Texas Winter Storm Causes Power Outages & Fuel Shortage - Icy Weather Conditions / Road Trip Day 3
Winter 2021 Cross Country Road Trip Day 3
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i am happy to report and very satisfied
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that my car
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started this morning in the seven degree
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temperature here in van horn texas
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whoo look at this accumulation
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of snow very beautiful and i'm going to
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be heading
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eastward current time 8 am as i
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say you welcome everyone adam
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wu here today's adventure we'll continue
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my journey
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eastbound across interstate 10.
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even though it is 7 degrees it was 10
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degrees
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last evening when i checked into this
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hotel
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and the wind chill was intense it
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almost doesn't feel anywhere near as
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cold maybe i'm just getting acclimated
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to it
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doubtful because my hands are starting
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to numb i'm going to get in the car fuel
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up
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and see what the day bestows i'm
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inviting you to join me
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okay yeah now it's getting okay i spoke
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too soon it's getting cold
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i'm inviting you to join me shall you
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279
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fueling up and i was gonna clean my
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window off but it
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appears to be that that mechanism
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the little handle that you wipe off the
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window is frozen over
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just clicked on the little handle there
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that way i don't have to to hold on
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goodness
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this is a quite an accumulation here
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next to
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next to the pump yeah 279
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which i think is a little more than i
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paid yesterday but considerably less
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than a couple days ago in southern
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california this is day three
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of my cross-country road trip
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brisk oh yeah over here
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is moving a volkswagen
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okay it just clicked it stopped time to
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get some coffee and get moving
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surprisingly based on the terrain and
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the
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amount of snowfall the road conditions
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are not
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quite as bad as i assumed
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they would be i could have narrowly
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missed
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the snowplow going through here and
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cleaning it up but i also wait until
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after daylight sometimes i'll wake up
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early and hit the road at dark
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i decided to wait till the sun was up to
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hopefully burn some of this off it's
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going to warm up
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a little bit the farther east i go
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throughout the day it's not going to get
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above freezing but it is going to warm
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a little bit so i think that might help
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my chances just cruising along about 45
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miles an hour
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does it appear to be too much traffic
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at the moment 8 35 a.m
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the thing you really got to be careful
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for are the turns in case there's any
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slick ice and descent you can see the
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trucks are going very slow
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i try to stay in the lane that everyone
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else is kind of in because
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if there is ice there's no scientific
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proof for this but i just figured the
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tires
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for the vehicles in front of me hundreds
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of well dozens of them
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will kind of break up the ice a little
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bit so you can see there's more
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snow and ice in that other lane than the
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one i'm at
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that's just kind of my philosophy just
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take it slow
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the temperature through here seven
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degrees just checked
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the landscape is very beautiful that's
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one thing the scenery is amazing
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which is the dangerous driving
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conditions
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not the best
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i'm not really in a rush as long as i
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continue east
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it's all that really matters
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got a car down there his left probably
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slid
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off some abandoned ruins
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i gotta say gotta hand it to the
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truckers for dealing with all this
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that's mostly who's on the road my dad
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was a trucker for quite a while
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so i can see their point of view i have
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to get
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the things that we need to their
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destinations
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they are carrying on through all the
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elements
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it's kind of cruising along only going
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about
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14 miles an hour
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down in the center
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looking over the i guess you'd call this
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a valley
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just look over there look at all that
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snow
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there's a lot of gonna be a lot of
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scenery in this video just a heads up
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spoiler alert scenic vlog
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temperature just dropped to seven
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degrees now
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i was hoping it was going to warm up a
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bit
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does it hasn't happened yet
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seven degrees
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oh gotta roll this weight drop it's
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brisk notice how everyone is driving
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directly in the middle of the road the
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line the middle line
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is in the middle no one is splitting
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lanes oh goodness there's another one
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this
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has veered off lost control this is no
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joke
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yeah this is no joke through here
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no one's messing around with doing the
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too late deal
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just going right right down the center
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see the yellow lines and then you see
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the tire tracks of everyone
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just just following where it's dry and
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non-slick
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and if it happens if it need be i'll
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i'll pull over
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someone is passing me i got more
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gumption than i do
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oh see i'm sliding oh my gosh yeah
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i'm just i'm only going about 16 miles
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an hour
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i can see why that they slid off there
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come on son
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we need you i need those sun beams out
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here
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to melt all this ice this is i am not
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enjoying this
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at all i i really do not like
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not feeling any sort of contact on my
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tires to the ground and just
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slipping and sliding i'm not a fan
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yes go snowplow go
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to say that was stressful is a little
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bit of an understatement
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finally found a place to kind of
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catch my my thoughts
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yeah not fun
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not a fun experience now i could have
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stayed put i thought about staying in
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the hotel i had last night for
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another night but i have i'm having some
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faith that the sun
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as the day progresses and the the
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afternoon starts to rear its head
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that it's going to melt off but right
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for right now it's very very slow going
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i have to
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take my stress level down just a little
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bit you know especially when you see all
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these signs that say
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that bridges may ice and cold weather
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cold it's
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only about 10 degrees it has gone up two
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degrees three degrees
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to 10 degrees when the
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when the snow is completely melted and
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sometimes the ice
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peaks out and the track the the
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tires gain no traction whatsoever
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i'm not used to i'm not used to driving
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in too much cold weather when i was in a
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band we did tours and stuff
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and the van was always weighted down
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with four or five
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guys and equipment i don't have a lot in
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my car i am
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transporting and moving a few things
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from southern california of a place out
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there to my
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my new place in celebration florida so i
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have a few items but i don't have a lot
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of weight other than myself traveling
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alone and a few items in the back
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sometimes a weighted down vehicle helps
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you know well i i don't know if it's
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100 true but that's just my assumption
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all right it appears as if
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it's a little better a little bit better
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at least this lane
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we go a little quicker than 20 miles an
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hour we'd probably go
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35 or 40. still be safe
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yeah this is looking promising
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oh wow
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there's an oil rig right over there in
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that park
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also an interpretation of a
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cattle drive made out of metal
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fort stockton
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just kind of stopped and pulled over
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next two
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just so happens to be whoa i'm glad that
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car didn't splash
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dirty mud up on me probably should have
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been a little farther away from the
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thoroughfare
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yesterday i believe it was yesterday
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in the recent it was yesterday at a rest
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stop there was a road runner
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and here is another road runner fort
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stockton someone just drove by in an rv
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they're pointing over this way
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i don't think they're pointing at me i
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think they were saying that is a rather
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large
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road runner
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it is it's a very good sized one here
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saying
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welcome to fort stockton
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feels good to stretch the legs i've been
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definitely cooped up
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in my car for a while going at a very
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slow pace
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and it's it seems as if the roads are
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opening up so that is
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that is a good sign but i had to stop
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off and see that you gotta
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you gotta stop off and see this
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magnificent large
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road runner what are the wiley coyotes
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around anywhere
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watch out road runner coyotes are not
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well you might be friends with a coyote
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but
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none of them named wiley he is
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mischievous and devious
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oh this says five o'clock
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somewhere it's not five o'clock here
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not quite but there is a roadrunner
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oh why is somewhere in quotes
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huh look at
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the ice dripping there off of there
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this is the business loop of town about
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to get back on the thoroughfare
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yeah look at all the snow
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it's not just as you drive you also have
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the issue
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of walking you can be deceived because
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underneath the snow could be a layer of
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very
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slick ice beautiful snow
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turns into murky
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ness and look at the steam coming off of
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the road there
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the steam from the asphalt
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all right moving on i've i've walked and
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talked and rambled a little bit i just
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don't want to plummet i have slipped
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before
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i haven't slipped today but i have
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slipped and fallen
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and ice it's it is very
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whoa gotta get out of the the walkway
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don't splash me thank you sir
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okay back in the car it's a gas station
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up here and a convenience store
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you can see a lot of truckers oh it's a
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love truck stop is what it is
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but the trucks are all lined up this is
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getting back on to the tent
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here it is a real beehive of activity
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i do like that the the snow and ice is
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melting
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some sort that sun is doing its job
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this is promising i'd rather see the
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the moistness there on the the concrete
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that i would ice
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looks as if way over there
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top of that hill there's some windvilles
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also it's very interesting the speed
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limit through most of
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texas on the interstate is 80 miles an
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hour
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and it's strange only going about half
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that
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check out this peak up here this
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mountain kind of protruding upward
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it's a very interesting formation isn't
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it
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yeah look at that thing it's very unique
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a little bit of a non-freeway view
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heading into well just off
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the interstate to ozona
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the roads are looking very promising
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that is the crockett county museum
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and i believe don't quote me on this but
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crockett county courthouse
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and there is a placard here
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oh someone else has stepped up there
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very recently i'm gonna
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follow suit don't slip i'm gonna
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these are not my footprints by the way
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someone else someone else was here i
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have not
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walked up there just parked and this
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says
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formed from bexar territory
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created the town or the county january 2
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1875 named in honor
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of davey well david crockett
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1786-1836
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member of the u.s congress from
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tennessee
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and hero of
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the alamo now whoever else was here they
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walked along
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the snow i'm gonna go back down
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oh that could that could have ended
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badly if that was
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some ice there
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now the inscription says be sure you are
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right
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then go ahead there he is mr crockett
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himself
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well a carving of david crockett davy
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crockett
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it's like a beautiful little courtyard
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in fact the name of the town ozona
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biggest little town in the world
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that's what that sign states just off
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the tent
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very quaint little community here
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there's the bank
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it is brisk very brisk that's the words
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that i've been using on multiple
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occasions during this journey
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and i'm going to follow these footprints
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here too
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i don't know if these are left over from
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the last couple days it's probably
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snowed since then so this is probably
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very recent
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someone was here very recently
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okay this says william mozart mcveigh
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he was the sculptor okay
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this art deco sculpture of david
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was done in 1938
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by mr william mozart
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mcvay be sure you are right
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then go ahead
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cold you're cold stomp your feet
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stomp your feet i wonder whoever was
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stomping their feet yes
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yes
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yes cold
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you're cold look at that truck going by
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there with a bunch of dirt in it
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yeah stomp your feet cold
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stomp your feet all right
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i'm losing my mind now this is
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interesting
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no not the cleared accessible roads
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that's the bug i saw earlier the
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volkswagen bug
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i'm turning into this rest area
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hours ago well six hours ago when i was
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getting gas this morning
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fueling up
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what are the odds these picnic tables
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are wagons well the covering above the
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picnic
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tables they're wagons
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i think they're wagons
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wagon wheels
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it's pretty neat ended up driving about
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another hour
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and stopped off in junction
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corner of main street and 15th street
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this tree might look like an ordinary
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tree but in fact it's made out of
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horns
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completely out of horns
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hundreds of them
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oh goodness is this thing good to go
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over big the foot
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all right well i'm i'm doing it
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it's happening
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americana feel
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all right back to the tent there's the
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sign
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eastbound what a scenario
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there is hardly any gas stations with
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available fuel
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in kerrville been driving for a couple
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hours
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almost out of gas i have about 20 miles
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till completely being on empty
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and this is about the third or fourth
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station
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that i have pulled up to the only one
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that appears to still see
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still have some fuel so i'm waiting here
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behind a few cars in hopes
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of filling up what a day
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and for about the last probably 50 miles
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or so since the last stop
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i don't know what that noise is probably
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passed at least
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50 or 60
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trucks that have slid off the road now
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the roads are in better shape
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but they're still i guess some from late
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last night they still haven't been towed
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away
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i just didn't feel like filming all of
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them i think once you've seen a few you
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kind of get the idea
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i really hope that i can get gas here i
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hope there's still some left because
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there is no gas in this town
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i'm almost on empty as i pulled up the
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power went out
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no more gas at that station can't pump
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it also this exxon is out
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this is about the this is about the
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fourth or fifth one with no gas
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i am almost on e this place shows they
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have gas
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however it says pay inside will not
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accept the card and
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padlock the door is padlocked so no luck
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here either a local pulled up and said
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there's another place a couple miles
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i'll give that a try holy cow
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valero you have saved me
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i was i was starting to go into a slight
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slight panic there is i'm telling you
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there's no
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gas left in this town i got so lucky
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with this
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every place is freaking closed most of
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traffic lights are out
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this self-pumping nozzle is giving me
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life oh my gosh
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two dollars and 23 cents a gallon
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oh man i consider myself very lucky i
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think after this i'm to call it a day
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and find a hotel down the ways of it
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i think i don't even feel like any more
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adventures i'm just going to
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find a hotel online book it and
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head there oh my gosh
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cool
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back on the interstate now where the
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roads are clear
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as i was exiting that town on those very
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icy roads
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i approached a light that was out of
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service and the person beside me got
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rear-ended
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it could have been me but it wasn't
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thankfully they're both okay but
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that was a little scary too classic car
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being towed alert that's gonna do it for
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i believe i made it to the town what's
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the name of this town
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has a unique name
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i can't remember my brain is
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the vlog it's been a stressful day it's
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over
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believe it's pronounced born b-o-e-r-n-e
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made it 400 miles 400 miles today
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i just think i was going to fly to
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florida and not drive but i wanted to
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have my
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get my own personal vehicle out there
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what could go wrong
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when i get out of all this cold weather
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i am going to kiss the dry on
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icy ground whatever state that is
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i'm not even kidding