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your support. First off, though, I want to welcome back
to the program, Reverend David Chadwick. He is the senior
pastor at Moments of Hope Church. He is also the
host of the David Chadwick Show. You can hear that
on Sundays at eight am right here on WBT. Welcome David.
How are you, sir?
Speaker 2: Hi Pete? I'm doing well. Thank you. I hope you
are too, staying warm?
Speaker 1: I hope yes. Do you do anything special for these ones?
In a three year, four year cycled snow events?
Speaker 2: Build a fire, get with my wife. I talk a
lot and spend some time with her, which is really wonderful.
Speaker 1: That's good. That sounds like a plan. The only fire
I've got is like the outdoor fire pits. So I
think I might not be able to pull that one off.
Speaker 2: But not today, Pete, not today.
Speaker 1: No, all right, so we have we have good news.
We announced this yesterday, the total count here for the
big fundraising efforts. So I'll let you do the honors here.
So the uh, I guess we need I should ask?
Has it closed down now? Is it officially over? Or
our donations still being accepted as part of the campaign.
Speaker 2: Well, we've got money still coming in, Pete, and if
anybody would still want to, I guess they can still
do so, though we have officially said let's just stop it,
because honestly, it's been so successful. And you know, we
started December the first with one hundred thousand dollars matching
gift from Moments of Hope Church for the purpose of
raising two hundred thousand dollars to help people in western
North Carolina, especially though those who are losing their homes
and just don't have a place to live. And we
thought that was a big, hairy, audacious goal, and we
went about it, and we're excited to help anybody we could.
And as of now, though we have been astounded with
what has come in we have right now three hundred
and fifteen thousand dollars plus that has been given to
the campaign, and honestly, pete it again. It's still coming in.
It's going to be a bit higher than that as well.
So honestly, we had a two hundred thousand dollars goal.
We are now at three hundred and fifteen plus thousand dollars.
We're overwhelmed, we're excited. We think this will be something
that will really help a lot of people who've been
devastated by the hurricane in western North Carolina.
Speaker 1: So one of the issues I saw out west with
some of the government grant programs and stuff is a
lack of capacity in some of the organizations that the money,
the grant money's kind of flowing through. That there's just
so much money and so much need and these organizations
don't have the capacity to kind of process everything. Is
that of any concern to you with the organizations y'all
are working with in the West.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have tried teat to do this more relationally,
and what we've done is we've got a good number
of people who have relationships with people in western North Carolina.
And you know, even though this excuse me, is a
lot of money. It's not going to go real far
in regards to the needs. So we have identified the needs,
we have talked to the people, and we're going to
respond more individually and personally to the people's needs that
we know they're because we've built relationships with them. We
still may work through some organizations like you know, the
Baptist Association in Samaritans Purse and others like that that
are doing some really wonderful work, but we have felt
like we wanted to reach the people who are off
the grid, who aren't normally going to be touched by
those particular organizations, and we've been able to find a
large number of them who just are living day to
day and those are the ones that we're touching and helping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, as people are sitting around they're
fireplaces and watch watching the snowfall and stuff, there are
a lot of people out in the West that are
going to be out in those conditions because they don't
have permanent shelter. Some of them are in you know,
essentially sheds, shacks. There have been some new deliveries of shelter,
which is good to see, but I also just saw
that FEMA is now telling some of these hurricane victims
that their time is up on the transitional housing assistance
and so they're going around telling everybody they got to
be out by the end of the day, out of
like hotel rooms and stuff. It's just it's one of
the things that when you see the amount of help
that the private organizations, nonprofits, churches, how they have been
able to get the aid to the people directly, it's frustrating,
but like from like when you see the need and
you see the jam ups and stuff, but it's also
pretty it's pretty inspiring and to kind of reneuce my
faith in my fellow human beings, like it's through this
suffering that we are called to serve.
Speaker 2: Well, you're right, Pete, and it is just an extraordinary problem.
And what's so strange weird is that now with the
wildfires on the West Coast, it's almost like you move
to the next problem that's out there in the world,
and yet the problem in western North Carolina has not
gone away. And my guest this Sunday on my show
is Anne Graham Watts, and she's Billy Graham's daughter. Yeah,
and their home, you know, of course, is in Montree,
Black Mountain, et cetera. And we talked about this, and
she has a ninety eight year old friend who lives
in that area whose house was completely destroyed by the
hurricane in flooding. FEMA has come in and offered her
fifteen thousand dollars to buy the land, and that's not
even going to begin to touch what she needs in
order to have a place to live. So those kind
of people, and an you mentioned the ones that FEMA
is now kicking out of the hotels motels where they've
been staying, well where do they go? And the offering
that they're giving to the people for land acquisition is
absolutely ridiculous. And so that's where people like us have
just got to step in and relationally care for them
and do what we can do. The Amish have donated,
you know, a good number of tiny homes. There are
others who are like the Baptist Association believes that in
the homes that have any kind of remnant whatsoever, if
they can build a front porch and a back door
and restore the kitchen for fifteen thousand dollars, a lot
of families can move back into their homes. So that's
the kind of person, the person, the person we've got
to do and I think you're right, Pete, A lot
of us really do care. And we've got to be
the church, got to be the people of faith who
walk into these places and say, we don't need to
go through the red tape. We have the money. Now,
three hundred and fifteen plus thousand dollars can help restore your.
Speaker 1: Life, right, I mean, it is. It's one of those
things where you know, the people empower these agencies and
you know, public government operations, and there's sort of this offloading.
I think that occurs where it's like, Okay, well, you
know I'm paying higher taxes, I support higher taxes, and
so therefore I'm okay with not really doing something myself.
But that's the thing that makes the community, that's the
thing that makes the society what it is. It's the
individuals that go out. I've been saying for years like
if you want government to do less, if you're a
limited government, small government kind of person, then the individual
people need to do more than we need to do more,
because the more we abdicate these things to somebody else
or some other entity or agency, they're going to do
it they're going to take over, and they're not going
to do it as well, I would submit as the
churches do. I mean, that's been one of the big
stories to me at a western North Carolina.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, Pete, and one of the things that
warms my Hearty. You know, I'm a pastor. I've given
my life to the local church because I still believe
that the local churches the hope of the world, where
people dealing with people can help them deal with their problems.
And one of the real heartwarming parts of all of
this crisis, and it's just been devastating, though, has been
the thousands of churches that have come together, regardless of
their denominational affiliation, and have said, let's break down the
walls that have separated us and let's care for people
who are really hurting. And that has happened, and that
has been really encouraging to my heart.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So thank you for all of your work on this,
and thank you to all the listeners who have donated
the money to help in this effort. The website is
CITYOFHOPECLT dot org. If people still want to contribute, Is
there anything else that you want to add here before
we let you go that you think is important or
interesting for people to know.
Speaker 2: Yeah. One other thing, Pete, is that this is going
to serve as kind of a budget through twenty twenty five,
and it's not going to be given away immediately. As
we identify needs, we're going to be giving those people
who have those needs the money that's necessary to live.
And it's going to go through twenty twenty five. May
have to start in twenty twenty six starting again, but
until then we have this amount of money for a
budget to help us with the needs that come to
our face.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, that's great, and yeah this is not this
recovery is years years, not months. So thanks again for
coming on and for leading the effort. I really appreciate it.
People can catch David's show, The David Chadwick Show. It's
on Sundays at eight am to nine am right here
on wbt's also the senior pastor at Moments of Hope Church.
Thank you, sir, appreciate.
Speaker 2: It, Thanks Pete, and thanks for lending your microphone to
the number of listeners that you have who have donated,
and may I say to all of them, thank you
so much for participating in this endeavor.
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a couple of things going on weather related. Have you
heard this? That the that there's some winter weather coming in.
Have you heard this? I'm just looking forward to the
ability to say the term wintrey mix, wintree mix. That's
I'd never heard this term before I came to the
Charlotte area, and I know there are a lot of
people that are not from the Charlotte area that now
reside here. So a couple of things. First off, if
you are from like the northeast or anywhere that gets
a lot of snow basically you know, like the central
northern parts or out west the Plain States or in whatever,
like anywhere where you're like, we get two feet of
snow and it's fine, I can drive in snow. And like,
if you've said that and you mock the people in
the Queens City in the Piedmont region here in North
Carolina and South Carolina, you're mocking them because they don't
know how they're driving a snow Okay, just a heads
up on something. This ain't snow only. Okay, it's not
just snow. That's why the term wintry mix is used.
A wintry mix is from satan. Okay. It is awful.
It starts off real nice. It loads you with the
beauty and oh, look at how peaceful it look at
the beautiful snow covered hills and such. Yes, and then
the gulf warm air comes up, pushes back against the
weather system. Then it heats up a little bit, but
not terribly. It's still cold, but it warms it up
just enough, so now the snow turns into like the
freezing rain and the sleet. And then the sun goes
down and then it gets just cold enough or even colder,
and everything freezes and that is not snow. You can
drive on snow again. I am from New York I.
Actually the very first time I drove a vehicle was
in a snow covered parking lot. Because I turned seventeen,
I was able to get my license. I had purchased
a five hundred dollars yellow Honda nineteen eighty five civic.
I called it the Lemon because it was in many
ways and worked on skids and that sort of thing.
But when the wintry mix here and it freezes the
roads and stuff, that's why they're brining all of the
roads you can't drive on. That also, the freezing rain
and the sleet and all that it collects on the
tree branches, it collects on the power lines and you
just need about a quarter of an inch, not even really,
and it creates so much weight on the lines and
the branches that they come down and then you have
no power in the freezing temperatures. So this is why
it's so awful. Another reason we are not going to
buy snow plows to plow every bit of the roads
because for mostly three years they will not be utilized.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Try to put that in the city council or county
commission budget. Right, Try to say, Hey, we need to
spend twenty million dollars to buy a whole mess of
snow plows and then keep them in the shop for
three years for the one and a half inch snowfall. Oh,
and your tax is going to go up to pay
for all that. It's not gonna happen. They're not going
It's not a priority for a once in a three
year snowstorm cycle. Now, if we start getting some more
climate changey snowstorms, then maybe we get some more plows. Okay,
but until that happens, no, we're not going to be
doing that. So all of these things just as a
heads up. Now, if you're from like Florida, or you're
from like the Deep South area where you don't ever
see snow, for the love of me, stay off the
roads completely, okay, just do not even try. Just just
know the limitations. Okay, don't try. Just stay home. Please
do yourself a favor, because here's the other thing too.
You start driving around out there, and you're already freaking
out because it's like precipitation and you don't want to
be there. Maybe there's some like panic attack action going on,
so you don't want to be on the roads. We
don't want you on the roads. And then if you
get into a car accident, then we're gonna have to
send emergency responders out there to go clean it up,
you know, and go respond to the site. So we
don't want them driving around either. So if you just
stay home, chances are they won't have to go clean
clean up your car wreck. Also, big shout out, as
I always try to do, to the energy crews, the
Duke Power people, and all of the contractors that come
in to help restore power. Thank you. Also, all of
the road crews that are out there salting the earth.
We appreciate you. We appreciate the guys that are out
there running the I think two snowplows for the entire state.
I'm kidding, there's more. They have more than two snowplows
for the whole state, but there's not a lot, not
in the Charlotte area. Okay, but we thank you guys
for the work that you're doing. All right, I hope
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you the landlord here? It's how we are the landlord.
Speaker 3: You are the land Yeah, well you know when the
when the cup but he split and we figured out
who owned the building when you guys started paying rent.
Speaker 1: See I and I never knew that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I was like, we're gonna find out something
real quick, right, right, who owns it? Right? It turned
out to be TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I didn't mean to cut y'all.
Speaker 1: No, No, that's true, Like I never it never dawned
on me who owned the building. But yeah, so that's
al Conklin. He is in studio, whether he's from down
the hall at wbtv's the chief meteorologist there.
Speaker 3: And by the way, you're in my parking spot. I
just like, I know.
Speaker 1: That's not true because I took the sales rep.
Speaker 3: Because you know they're not here today.
Speaker 1: That's true. Gosh, I totally should have. I totally should have.
So let's talk a little bit about the weather. I've
already given the obligatory chastising of Northerners not to think
that this is just snow, because it's not. It will
start off as snow, right whereas it always does. It does,
and then it turns into what I call satan slushy.
So walk us through what's what we can expect and
kind of the timeline for us here in the Charlotte area.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to do it. You know, it's an honor
to be with you. I've always told you in the hallway,
you're the sharpest guy on Charlotte Radio. You know that,
all right? Now you owe me at lunch, all right,
But here's the situation. Yeah, we've already got snow that's
flying in the mountains now, and a lot of your
listeners have probably seen on either television or social media
what happened in Atlanta, and they've got it picked up
a couple of inches. It's all moving west from west
to east, so it's going to take some time. It's
already up into the southern foothills now Polk County, so
put it on. You know, I forty US seventy four.
It's pushing eastward. I'd say within the next couple of
hours we're going to see snow overtake Gaston, Cleveland into Lincoln.
Give it one to two hours, and this is pushing eastward.
The reason it's not snowing yet is the air is
so dry right now. So if you look on all
these weather apps, hey man, it's snowing here. So it
just shaws it swing, you know, I see snow. It's wapping.
It's what we call virga. It's evaporating before it reaches
the ground. The atmosphere is in the process of moistening
up and it will so once it reaches the ground,
then it's game on. I think everybody in the list
thing area will have snow at the get go, and
so I think the travel conditions will go downhill pretty
quickly here this afternoon. Then as you say, satan slush
takes over as we get into the evening hours. It's
always a mishmash of weather here. It's hardly you know,
ever pure snow.
Speaker 1: So in my understanding, and please correct me if I'm wrong,
which I probably am, because I, unlike you, am not
a weather person and so meteorologists. I have no training whatsoever.
But I've sat, you know, at a microphone for twenty
years during these types of storms, and so it always
seems like the snow comes first and then and I
believe it is due to warm air that then warms
our area just enough where the snow turns into the
freezing rain or just rain sometimes and then everything freezes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So here's the situation. Like you know, I try
to explain, you know, to folks that you know, in Buffalo,
it's all snow, why because the air is at or
below freezing from the clouds all the way to the surface.
In Tallahassee, it's all rain, you know why, because the
air at the surface is totally warm and it's not
going to be any colder. But here that way, the
atmosphere profile works is it's cold enough to snow at
the surface. I mean we're only thirty two degrees right now.
The problem is we have what a little bit of
warm air that comes in aloft. And the way that
works is, you know, you think about your house. Where
does the heat go in your house?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Go straight up? Right? Warm air rises. Cold air is
more dense, it weighs more, so it's down near the surface.
So we can be twenty eight degrees and get rain
here and you go to yourself, how the heck can
that be? Well, yeah, it's twenty eight degrees here, but
at the top of the Bank of America building it
might be thirty five. So what's happening is the atmosphereic profile.
And this is why my hair is gray and thin,
because it's never a slam dunk here. You know, everybody
wants to know how much am I going to get
at one, two three Elm Street? You know, well, where's
Elm Street? Which one in Salisbury in boone, the one
in Lincoln'son or the one in Pineville? Right, because it
all varies here when you're deep into the old air,
meaning the cold air is from the cloud base all
the way to the surface in a place like Boom
or pretty much anywhere north of I forty easy forecast,
it's going to be snow. If you're south, it's going
to be mostly snow at the start, but then it'll
transition to rain because warmer air is coming in as
the storm cranks up. Warmer air is pushing up from
the Gulf of Mexico, but it gets bumped up over
the cold dome and it comes in aloft, and so
the snow is falling through it. It hits that warm
layer and it melts, and if it freezes, it's sleep.
If it refreezes when it hits the surface, it's rain.
It's freezing rain. And what determines that is how thick
is that warm layer. So we look at the models
and we look at three dimensionally at the atmosphere, because
it's a really difficult thing to explain, you know, like
I said, if the column of air is cold from
top to bottom, it's snow. If it's not, it's going
to be something other than snow.
Speaker 1: It's got to be pretty amazing though, to be able
to do your job now with the kind of technology
that exists versus when you first started.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. I've been doing this for forty years, and the
technology and just the model data and the availability, it's
almost like, you know, information overload. It's almost too much.
To be honest with you, I worked, you know, so
much more efficiently when there was only a couple of choices.
Now you know, you can find a thousand things to
look at until you you know, you're blue in the
face and you go, well, I always say the same thing.
We've still got to put pen to paper and make forecasts.
You know, you know your mom doesn't care. You know,
you know your listeners or your viewers don't care. Just
tell me what it's gonna do. You're gonna look at
a thousand things or you're go look at five. Let's
figure it out and tell me what we got to do.
Speaker 1: Here, right, And you're trying to predict the future. Unlike me,
I just tell people what already happened. So that's why
I always give a lot of leeway to weather people
and I don't bash them when they get stuff wrong,
because you're literally trying to predict the future, which is difficult.
And I remember the first radio gig you know who,
our weather guy was down in rock Hill was Jerry Peter,
Sarry Peterson, and he used to come in every morning
and he would leave us his map and then hey,
he would draw the weather front systems with little red
triangles and all that stuff, and then he would leave
it for us so we could do weather reports. And
I looked at that thing.
Speaker 3: I have no idea what's going on?
Speaker 1: Like, can you just write out tell me what rain temperature?
Speaker 3: That's all I need to But it really, you know,
your point is so well taken. It has changed so much,
as have so many other aspects of life, right and
you know the way that we do things now. But
and I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it's a
good thing. It's just that, you know, and I can
remember walking in this building and a three day forecast
was really that's about the limit. Right now, we can
really go out ten days. You may not be on
five be one hundred percent accurate by any means, but
you can you can definitely spot trends. This storm that's
coming has been on the models for literally two weeks,
all the way back to New Year's Day, and it
was like, okay, let's see now, you know, is this
thing really going to hold together. Okay, here we are well.
Speaker 1: And it's important because especially like with hurricanes, which are
obviously very difficult to predict, like the path than all
of that stuff. But the more certainty you have, the
greater confidence people have in the forecast, and then the
more likely they are to heat the warnings. That's because
a lot of times they're like, oh, they don't know
what they're talking about, they got it wrong last time
or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that, you know, and that really is a
big challenge right there, Pete, is that we can and
you know, all kidding aside and listen, I'm my own
worst critic. You know, the Weather Enterprise has gotten a
lot better at forecasting weather. There's just no question about that.
It may not in the court of public opinion, that
may not necessarily be well received, but it is what
it is. I know the facts, and I know, you know,
how how we're gauged against one another, and how we're
gauged against you know, the records and what has been kept.
Having said that, though, the societal difference is how people
react to things. That's the intangible, that's beyond my scope.
And as a scientist, yeah, I can put my dad
hat on I could put my husband hat on my
neighbor hat. I can, you know, I can try to
put myself in their position. But everybody reacts differently to everything.
If I I tell you that you know something, you
know dramatic, Okay, I'll just deal with it. Other people,
oh my god, I'm not going to leave my house.
You never know what's going to you know, everybody's different.
So so the societal changes and the cultural changes, how
people react to things. You know, you just tell them
there might be an inch of snow. My god, the
whole city's got to shut down. Why, you know, well,
you know, you and I come from the North. We
used to drive on snow all the time. It's different
here though, and you have to you know, what do
they say when in Rome? You do, like the Romans,
this is the way we operate. We don't get snow
that often, you know what, Give each other a break
and let's we'll get through this together. You know, nobody's
you know, hopefully nobody is you know, impacted in such
a bad way. But I do really seriously feel like
everybody is going to get snow today and tonight. So
this three year streak in Charlotte not that we're counting,
but it's been one thousand and seventy seven days since
we've had measurable snow, but not that we're counting. It's
going to end, but it unfortunately it won't be you know,
you mentioned hurricanes. Fifty miles makes a huge difference here.
If you're up towards I forty, it's all snow. You're
in the mountains, all snow. You're between I forty and
I five, it's mostly snow, but some sleep. Itighty five
and points southward generally speaking, in those quarters, Yeah, it's
going to be a little mishmash of everything. It'll be
snow initially, it'll go to sleep the seasing, and then
it'll become freezing rain overnight and down into South Carolina. Unfortunately,
it's probably going to be predominantly sleep and freezing rain,
maybe upwards of a quarter of an inch. That threshold
can sometimes bring down trees and power lines, but it
shouldn't be a lot of wind with this. So again,
wide variety, but I think most of Mecklenberg County will
pick up one to two inches of snow and sleep
less down towards Valentine, more towards Davidson, you know. So
that's the way it goes. So that's what we're kind
of looking at. And then as I say, you get
into the foothills, it's a different story.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, if you are off on any of that
at all, we shall burn you in fgy on Monday.
Speaker 3: Well, that's nice, I'll take that day off. Let me
go down the hall day, I'll take that day off.
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WBTV dot com. I've got it actually pulled up here.
So the forecast precipitation model that they're running at WBTV
down the hall. What time is it now? Twelve fifty three,
So thirty percent chance of snow starting this hour goes
up to sixty percent in the one o'clock hour, It'll
go to eighty percent chance in the three o'clock hour,
and then the four I get yeah, yea four o'clock hour,
you're at one hundred percent. So three, four, five o'clock
that's going to be where the precipitation is falling, and
that's going to be the brunt of the snow. And
then Satan takes over and you got the slate coming
in looks like starting around seven or eight o'clock or
so through midnight, and then ice from midnight through three am.
That is there for their precipitation forecast snow totals. If
you were up in the as Al was saying, if
you're up in the Boone Morganton area, you're looking all
snow three to six inches. Then there's like a band
that runs from like Shelby all the way through Statesville
that's like two to three inches of snow, one to
two inches of snow through the Charlotte band, and then
south of Charlotte like into Lancaster County out to Wadesboro
ice ice quarter inch up to even one inch. And
that's the stuff that reeks havoc, you know, glazes over
all the roads, covers the trees, covers the power lines
and all of that. So if you take nothing else
away from this program today, it is let's act like
we've been here before. People. Okay, let's you know, it's
like scoring the touchdown, Like, let's act like we've been
in the end zone before. We have been here before.
So let's not all go out and lose our minds. Okay,
this is from Doogie or Dougie Clt on Twitter. It's
a pete tweet. He says, I won't be driving. I
went out last night and I bought four loaves of
bread and five gallons of milk. I hope it's enough.
I'm staying home and I will be safe enjoying my
milk sandwiches. That's good. Well, that's good. That's smart thinking
right there. Yeah, if you need, you know, you need,
you know, three milk sandwiches stat before you go into withdrawals,
Like that's just too big of a risk, you know,
So you got to go out and prep for the
milk sandwiches first. I assume everybody just loves the French toast.
That's always been my understanding of why the milk and
bread is so needed in the run up to really anything. Also,
I did confirm this one year. I haven't done I
haven't done the confirmation in a while. But this never
gets billing because I guess Big Bread and Big Milk
have co opted all of the reporting on this. But ramen,
ramen noodles, those things are usually wiped out and unless
you go look for them, you wouldn't You wouldn't know,
because it's in like that separate aisle that nobody ever
really goes down unless they have to find some really
specific niche product, you know. But the the ramen noodles
usually get cleared out, which makes sense because they're you know,
you can eat them dry. You can. Did you know
that you can eat the ramen noodle brick? You can
eat it just as like a cracker, and you could
take the little MSG package that comes with it that
supposedly is a flavor and you could just sprinkle it on.
It's true, trust me. I. At one time I thought
about doing a ramen noodle cookbook of all the different
recipes I had as a college kid, how all the
many ways to eat ramen noodle. All right, that'll do
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