting in my office
Speaker 3: working on my computer. I don't think it felt it,
Speaker 3: but I felt it. But I remember at one point
Speaker 3: just wondering, I wonder if there was just an earthquake.
Speaker 3: And then I didn't think anything of it because I
Speaker 3: didn't feel anything. It was more like just a little
Speaker 3: sound or something that I may have picked up if
Speaker 3: I was concentrating on my works. I didn't pay attention.
Speaker 3: And then about I don't know, a few minutes later,
Speaker 3: I got a text from a friend at Framingham State
Speaker 3: and she said, was there just an earthquake? And then
Speaker 3: I checked the records and boy, there was an earthquake.
Speaker 3: And then the emails and telephone calls started coming.
Speaker 2: In, so I know what it registered initially at full
Speaker 2: point one. Then it got downgraded a little bit. That's
Speaker 2: that's a pretty good size quake. But that's since it
Speaker 2: was offshore, probably it's not going to do too much damage.
Speaker 2: I watched the newscast tonight on Channel five and Channel four,
Speaker 2: and yeah, obviously people closer to York Maine felt it
Speaker 2: and heard it. But how significant is this and what
Speaker 2: does it tell us? It doesn't tell us that California
Speaker 2: is going to slide into the ocean, obviously.
Speaker 3: Well, what I like to tell people is it's a
Speaker 3: reminder that we also live in earthquake country, just as
Speaker 3: they do in California. The big difference between the earthquakes
Speaker 3: here in New England and the earthquakes in California is
Speaker 3: what they get in one year in terms of earthquake
Speaker 3: activity in California, we have to wait one hundred years
Speaker 3: to get the same number of earthquakes here in New England.
Speaker 3: So the earthquake activity plays itself out at a much
Speaker 3: slower rate than it doesn't in California, and that that
Speaker 3: helps us because we just don't have as many damaging
Speaker 3: earthquakes in any you know, year, or or century or
Speaker 3: or or any time period compared to California.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me ask you the thousand dollars question
Speaker 2: at least, and that is why are we so lucky
Speaker 2: we have an ocean in a coastline and California is
Speaker 2: so unlucky in terms of earthquakes. I'm sure it's a
Speaker 2: complicated answer, but uh, is California like earthquakes central for
Speaker 2: the entire world or are there other areas of the
Speaker 2: world that are well, we hear these earthquakes in the
Speaker 2: Middle East that are calamitous because its entire cities that
Speaker 2: that that get knocked over. Is it just different parts
Speaker 2: of the world. It just so happens to be where
Speaker 2: you live. Is that? What's the what's the explanation?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, in a very rough way, that's it.
Speaker 3: Most of the world's earthquakes, nine twenty percent of them
Speaker 3: occur at the boundaries between two tectonic plates. California is
Speaker 3: at the boundary between the North American Plate and the
Speaker 3: Pacific Ocean Plate. In fact, Los Angeles technically is on
Speaker 3: the Pacific Ocean Plate because it's west of the San
Speaker 3: Andreas Fault. So when I lived in California and I
Speaker 3: would drive into the Los Angeles area, I knew where
Speaker 3: the San Andrea's fault was, and I would think to
Speaker 3: myself as I crossed the fault, Welcome to the Welcome
Speaker 3: to the Pacific Plate. Here in Boston. Here in Boston,
Speaker 3: we're on the edge of the continent, or we're actually
Speaker 3: in the middle of the North American tectonic plate, because
Speaker 3: the eastern boundary of the North American Plate is actually
Speaker 3: in the center of the Atlantic Ocean. We are spreading
Speaker 3: away from Europe and Africa, and at a rate of
Speaker 3: about an inch or two per year, and the spreading
Speaker 3: is occurring right in the center of the Atlantic, at
Speaker 3: what we called the mid Atlantic Ridge. So every year,
Speaker 3: for instance, we get a couple of inches farther from Ireland,
Speaker 3: for example. So I tell my friends who have you know,
Speaker 3: Irish connections and want to go back to Ireland, better
Speaker 3: go now because next year is going to be farthest.
Speaker 3: So the tickets are going to cost more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I've since that. The last time I flew there,
Speaker 2: it seemed like a longer flight. Only kidding, only kidding. Uh, Okay,
Speaker 2: So is the central part of the America. They get
Speaker 2: tornadoes and they get some pretty nasty weather, but I
Speaker 2: guess they're a little immune to earthquakes in in the
Speaker 2: central in Central Falls.
Speaker 3: Oh. Just the opposite, uh. In the in the central
Speaker 3: United States, between southern Missouri and Arkansas on one side
Speaker 3: and Tennessee and Kentucky on the other side, is what's
Speaker 3: called the New Madrid Seismic Zone, which had we think
Speaker 3: we're the largest earthquakes away from plate boundaries known historically
Speaker 3: about magnitude seven and a half for the largest largest earthquakes,
Speaker 3: and those earthquakes were felt all the way to the
Speaker 3: East coast.
Speaker 2: WHOA, okay, well then we're kind of okay. And basically,
Speaker 2: as I understood it today, that was one of the
Speaker 2: plates was kind of sliding underneath one of the others.
Speaker 2: Is that some earth that's what was going on out
Speaker 2: there under the water. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Basically what's happening is we're moving away from Europe and Africa,
Speaker 3: so we're being pushed toward the west at the eastern
Speaker 3: plate boundary you go out to California. In California is
Speaker 3: pushing against the Pacific Ocean plate. So what that's doing
Speaker 3: is that's catching the entire middle of the North American Plate,
Speaker 3: including where we live, in a squeezing motion. Just as
Speaker 3: if you were to put a clay brick into a
Speaker 3: vice and slowly turn the crank on device to increase
Speaker 3: the pressure. You can't do that forever until the brick breaks,
Speaker 3: and it's doing that to relieve the pressure. The place
Speaker 3: where it breaks, the crack is what we would call
Speaker 3: a fault, and we have those all the time here
Speaker 3: in the middle of the North American Plate. And that's
Speaker 3: what happened this morning.
Speaker 2: Professor is always great to talk to you. We haven't
Speaker 2: covered this in the level or depth that i'd like to,
Speaker 2: and I'd like to give our listeners some night a
Speaker 2: chance to join us and ask questions of someone I
Speaker 2: EU who knows this stuff cold. Could I guess you
Speaker 2: to come back some night and one of the later
Speaker 2: hours at nine or ten and take phone calls from listeners.
Speaker 2: These these these interviews in this hour are just in
Speaker 2: many cases much too brief. If I could, if I
Speaker 2: could prevail upon you to return at some point, if
Speaker 2: not this week, next week, when this is fashioned people's mind,
Speaker 2: I'd appreciate it, and I know my listeners would as well.
Speaker 3: I would be happy to be And to me, it's
Speaker 3: actually an important part of my work educating people about earthquakes,
Speaker 3: because when the next earthquake occurs that's strong enough that
Speaker 3: it might be damaging, it's important for me to tell
Speaker 3: people what's going to happen, what to expect, how to
Speaker 3: keep themselves safe from the earthquakes.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much. I will look forward to
Speaker 2: chatting with you at some point in the next a
Speaker 2: week to ten days something like that. My producer will
Speaker 2: get in touch with you, okay. Professor John Ebel, Boston College,
Speaker 2: a senior research scientist at the Western Observatory focusing on earthquakes.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, professor, great to talk again. We can't
Speaker 2: let twenty years go by before we talk. We'll talk
Speaker 2: within a matter of hopefully just a few days. Thanks
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 3: Okay, sounds good, Thank you much.
Speaker 2: When we get back, we're going to talk about a
Speaker 2: simple concept, but it's not that simple, right sizing your life.
Speaker 2: We will talk with Marnie Jamison about that very topic,
Speaker 2: and I suspect many of you can anticipate what we
Speaker 2: will be discussing back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Would like to welcome Marnie Jamison. She's an author and
Speaker 2: home and lifestyle columnist. Marnie Jamison, Welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: So we are going to talk about the headline that
Speaker 2: I have in front of me says, right side today
Speaker 2: to create your best life tomorrow. I kind of suspect
Speaker 2: I know what you're talking about, but I'd like to
Speaker 2: hear it from you directly. What exactly do we right
Speaker 2: size today which creates our best life tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Well, I wrote this book after writing a couple books
Speaker 4: on downsizing which just filt sort of depressing, and I thought, ye, yes, right,
Speaker 4: it is not downsizing, it's right sizing, and I think
Speaker 4: the catch is this, the ideal home in the ideal place,
Speaker 4: with the ideal stuff is what we all should seek
Speaker 4: to strive for, and it changes with our stage in life,
Speaker 4: but we don't keep up. So I really want people
Speaker 4: have evolved and think about you know, you're not if
Speaker 4: you're still living in the house that you bought because
Speaker 4: it was close to the kids' school and close to
Speaker 4: a job that you no longer have, and the kids
Speaker 4: are off on their own lives, they're off to college.
Speaker 4: You know, maybe you need to rethink where you're living
Speaker 4: and why and should you live somewhere else? And then
Speaker 4: the hitch van is is your stuff holding you back?
Speaker 4: Because so many people go, oh, you know, it's just
Speaker 4: too much trouble. I've got too much stuff. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm never okay.
Speaker 2: Move Okay, I'm a too much stuff guy, all right?
Speaker 2: Long time okay journalist, TV reporter here in Boston thirty
Speaker 2: one years, eighteen years as a talk show host. I
Speaker 2: had paper records from the nineteen seventies, eighties, nineties. I
Speaker 2: have stuff, Okay. I'm not a packweb Okay, I know
Speaker 2: where it is. It's in file cabinets. My wife keeps
Speaker 2: screaming to me, get rid of the file cabinets. Yeah, stuff,
Speaker 2: I have some stuff over my life that you know,
Speaker 2: I have kept, often for sentimental reasons. How do you
Speaker 2: do that? How do you say okay to whatever? You know?
Speaker 2: You're you know stuff? It's tough, I think, ye. How
Speaker 2: do you condition me convince me?
Speaker 4: All right? Well there are I have a lot of
Speaker 4: things to tell you, but let's start with this. I
Speaker 4: think that onces to talk about why this matters, and
Speaker 4: it does so for so many people. For some people
Speaker 4: it's not their papers, but it may be their photographs
Speaker 4: or or even clothing or you know, dishes from their grandmother.
Speaker 4: But here's the thing. If we all this stuff makes
Speaker 4: us feel like we matter in our lives matter, and
Speaker 4: our history matters, and we've done things and we've been places.
Speaker 4: But guess what you've done? All that's true even if
Speaker 4: you don't have this stuff. You've been places, you've done things,
Speaker 4: you had loving relationships, you have good memories, and you
Speaker 4: don't need to keep the file tabinet to prove it.
Speaker 4: So that's the first thing is is make you know
Speaker 4: your secret is a scanner. You need to make you know.
Speaker 4: Sport through your papers, figure out what's really necessary to
Speaker 4: keep and scan it into a into a computer and
Speaker 4: to described it will really minimize the amount of papers
Speaker 4: that you're you're holding onto.
Speaker 2: Okay, my question is this, I know a little bit
Speaker 2: about scanners you're talking about that's like hours and hours days.
Speaker 4: And hire an intern. Yeah, you get an intern higher someone. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and they're going to be better at it than you
Speaker 4: for sure. What do you do will help you edit?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What about your Hell well, I got to edit
Speaker 2: my stuff. The intern con editor stuff. The intern doesn't know.
Speaker 4: You've got to edit.
Speaker 2: I got to do the editing front. Okay. So then
Speaker 2: the question is what do you do with the videotapes?
Speaker 2: The videotapes of your kids the first Christmas? I mean,
Speaker 2: I have I'm looking across the room here at dozens
Speaker 2: of videotapes. I have no idea what's on them. I
Speaker 2: hope that they still will work. They're like, you know,
Speaker 2: half inch, three quarter range or whatever. Old. So what
Speaker 2: do you do?
Speaker 4: Scan my photos dot com? I'm telling you, scan my
Speaker 4: photos dot com. My friend Mitch Goldstone has done the
Speaker 4: scan videos. Will he will migrat it into the digital age.
Speaker 4: He will take care of all of it. He's done
Speaker 4: billions of people's photos, videos and never lost anything. He's
Speaker 4: a great guy. Scan my photos dot com.
Speaker 2: What's his name?
Speaker 4: His name is what Mitch Goldstone. He's the owner of
Speaker 4: scan my photos dot com. Tell him, Marnie Amuson sent you.
Speaker 4: We're long time, but he is. He has taken care
Speaker 4: of all my photos. He has scanned them all. They
Speaker 4: are now on one one DVD and we can migrate
Speaker 4: them forward and they're in the cloud. So it's a
Speaker 4: big fire happened. He's based in Coast and Mason, but
Speaker 4: I'm in Florida and I send my stuff to him.
Speaker 2: What do you do? Load your stuff up on a
Speaker 2: truck and.
Speaker 4: Well you'll actually, you know, I don't know how he
Speaker 4: handles videos per se, but you us. You just put
Speaker 4: them in a box and sent it to them and
Speaker 4: you put posts on which ones. He will scan the
Speaker 4: post it too and tell you this is nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 4: You interview with you know, somebody's famous and migrated.
Speaker 2: I have interviews with just about every president never never
Speaker 2: mind governors and senators and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you need digital migration. There's also something Dan
Speaker 4: called it. There are organizers, right, and there's somebody who's
Speaker 4: there's a special called digital organizing. And if you look
Speaker 4: up organizers, professional organizers, and digital organizers, that sounds like
Speaker 4: what could be very helpful to you. They can make
Speaker 4: short work out of all of your stuff. But let's
Speaker 4: get back to why you have so much stuff and
Speaker 4: you really really want to break it down to These
Speaker 4: are my three favorite words in this realm. Need, use, love,
Speaker 4: Do I need it? Do I use it? Do I
Speaker 4: love it? If you can't answer yes to at least
Speaker 4: one of those questions, you really need to think about
Speaker 4: letting go.
Speaker 2: Yep, no, I hear you, Martie, give us the book
Speaker 2: because I got to go buy the book. It's called
Speaker 2: the name of give us the name. The name of
Speaker 2: the book is White Size Today.
Speaker 4: That's my latest book. I have seven books, but the
Speaker 4: latest one that came out last year, Right Size Today,
Speaker 4: for your Best Life Tomorrow. And it takes you from
Speaker 4: where do you live now?
Speaker 3: And why?
Speaker 4: And where should you live? And how can you get there?
Speaker 4: So it talks about where you should live and there's
Speaker 4: questions and exercises and then my favorite part of the
Speaker 4: book is the last third of the book, which what
Speaker 4: do you live with, because once you get that perfect
Speaker 4: size house in the perfect location, you don't want to
Speaker 4: fill it with a bunch of your clutter. So it
Speaker 4: talks about how to pick the perfect items for every
Speaker 4: room in the house so you buy quality and not quantity.
Speaker 2: Well sounds great, Marnie Jamison. So it's m A. R.
Speaker 2: N I Jamison, like the whiskey or the scotch. I'm
Speaker 2: not a Jacus.
Speaker 4: Yeah I wish. I wish that were my grandfather, but
Speaker 4: it's not. But we do still our names. Name's j A. M. E.
Speaker 2: S O. When right Size today to create your best
Speaker 2: life tomorrow. It's available at Amazon and.
Speaker 4: Everywhere, yes, everywhere, everywhere that sells books.
Speaker 2: Well, that is great. I thank you, and I didn't
Speaker 2: mean to personalize it, but I'm in that age category
Speaker 2: where you have to think to yourself, hey, yeah, can't
Speaker 2: take it with you, but you certainly don't want to
Speaker 2: lose it for so you've helped me, Marny, and I
Speaker 2: think you've helped a lot of my listeners as well.
Speaker 2: Thank you very very much.
Speaker 4: You're welcome. You don't want to leave a mess to
Speaker 4: your kids, and no one's going to take care of
Speaker 4: it as well as you will. So if you can
Speaker 4: organize and categorize and make some sense out of it,
Speaker 4: you'll be doing everyone a big favor.
Speaker 2: Sounds great, Thanks Marni, we'll talk again.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Dan, Take care all right.
Speaker 2: We have a little bit of a snow event coming
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning during the morning commute. Of course, we had
Speaker 2: that bus accident that took down some poles and wires
Speaker 2: today in East Boston en Route one A, which costs
Speaker 2: quite a traffic jam. Well problem tomorrow morning. We will
Speaker 2: be talking with an acuweather meteorologist to figure out exactly
Speaker 2: exactly how tomorrow will go, and also another event probably
Speaker 2: about twenty four hours later. So stay tuned all of you,
Speaker 2: particularly who will be on the road tomorrow morning for
Speaker 2: the morning commute. My name is Dan Ray, coming back
Speaker 2: on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Well weather fans, we have a little bit of a
Speaker 2: snow event tomorrow morning, I believe, but who am I
Speaker 2: to predict that? We have with us Matt benz Aki,
Speaker 2: weather meteorologist. Matt, it's been kind of a quiet winter
Speaker 2: so far, but we're gonna have a little activity tomorrow
Speaker 2: timed perfectly for the morning commute. It sounds like, how
Speaker 2: are you tonight? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I'm doing all right? How are you doing?
Speaker 2: Probably doing better than most of the drivers are gonna
Speaker 2: be doing about a third tomorrow morning. Us what's going on?
Speaker 2: And we got two we got two potential events I
Speaker 2: guess in the next thirty six or forty eight hours.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, that's right. What we have are several clippers.
Speaker 5: These are fast moving storms that sweep across basically from
Speaker 5: the Great Lag to New England, and they're kind of
Speaker 5: quick hitting systems. They're in and out of here really quickly.
Speaker 5: But with these specific clippers, they have what's called an
Speaker 5: Arctic coal front. You remember that cold that we saw
Speaker 5: week and a half ago, that really cold stuff, Well
Speaker 5: that's just to our north and we're not really going
Speaker 5: to get into that core of the cold, but we're
Speaker 5: kind of straddling the edge of it. And with each
Speaker 5: of these cold fronts that come through, they could touch
Speaker 5: off snow smalls. These are heavier bursts of snow that
Speaker 5: can happen suddenly and unfortunately just timed out perfectly tomorrow
Speaker 5: and again for Wednesday for our commutes. Now, if there's
Speaker 5: any good news tomorrow, it may come a little bit
Speaker 5: after the morning commute, so hopefully we can get that
Speaker 5: over and done with and not have any issues out there.
Speaker 5: But what does look like? We could see a couple
Speaker 5: of snowshowers working their way through the Boston area mid
Speaker 5: morning through the midday tomorrow. And you may say it's
Speaker 5: just a snowshower, but the snow that these things produce heavy,
Speaker 5: quick hitters, not necessarily a lot of snow, but just
Speaker 5: well the visibility that you see that drops so quickly
Speaker 5: with these it's what makes them so dangerous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is sort of like if you
Speaker 2: put it in a in a sports reference, sort of
Speaker 2: like the the Mike Tyson of snowstorms. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: you gotta feel it.
Speaker 5: Quickly exactly. And for any Star Wars fans out there,
Speaker 5: you're making the jump to light speed and that's the
Speaker 5: snow flying past. You have, just the snow streaks that'll
Speaker 5: be out there.
Speaker 2: It comes to what happens Wednesday morning, A little more
Speaker 2: serious potential on Wednesday. Yeah, it looks like a little
Speaker 2: bit steadier snow. So tomorrow it's more of these snow squalls,
Speaker 2: something that's gonna last for five minutes and it's out
Speaker 2: of here, but we are watching a more robust clipper
Speaker 2: that moves in here tomorrow night and into Wednesday. Now,
Speaker 2: this will have event initially spread over just some gradual
Speaker 2: white snow here across much of the Greater Boston area,
Speaker 2: much of the region, and that could put down an
Speaker 2: inch or two, maybe three inches of snow my Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2: And that's of course a little bit more of a
Speaker 2: concern for the morning commute on Wednesday, where we could
Speaker 2: see slippery and snow covered roads to start the day. Now,
Speaker 2: when you talked about this Arctic blast, I mean, your
Speaker 2: weather guys have a million words for it. They used
Speaker 2: to call it the Montreal Express thirty years ago or whatever.
Speaker 2: There was another word it was that that you guys
Speaker 2: used to talk about. There was like this vortex that
Speaker 2: came down from Canada. Yeah, remember what we tex What's
Speaker 2: what's the polar vortext?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then I think there was even another name
Speaker 2: to the polar vortex.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm not up with my hip names these days.
Speaker 2: Well, it was even a stranger name, and it was like,
Speaker 2: whoa what are we talking about here? It was scary
Speaker 2: when you talked about this this storm as I understand
Speaker 2: it looking at the weather forecast tonight actually emanates from
Speaker 2: southern California. This is part of this is the and
Speaker 2: again you know the weather guy, I'm not, but is
Speaker 2: this not part of the storm that hit southern California
Speaker 2: with wings?
Speaker 5: Eventually we will get to that storm. That one is
Speaker 5: still in southern California right now. What we are seeing
Speaker 5: is coming out of the Northern Rocky Mountains and out
Speaker 5: of the Canadian Rockies. That's so where these couple of
Speaker 5: pieces of energy will be coming from. Eventually, though, we
Speaker 5: will be looking at a storm here later this week,
Speaker 5: and that's the one that we'll keep a close eye on.
Speaker 5: Whether it's going to be snow or rain or something
Speaker 5: in between here for the Boston area. But that could
Speaker 5: be a mess here later this week. And that's the
Speaker 5: one that is now moving through southern California now and
Speaker 5: into the desert southwest. Yeah, it's kind of a different entity,
Speaker 5: but that will impact us later in the week.
Speaker 2: That's the one that the weather folks were kind of
Speaker 2: alluding to as maybe Friday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Friday Friday into Friday night is a time period
Speaker 5: for that, and we're kind of watching is this going
Speaker 5: to be a big snow event or is it going
Speaker 5: to be a big rain event for us? If any
Speaker 5: snow lovers out there, obviously you're rooting for the snow,
Speaker 5: But at this point it looks like temperters rebound fairly
Speaker 5: quickly by Friday. We're back into the mid forties by
Speaker 5: Friday afternoon, so it seems likely that we probably see
Speaker 5: some sort of a mix or just rain here in
Speaker 5: the Boston area for Friday afternoon. But as we head
Speaker 5: into Friday night, can it get cold nothing, we'll switch
Speaker 5: over to snow. That's a big question right now, and
Speaker 5: that's what we'll have to tease out of the forecast
Speaker 5: over the next day or so.
Speaker 2: Matthew the best. Hey, I appreciate you taking the time tonight.
Speaker 2: This has been just the last question. This has been
Speaker 2: kind of a quiet winter for us in terms of
Speaker 2: snow correct.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, Yeah. For the season, twelve and a half inches
Speaker 5: so far in Boston averages twenty two, so we're already
Speaker 5: below average, and just for this month six eight inches
Speaker 5: officially at logan. Typically we'd have over a foot of
Speaker 5: snow at this point. So yeah, it's no kidding. It
Speaker 5: has been a dry winter with regards to snow so far.
Speaker 5: Part of the reason for that, it's just been the cold.
Speaker 5: It suppresses storm track. You remember those couple of storms
Speaker 5: that went through Atlanta and New Orleans. That's where the
Speaker 5: storm track has been here for the last month, and
Speaker 5: that's why we haven't seen much for snow.
Speaker 2: So twelve inches normally twenty two where you're saying, normally
Speaker 2: we would have twenty two at this point at the
Speaker 2: end of January, or twenty two for the whole winter.
Speaker 5: No twenty two for the end as from November through
Speaker 5: the end of January, we'd have twenty two inches of
Speaker 5: snow and we're only at twelve and a half right now,
Speaker 5: so just under half the amount of where we should
Speaker 5: be right now, and most of that snowfell this month,
Speaker 5: but it certainly doesn't seem like it at least as
Speaker 5: of late for.
Speaker 2: The snow lovers. I just want to remind people of
Speaker 2: the big storms of January and February of twenty fifteen,
Speaker 2: nine years ago, when we had no snow up until
Speaker 2: like the middle of January and then it didn't stop snowing.
Speaker 2: We were around at that point back in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: the winter twenty fourteen twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if we're necessarily at that point just yet.
Speaker 2: We're Oh no, no, no, I'm not suggesting. Oh god, no,
Speaker 2: I hope not. We had we had like one hundred
Speaker 2: inches of snow from the middle of January to the
Speaker 2: first of March.
Speaker 5: It just kept showing. Yes, I do remember that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it was a we just turned on the light switch
Speaker 5: and here came the snow. And it was every weekend.
Speaker 5: And I've said this before.
Speaker 2: I remember being out on a flat roof that I
Speaker 2: climbed out of like a knucklehead, out of a window,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden I was up to my
Speaker 2: armpits in snow and it was like, well, this isn't
Speaker 2: a good idea. I had a shovel in my hand,
Speaker 2: but there was nowhere to move. I had all I
Speaker 2: could do to climb back in the window. I thought
Speaker 2: they'd find me sometime in June. Yeah, so, yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't want to jinx it, but remember that's always a
Speaker 2: possibility here in New England. That fends.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks so much, yeah, thanks, yeah, thank you for
Speaker 5: having me.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure we'll probably get back to you maybe
Speaker 2: one more time. At least this work maybe even later
Speaker 2: this week. We'll see. Thanks, Buddy, I appreciate very much,
Speaker 2: Thank you much. Yeah, Bet, Matt is a great weather forecast.
Speaker 2: Res also a guy who you can actually talk to.
Speaker 2: He's He's excellent. I'm going to talk to an old friend,
Speaker 2: Debbie Colton. Coming up tomorrow or today rather is Holocaust
Speaker 2: Rememberance Day. It was eighty years ago today that Ouschwitz
Speaker 2: was liberated by Allied troops, and it's a day we
Speaker 2: must never forget. Going to be talking with Debbie Colton
Speaker 2: coming right up right after this on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Way Live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Today is the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of the
Speaker 2: Ouschwitz concentration Camp. Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is
Speaker 2: eighty years, eighty years ago today that this nightmare ended,
Speaker 2: but anti Semitism continues even in our community, and that's
Speaker 2: one of the reasons we must never forget. With me
Speaker 2: is a longtime friend, Debbie Colton, and we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about the significance of Holocaust Remembrance Dad. It should
Speaker 2: be obvious, Debbie, but I'm afraid that the Holocaust is
Speaker 2: not being taught in schools as it once was. And
Speaker 2: I'm afraid that as time goes on and the survivors
Speaker 2: pass on, our collective memory of this horrific time and
Speaker 2: history is being forgotten. How are you tonight, Debbie? Happy?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 6: I am well, and thank you. I am and thank
Speaker 6: you for having me on. I hope you're well too.
Speaker 2: Yep, doing great, And I just think it's important. You know, again,
Speaker 2: we all remember Pearl Harbor, the day that we got
Speaker 2: dragged into World War One. We remember all our holidays,
Speaker 2: but that's why it's important for us to just reflect
Speaker 2: on this today. I've been to Auschwitz. I believe you
Speaker 2: have as well. I have. Every American you should walk
Speaker 2: those that path, and it's been preserved, and it's preserved
Speaker 2: so we never forget. Are we losing? Are we losing
Speaker 2: our collective memory about this?
Speaker 6: We are, Dan, and the surveys are bearing this out
Speaker 6: really sadly. Auschwitz has become the symbol of what humanity
Speaker 6: is capable of, right people. Everyday people built it, they
Speaker 6: committed the crimes there, and these weren't aliens from out
Speaker 6: of space who came and did it. So that's what
Speaker 6: Auschwitz represents, and the Holocaust is that stock reminder of
Speaker 6: what can happen when anti Semitism and any kind of
Speaker 6: hatred goes unchecked. So that's why it's extremely important to
Speaker 6: remember daylight today International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's a time
Speaker 6: to remember the victims of the Holocaust, and it's a
Speaker 6: time to recommit ourselves to action to ensure never happens again.
Speaker 6: You know, you talked about do you want to ask
Speaker 6: me a question?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I'm just I'm wincing, because, yeah,
Speaker 2: we it can never happen again. But you just see
Speaker 2: that you hear some of the echoes of these same
Speaker 2: similar voices and attitudes.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, I interrupted, you dedicates, Yeah, no, no, And
Speaker 1: you're right.
Speaker 6: You know, it's anti Semitism is going in the wrong
Speaker 6: direction across the globe, around our country and even here
Speaker 6: in Massachusetts, and even bring it down further into local communities.
Speaker 6: Antisemitism it's at all time high in the United States,
Speaker 6: according to the ADL. Deeply troubling is the ADL's recent
Speaker 6: finding that nearly fifty percent of adults across the globe
Speaker 6: harbored deeply entrenched anti Semitic attitudes. Fifty percent of billions
Speaker 6: of people you know, there were.
Speaker 2: Severity if it was fifteen percent, never mind fifty or
Speaker 2: if it was five percent, never mind.
Speaker 6: Right fifty percent, And we are seeing this manifestation locally.
Speaker 6: Anti Semitism in Massachusetts has increased two hundred five percent,
Speaker 6: and sadly, I think in our state we have gone
Speaker 6: from six dranking sixth in the country to fifth in
Speaker 6: the country. And it's so alarming that anti Semitism and
Speaker 6: K twelve schools is up one hundred thirty five percent
Speaker 6: K twelve schools.
Speaker 2: I was told something the other day which shocked me
Speaker 2: and which I was unaware of, And I'd love to
Speaker 2: know if you had heard this, that in the wake
Speaker 2: of the liberation of the camp, at the camp lived,
Speaker 2: you know, German officers and German soldiers, and some of
Speaker 2: them were there at the camp with their families, with
Speaker 2: their yeah, their wives and their children. And I'm told
Speaker 2: that those German officers in many cases basically gave cyanide
Speaker 2: pills to their families so they would they would commit
Speaker 2: suicide before the Allied troops arrived, and and of course
Speaker 2: took their own lives as well. Is that true or
Speaker 2: is that an urban myth?
Speaker 6: I don't know. Dan, I'm sorry, I don't know that
Speaker 6: if it's.
Speaker 2: True or as someone who whoo who understands it, and
Speaker 2: I believe that well, it's the first time I saw
Speaker 2: I heard that story and it's uh and and I
Speaker 2: have every reason to believe that it was true that
Speaker 2: they were that there were German officers who were living
Speaker 2: at that camp with their families who once who was
Speaker 2: a parent, that all was lost from their perspective, their
Speaker 2: families as as a group committed suicide through the use
Speaker 2: of cyanaid pills. What is thatt.
Speaker 6: It's true and just you know, when we think about
Speaker 6: what we want our children to learn, and so much
Speaker 6: of the work that we do at Lapin Foundation around
Speaker 6: Holocaust and anti Semitism education is to feel the other's pain.
Speaker 6: It's just not numbers and dates and facts, right, these
Speaker 6: were lives that were lost in horrible ways and that
Speaker 6: people did this to each other. And if we lose
Speaker 6: that feeling of empathy, that feeling of humanity, of being
Speaker 6: responsible one for the other, it's not good. It's not
Speaker 6: good for humanity the direction this is going in.
Speaker 2: Are there some groups, Debbie, that you could recommend to
Speaker 2: my listeners that they might want to be aware of again,
Speaker 2: to do something on it today to Obviously we know
Speaker 2: we're familiar with the Anti Defamation League, but what are
Speaker 2: some of the other groups that you've.
Speaker 6: Been in Sure, sure there are wonderful groups, you know
Speaker 6: promoting Holocaust education, as you said, the ADL lap And Foundation.
Speaker 6: Of course, families can go on look at films here, survivors,
Speaker 6: The show Off Foundation says eight. The United States Holocaust
Speaker 6: Memorial Museum another excellent source facing history. Stand with us.
Speaker 6: There's not a lack of resources to learn. When you
Speaker 6: think about six million lives lost right over a course
Speaker 6: of twelve years. That's a big piece of history and
Speaker 6: so much to learn. So if we can each commit
Speaker 6: ourselves to learning a little bit, to remembering, to pausing
Speaker 6: on the day, and then to acting to use it,
Speaker 6: to act to make tomorrow better than today, was that
Speaker 6: that can help us move in the direction we should
Speaker 6: go in.
Speaker 2: Debby Cultis, thanks very much for joining us tonight. Obviously,
Speaker 2: it's a serious subject of very serious subjects, very serious
Speaker 2: subject and again the phrase never forget, never again all
Speaker 2: of us, it must be in place and in our minds,
Speaker 2: whether we happen to be Jewish or simply a human being.
Speaker 2: I think every human being should feel that way. Debbie
Speaker 2: is always.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, Thank you so much. Take care.
Speaker 2: When we get back, we're going to talk about a
Speaker 2: more current day problem, and that is cell phones and
Speaker 2: cell phones interfering with kids here in Massachusetts and elsewhere
Speaker 2: with their education. And we will talk about a legislative
Speaker 2: effort here in Massachusetts actually ban the use of cell
Speaker 2: phones while students are in schools here in Massachusetts, not
Speaker 2: only in high school, but junior high school and also
Speaker 2: elementary school. We'll be back on Nightside right after the
Speaker 2: news at nine o'clock