The Aftermath Of Hurricane Milton In Celebration Florida - Taking Golf Cart Around Town After Storm
Celebration After Hurricane Milton
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it as the recording of this Thursday
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October 10th 9:53 a.m. the curfew is
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lifted in 7
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minutes local residents already out with
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their chainsaws cutting down
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trees my dad and I are going to take the
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glorified golf cart mini Marge around
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town now that we are able to do so
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check out the damit here and
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celebration welcome everyone Adam the
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woo here I'm in mini Marge my golf cart
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my dad is with me Mom and Dad stayed
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with me last night at my place how are
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yall doing
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today good morning what was that
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voice it was a Jimmy Stewart rendition
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of Sean conry there was Jimmy Stewart
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doing Sean
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conry so this you guys stayed with me
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last night you checked on your place
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some of the local residents in your
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community said that you've lost power
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and because the roads probably are not
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completely safe to drive back you're
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just going to be kind of hanging out
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around here for a little bit we'll
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probably hang out until after lunch and
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then go back I got a return phone call
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from the good neighbor that checked on
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my house and he said that the power is
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now back on okay uh he didn't say
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anything about any road conditions so
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we're going to peruse a you never been
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in the in the golf cart before I've
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never this is my first my first time
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internationally known celebrity from a
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Canada news station yesterday yeah yeah
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pretty pretty EXC and they they used a
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little clip on their broadcast they ran
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right up to my car filmed you so we're
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going to see what the damage is here in
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celebration it's a little after 10 it's
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10:0 1 the curfew ended at 10:00 so now
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we are allowed to drive around so we're
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just going to take the the card around
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see they can't damage yeah so far just a
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lot of peripheral uh oh there's a tree
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right here D look at here tree blew over
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yeah I'm inviting you to join me and my
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dad as we go around celebration shall
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you nice all right got a down tree here
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again just amazing how quick the
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community the guys in the community with
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chainsaws jumped on cutting some of
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these trees
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down I'm amazed that they left their
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Halloween decor up I'm amazed that that
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inflatable
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lasted pretty amazing
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wow so obviously a lot of debris
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celebration is not prone to
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flooding or power outages because it's
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an underground grid however we're going
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to go down to Lake rehard the lakefront
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and see what kind of flooding situation
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down there is I would imagine there
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probably is a little
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but most of the
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neighborhoods survive without too much
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flooding this is a good way for you to
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see the town too that's true you get to
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you perused yesterday in my car now
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you're going to peruse
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today and the cart there's a little tree
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falling down over a lot of little trees
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everywhere so mostly just branches
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except for the one big tree they were
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taking the chainsaw to earlier but a lot
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of little branches even over in my
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neighborhood I noticed that the trees
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are very thinned out definitely a lot
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less leaves and branches than there
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were
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before little piece of siding
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there most of this will probably be
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cleaned up pretty quickly once people
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get away get out start cleaning up the
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yards I would imagine no one from the
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town as far as the uh workers from the
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town will be a to clean anything out
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till tomorrow but the residents will do
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their
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definitely a lack of traffic in
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comparison to usually how much traffic
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is around a lot of people are still
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still inside probably hunkered down how
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many times you think we heard the term
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hunker down watching the news last night
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I lost
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count hundreds of times probably so yeah
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I also wonder who coined the phrase
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hunkered
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down I thought you did no
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I was watching the news 25 years ago the
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news would always say hunker
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down yeah the first time I heard it was
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a weather
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guy again they're on top of it pretty
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quickly coming through here hacking it
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up with the chainsaw so that the
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residents can drive through here shout
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out to the local guys getting up
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early helping the community with the
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chainsaws this would have been
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undrivable probably till just a brief
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while
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ago obviously when you're wielding a
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chainsaw you want to make sure that
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there's no power lines
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around you know because of and watching
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the news they were stating too A lot of
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people get injured or have issues after
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the fact when they're trying to do
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cleanup so you just got to be very
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precautious same with generators never
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run a generator inside run the generator
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outside of the house for the inside
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so all in all from what I can tell the
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structural stability of the houses in
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town looks pretty
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good just some tree damage so
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far got some caution tape over here it
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looks like the wind did something to
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that was not there like that the other
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day all right from this side over off
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the Wisteria Lane side does not look
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like it end ended up going over the
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sidewalk it's a little more elevated but
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didn't flood over into the sidewalk or
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the
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roads right here on Lake Evelyn and Rosa
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Street
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all right this one this whole tree
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fell
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yeah yeah noticeable difference on how
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many leaves branches are on these trees
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the when I usually drive through here
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but all in all I would say celebration
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did not get the brunt of it or if it did
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it
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got handled pretty well handled it
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pretty well I stopped filming for
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yesterday's video around 1:00 1:30 went
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to sleep laid in bed for about a half
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hour about 2:00 I walked out on my
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balcony my porch and it was every there
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was no wind it was complete silence it
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was almost as if nothing had happened
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under the tree branches and and
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everything laid back down in bed an hour
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later everything got worse I think it
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really didn't get really bad till about
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3:00 a.m. yeah that was the back side of
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that t the hurricane uh we were kind of
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at to around 2:00 it was the eye
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basically and then that backside hit and
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then it just it was for about 4 hours or
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so it just was nonstop that's when I
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started getting a little worried it I
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could hear it bumping it sound like
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bumping against the wall in the bedroom
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yeah but man no damage that was the
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first time I've ever experienced the eye
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everyone says oh the eye you can go out
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during the day sometimes you can hear
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birds chirping noises things like that
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this was at night obviously so there's
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no birds chirping but I thought it was
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over I thought there's not an ounce of
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wind and then all of a sudden just the
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worst thing ever yep so I finally
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experienced the eye yep welcome to the
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eye now you can say I can
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what
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I
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can I will I can't I won't what you
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talking about I was I
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weren't I feel like I'm missing
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something you know what you call an
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iguana with no
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eye no
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Guana Starbucks is not
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open for good
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reason see what the water table looks
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like over here height-wise doesn't look
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like it went up too much too far I'm
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noticing over by the splash pad a little
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damage by the splash pad one of the palm
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trees was kind of ripped up and just
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like kind of like now dangling across
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the bench and across the little metal uh
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fence line that kind of looks across the
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fountain the fountain is still on facing
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towards the lake and then over also
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facing towards the closed down
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celebration Theater which has nothing to
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do with the storm it's just a theater
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it's been closed for a long
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time yeah a little little little damage
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downtown nothing nothing drastic but a
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little little bit of damage and a little
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flooding in the uh in the middle you're
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going to move that thing man that thing
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is super
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heavy did you shoot your pants it's not
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going nowhere we got to hack that up
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with a
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chainsaw this this bench held on here oh
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my
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wild seeing all this whole debris like
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this I guess it stopped up the clogged
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up the drainage area there obviously
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piece of the siding there definitely
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seeing a lot of people out and about
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walking
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around checking out the area a lot
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of people sweeping up the neighborhood
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too which is kind of neat to see over
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here on the bridges on the the
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canals yeah only look like only one tree
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fell here in this little area I was like
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this row of
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trees everyone's out cleaning up walking
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their dogs first dog walk of the
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day or maybe not maybe the second or
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third I don't know this row trees here
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there a lot
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of areas in town
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that trees are like a
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canopy makes it very interesting trying
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to drive over all these sticks
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here but amazing that not more of these
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big trees
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fell oh look at this all right wow spoke
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too
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now obviously this tape does not
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apply this is one of the local residents
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just making sure people do not walk over
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there or drive their car over
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there this is not an official
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tape W that thing just completely rooted
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up guys with chainsaw haven't made it
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over here yet
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so on the corner of Honeysuckle and Long
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Meadow just look at the piece of the
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conrete there from the sidewalk still
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stuck to the root system
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I would be so thankful whoever lives
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here if the wind did not shift that way
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was not going that way and it fell into
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another Tree on the road I'm sure
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they're very
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grateful hey it looks to be first of the
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city workers or the county workers I'm
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not sure if it's city or county probably
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County
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they're on top of it that's why you got
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to check this stuff out
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early
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up let's see is that celebration or is
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that Counting
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yeah I guess you're just going around
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picking up all the debris look at that
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just pile it in the back of that truck
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and it just grinds it
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up it's evidently it is the county it's
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Oola County check the emblem on the
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truck a gentleman walked out
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of again they're on top of it
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I think I'm going to go this way
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yesterday I stated how no one in
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celebration boarded their windows up
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these folks
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did right
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there we were saying yesterday had I saw
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no one in town boarded their Windows 192
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did but not celebration but there's
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the one exception there's the
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Rarity it's probably
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wise yeah the County's going to be
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coming through picking up all this
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up oh I am incorrect I stand
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corrected this
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cousin that's
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CL wow yeah the whole top of that tree
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buckled
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post office is not open today they're
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closed as
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well for the after effects of the storm
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but they have put this garbage bag or
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tarp taped up tarp shrunk wrap tarp over
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the mail slot so really you can't even
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mail anything out from this mail slot
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because of the water you know with the
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storm last night with the wind anything
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that was in there would have gotten soak
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and wet so they they did that to stop
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the water from going in the little
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little snout section that goes down into
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the if you want to mail something you
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got to go inside the post office even
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though they're not open at the teller
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you can go in and drop that mail on the
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slot in there
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still got some do not cross stuff on
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there too it just kind of broken up at
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the top there yeah it seems to be
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hanging on another limb all right I'm
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finding more boards UPS door boarded up
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over here was curious to see if Publix
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would be open today they are not again
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for obvious reasons but you just never
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know places are going to reopen the day
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after this is Water Tower
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Park there's two Publix's plazas there's
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one on World Drive and there's one on
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the 192 side 192 is right over there
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and the water tower still
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up okay these little trees did not Faire
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very
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well order to that fence and it looks
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like this power light is out over here
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corner of erlo Bronson Highway 192 and
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celebration a
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the officer out
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there got a couple street posts and
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signs all ripped out of the
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ground Sheriff going
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by water tower still stands
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I was kind of curious if Dunkin Donuts
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was open but it does not believe I do
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not believe they are there's a few other
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people pulling in here too Duncan is
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closed you're going to make a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage in celebration you
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got to do it at home the good thing is
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celebration residents there is power so
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you have the ability to do that a lot of
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places don't so it' be difficult to get
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hot
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coffee
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uhoh they were cones
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that all right we got some like
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allterrain military vehicles here three
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of them
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noticing they were all full of guys in
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their uniforms in a camouflage I'm
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guessing that was National Guard going
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through I think that's what that was I
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think so that was my
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guess yep
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oh
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luckily didn't fall on the building it
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fell on the tree next to the building
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it's been a good rest of the day with
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the last few
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hours with my parents they finally went
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home and checked on their place I'm
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happy to report that their place had no
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major
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damage just kind of walking through the
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pathways of Celebration here I took a
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little catnap for about an hour or two
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didn't get a lot of sleep last night
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obviously because up late and the storm
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and then the
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3:00 back tail Into the
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Storm so caught up on a little bit of
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sleep so usually you can continue that
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way but you see the sidewalks covered up
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by water there this tree is falling
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right
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here all right I'm back home now I do
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have power I just have the light off in
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this room the little night light over
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here put the big skeleton back out front
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not sure when I'm going to put my
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Halloween decor or if I'm going to put
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my Halloween decor back up anytime soon
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I had heard there might be another
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storm out in the
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water but I'll just wait a little bit
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still what three weeks give or take a
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day to Halloween
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night it's the Banshee over here resting
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on this couch in this room this is
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the out of all the rooms in my home one
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of the has a banshe she's holding a
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pillow it's one of the most unused rooms
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that I haven't released going eventually
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at some point who knows when the heck
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it'll be it's going to be a studio of
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sorts but for now it's just empty right
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now it's being utilized for some
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storage and I will at some point put the
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Halloween decor back
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out I just don't know
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when once I get a hankering
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to thanks for watching I'll see you in
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the next video the
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Vlog the
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Vlog is
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over also so a little windy and Gusty I
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was looking at the clouds earlier they
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were moving pretty quick definitely not
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hurricane force wents or maybe not even
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tropical for tropical storm force
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winds definitely a little a little
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movement to
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them good to be back outside
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buddy thought so the Vlog is over