okay let me know if you can hear me
we'll get started in about 30 seconds
good evening 2059
nope we'll get started in just a moment
now we'll get going uh there's a decent
number of crashes and uh pretty good
snow
pretty good snowfall right now
and in the background you'll hear state
patrol dispatch
foreign
I think we have several vehicles that
have slid Off-Road near us or it crashes
this one's small smack that I'm trying
to get rid of
okay
uh 24 30 or 44.75 to check out if you're
across the road he's 36 at old green
until 24 30 or 44.75 to check out if
you're across the road each 36 at Oak
green
that's 2100
14 minutes
614 Metro
check 14. 6 14.
okay
started really very shortly here
we'll get going
tonight
we've got our radar set up our map in
the top left radar in the bottom left
and then our dash cam as the main View
if you can hear us let us know
give a thumbs up in the chat Anthony can
you hear us
restaurant
can you show me how many my Chad's
messed up
Anthony's here Jesus is here
uh just let us know are you able to hear
and we've got I just got a message from
a good friend saying we've got some
areas with zero visibility
so let's go check this out
once this truck goes past us
here is fine okay and hopefully we've
got some good
video and let's go ahead and get going
you'll hear in the background the state
patrol dispatch for district 2400
District 2500 District 2400 is the East
Metro Saint Paul side of the Mississippi
District 2500 is the West Metro side
um so that's west of the Mississippi
that's Hennepin County
and Minneapolis
on the east side Ramsey County
and you can see just look at the
visibility
that we're experiencing it's crazy some
of it is and there the snow depths are
worse than I thought they'd be it's been
it's pretty much non-stop snowing here
please
calling out another vehicle off-road not
close to us
off stiffly audio looks good thank you
Ben hey thanks for the thumbs up really
appreciate it folks
watching from Fort Worth Texas maybe
it's a little warmer in Fort Worth
and James saying hey be careful out
there really appreciate that James
minus 50 windchill in Wyoming
yeah and uh doc wolf Saint will be minus
60 to 65 overnight if you look at the
road uh maybe I don't know how easy it
is to see we'll zoom in just a little
bit
personal Adventure 12 F12 give me just a
moment just to fix the zoom there
uh you can yeah you can really kind of
see
the possibility situation that we're in
fine
101 there's
a wonderful
um I'm trying to listen also to the
dispatch audio
in the background try one of course
E2
so so uh this is this is 35W if you're
35 W
and uh really a pretty big roadway but
uh to get and there's uh
on the left the far left lane is nicely
cleaned off by a plow we're on the right
side to get over to the left that we'd
have to go about over about six inches
of snow
foreign
too many people on the road
another uh looks like we've got Marine
watching from Pennsylvania
up here I know that there's two vehicles
off-road they're not going to be in view
yet and we're going to try to move over
Elaine
so you can't see it but there's a
vehicle off-road with police out on it
that we just went past in our rear view
mirror
12. I was actually talking with her she
said she's had a lot of helpers come out
she said she's okay
she said no damage to her vehicle she
had one person try to push her out and
shovel her out another person tried to
Winter out but the snow was too deep
and uh so now I just saw there's a
police car out with her she said she's
had a really good experience meeting
fellow minnesotans tonight and I had the
opportunity to talk to her I told her
hey don't be too hard on yourself
there's a lot of you know these are very
difficult travel conditions and she was
well prepared she her exhaust was
cleared off she was staying warm and had
even a little bit of in-car
entertainment while she was waiting
for help Patrick Patrick hello from New
Brighton that's right near the MN safety
headquarters
westbound through the Lowry Hill Tunnel
that's I-94 a tire in the lane
don't dare go out in Wyoming thank you
for showing this
morning
and I don't know how easy it is I mean
once you if there this is like a
four-lane highway yeah and off on the
right there's this blue minivan some of
that snow is pretty deep over there
there's some areas where it's six inches
and that's still freeway that they're
not driving on the shoulder or anything
but your mileage can really vary
depending on where you are
in the two tracks
Logan says he's not excited to work snow
removal this overnight
at 7 HPD
Central Services
snowstorm
s
state trooper off on her right
there was a car there earlier it looks
like they got him out of there that's
great
yeah
yeah
we can pull up our cameras while
okay looking at some of the visibility
that state troopers are dealing with
that's the crash that we just went past
under the top left corner
you can see it can be a bit hard to see
what's going on with
traffic ahead and if you're curious my
speed for comparison to these other cars
38 miles per hour
just because the visibility is
so low
combined with Darkness
cover of night
you can see visibility with changes
quickly here it just got worse I don't
know how easy it is to pick that up on
camera I think the camera has better low
light quality than maybe my eyes but
it's actually quite hard to see ahead
right now
frog says where are we just turned in
yeah we're i-35w near New Brighton
uh hello hello in Europe
hello from Europe hello to Europe I
should say
yeah good question I'm going about 38
miles per hour Apple Valley saying a lot
of snow that's Kristen
yeah
another vehicle off the road in the
South Metro 494 and Rockford Road that
just got dispatched
this is normally eight Lane Highway four
lanes each direction there's no good
Lanes but the left two lanes are
probably the best
1050 blocking the list he's 694 I'm
selling
694 and Snelling
is not too far from us we just went past
so there's a call that just went out for
6.94 and Snelling we just went past 694.
maybe we'll loop around and check that
out
sharp recorders
okay up here on our right
seven hours ago
looks like there's a car off the road
hi
it sounds like you've got some help on
the way
oh yeah
okay maybe I'll swing by I mean it looks
like you're pretty deep it sounds like
you're okay
okay all right well I'll swing by and
put up some flares just since you're on
that curve okay
I'll be over in about five minutes I'm
just a volunteer just to pass her by I'm
glad you're okay yeah and hang in there
don't be too hard on yourself okay
all right
so uh she's found out you know this is a
downhill on a curve after a bridge
really common area to spin out because
you've got
um you have to curb you have to turn
you've got the bridge which is going to
be faster to freeze
yeah
and just to draw some attention to the
fact that there is a road hazard up
there
we'll we'll put out some flares she went
off on the
left side
kind of in the center median between
those two exits
so we'll loop back around throw out some
flares so that people coming into that
curve know that there's a road hazard
ahead of them she was on her phone
sounds like she had a plan she just need
a winch out and if you I don't know if
you could hurt her say she just finished
her last payment on that car
the visibility is a changing Moment by
moment and any car that gets ahead of me
or a truck depending on where they are
in the road they can really throw up a
lot of dust so it'll change based on
weather or based on circumstance
if you're local this is uh Highway 10 in
Blaine area
and I think we'll take the
Airport Road
yeah so there's a semi truck ahead and
you can see I can't even yeah I can see
like these three lights on the top of it
but I cannot see any other part of this
semi truck if you're curious I'm going
about 35 miles per hour just because the
visibility is so low speed limits are
maybe 65 70 miles an hour through here
on Highway 10.
hello from Arizona
good night to be yeah at home and
watching on YouTube grab some hot
chocolate for sure and thank you Andrew
Bennett coming in with a donation that
is so helpful we're going to be
deploying some flares tonight just to
help with that visibility with those
roadside hazards uh each time we deploy
those flares it's about ten dollars
about three dollars per flare we'll be
dropping three of them uh and every time
we do that that's about ten dollars out
of pocket we cover that just to kind of
promote that safety one zero eight five
uh get visited
promote safety uh and provide a little
bit of entertainment but also draw
awareness to weather safety hazards and
travel hazards this Christmas season
eight five seven zero three
so we really thank you so much Andrew 99
Cents every little bit helps uh
if you're following along go ahead click
that button to join or click the little
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donation we love seeing that stuff it's
super helpful and it helps us do more
streams in the future
slash says slow down man because he
heard that I was going 35 miles an hour
those are clearance lights on the truck
yes thank you I could only see the
clearance lights and not like the uh
lights lower down on the trailer
Starlight says hello from St Paul yes
awesome hello from Andover love hearing
it
was it a Chrysler you know I didn't know
the make and model good question
so uh I'm driving uh
Ford Explorer tonight four-wheel drive
which as you know if you've probably
been watching our channel four wheel
drive that's not going to help you at
all with your braking but it does help
you with acceleration and kind of
getting out of those snowy situations so
again four-wheel drive doesn't help at
all with safety per se it doesn't help
with braking you know a front wheel
drive vehicle
all the tires break on it right but
all-wheel drive does help it just helps
you not be a little less likely to get
stuck in the snow get started from a
stop again
hi from Chicago
seems like the camera and eyes are about
the same okay all right good good on our
right I don't know if you saw it we've
got yeah it seems far looks like a
vehicle off-road
off on the right oh they're pretty far
off left lane South Carolina County 11.
one in the dish in the same spot I'm
gonna flip through that because
well let's go back and uh very cool I'll
show you this one real quick there's no
one around she's 24 312.
North stop my place
they've got
we're here
all right they're getting they're towing
a tow truck it looks like there
six six seven six twenty if you want to
switch calls you can take care of the
viewers
so they uh winched out a tow truck there
I'll clean like give me just a moment
I'll try to get this uh
Northbound 77 between 66 and 62.
77. so that's another vehicle off the
road in the median
uh that's South Metro we're we're kind
of in the North Metro right now so it's
not particularly close to us we're
heading back to uh vehicle off-road
woman who was saying that she just got
her last payment done on her car and now
she is stuck in the ditch
this is on the flyover Highway 10 to get
on 35W
Andrea thank you so much Andrea putting
down ten dollars I would that means so
much to us it really helps thank you
Andrea for your donation
when is 511
cameras so some of those live stream
cameras are not working I don't know I
don't work for MnDOT but they um
I think we've really become to rely on
those cameras because they are just so
incredibly helpful
um let's go let's go see if we can pull
up the camera that's nearest this
intersection okay cameras come on
let's see if our vehicle off-road is
get a look that's uh looking at 35 W
Northbound in the southbound Lanes not
too far from where we have our driver
that's off the road
what's so great about this there we go
there's our
Highway 10 flyover to 35W and just off
camera is where we've got our vehicle
off-road
thank you so much Andrea making a
donation go ahead
and just like I don't want to sound too
much like PBS NPR but uh we really
appreciate those donations the help to
it helps us encourage to do more of
these types of live streams
so thank you so much Andrea
there's a semi truck behind me and it's
a one-way path
[Music]
I'm wondering
I would like to throw out a flare for
the scale give people a heads up that
she's
three children
three calls to the road three calls
this control for a pull out Volkswagen
SUV
between Penny 11 and shooter
all right
the semi behind me is doing an awesome
job
we're lighting a flare
foreign
foreign
foreign
you're gonna hear the blower for a
little bit just to defrost that front
yeah yeah
I'll throw this one up
best car payment huh
oh okay okay okay
okay come here
yeah
um
all right and so a little correction
there hey thank you Kristen Kristen 2.99
thank you so much that really helps
really helps us do more live streams
like this and kind of put ourselves out
here sometimes to bring you
news information
timely weather information
beguns
thank you
19.99 that means so much and is so
appreciated like I was saying thank you
begons and uh thank you Kristen for
those donations it does help so much
she was uh and it really helps us you
know helps cover the cost of the flares
each flare is really a set of three pack
of flares it's ten dollars you've got
the gas and the equipment and stuff like
that I want Ice MN thank you so much wow
you guys are so generous that generous
generosity really means a lot to us and
a quick correction she said she just
made the payment to have a tow truck
come out and help her so it wasn't the
last payment on her car it was she made
a payment on the tow truck
um
oh you all are so generous thank you Ice
MN
there's a Minnesota news now in the
Chant thank you news now
all right so
let's go back to
let's check a little bit on
we've got our winter radar that's a
little hard to see on that map but it
does kind of give a little dot on an
approximate location where we are if
you're familiar with the Twin Cities
area
good and that defrost did I think help
clear up the front security card info
only information accounting at this time
smartphone 65 at Osborne report of a
sedan and right-hand again the
info only 125. northbound 65.
info only from Anoka County at this time
65 at Osborne report of a sedan in the
right-hand again the info only at
21.25
we are really not that far away we just
got off 35W we are in Blaine and that is
a neighboring Fridley that report of a
car in the ditch off Highway 65.
thank you
and Osborne
Hydro 6-0 or 7-0 car for a 21 and a
10.50
so we've already you know we have not
been streaming that long we just saw
uh that gal back there can go off in the
center Median on the curve before that
we saw a State Trooper out assisting
with a crash and then
um just just before the live stream we
saw two other crashes now we've got the
call of a car in the median off Highway
65 Osborne
and uh
the the snow
the snow has been there's Kristin Martin
thank you so much my goodness thank you
for your generosity Kristen
um
Mr Mr coat
hansi Street Mr kohansi street thank you
so much ten dollars keep your window
clear stay safe Merry Christmas yeah
that defrost really did kind of clear
that up I am so glad
um and we've got some really uh now I
don't know if you guys know this but to
give like a good cellular signal where
we're not dropping frames there's
something called bonded networks that um
have really changed my life in terms of
giving higher quality live streams and
what what it does is you buy the
software package you subscribe to it and
it combines like your Verizon cellular
signal with your at T cellular signal so
to bring this higher quality video where
we've got the weather radar and HD video
and the traffic map all to you all those
data sources
we we have we use multiple data networks
cellular data networks Verizon and 80 to
bring you kind of a higher quality feed
than I think uh
what else is out there
uh and that's called bonded cellular
networks bonded Networks
nothing you need to know this there's no
test but it really helps maintain a
better feed
667 Metro
there we go
big thank you
to
Mr kohani Street ten dollars for that
donation
Karen major coming in with 10 9.99 thank
you Karen really appreciate that glad to
have you along could you repeat that
and Kristen Martin Kristen Martin thank
you 4.99 thank you Kristen for your
donation really helps to support what
we're doing
okay back up to Highway 10.
we are making our way over to Highway 65
for a vehicle off-road in the median
and some of the wind picking up now
a little bit the visibility just changes
so quickly
sir
in the background you may hear state
patrol dispatch we have District 2400
East Metro District 2500 West Metro on
thank you Kathy thank you so much for
that 10 donation
yes and Rebecca Rebecca says are we
going to 65 in Osborne yes that's where
I'm headed next
Don says what's our ham call sign we are
not we don't have a ham call sign looks
like it Becca yep and
um Becca I do have up the MN crime chat
available the VOR in a month they just
pulled it up actually
Becca is in the chat and she runs the
she helps support or runs the Anoka
County police blotter on Facebook huge
huge source of information
um
r
ah if you want me to shut it down if you
hear them say VOR that means vehicle
off-road it means a vehicle slid off
yeah
I was wearing camera is still down
zoom out
and
I mean you're still hearing pretty
pretty frequent radio chatter about
Vehicles off-road 1050s which would be a
crash
as the night continues and as as we get
away from rush hour it's it's 9 30
locally so we're away from rush hour and
what you may sometimes see at night
especially on like a Friday night but
you'll start to see
more severe crashes because unlike
because people can go faster when there
are fewer cars on the road so as the
night progresses you might see fewer
cars on the road but the risk profile
doesn't really change because people are
traveling faster with fewer cars on the
road like Rush Hour you'll have a lot of
crashes but they tend to be lower
velocities because everyone's traveling
slower
this one in the ditch is what I just
started
oh
man go ahead five for nine go ahead
okay
so uh we're now on Highway 65.
heading to
a report where uh
vehicle is off the road and a median
uh let's see
straight shot to 65 and 85th oh thank
you I should have known that thank you
puck
oh hi that's me
what's your vehicle today we're driving
a newer model
Ford Explorer
friend of mine is on the way to same
crash so say hi to Sean when he gets
there oh I okay all right sure sure
I mean if I can uh MN choir mom says my
husband and daughter are driving home
from Hanson Lake Boulevard to Brooklyn
Park via us-10 610 and 252.
uh Jamie Morales says watch your video
huge fan thank you Jamie really
appreciate that that means a lot yeah so
M inquire Mom that's you know knows the
area we're in that same area no ham
license uh do we have a permit from the
VCA yes we do have a permit from the BCA
now we have their signature and we keep
it in our glove box in case anyone ever
asks great question from Roscoe yep it's
in the description it says so yep
yep and we got it from the BCA so um you
know if anyone from the BCA goes famous
we have their signature
uh and if you're not from Minnesota BCA
that would be like the state police but
it's like the investigative division of
the State uh you know like it'd be like
uh in Georgia the gbi in Texas I think
it might be the Texas Rangers but it's
the investigative arm of like the state
policing agency right now we've got a
plow up here on our right our speeds are
about 37 miles an hour we are going to
slow down I don't feel like uh
[Applause]
first time watching welcome Evelyn
what app do we use for traffic cams
MnDOT has hands down some of the best
service that we've seen having lived in
a number of northern states I think I
mean people sometimes give the plows a
hard time but uh there's no State like
Minnesota that has to deal with uh snow
like we do combined with high
populations right uh it's just so
difficult to keep the roads clean when
you get so much snow so much blowing
snow and it's so cold you know Chicago
gets cold but it's not like this and The
Dakotas get really bad weather but they
just don't have the population the road
population so Minnesota is just so
difficult very difficult situation but
uh so a really good app is that men.50
because it gives you direct access to
those camera feeds and those are live
stream cameras which is super helpful
you're not getting a delay there you
know more than a few seconds and they
really put out some high quality videos
Maryland emergency responder says hello
awesome awesome
and we're starting to see those flashing
lights up ahead so we're at 65 and
Osborne looks like it might just be
south of
south of Osborne we'll see if there's
any other vehicles in the median though
Tracy says hello from Michigan not at
all aside from the storm yeah and uh
I'll speak personally for myself as a
volunteer I am originally from Michigan
okay so here we're coming up on the
vehicle in the median I see at least
there's a line of house
responding lights and Sirens we've got
one car off on the right I don't know if
you can see that there's a all right
one pickup off on the right that's all
shut down
uh Rebecca has an update
tow truck is there already
asked you thanks thanks Becca thanks
tow truck is there already
anytime any vehicle passes me whatsoever
or the wind picks up a little bit or a
new snow squall comes through our
visibility changes so so quickly
in the lane
100 170 pair for somebody in the lane
peaceful 94 Concord eastbound 94.
7 area
21
6 measure one two six
good all right so um
we're gonna get in the right lane I'm
going about 38 miles an hour but I
really should be in the right lane I'm
sorry about that
YouTubers quickly
we do
want to
we do welcome your donations it really
helps us support some of the equipment
that we use you know and then there's
wear and tear on the vehicle gas that
type of stuff which isn't nothing but a
big piece of that is the equipment that
we use and then some of the safety
equipment that we have both to protect
ourselves and to provide support to the
people that are out here Bob we really
like doing it but it is uh can be
dangerous work if you've watched any of
our videos either on MN safety or on our
other channel Wham slam traffic cam you
know just how dangerous some of the
wintertime driving can be especially for
a pedestrian out
you know if you're a tow truck driver or
other first responder out
Out In Harm's Way
clear this one I'll head back when I
went in by 6 30 same location
all right so we're gonna head next oh
thank you to geekfilter I lived in
Plymouth as a teen in the 80s watching
this is a little bit like time travel
for me yeah and so geek filter if you
know the area much we're a little north
of 694 and we're gonna get back on 694
here in a moment as some of the wind
picks up I don't know if you can see I
mean uh you know there's a there's a
there's a police car up there I mean
that's pretty hard to make out
and Visually just kind of see what's up
ahead we're gonna head to 694.
it's 94. I'm sorry it's tough sometimes
to like listen to the scanner
so there's another VOR or vehicle
off-road just called in to state patrol
dispatch and the only thing we have up
is state patrol dispatch so the local
calls we're not even getting to uh it'd
just be it would just be too much
uh there's enough crashes and vehicles
off-road slide-offs as it is
right now we are so for the dispatch
audio we are using broadcastify
broadcastify calls service which is
another thing that we uh have to pay
monthly for kind of a pain but it really
provides a really good service and I
don't know who all is hosting
broadcastify but a special thank you to
the people that do that really helps
promote that transparency in government
and I think those scanner groups they
used to they've really gotten a lot
better at some of the self-regulation
but again a big thank you to geekfilter
five dollar donation means so much to us
green light we're going to let this one
other car sneak in here on the left I
don't know if that's on camera but
thank you
local news is posting -2 right now
sorry for the misinformation
but so let's talk about the weather so
you know you got MnDOT knows MnDOT is
like the official source for this
information and I'm just a YouTube dummy
but once these temperatures here's my
understanding is once these temperatures
get this low uh and you know it's not
like there's sunshine to help with that
with that salt melt with that ice melt
once these temperatures get this low
um you really lose 80 90 of that salt
Effectiveness we've been seeing clouds
all out all night trying to keep these
roads clear but as soon as they go by
even if it's not like in the middle of a
snow squall
and you can see just how quickly the
snow just comes back on the roadway
whether it's from a truck or wind or a
snow squall it uh it just gets covered
up but then anything that does melt can
quickly refreeze especially
um
Bridges off ramps on-ramps those tend to
ice over first so it's very difficult to
there's no way to make these normal
driving conditions
Tosh cake coming in with five dollars
that means so much to us and we really
appreciate it thank you so much
Roscoe says broadcastify is the reason
that many agencies are going encrypted
oh that's too bad yeah independence got
are pretty much all encrypted and you
know there's there's actually I've I
don't know how true this is but I read
that a lot of agencies kind of have like
this covid Surplus money and they've
kind of redirected it to upgrading their
radios which can then uh become
encrypted right so some of it is like
there's maybe some leftover bonus money
and agencies are using that to upgrade
to the latest and greatest radios which
is great but uh but then they're like
well we have these radios that can be
encrypted why don't we and the tragic
tragedy of that is you know I think that
harms transparency in government of
course you know there are situations you
know you could uh you know the the
solution that a lot of sheriffs have
proposed or some of the you know is that
there's a balance right you have some
channels that are encrypted but kind of
you're but you only use those in special
situations where you don't want anyone
to know an officer's location like
um a standoff right you don't want to
know you don't want people to know hey
there's an officer at this corner of the
house right that can be sniped you don't
want that information to get out there
during a standoff so that makes sense to
encrypt radios in that situation
but and we've got some flashing lights
up here on the right looks like maybe a
delivery truck or UPS truck
hmm
having a hard time maybe it's like a
moving truck a box truck for sure right
having a hard time getting uh partially
jackknifed
yeah they've got their front tires
turned
Panera truck
let's see if
code for
eign
so let's go back and do some thank yous
to some of these members that uh are
helping out Tash K saying five dollars
and if you donate the money make sure to
leave a comment leave a question we will
try to prioritize those uh questions and
comments and make sure you get a
response or you know we'll try to give
you a special thank you watching from
Minnetonka tashka I'm watching from
otaku thank you for everything that you
do
this weather is crazy man love that
comment Kaiser saying drove through this
all day Minneapolis early morning up to
Sauk Center and across the Little Falls
that's a ton of driving felt bad about
people behind my rig to be honest but
like a blizzard for about 500 feet
behind so that light turned green it's a
snowstorm we're gonna wait a moment
before we just proceed to a green light
to let uh you know some traffic that
can't stop uh get through the light I
think that seems safe and prudent uh so
thank you to the professional drivers
like Kaiser C who are out there having
to drive in this thank you Kaiser and
you heard him comment you know some
people had to wait for him cautious and
safe driver it sounds like so thank you
so much
yep and Mike noting Mike very observant
knowing that we're back in New Brighton
now
home of the
MN safety worldwide headquarters
and give me just be like
all right
I believe
we're going to loop back around we've
got a Panera truck Panera box truck it
is stuck heading up and on ramp blocking
the lane of traffic
there's a car on my left
right now
I just think 21-47 so we're merging on
the freeway at about 24 miles an hour
you know I think you know maybe it'd be
better to do it merge on at about 35
miles an hour that might be prudent but
but I get it people want to be careful
and uh especially if you're a novice
driver uh you know these are these are
tough situations I'm not going to
complain about anyone merging on too
slow uh it's just like slow for my taste
right
um yeah but we're going we're in the
right lane so we've got three lanes of
traffic travel here just so you know
um but but we're going 26 miles an hour
uh we might
uh but but that's fine we've got three
lanes of traffic that's okay better safe
than sorry no one should be going that
fast hopefully no one is pricing this
person going 70 so
um but we are going to pass them now
that it's safe to do so
but we're a few where we're 20 30
minutes I don't know how far in we are
on this live stream there's a semi truck
in front of me and I cannot see it at
all I cannot see the lights on it
whatsoever I have no idea 24 30 or 4470
cars for pedestrian Northbound 494 south
of 94. up pedestrian hour 24 30 years
south of 94 494 south of 94. so wind
chill is like minus 20.
um and the visibility is so low you know
they're they're at risk of getting hit
or frostbite or both
so hopefully they are able to respond
that's in the South Metro we're in the
North Metro uh it'll take us an hour to
get there with these current conditions
so We're looping around right now to go
check on this Panera box truck
so if you are you're in router if it's a
Ford pickup truck is dark in color it
may be related to the VOR and petting at
96.
blocking the latest traffic
the Panera truck is going up the off
ramp and stuck
anytime he says
yeah
Danielle says stay safe out there
I love your channel a lot what are the
typical roles or tasks that civilian
volunteers do well I I that's a great
question and the answer is a lot so
uh I really love that question though
let me come back to that
but first let's see if we can
pull up
the semi truck box truck I should say
blocking the lane of traffic ooh
there it is it's right there
is that visible on the screen
uh you can see it I know it's kind of
spinning but
the box truck top left corner you can
see the box truck is still there black
and Lane traffic it's like the third or
fourth back in that frame
and if they want to go anywhere
they are going to need to back up I'm
almost positive Kaiser C says truckers
remember to wipe the snow off your rear
lights to maximize the visibility for
drivers in this weather
drive safe and keep up the good work
thank you Kaiser what a great call out
yeah earlier I don't know if yeah I
don't know if it was the trucker or not
but I could not see their lights at all
it is so easy I just had another semi
truck go past uh their their tail lights
are already gone and that's just because
a combination of the wind and the amount
of snow non-stop is it advisable to
drive to Brainerd tomorrow uh great
question Nitro I mean probably depends
on your sense of adventure and your
appetite for risk
um but that's going to be some White
Knuckle driving for sure I imagine uh
maybe Thursday morning maybe the winds
aren't as bad I have no idea but like uh
National Weather Service has has said
like please try not to drive at all okay
so here's they've already updated this
crash east of 35W in the left lane
okay
um so that's separate from oh all right
we've got another all right so we've got
a couple things going on up here we've
got the semi truck that's blocking and
stuck
if you are Highway 10.
950 okay so we just had a crash up here
we're not that far away
35W in North Snelling look out for a
crash
it's 694 eastbound we're on 694
eastbound
so there's supposed to be a crash out
here
looks like it was just
updated a moment ago
all right so on the right
we've got the semi truck blocking
box truck from Panera
153 for them to realistically get
anywhere they're going to have to very
carefully go backwards down that off
ramp
I I don't I don't know now that they're
at a complete stop I do not know how
that semi truck I'd love to hear from
you all but I I have not seen a semi
truck be able to recover from that
position and I ramp that steep you
basically have to go very carefully down
that ramp backwards preferably with you
know after you've called for help from
the police and requested assistance I
have to slow down here I can't
visibility dropped here very quickly
you have to call for help
ramp probably needs to get closed so you
can go backwards down that ramp
and
and then go go off get back on the
freeway and go to the next spot
really bad visibility up here really bad
visibility
I don't know what it looks like on the
camera but
694
see if we can find it
smelly
okay looks like there's one
on the left shoulder so on the top left
side of your screen we can pull up the
nearest live stream camera for that
crash that just occurred it's about a
mile ahead of us we can see it looks
like there's one vehicle off on the left
side I don't know if there's a vehicle
off on the right side or not or if
that's just or if I'm looking at a
the light from the pole
okay
yep we're driving up
four-wheel drive
which doesn't help with safety per se
but it does help you get back on the
road or get going again
once you're if you're stuck you know
once you're stopped it helps you get
back on the road again get going again
coming up on a crash up here
for me Brent from Farmington Minnesota
saying hi
and I think I see flashing lights are
hazard lights up here on the left
I don't know if they're blocking the
lane or not or partially blocking
thank you
100 175 for people personally blocking
Lexington Attention Center vehicle how
can we look at their stripes see it
looks like they did hit you can see
where they hit the cable barrier
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in pretty good shape but we'll go chat
with them just make sure they're doing
okay
2080 courage I first saw Northbound 160.
North on 100.
come over
Brooklyn Boulevard
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hi I'm Alex I'm just a passerby I'm just
a volunteer just wanted to check on you
okay
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and
foreign
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foreign
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foreign
okay it looks like this is a two-part
Branch there's another vehicle that's
off on the right side I had him get back
in his car and put his seat belt on and
I also had him try starting this car so
the heel it stays warm I don't think he
can drive but
foreign
I don't think you can drive but there's
a second car off on the right
yeah you can't wear chains on the road
in Minnesota I don't think
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there's no traffic behind us we're very
carefully backing up
foreign
the center median cable guard rail
I'll show that to you
oh yeah I'll show you in just a moment
here let me turn up we'll turn up the
we'll defrost there for a bit but you'll
be able to see here in a moment there's
a car that went off on the right
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right here's our first tow truck
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the truckers behind
slowing down which is nice
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I'm Alex I'm just a volunteer
but Trevor's coming up behind me
there's one car off on the right that
you can't see okay
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thank you
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foreign
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University
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off on the right off camera
uh the other driver has high visibility
vest
oh
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my God
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on your right you can see where they
went down
one car hit this hit the center cable
median barrier and then one car off on
the right
right
now
one car way down there
on the right
does not look like it rolled over
which is great but it's pretty far down
there on the right I don't know how
visible that it was
Okay so
two-car crash one on the left one on the
right
that toe really got there pretty quickly
2206.
that's the scene now
there's a car
on the left side of your screen that's
fought far enough off the road that you
cannot see it from that camera
foreign
off-road several crashes
including that one
um
the driver of one of those Vehicles was
wearing like a zip up
sweater
and his car was not starting
so
it gets pretty cold pretty fast and
minus 20 degree wind chills I think the
air temperature is two degrees
not counting the wind chill
wow
okay let's take a look at there's
you'll see drivers as
the night goes on they'll actually be
driving faster instead of slower because
there are less cars on the road and that
can result in more severe crashes
126. Merry Christmas in North Dakota
okay we might have a
car off the road
on the right side are they just stuck
I think they're stuck
so we'll loop back around there's a car
stuck off the road over there I don't
know if we'll be able to push them out
but let's go check him out I saw that
they were they're they're clearly off
the road we'll loop back around
oh
five thirty three
all right okay North 135e start the New
York to SUV
the north island 35 East we're just
looking for a place to loop around to go
check on that vehicle off-road
let's see if we can get this to update
and then in the top left of your screen
there's that two vehicle crash one hit
the center median barrier another one
way off the road almost to roll over
I had I think because the you know when
you get into a crash on the freeway the
ditch on the right slopes away well if
you carry a lot of speed into that ditch
as your card kind of turns to the side
the amount of velocity that you carry
into that
Collision as you slide off determines
whether or not you're going to roll over
along with you know the other properties
of your car SUV versus uh sedan there
they were driving a sedan I think had
they had an SUV they would have rolled
over because they were way off the road
and the further off you are the road you
know that's an indication you know it's
kind of a proxy indicator for how much
speed you're bringing into a collision
foreign
so we just heard state patrol dispatch
familiar vehicle off the road
was found from Tracy
it was really good to see Vehicles
slowing down around that area the tow
truck got there pretty fast I was really
impressed
five over here
We're looping around to go check on this
car it's off the road looked like it was
stuck
I'd be really curious if you've heard
how much snow we've gotten in certain
areas I mean it is really kind of piled
up in some some places so I'd be very
curious what you all are hearing in
terms of snow in the Twin Cities it's
more than I thought we'd get in terms of
snow
you are in the room
from 34th to Northbound 694 and then
checking then we're going to know uh
Rebecca says we've seen several but I
don't know what that's in relation to
uh so Rebecca calling out looks like
that driver should have had an emergency
kit packed up uh Rebecca
helps with the is one of the owners or
admins of the Anoka County Police
police blotter on Facebook even if
you're not in Anoka County it's a great
group to join because they're always
providing really good information about
how to be better prepared
foreign
jackknife semi uh I think that's
all right
yeah
and uh Becca in the chat has a tracklist
an emergency preparedness checklist for
severe weather severe cold weather
winter weather really great that's the
Anoka County police blotter group on
Facebook really good Insight even if
you're not from Anoka County really good
group to follow
third inflation
Mounds Boulevard 94 Mounds Boulevard
sunshine
I was calling it out Evelyn
yeah what's the temperature in Australia
uh let's see what's going on on let's
let's take a look at that
jackknife semi up here we've got a car
that's off the road we want to check on
them
we're not too far and we're not super
far from 94 and Mound
prior
smelling and 94 Hamlin
Dale Western
Ireland Wabasha
situation Armature
it's original
three men
okay seven
yeah that uh the Saint Paul I-94 cameras
do not have not been live streaming
lately
tomorrow
there's a jackknife semi near here
so we'll head to the jackknife semi if
Nothing Stops us before that
foreign
Ty or
a 440 Car for 10.50
is Northbound by the sector the entrance
for County Road 2.
so they just called out a 10 50. that's
another crash you'll listen to him for
10.50
is Northbound 35 just after the entrance
ramp for Colorado
there's an acronym barf and it's a
reminder that Bridges and ramps Freeze
first b-a-r-s-f
and bridges Freeze first because of the
way that they're constructed they have
they get colder faster there's no ground
underneath them that's keeping them
warmer so the temperatures of bridges
fluctuate more than normal Road surface
temperatures
ramps that's true too to some degree but
ramps also tend to either have an
elevation change or a curve to them
right you're either going up or down or
going around like we just did for that
for that partial Cloverleaf interchange
and so uh you have stronger so if you're
going downhill of course three all three
you have less traction you have gravity
pulling
a hotel company is a
and if you're going around a curve you
have to be going slower if you um so
curves downhills are situations where
you can really lose control easily
bridges of course because they freeze
first you know you can be driving on
roadway that has good traction then you
hit the bridge and it's ice right
um but it'll really cut you off guard
and then a bridge that's going downhill
on a curve
let's get all the factors here's our
crash that we saw earlier
yeah it's like yeah she was on a
different call but yeah they're stopping
trying to figure away
that's a tough crash to deal with
because you've got a car on each side of
the road that needs to be recovered and
you can't move the crash the the driver
said his car was not drivable
he tried he tried to get it going he got
going again and then it went kaput on
him so his car was not drivable and so
your your policing stuff on both the
right and left side of the roadway which
is pretty difficult
they've got flares out behind the squad
cars
stuck at the bottom of the ramp
and then the semi's blocking the ramp as
well
at the bottom of the ramp
and then the semi's blocking the ramp as
well
the Metro 10 Centigrade for a small
each
side
the visibility up here you can kind of
if you look at the lights from the
the lights kind of give you a sense for
just how
much snow there is blowing around in the
air
so did this
they're saying a ramp is blocked and I'm
wondering if that's the ramp up here
that was blocked earlier by the Panera
truck at the top that could not go
anywhere
and they said there were a couple other
cars that are stuck so I wonder if
that is related okay
just got some updates about your
comments
thanks for your comments really
appreciate hearing some of this stuff
love hearing people just kind of share
their stories yeah flares cost about
three dollars each by way so
um Tom easy really thank you for for
calling that out we've been deploying
flares we went through uh a box of about
30 flares the other night which turned
out to be pretty expensive uh we do
appreciate your donations hit the little
dollar sign there to make a donation we
try not to push the NPR talking points
on you too much you know when we stop
and really ask for money but uh we do
appreciate any donation it helps ensure
that we do more of these live streams
there are expenses of course the flares
you know drop three flares that's ten
dollars right there but also the
equipment we've got flashing lights up
here again and the car just turned on
their hands I think this is just files
though
but we'll see there's some maybe some
flashing lights around the corner
we do appreciate those donations I think
there's a dollar sign where you can
click even a few dollars it does really
help so thank you so much
30 flares yeah uh that was a couple
nights ago that was pretty pretty wild
and I think we're kind of in the same
situation here tonight where
um
I think
where as traffic kind of thins out
people go faster and the road conditions
just don't support it especially in cold
weather it's not like it's 30 degrees
and the salt is taking effect you have
to realize
in case you can't
you may be able to drive his way out of
it because you start a big rig so that's
the semi That's How Many Times Dispatch
audio talking about that semi that's
blocking
trying to work his way out of that
situation
as best he can but they're asking for
heavy record heavy recovery to help out
and those lights of the plow let's let's
Bell kind of give you you can see the
glaze coming off the ground I mean
that's wild to me it's been like that
the last several nights as the
temperatures plummet at night and you
know I don't know about the chemical
stuff at all again dumb YouTube comments
here but you know I don't it's extremely
difficult whatever this glaze is I don't
think you can get it off the road when
it's minus two minus five degrees out
and we've got blowing snow so as soon as
this plow goes past and you can see the
plume behind them I'm gonna move around
them
you can see the plume behind them you
know the wind picks up and then the road
is just covered again moments later so
really difficult
conditions to keep these roads in any
kind of good shape but that green off
the road is what really starts to scare
you as a driver when you see the road is
shining back at you Carl and it's I sort
of caked on snow or whatever once you
get on that stuff there's little to no
attractions
563 Metro
566.
we could probably use one more squad for
light would be good here
's one more squad for lights
yeah
shut down
and one five two you can send them back
wrong way in the ramp you've got to shut
down okay so now they're shutting down
that Ram so they can go backwards now
okay
I'm just checking a couple things here
in the background
up here there's a car
in the left lane
a little hard to see
I think there's one kind of against the
wall
so when we made contact with that other
driver
we he kind of came out to meet us which
is nice you know very Minnesota and very
Midwestern
yeah so they're out of their vehicle
looks like someone's helping them
already but I see that there's a couple
pedestrians on the side of the road
so we'll go check that out we'll throw
down some flares to help with the
visibility situation when we made
contact with that other driver let him
know hey don't be too hard on yourself a
lot of people are going off-road you
know just to be welcoming and a nice
Minnesotan we talked to them about kind
of games seeing if he get his car
started to see if he could either move
to a safer location but also to stay
warm as temperatures plummet tonight
okay
the planes are clear
694.51 freeway will be coming for the
vlr when they clear the 52. but he came
out to greet us which is so nice but we
did let him know hey freeway will be
coming back for the VOR something I
think you're hearing more and more from
a safety perspective is what in doubt
stay in your car and keep your seat belt
on right I mean he slid off in that same
look in that location there's nothing
that stops another car from sliding off
in that same location so if you slide
off in one location there's no guarantee
that someone else won't have have that
happen to him right there right
something's obviously
I think either stay in your car with
your seat belt on like if you're in your
car you might as well keep your seatbelt
on no reason not to
or like get way off the road but what
you don't want to do is just kind of
putz around by your car right so you
know have that time outside your car
deliberate so to speak have it be very
productive limit that time outside of
the car and then
and I guess you know if you're if you're
like I got to get out of my car you know
go on to the other side of the guardrail
where you have some protection or you
know just get way off the freeway if you
want to get 50 feet off the freeway
that's an option but don't just um
to North 35W
eastbound 10.
Okay so
20 26.
we've got We're looping back around
there's one crash against the wall 694
it looked like and then further down
from that there's one on Highway 10 and
35W which is actually not that far from
694.
foreign
this is I-94 in Minneapolis
uh not uh just uh just two months ago uh
Deputy Huntington County Deputy was shot
at while pursuing a vehicle right in
this area
and they just announced charges against
the occupant of those of that vehicle
that vehicle was able to flee and get
away after shooting at the Hennepin
County deputy
and just very recently it sounds like
they identified those individuals that
were shooting at that officer that
deputy and have charged them with
attempted murder
to
to tomb two males maybe 18 20 years old
out of another city not out of
Minneapolis but out of another city
traffic
we are looping around to check for a
possible crash
694 Eastbound in the center medium
and then another one on Highway
all right let's go check it out
synonym says I've been enjoying my
all-wheel drifting lately beautiful
drifting
my wheel control is amazing
uh Becca calling out good reminders to
have a high visibility vest or jacket in
your vehicle or coat
and to make sure you aren't staying
somewhere where you could be hit by
another vehicle and consider that they
might slide off-road and hit you too
fun fact sun doesn't actually Thomas
says Sun salt doesn't actually melt ice
a melts no nice it lowers the freezing
temperature of water
regular road salt will only work
effectively with temperatures down to 17
degrees Fahrenheit and we are at least
minus two degrees Fahrenheit what is our
current temperature minus two
so great call out by Thomas
and uh Gabe thank you so much Gabe
called out there's a car that's
completely off be aware
let's go check out
we've got a crash
foreign
looks like it might be on the map now
let's see
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China
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10-6 at East River Road
oh okay
four years from the character to another
vehicle through a cell phone 35 mile
Plus 149.
perfect from Stacy
so you can see in the top left corner
this is the crash that we're coming up
to Trooper arriving on scene and that is
a crash so as we went past that we saw
that they were against the wall
it sounds like it did con turn out to be
a confirmed crash two vehicles involved
that is up here on the left lane
all right left shoulder
623 Metro 623 623
I'll take a company tow unoccupied on a
U.S passenger car
an all-wheel drive Prius nice nice Mr
Honda
how do you like it
we'll throw out
three flares
all right on the left side one of the
cars is unoccupied up there so it's not
like they're going to be able to
relocate this crash somewhere where it's
a little safer
foreign
foreign
foreign
okay we've got those flares out
letting them know that there's a road
hazard ahead
and in
cold winter low visibility weather
those flares can have a huge effect
in terms of
drawing awareness to the fact that
there's a road hazard up there
is that snow or ice yes
all of the above
and if you look down there let's let's
see we've got kind of a nice camera
nicer camera here
they may have taken that
left lane there as they try to work that
crash
we're about a quarter mile away
but really happy with uh
camera kind of showing on some of the
camera quality
yeah I think they're partially blocking
that left lane
can't get a sense for about a quarter
mile I'd say away
foreign
and
drifting snow
like a Triple H here
um
thank you
30 70 cars for a stop locking in
somewhere without traction West 94 to
South 494.
30 first four days I'll block inside
494.
39 deal
2236 22 36.
hi from kirkov in Minnesota yeah an edge
cleaner minus two degrees Fahrenheit
wind chills of minus 19 or 20.
and a lot
a lot of blowing snow wow
pretty low visibility a lot of blowing
snow in the air
Jackie says we always get freezing rain
and drizzle in North Dakota before the
snow and sucks to drive on for sure for
sure because yeah there's definitely
situations wow that truck
that truck now that that lane is like
partially blocked up there
yeah
that truck was hauling
89. 99
please
yellow dot trucks the drivers are
capless heroes for sure and in oh hi
James says hi from Columbia Heights uh
John Robert says minus
Bobby thank you mine is 27 in
very amount of traffic out here
for 10 30 P.M
yeah Rebecca says that that scared me
too close that semi truck was hauling
and just continued down the left lane
and I want you know our windshield is
clear our lens is clear the the haze
that you're seeing that is all the
blowing
snow and falling falling snow
here's a car that's going to pass in the
left lane and that down there that lane
is partially blocked I'm almost positive
let's see we'll take another look but
I'm almost positive that lane down there
they're in that lane uh I'm pretty sure
the
uh
tow truck is in that left lane to get
that vehicle in order to get that
vehicle out of there
we're making it slowly but surely
yep yep I think all 50 states have move
over laws now really good question
foreign
people are just too
too rude
what Denise watching from Pennsylvania
thank you
and I want you to know uh you know we
were talking to that other driver we
said stay in your vehicle with your
seatbelt on I've got my seatbelt on
right now even though I'm stopped but um
for sure every time I get in my car
definitely seatbelt on first thing
thank you
and yeah I think there was actually
another crash on the right down there
oh oh let's go to uh we'll give you the
reverse angle too so yeah you can see
the situation I just pulled it up in the
top left corner you can see this is kind
of looking that's the DOT camera looking
the other way
at uh as they're trying to get that car
out of there
so you've got two angles two angles two
different videos of the same crash
foreign
other side here
there's a truck
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I don't know if we just had another
crash but there's a white pickup truck
on the right side over here now
Emily says I tried using flares one time
and cars drove right over the flares so
far in my experience has been a little
better than that because
cars seem a little more afraid to drive
over flares uh but of course you know
your mileage may vary
I'm just taking a closer look at this
white pickup truck to see if I see any
damage on it because we've had several
crashes oh so this is 694 we're over the
mighty Mississippi uh so
us uh so we're on a bridge lots of
crashes happen here it's a bridge deck
it's icy it's cold
so very common to see crashes and we and
you know case until case in point we've
got two crashes down there and now we've
got to pick up we've got to crash down
here on the right and the left
underneath his van
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I had led flashers and people ran them
over
uh Terry saying hi from Tulsa
hi Brian sounds like
yeah they're um and then on our left
where we've got this pickup looks like
they're
out and inspecting on the left side of
your screen they're out kind of looking
at the front end for maybe possible
damage
and then down here we've got a crash on
the left and the right
I blew a tire in Connecticut the other
night hazards and triangles and nobody
moved over I think the best compliance I
have seen is with road flares uh I think
this is all anecdotes right and again
you're free to call me a dumb YouTuber
but
and you might not be wrong you're
probably right but
road flares have the highest compliance
out of anything that I've seen in terms
of compared to like Road triangles I've
seen a lot of Road triangles get just
completely crushed or obliterated I've
I've seen better success with properly
deployed set of three to six ground
flares three four five six road flares
but you know
um
and I do love Minnesota moving I again
I'm originally from Michigan so moving
to Minnesota has been one of the best
decisions I ever made with my of My Life
um I think the people here are great
and you'll hear we did turn on the
blower to just make sure that our front
window is defrosted
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just to keep that front window
fresh and clean
it says I plan on getting those battery
powered flares I've heard good things
I've seen some good reviews on Amazon
Brandon says a road Slayer saved me from
driving through a flooded road that is
awesome uh flooding one of the leading
causes of weather related fatalities
flooding floods are super dangerous
way um way more dangerous than lightning
way way way more dangerous floods are
way more dangerous than lightning uh
[Applause]
you can't see it off on our left got a
first responder looks like a fire rig
fire engine responding
so we'll see what else we've got going
on it is nice to see some of the
vehicles starting to slow down they see
the flares they see the flashing lights
on both sides of the road putting on
their four ways letting traffic behind
them let them know that something's
going on something to miss ahead but
it's time to perk up
so that is nice seeing people put on
their four ways
uh Jason says hello from the middle of
Georgia
thanks for giving us a view of Home
twinsies
Terry says we're supposed to get around
get to zero between
now and Friday noon
uh good deals on road flares I had to
search a long time to find a decent deal
on road players
Home Depot will have decent prices if
they're in stock I forgot where I found
them from
um but it's really hard to find
three for less than ten dollars if you
can find three road flares for less than
ten dollars in their 30 minute road
flares or 20 minute road flares that's
that's a pretty good deal
from what I've seen
Scott says I drive a tractor trailer
hate seeing people not slowing down or
moving over yeah totally totally very
preventable stuff right
um John says hope everyone has a merry
Christmas Todd drives a dump truck in
the Twin States took the rest of the
week off that sounds smart
let's see
well uh let's refresh this you can kind
of get an update Maybe
[Applause]
pruna says do Bridges not have automated
built-in de-icing
i-35w over the Mississippi does have
automated de-icing most bridges do not
know and I assume that's an expense
thing sounds crazy expensive to me and
you know like you have to deal with like
the pipes that support that you have to
deal with them not freezing
mm-hmm
[Applause]
[Applause]
very good question about automated
de-icing
and we're just checking out on the top
left safety vid this kind of shows the
most recent stuff that's being
dispatched so we can see the text uh you
know if you missed something on dispatch
audio we can see the text of what calls
are out there so a crash on I-90 us-52
you can see the time stamp so this one
just came out at 10 42 this one at 10 37
10 36 10 35 so about a crash every once
once a minute I-94 westbound a stalled
vehicle
um
let me let me are you able to see that
on your screen yeah
[Applause]
but
494
us-10
Highway 37 I-35 vehicle spin up okay
here's the one that we're on
so here's this call came out at
10 25 i-694 eastbound between
Exit 36 and East River Road in in
Fridley near Highway 47 or MN 47 look
out for a crash looks like it involved a
couple Vehicles i-694 eastbound
oh
Dave says i-35e also has automatic
de-icing over the river bridge awesome
awesome thank you Dave for saying that
for letting us know about that
so let's see if we can so the camera
that has this up is the East River Road
camera
I'll show you guys a cool feature which
is we can actually play back this camera
I'm pretty sure so let's this came out
at 10 25.
[Applause]
oh what let's go to cameras
[Applause]
so
[Applause]
Westbound at East River Road
traffic
foreign
[Applause]
so the cool thing is we can kind of
rewind this camera and see we'll just
check and see if the crash occurred on
camera
that's what's happening on the top left
side of your screen
[Applause]
foreign
okay so this was five minutes before the
crash occurred or the five minutes
before the crash was dispatched and so
what we've done is we we've rewound the
video
and we can kind of skip ahead
[Applause]
foreign
[Applause]
oh looks like it you can looks like you
can see it on the on the
watch the crash is going to happen on
camera
NC cars breaking
so the the crash that's on your right
screen the crash that's up ahead you
have and you can see a car
you know it's it's a little hard to see
it's a little bit further down and away
from the
camera
but on the left side of your screen you
can see that crash start to happen and
then oh yeah there it is
just happened
there's that crash they rear-ended the
vehicle in front of them and then pushed
them into the wall
so we know what caused this crash
let's see if we can play that back one
more time
I think it happened
oh yep
oh yeah car's breaking
um
and then someone's going to rear end
them and send them into the wall
and it's a little hard to see it's far
down there this is the crash that we're
on we're just replaying the video
we'll rewind that one more time
before
did that make any better let's try that
again
let me know if this makes it any better
see in that crash on camera
cars are breaking
more 2253
.
and boom there's a collision sends them
right into the wall
that's tough so you know speed can play
a factor or being a distracted driver
but unfortunately the car it looked like
to me I mean it's really hard to make
out from this granny vehicle video but
the the car that got hit into the wall
got rear-ended by another car that could
not break in time we'll try doing this
one last time
oh I think that's it
wow
there's a car wait a moment so there's a
car in the left shoulder watch yep and
then cars break and they hit the car in
the left shoulder they they couldn't
stop in time so they start to use the
left shoulder to get around them and
they hit the car
so
I just think it's so cool that MnDOT
created this these cameras you just
learned so much so you can see that's
the crash that we're on
that's that's rewinding and uh
getting to see what led up to these
crashes
uh and someone said we can turn down our
wipers sorry
foreign
on the other side state trooper showing
up to that pickup
that was stopped so we've got
more as well
you can't see it but there's uh we've
got a crash ahead and we've actually got
a crash behind us
yeah so we've seen a car get hit on the
shoulder tonight
good good
country five
different myself to be at 951 Juno
Avenue in New Falls with the eight
around suspect vehicle with both cases
all right getting back on the road
and we were looking at we pulled up that
that's we pulled up safety vid that
showed us that crashes were coming in
roughly at about a one crash a minute
there oh people get the program
and you can really see the blowing and
drifting snow
causing visibility issues Road at all
oh spin out in the Larry Hill Tunnel
eastbound
well we could go
let's go check out Eastbound in the
Lowry Hill Tunnel
Larry Hill Tunnel
so just to be extra safe we're going
about 36 miles per hour it looks like
it's roughly the speed of the vehicle
ahead of us I don't think we're
necessarily gaining on them or falling
behind
Eastbound in the Lowry Hill Tunnel
bus stop
s
so that's a live look at
Lowry Hill Tunnel
and that's right around that curve
they're in a they're in a tough spot
they're in a blind spot for sure
that is a tough spot so on the left hand
of your screen
we've got that live stream showing that
car it's spun out hit the wall in the
Lowry Hill Tunnel on i-94. there's not a
brand new vehicle back here that might
have been the start of all this uh
Collision here our doctor freeways and
it's expected each other
cars are coming in at freeway speeds
hopefully they do not get hit
but that's that's the live look state
troopers just got dispatched to it
no police on scene yet
saying that's a cool feature we have
thank you big uh glad glad to hear it
Okay so we've got a green light but this
car is not going to stop then
Excel be careful
be careful
okay
You're Gonna Move It
too many drunk players You're Gonna Move
It
hey we're flipping it around now
police on scene
I love the enthusiasm if you see it oh
my gosh what is going on
fireman's check
please
buy me a check
looks like
looks like they were running to get
their friend
this is all nice and packed on snow
thankfully we weren't going very fast
that was downhill and that was all
packed down ice and snow
on the left side of your screen you can
see that is exactly how you should
handle that situation they're getting
the driver that car was drivable the
whole time right so this is a lesson
that we can all take away if you're
watching this you know promote these
types of messages
to
to the people that you know politely you
know not in like a mean way but you know
encourage them like hey did you think
you know that car was drivable it was
blocking the left lane of traffic on a
freeway at night in the middle of a
blizzard and
on the freeway right uh but they just
kind of left their car there right they
didn't know what to do but it turned out
the car was drivable the whole time they
got it flipped around turned around and
got them back on their way so they're no
longer road hazard no one else is just
going to smack into them
really good policing but also probably
stuff for each of us to learn from these
experienced Troopers that are out here
every day doing this is you know if it's
drivable
and it's okay to do so see if you can
get it off the road see if you can get
the vehicle into a safer place where
it's not just gonna get
smacked into
but that was an especially precarious
situation they're in the left lane on a
freeway on a curve zero visibility
during a blizzard and they were just
going to leave their car they'd abandon
their car they would start to walk away
from it you know they're trying to get
help they're they're trying to do what's
right not knowing hey it's okay to just
you know
uh get out of the lane of traffic first
and foremost you know think about safety
first and then worry kind of about those
reporting and insurance issues later
pull off at the next exit and then you
know and then exchange information do
that type of stuff does that sound fair
again you're getting advice from a
random YouTuber but we just saw that
Real World experience in the Lowry Hill
Tunnel on the left side of your screen
Top Hand left side where that car was
blocking land traffic very precarious
okay
foreign
okay so we are going to go up to Highway
10 it's up here in about a mile and go
check for more vehicle Vehicles off-road
vehicles that have spun out and as these
temperatures drop you're starting to see
more of these roads start to kind of get
that glaze look to them which is very
unsettling as a driver so we'll see
what's up here
let's go back to
here
yeah let's uh
Becca calling out where a hive is vest
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streams to you we'd like this is day one
of the blizzard day two and day three
are likely going to get worse according
to the National Weather Service Today is
kind of like an orange travel day and
then tomorrow is a red travel day and
Saturday is a purple travel day
um I guess purple is the worst uh or
maybe they had to make a new color I
don't know
uh we want to do more if you look at
this I'm sorry but there's just so much
glaze on these roads as you can see it
in uh as with this uh tow truck I'm
sorry plow uh the light's kind of
flashing off but you can see there's so
much glaze on these roads right now
and with the temperatures getting so
cold very little that salt or brine or
some of these concoctions are going to
do unless we're putting lava on the road
I don't think this
ice is going anywhere you can see some
more of the glaze uh these are you know
these lights are kind of reflecting you
can see the glaze in that left lane and
it's on the right lane too but
yeah
a little unsettling
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aspects and I cannot get enough of look
at all this ice
or pack snow or whatever it's all it's
reflective surfaces which makes me very
nervous
Road it's on 169 feet
and you heard state patrol dispatch
road Southbound 169 150th
Street by 155
345 155. David says do you think the
roads are going to be worse tomorrow I
think there's going to be more blowing
snow tomorrow according to the National
Weather Service or at least what I read
uh so double check
um Rebecca thanks for the heads up about
the video chappiness definitely
appreciated but it sounds like it's
getting better
yeah
boycott asking indirectly if we have a
criminal record no we do not have a
criminal record
um but good to ask good good to ask good
to check no problems with that no
problems asking
uh
uh John Roberts calling out that his
he's got family in Rockford Illinois
pretty pretty tough travel conditions
across Minnesota across Wisconsin
Northern Illinois I think as well
National Weather Service for your best
forecasts
who's your who's your daddy calling out
suspect running it did look like that
for a moment I wasn't going to be
surprised but it looked like they were
just getting the driver of the car like
it was the passenger going and getting
the driver
status but they did take off sprinting
definitely took off sprinting
we're up in the north Metro a couple
crashes not that far from us
uh we are streaming
to give you all the best experience we
are streaming with uh Canon camcorder
so that we can kind of zoom in real far
down on incidents and provide a higher
quality
4K stream or high end higher quality
1080p stream for you all
that's why we do ask for money but
that's okay uh and then we we run we run
it off uh some equipment in the car
but also provide that uh that radar in
the bottom left which I think is kind of
a handy maybe feature let us know what
you think of it if we don't like it we
can always get rid of it but you can see
that snow just does not stop it keeps
coming in maybe we'll put the radar in
motion for you all and you can see it
just keeps every time you think like
there the wave is over a new wave just
kind of pops up some people call these
like in the springtime training storms
or whatever because they're like a train
like a new storm just keeps popping up
that's been a snow situation for the
last 12 hours it has not stopped snowing
here uh last 14 hours it has not stopped
snowing since nine a.m it's now 11 p.m
so 14 hours you know that's not click
bait stuff that's the real situation
here it has been like this and it's this
type of snow sometimes it's a little bit
stronger sometimes this is about as
light as it gets but it just has not
stopped snowing
and each time you think oh there's like
I said a wave went past it just a new
wave like pops up a new I don't know do
they call them waves new
Squall pops up and you get more snow
good questions about the equipment uh
and then we talked a little bit about
earlier in the night bonded cellular
equipment so to kind of make this live
stream as smooth as possible and give
you these uh higher quality feeds we
combine our at T signal cellular signal
with our Verizon data signal to really
provide a higher upload speed to kind of
give buttery smooth live stream uh at
least that's our goal it's not always
perfect but it's way better than just
using one cell service if you get into a
spotty area you still get your backup
service
pressure 50 70 cars for 10.50 two single
Vehicles W between the question 13. yeah
so
close crash just getting called out 935w
ahead of us two vehicles involved
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control
right here
and then
up here we've got another
wreck or something going on
let's see what what is this
Let Me Slowly vehicle spun out here's
the look this is what we're coming up on
yeah vehicle off
on the left
there are some flares in the median
okay
okay so there's something going on up
ahead if you take the exit gotcha gotcha
wow so
another car
out there
we'll loop around so you can get in our
view at it but we've got
three squads out there
that's your Metro
trying to that's the car that we started
the night at yeah there's three squads
out there now semi's clear the Rams back
open wow look at this blowing snow I
mean look at the
on your left
I mean the ground is all ice or glazed
over
and whenever a truck on coming out
spotting another vehicle off-road
I really want to hang out here make sure
you can clear these things
Delaware between Belle Plaine and Jordan
Delaware
between Bell Planet Jordan
Butler Studio
I would like to loop around
113 you want me back
so there's plows stuck stopped on the
bridge there's an accident behind us and
then there's a
car off on the left off on the right
actually
also behind us unrelated to the crash
about half mile away from the crash
oh I think we've got
a couple of things to say thank you
we've got a new member
Gabe Z welcome to platinum membership
wow thank you Gabe means so much to us
really appreciate that means a ton
really brings a smile to our face after
a very very cold day
Gabe thank you so much means a ton Roz
thanks for the live stream guys stay
stay safe Roz donating twenty dollars
thank you Roz that really helps
support us with our time with our
equipment even helps us purchase some
safety equipment to stay safe like our
high visibility vests even some Amber
lights on the vehicle means a lot to us
thank you Roz I mean so much Roz and
Ross
Lake private Zone
in Arizona
forest lake private Zone
Rebecca answering a great question the
other traffic the other channel is
called Wham slam traffic cam kind of a
funny name but it kind of gets the point
across lots of great footage from those
MnDOT traffic cameras uh I think MnDOT
putting in a fair amount of thought
leadership in terms of
getting intelligence getting information
out to the public about what crashes are
really like about and having to network
a camera Network that really provides
some real-time Intel as to what the
roads are like that 511 amp that MnDOT
provides if you're ever traveling
through MnDOT or you live in Minnesota I
consider it one of the best amps one of
the most required apps if you're a
traveler going through Minnesota or
living in Minnesota really nice job nice
job Minnesota
yeah and uh as other people mentioned
I'm or I like to talk about I came from
Michigan
um moving to Minnesota one of the best
decisions of my life was living in
Suburban Detroit
and uh really have enjoyed living in the
Twin Cities
okay so there was a vehicle off-road up
here on the right
winter storm warning
in effect that's what that sign says
winter storm warning
in effect
we have an option to go to Duluth we can
take 35W North all the way to Duluth
it'll join with I-35
we can take i-35w North to Duluth
but we're not going to do that that's a
long drive and it'll be truly White
Knuckle driving I mean
um however bad the visibility here is so
much worse once you get outside the
cities
this is where we started the night was
uh
meeting up with this driver just making
sure that she was okay
and because she was in a pretty tight
spot getting out this is a curve it's a
downhill you're on a bridge
um you know traffic coming in has no
visibility and you can see oh my gosh is
the tow truck stuck I don't know
wow
wow
did the tow truck get hit I don't know
but the tow truck is way
way down there
way down there
what happened
wow
we'll we'll loop around so you guys can
get another look at that that was
something else
I'm not making trying to laugh at
anyone's Misfortune I should be careful
uh I'm glad to hear that looked like
everyone was okay but that tow truck was
way off-road
um and that
that crash was there at the start of our
live stream and again getting to the
difficulty of that situation you're on a
blind curve
minus 20 degree fahrenheit temperatures
you know we're 50 degrees below freezing
uh we've got blizzard-like conditions
blowing snow winter storm warning right
and it's downhill so if anyone comes
around that blind curve
um and tries to apply their brakes well
the ground is already Frozen there's
snow packed there's ice but also they're
downhill so even if they do get traction
whatever traction they have gravity is
pulling them down into that situation
um so it's really good to see that there
are three squad cars out there
lighting up the scene giving drivers
advance notice as they come into that
situation
I'm sure they've thought about or
discussed closing down the ramp so that
they can get that while they can get
that car out of there
but we'll loop back around and you can
see just how far into the snowpack that
um
that tow truck was
Roz donating twenty dollars again I just
want to say thank you so much means so
much to us and it helps us do more of
these the biggest reason we don't do
these every night in Minnesota whether
it's crime watching or weather watching
or whatever the biggest reason we don't
is is time and money so thank you this
definitely helps us encourage us to do
more of these especially when we get
these big big weather events
uh let's see and I want to check the
chat here in a moment
Rebecca saying
I'll check the audio and see what
happened there
Rebecca so Becca Rebecca chartier in the
chat Rebecca I hope that's how you see
your last name
runs the Anoka County police blotter
extremely informed in terms
happenings in Anoka County
or larger Twin Cities
and
yeah
ramp 221 10 to 35W North it's gonna be
waiting for Private Sales
two vehicles in the ditch ramp 21 1035 W
North it's gonna be waiting for five to
tell us not walking
2320 23 20.
earlier in the night at the center
section we saw a tow truck pulling
another tow truck that had gotten stuck
some trough
tough driving for sure and
when the nights started and I I guess I
should be careful saying this
you know I will you know it really felt
like one out of five cars ended up
off-road I'm glad so far that has not
been us
I don't know I'm a little cautious to
attribute it to myself because I think
uh some of that is just luck
but by all means we've been trying to be
pretty diligent about our safety trying
to be pretty diligent about keeping our
speeds down
we're going 38 miles an hour right now
but we're going to come up on this scene
on our left
we've got three squad cars out a car off
the road and now the tow truck is way
stuck I mean way stuck
uh Mr Honda black sharing a bit of Mr
Honda blink sharing a bit of personal
news uh wow September 15th 2015 hit head
on by a distracted driver lost 11 teeth
seven surgeries
suffered to this day from both ocular
and hemiplagic migraines ocular eye okay
I've got that figured out less familiar
with the word
hemiplegic uh maybe we're referring to
hemispheres of the head
more surgery to come and I think this is
a great story and I'm glad you're
sharing it
um you know when we hear that someone
survived a crash
and was only injured these are some of
the injuries that we're talking about
you know life-changing injuries
affecting our quality of life
um
it's really
more knowledge out there now I think
we're learning a lot more about
traumatic brain injuries
but when we hear that someone is injured
in a crash I was just listening to
another person who got rear-ended on a
crash and they thought they were okay
but hours later you know that adrenaline
wore off and they realized that
something was seriously wrong with their
head
sp12 uh a warning to us all perhaps you
know I just think there's a maybe
a lot more that we can kind of think
through learning as a society about when
it comes to
plenty of vehicle injuries and just how
life-changing they can be you don't have
to go far to find someone who's been
affected by
a traumatic brain injury or a car crash
I knew a guy uh he spun out on a bridge
hit the center wall
this car is flashing their lights at me
to let me know
the situation up ahead which is good and
I see the flares you know good context
clues use context clues to your
advantage be aware of the situation
ahead
yeah so this is where we've got the uh
toe off toe way off the road we're using
two
thanks to these guys for their work and
maybe uh maybe they had to just deploy a
second one
that that second tow truck is definitely
stuck
very stuck
very stuck oh we should see if it's on
camera if the I know that there's a
traffic camera above this intersection
so let's pull it up on our top left
screen
and take a look
yeah yeah this is what
yeah there's the situation I can't show
just how
stuck that
truck is but it is stuck
they are going to be there for a long
time
and I'm sorry I laughed at that I'm
sorry I laughed at that uh you know
um
no problem
so that that's uh
a live look live stream top left corner
of those two plows working now to one
plow working to get the car unstuck and
a plow working to get the other plow
unstuck
and that other plow is really stuck in
there I I wonder if it got hit I I don't
know
um I don't know how else it would have
gotten so far in there
foreign
we'll get back on 35W take a look I
thought there was I mean it's very hard
to go more than a mile or half a mile
without seeing another vehicle off-road
so I don't think we'll have to go far
harsh block
boyfriend
60 75 for us so partial walking he's
removed West 94 at Western
Community Maryland
21 from Maryland
okay so call of a stall partially
blocking so partially blocking the lane
of traffic you can't do that on the
freeway very dangerous situation uh
especially with the blizzard but it's
dangerous even during daytime hours
uh that's I-94 in St Paul
East Metro District 2400 that just got
dispatched
okay
see
you
know I don't know it's hard to tell
sometimes like are you getting back on
the interstate or are you arriving at
the ski resort because from the context
it's hard to tell sometimes could just
as easily be pulling into the ski resort
but we're actually getting back on the
freeway
and I would guess we've probably seen
20 car crashes Vehicles off-road
so far we had a semi blocking a ramp
because it couldn't get up anymore it
was stopped at the top of it and was
stopping traffic behind it
um
I'm seeing some good stuff in the chat
people sharing a little bit about either
themselves or people that they know
suffering the effects you know they were
only quote unquote injured from a car
crash but
um you know had some real effects on
them
boycott saying tbis are very diverse
because they're extremely specific
depending on the part of the brain
effect I worked Critical Care ICU for
six years children are most
heartbreaking yep for sure for sure
foreign
TS to No 19 and 83 damn Alex uh
just started snowing again in Rockford
Minnesota
still no wind yet yeah I'm very curious
to see what the wind is going to be like
tomorrow and just I don't know what the
blowing wind situation is going to be
uh Alec uh Alex says I hit a deer in
Mankato
20th of October on a motorcycle at 60
miles per hour
had bought the bike same day
told not to write at night but didn't
listen only broke my cowboy bone two
scratches collarbone can take a while to
heal from what I hear
no personal experience but that does not
sound very fun
uh Gregory Johnson saying drive safe
brother thank you
never been to California don't want to
go flipped a car when I was a friend
driving too fast on Route 380 near
Scranton Pennsylvania flipped a car okay
so uh
while we're waiting for our next car
crash to randomly pop up at any time or
location
uh new research showing about the
effects of rollovers uh rollovers are
always a very serious types of Crash
even a partial rollover you know half a
rollover but
uh each time a car rolls over the more
serious the crash is likely to be so
it's not perfect math but there's some
really good research on rollovers the
first time you roll over second time you
roll over third time you roll over once
you get to rolling over three or more
times the risk of these high level
injuries that's like injury type 3 or
whatever are a lot lot more common and
then you know they do this research for
people who are injected or partially
ejected
um
survivability goes down and this is
pretty intuitive right I don't think
this is like amazing science right but
it's nice that someone double checked
this stuff but each time the car rolls
over survivability goes down if you're
buckled in by the time you roll over the
third time uh your chance of passing
away in a car crash like that is around
20 one out of five if you're unbuckled
it's 85 80 or 85 or higher
um and from we do we don't we tend not
to publish these types of crashes but
from the videos that we've seen and I'm
speaking candidly here so that you all
can learn something
um when people are ejected from
rollovers the they go out the side
window because the car's got expun to
the side they go out the side window
um and then the car rolls on top of them
that's what happens during a rollover
when someone is ejected uh it's very
tragic those are not survivable types of
crashes so
um but the cool I guess if you ever were
a witness to a rollover crash it's kind
of helpful you know if you can count how
many times the car rolls over it's a
good indication of speed it's a good
indication of the forces involved
um and the more they roll over
especially once you get to three or more
survivability goes down
even if you're buckled in your chances
of surviving that crash are only about
20 uh
um one out of five will not survive if
you're unbuckled four out of five will
not survive
ooh Andrew
hot here in Perth Australia wow 37
degrees hot which is 37 degrees Celsius
that's crazy it is summertime in
Australia
foreign
just north of 394.
another crash 10.50
94 and 394. 94 25. 673 is blocking but
transit's got the ramp to Bolson
Memorial walk there 673 is blocking but
transit's got the ramp to Olson Memorial
block there okay so the crash is black
in Atlanta traffic
and Metro Transit so Metro Transit
Police are also out sounds like they're
helping police the crash even though
State Patrol will have jurisdiction on
that crash
in there you can feel the ice you know
I'm going five miles an hour but take a
look
there's no traffic around me so I'm
gonna slow down here
uh we'll just kind of zoom in
look at all the glaze
thanks
uh Ben saying hey Alex I believe I towed
your bike after that car deer crash
after that motorcycle bike crash wow
wow Nicole saying I have winter driving
PTSD my first winter driving I got my
car totaled pretty bad wow yeah super
scary crashes
uh Rebecca reminding us it is -4 here
um minus one which is minus 20 degrees
Celsius
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Chicago and I want to thank the people
that were able to share some of their
crash stories
for a crash West on Highway 5 at Auburn
30 45 169 Old Shakopee Road
yeah you know
it's 11 30 there just not that many
drivers on the road but they continue to
call out a crash every minute or two
another call uh they just called out a
crash with possible injuries check for
injuries unknown a known injury crash
in the Southeast Metro
I just want to say on a final note thank
you so much to the people that shared
some of their stories about surviving a
crash or hearing what others have gone
through means so much and I do think
there's something to be said for us all
learning more about you know what it's
like you know quote unquote to just be
injured from a car crash it's a
complicated story
traumatic brain injuries are complicated
that recovery process is complicated and
the emotions that go with it and you
know even from a minor crash right you
have to deal with the pain of you know
figuring out a car rental getting your
car fixed maybe the other driver drove
off you know
um so just a lot of I guess sympathy
grind awareness to the effect that car
crashes have on people right
um
boy look at this I don't mean the
visibility is just crazy this is
probably a pretty good time to turn in
so I just want to say
yeah that's right
into the words of Slash Master slow down
players and playheads
and special thank you to Rebecca who is
able to
be one of our moderators for the chat
and she runs the Anoka County
police blotter on Facebook you can also
follow her on Twitter she is both smart
and snarky but also produces really
great information about being further
better prepared and better aware of
what's going on in no County but better
prepared in general for anyone anywhere
in the US
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oh Ben
we have red yellow and white trucks with
blue booms
kind of strange but that's probably the
transition Ben where is that
let me know
all right well you all have a good night
stay safe and
Merry Christmas
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