Interstate Shutdown Due To Winter 2021 Storm - Freezing Rain & Icy Roads Thru Texas and Louisiana
Winter 2021 Road Trip Day 5
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure begins in beaumont
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texas where it is not snowing
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currently is 34 degrees a temperature or
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two above
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freezing the last few days there has
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been ice
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snow very poor weather conditions today
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will be no exception there is going to
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be
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a heck of a lot of rain forecasted as i
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continue
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eastward the accommodation is the hotel
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i stayed in last night
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when i checked in let me realize
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what told me that there is no plumbing
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no water anywhere in this general
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vicinity so could not take a shower
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toilets were not operational
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i'm heading out eastbound across
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interstate 10
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trying to stay on the main thoroughfare
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off of the back roads
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off of as many exits as possible unless
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i need to fuel up
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and get a piping hot cabinet caffeinated
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beverage
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needs to happen thankfully in my car i
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had an umbrella because it is
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it's going to be ready to hold the whole
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the whole journey i'm inviting you to
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join me
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it's also it's cold you're cold
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you're stomp your feet
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whoa
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why are you joining me shall you still
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going to be going at a very slow
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pace a little little strain up there is
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giving some precautions
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you never know with hydroplaning and it
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is right teetering right on freezing
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there's still a lot of ice and snow
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that has not melted especially over
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these bridges so just kind of cruising
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along about 40 miles an hour
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that works the temperature has dropped
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back down two degrees to 32
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so now it's freezing rain not
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technically
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snow we classify it as the freezing rain
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territory see this guy over here in the
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truck moving along
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very slowly because there's a big patch
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of ice on that little
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side road which is still not melted away
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yet
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yeah i do not like this at all
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honestly
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especially there's so many bridges
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through here through this section almost
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to the louisiana state line
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lots of chunks of ice in the road from
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time to time just kind of no
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it's a pothole that was a chunk of ice
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it was a pothole
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now there's a lot of ice on these
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bridges
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a lot of ice
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still not melting louisiana state line
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i have a very high up bridge over this
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river
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going very slow look at the ice in the
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middle of me
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and on the side so speed limit is 60 i'm
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going
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22. yeah i'm good at this speed look at
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this ice
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no thank you stay in between these lines
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stay in the dry spots
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32 degrees right on the freezing level
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not a fan
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not a fan of this
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caution slow down ice on bridge
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think about louisiana especially this
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section all
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bridges over these bayous
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little self-pumping nozzle there you can
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see that is still
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frozen and if this is not well i almost
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show the weather conditions here and
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there are some
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chunks of ice right there this is
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this is kind of the situation still and
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if you
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put your foot on this there is no
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traction so if you're walking on this
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it's fine
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but if you hit this very easy to take a
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tumble
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and i'm really thankful that i found
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fuel out here because it's been very
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difficult the last few days
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so it is raining it is not snowing but
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it is a
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freezing drain a freezing cold
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rain still only 32 degrees i hope it
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gets up to
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the high 30s to some of this stuff melts
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off and i'm going to head inside and get
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myself
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a very very piping hot caffeinated
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beverage it is much needed
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i have not had coffee yet and i'm a
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little stressed after walking inside i
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was informed that there is no coffee
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because there is no water
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there no restrooms for the truckers no
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showers
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so without water can't make coffee so
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carrying on
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see a lot of truckers are parked over
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here either
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still slumbering it is currently 9 20
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a.m or
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possibly just getting off the road for a
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quick break
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before traversing the inclement weather
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just no it does not seem to be letting
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up
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temperature wise
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about to go through lafayette louisiana
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i was mistaken in that assumption this
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is not
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lafayette i'm going over lake going
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through lake charles i am hundreds of
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feet in the air lake charles
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is down there
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comfort level of zero here dedicated to
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the people of louisiana
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and memory of the oil pioneers
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they have the them listed there doug
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phelps charlie noble
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scott haywood among others this is
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called the
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gator chateau
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it looks as if right over here this
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mechanism
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something fell into it oh it fell
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okay yeah this fell off of
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and tore down that fence the gator
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chateau it is still
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very very chilly there's still quite a
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bit of ice but it has stopped raining
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for
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the moment on my commute this kind of
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old
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timey cabin and there's the gator
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chateau with the signage there
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oh hello you must be
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a wooden gator i'm going to walk through
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the grass because the appropriate
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walkway
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would do a lot of damage if i walked up
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upon it so i'm going to go through the
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cold you're cold
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you stomp your you know the rest
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there is a pelican with a purse
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another metal pelican
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this is the tourist commission area
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this says i love l.a not
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los angeles which is a familiar song
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same guy who wrote the i love l.a song
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also did a lot of the
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the songs for toy story well the the key
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song for toy story
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you got a friend in me i hope i hope i'm
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correct with it was saying that
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now that i said it i should have
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probably done a fact check first but i
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believe so
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look at all this the snow seems to be
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melting it's still 32 degrees oh here we
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go
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houston is 179 miles i pass through
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there
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new orleans 174 miles still to new
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orleans
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i guess so lake charles which i just
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went over that huge bridge
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73 miles and jennings it says
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home there above that gator and in
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jennings i am happy to report as i turn
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the camera around
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that i have procured a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage
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compliments of a drive-through
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and i had to wait in the drive-through
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line got to the front and i had to ask
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do you have coffee and the little nozzle
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here
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needs to be opened and once i open that
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i'm going to take
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my first come oh there it is take my
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first sip
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here in the grab me get back on the
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sidewalk here hopefully it's not slick
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for the day i've already been driving
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for quite a few my 100 miles maybe
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give or take a few hours hours upon
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hours of driving
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yes it is this has been a challenge
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this last the last few days
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four days five days almost a week well
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not quite a week but close it feels like
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two weeks
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in the frozen tundra texas was the worst
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but i'm out of texas and i am moving on
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continuing eastbound all right back in
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the
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in the car it's cold continue driving
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another half hour or so
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and have stumbled upon well didn't
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stumble i just walked up to
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officer ribbit here in rain
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not r-a-i-n like the rain that is
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falling from the heavens
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but r-a-y-n-e
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and here next to this building is a
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mural
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you can see it's still freezing from the
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bottom of that
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officer's car there are some icicles
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this is the
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frog capital of the world
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reign louisiana and speaking of
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rain it has subsided at the last town i
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was in
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as well as here in rain it is not
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raining even though it is brisk and cold
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it is not raining in rain i'm saying
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rain a lot of times
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maybe it's like beetlejuice if i say it
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enough it will start the precipitation
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the icy cold
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precipitation once again this
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is a ginormous frog
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holding a hat he's got a top hat there
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he's in a good mood he is not letting
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this inclement
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cool crisp weather ruin his day saying
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how you doing
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i'm a frog here at the frog capital
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of the world see what this says
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on this little placard here near his
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nether regions
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sculpture of monsieur
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jacques was created for the display on
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august
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6 no august of 2006
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for various reasons the sculpture was
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left unpainted
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or quote
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skinless he is a skinless
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jock
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i'm losing it i need to get to florida
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out of this briskness he's
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holding well he's not holding i was
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going to say a thermal
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he's holding he's got a rose
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by any other name would be
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not all flesh is the same
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but there is one kind for human beings
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another kind for flush of birds
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and another for fish a quote
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in the good book first corinthians 15 39
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according to that all right i'm going to
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continue going
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i like this though this is good this
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seeing flowing water the temperature
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is about to oh i see frog city over
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i'm gonna zoom in yes i am in frog city
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frog city what if that's like spatula
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city from uhf
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i'm moving on before i get attacked by
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frogs
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here's something you don't see too often
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an entire stretch of
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interstate 10 eastbound a huge
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check for miles and miles of trek for
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miles and miles
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is closed off so being rerouted to a
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road that runs
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parallel a few miles up taking a
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different
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a different thoroughfare huge chunk of
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i-10
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closed off so we're being rerouted now
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on highway 190
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east a little bit
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worse road conditions as far as the
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concrete
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and road
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road is concerned not just the ice this
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is much better even though it runs
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parallel to the tent
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definitely better than going over a
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bunch of bridges
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a little bit north of new orleans that
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would be the case
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that's why it's all shut down probably
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that's probably com
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that road i-10 that is shut down
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currently for this 50 miles is probably
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completely covered over and i still
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oh man these bridges this is the frank
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frank desi franken sal desi bridge
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and there's two of them
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there goes
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a train that's a tight squeeze right
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that wrecker's taking the turning that
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corner on the truck in order to make the
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turn
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it has to i'm actually following that
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as well look at the green arrow yeah
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that's a
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tight turn because you see there's
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another truck kind of
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blocking the lane well not really but
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just a tight squeeze
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about to get on the 12 interstate the
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freeway
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and that'll keep continuing east decided
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to
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to fuel up gas prices 202 a gallon
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got the self-pumping mechanism here i
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had half a tank but i figured
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you're better safe than sorry so
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getting a little fuel right here at city
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mart
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getting into some pine tree territory
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oh yeah lots of pine trees
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getting close well getting close to
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florida a couple states away
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just crossed over into iss iss ipvi
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mississippi back in 1974
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i was born in the state
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mississippi tupelo which i am nowhere
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near
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it's north of here i
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am pretty much on the southernest point
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of mississippi so still had a traversing
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eastward this is the welcome center here
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it's interesting to note that the soda
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machines here the vending machines
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are not behind bars sometimes you go to
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certain sections where they have rest
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stops
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where they have them all sealed up where
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you can't even
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you can reach your arms through but
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these are just open to the elements
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vending also side note
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years ago they used to have a piece of
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nasa history while space history
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over there in that grassy area but it
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has since moved
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over to the new science center which is
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closed
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over there so they've moved it
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to over to that section probably an
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admission fee but during these times and
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the weather it's closed
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behind those trees the building off to
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the side
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well not this one this is where they
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have all the pamphlets promoting the
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activities you can do here in the state
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but over
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in this building they used to have some
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items as well
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they still out front they have this the
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sphere item with the arrow
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through it
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right over in that patch of grass you
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can probably even see
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where it kind of yeah you can see kind
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of where it used to be
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the one that was in the exhibit at the
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science center next door now
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used to be right out there placed out
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there on that little
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grassy section
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visited a couple times when i passed
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through here in years past
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still has the walkway you see the
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walkway there
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my hotel is about a half hour from here
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i'm almost done traveling for the day
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ready for a rest as i exit back out onto
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the interstate
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here is the front entrance you see it
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has a
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piece of it's like a paper pieces nice
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cloth
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says closed captioning not
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the one available for formulating and
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getting the wheels in motion
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for the interstate system
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maybe not everyone even realizes that so
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it's a good thing that you pointed that
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out
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thanks big the foot
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i don't know i should probably turn the
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windshield well i don't know it's it's
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raining a little bit
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here at the d doe d-e-d-e-a-u-x
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d-dow business complex
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such a chair the likes have never been
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seen
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well they probably have been seen by a
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lot of passerby traffic but look at the
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comparison
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between the ice machine which is a drive
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it's like a drive up drive-through where
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you can get ice
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pay a couple dollars well you have to
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get out of your car
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get the ice probably not a lot of people
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getting ice today because it is
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a little on the freezing side but since
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1965 this furniture company
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that this chair sits in front of has
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been here
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and this is designated a roadside
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attraction
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oh world's largest
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roadside attraction well it's a roadside
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signifying the world's largest rocking
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chair here in
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gulfport mississippi standing 35 feet
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tall
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and yeah built by the furniture company
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back in 1865 and there is a headstone
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which it's interesting world's largest
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rocking chair designed and built by roy
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d d-e-d-e-a-u-x
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dedicated back in 1995 so it was
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dedicated
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30 years after it was built
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and created
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of my homes in celebration florida
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if you haven't been keeping up i have
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two homesteads now
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the very very modest places that i laid
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my head
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one in california southern california
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one in central florida and i
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am almost there i just have to get
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through the rest of mississippi
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tomorrow alabama just a small portion of
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alabama and then into the panhandle
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of florida i'll see you the next video
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