Ice Storm Izzy Hits Columbia South Carolina - Exploring Roadside Oddities In The Freezing Sleet
Columbia South Carolina in Ice Storm Izzy
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today's adventure begins as i've just
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gotten in my car and peeking out the
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driver's side window here
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as a recording of this sunday
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january 16th
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2022
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and i am in the middle of a winter storm
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here
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on the outskirts of columbia south
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carolina
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i'm just going to see what happens
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i'm going to go out for a bit see what
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happens
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i'm probably going to need to put the
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defrost on for a bit first cause the ice
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okay it's coming off there but i'll put
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the defrost on for a little bit too
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so right at it's about 33 degrees
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but there's a lot of wind
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and a lot of ice at the moment and a lot
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of rain so the rain has turned into ice
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a lot of power outages too in the area
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my hotel still had lights on but they
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were flickering
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on and off and the elevator they put the
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sign up had to take the stairs
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so let's take the stairs to be safe so i
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did now it's really not the temperature
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that's too terribly bad
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but it's the sleet the ice
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rain
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falling from the heavens in fact i can't
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even wipe it off here the side mirror
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and there's a lot of wind very heavy
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gusts of winds
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you see a water tower
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over there in the distance that says the
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town's name the city's name columbia
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south carolina
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but even the traffic signals are waving
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in the breeze not a lot of ice on the
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road from what i can tell but definitely
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a lot of ice on my side mirror right
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look at that almost looks like tin foil
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and then look at this
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right there it's like protruding up the
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side of the window needless to say
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i'm not going too far today i'm just
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going to do some stuff around downtown
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columbia and then back to the hotel yeah
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this is this is pretty wild and also
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getting some
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siren noises
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you see there are vehicles out not a lot
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but there are cars driving and not
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not too many icy conditions on the road
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as i stated from what i've seen so far
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all up in those limbs
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ice
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here in south carolina an ice storm
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taking a look at what happens through
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here with these high winds
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these limbs all along the ground here
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and all up here these trees all these
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tree limbs have been
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cast off of the
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trunks and one thing i've learned in my
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travels through inclement weather
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especially
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ice and snow and things like that by the
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way i put pants on for this occasion
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yeah
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price of gas in your price of fuel
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it's like 289 a gallon and even though i
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had
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half a tank
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went ahead and decided to top it off
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because
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if it's you know icy
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and snow eventually rolls in and trucks
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can't get in to
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deliver gas
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you're out of luck so try to try to try
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to top it off
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better safety sorry
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what is brisk out here welcome everyone
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adam the woo here i have forgotten my
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umbrella so i'm gonna get back in the
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car but i'm standing out in ice storm
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izzy
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i had to get back in the car before my
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camera gets ruined but this
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is the world's largest
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fire hydrant
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yeah i didn't want i didn't want to do
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the intro with the car so now the
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camera's getting rained on it wait why
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am i doing this i'm prepared as far as
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getting fuel
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and a piping hot caffeinated beverage
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if i left my umbrella at the hotel room
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located in a plaza by the name of busted
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plug
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plaza because you can see how busted up
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this whole section is here the artist
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who unveiled this worked on that for
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quite some time unveiled it back in 2001
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and even had quite the shin dig all the
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locals showed up a lot of news media
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they even had an elvis impersonator i am
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i was reading a little info on it
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i'm also sitting back in the car filming
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out of the window because that is some
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icy cold precipitation
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going down there the neat thing about
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this over here at busted plug plaza
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is there's a
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tunnel over there against the wall might
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not be able to see it
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but it's called tunnel vision it's in
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the same plaza and it kind of gives the
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effect of you know road runner wiley
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coyote
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where wiley coyote would be fooled by
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the roadrunner painting the tunnel on
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the side of the wall kind of reminds me
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of that and it's over there
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i've been through here before but it's
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been a while since i passed through
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these parts
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but when in columbia south carolina you
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have to see the world's largest fire
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hydrant standing 40 feet tall
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just not an ice storm
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it's better not to do it in an ice storm
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like i'm doing it this is about as close
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as i can get without traversing out
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there into the
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the sleet
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but take a look at that it even has a
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little sunset or a moon set probably a
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sunset
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and this was created by the same artist
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this mural 3d mural on the side of the
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wall that looks as if you could drive
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right through the middle of this
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called tunnel vision
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same artist years before many years
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before
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that did the world's largest fire
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hydrant
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created this
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and if wiley coyote was here like i was
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saying he would probably
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do a face plant right in the side of
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that concrete wall
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that looks so realistic i love it
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and it really doesn't take long when i
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turn the windshield wipers off just
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sitting here in this parking lot for the
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for the windshield to start
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formulating ice now it's right at 32
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degrees
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but also the the rain from the heavens
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is icy so that doesn't help either all
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right we're just gonna
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kind of shimmy around downtown see what
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else i can find i like how clever they
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have these signs here saying
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no dogs near the fire hydrant because
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this would be a dog
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a dog would have a field day with this
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thing
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this is like a a dog's heavenly
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it's like
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a dog's heaven when it comes to using
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the facilities
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that's like the
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the mother lode
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for a dog the mother well the
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as far as restrooms go now there's a
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relic
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an old crest store
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look at that
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that's cool while i got the window down
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you can see the water's pouring in
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the icy cold water this chain here is
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titled
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never bust chain
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put
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here you know it wasn't allowed to be
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put here but once it was put here by the
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artist
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people loved it and it stayed ever since
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the never bust chain
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between that alley
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okay roll the window back up it's cold
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take a look at that piece of artwork
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right there on the side of the wall it's
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like a lightning bolt
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of sorts and while i'm sitting here at
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this light
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this old theater called the nickelodeon
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theater see it over there
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and then kings jewelers
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right there king's jewelers
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and nickelodeon theater that's cool wow
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that is one
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big old rooster
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my arm's getting rained on
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the window back off
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but that is one
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large foul
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right there
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you're a chicken or a rooster very
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colorful standing here in the parking
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lot
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braving the elements
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of this ice storm izzy
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some cold rain is he
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oh there's they're brave and brave in it
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too
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it is yeah it's it's chilly
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cold wet
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and a little bit of ice formations
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if you stand still in it too long you
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gotta keep moving
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wanna drive the car around if i sit long
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enough the eye starts to formulate on
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the windows all right this is pretty
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good
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look at this mural
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here's to american cooking
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cola they have dining and cocktails
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except but it looks like the beverages
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that couple there is drinking is it
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looks like wine glasses
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that is not that is not soda pop
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folks
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went ahead and parked
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i'm gonna go underneath this little
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awning thankfully this will shield me
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from the elements
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just a little bit but i noticed this
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which is a gong
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i don't know if i've ever seen a gong in
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real life i remember the gong show
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you know reruns of that it was a little
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before my time or at least i was a youth
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when that was on but i do remember
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oh there's a lizard down here a
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salamander
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one of the columbia salamanders down
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there for 30 years marvin
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chernoff head of colombia's churn off
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silver advertising agency sounded a gong
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to celebrate creative success no
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creative excellence big ideas of success
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turn the handle ring this gong
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and signal your own success
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and yes i did get a coffee i did get
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i did i haven't had this
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type in a long time but that's what the
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the fuel station had
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oh the wind's kicking now
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yeah the winds
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the winds kicking up just a bit over
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there
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i'm right here next to the convention
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center
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you can see the
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flags over there
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waving briskly in the breeze
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a little chilly
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but not too much ice
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you know luckily i'm not slipping on the
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ice you can even see over there the
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water's kind of flowing
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downhill
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i think it's about 33 degrees now
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so it's warmed up a little bit i'm gonna
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ring this gong also not a lot of people
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written these bikes today for obvious
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reasons
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just ring a gong for the first time in
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my life the gong
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has been
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rang
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basically what you do is let me set my
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coffee down
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turn this i mean you witnessed all this
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by watching it but get a little closer
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view here turn this
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yes
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there's a couple little birds up here
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little metal birds
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oh the bus is running
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it's only a dollar to ride the soda cap
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connector
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also known as the comet
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pretty good dollar yeah
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do this again
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all right that one's for you marvin
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that one's for you want another one marv
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the coldness is getting to me oh i'm
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noticing something over here too
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got a set of
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says i love you
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i should really be underneath
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the awning
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but it says i love you here this hand
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signal
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this sculpture represents the american
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sign language sign for i love you
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i gotta be honest i did not realize that
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this was the international sign
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or the american sign
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for i love you
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i thought it meant other things
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that's pretty cool
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i can see my breath
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i can see my breath before me as i'm
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talking
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that's always fun
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kind of adds to
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the
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vibe i love you
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that's what this says
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good sign language
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it's probably really cold
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i bet this is like really don't worry
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you want to have a christmas story
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moment and stick your tongue against
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that
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i'm not gonna double dog dare anyone to
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do that
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as much as i love you
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i wouldn't do that to someone
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whoo that windchill something else out
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here as i'm holding my camera
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my fingers are going numb
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like
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that scene from dumb and dumber
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he had two pairs of gloves and didn't
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give his friend the other pair
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i don't have any gloves on right now but
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i'm okay i'm all right
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my fingers are feeling it though i'm
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gonna get back in the car
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now obviously it is not open today in
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fact it might not even be open in
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general at all anymore but the constant
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car wash here many many years ago
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decades ago
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used to house an on-site well not really
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a mascot per se but they had a live
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tiger
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on property here
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at the constand car wash
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in columbia south carolina
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and pull forward
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it used to be
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like a
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information placard
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a little dedication
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to happy the tiger
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was the tiger's name
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and i guess the reason the tiger was
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here is because the zoo
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was under construction for many years
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so they had the tiger here
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that's the best recollection i could
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figure out really of
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why a tiger
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was at a car wash
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might not be the best place for a tiger
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to reside
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but it
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it's the truth tiger was here
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pulling through an area now known as
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five points
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very music driven
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area
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here in five points
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in fact there's a mural here dedicated
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to some musicians says greetings
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from five points columbia south carolina
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there's the five point south theater
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on the mural that is over there across
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the way is the five-point south theater
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that was
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shown on that mural also known as the
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cotton gin i have found another
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area shaded from the elements
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let me step back just a bit
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behind this pole
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get out of the wind also known as the
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cotton gin that is the five point south
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theater there
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oh yeah it is windy
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trying to use this pole to kind of block
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the wind but it's not really working
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okay that's kind of working let me just
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kind of nestle up against here
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and something i did not realize till now
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well besides the fact that there is a
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there is a mannequin in the bathtub up
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on that ledge up there i'll zoom on that
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in the middle in a minute
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but this monument is dedicated to
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the 1990s group hootie and the blowfish
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which got their start around these parts
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and this
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is dedicated to hootie and the
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blowfish i did not realize that until
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today
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learned something new all the time
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in fact this cross street
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bears the name of hooty and the blowfish
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the singer of hootie the blowfish has
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gone on to be a very successful country
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singer there's the mannequin in the
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bathtub and let me walk over here oh
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it's raining it's raining look how wet
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this is this is why am i doing this
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i see cold rain
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i see cold rain right there hootie in
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the blowfish corner of santee
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and
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harden
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oh okay yeah okay
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person in the bathtub
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and the mural let me zoom back out it is
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wet
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going back to my car i got to get back
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to my car i'm getting rained on in fact
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the lens is getting doused
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doused with icy cold rain
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okay
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all right see ya hootie
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see ya
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also noticing here in the parking lot
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around the back side of groucho's deli
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as seen there on that end
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is a mural a painting dedicated
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to what appears to be the unbreakable
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chain that's downtown
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pretty good artwork there
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but one thing that's really fascinating
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is there is a huge
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break in the wall
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and i can't tell if it's a real break in
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the wall or if it's just part of the
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artwork
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i think it's real
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take a look at that
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i've never seen an active building that
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has a crack right down the middle of the
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wall probably about a 10 foot crack down
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the center of the wall and this building
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is still active and used as a store
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front that's very unique
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also do you know how to catch a unique
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rabbit do you know how to catch a very
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unique rabbit what the secret is
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i don't know how
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how do you catch a unique rabbit
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unique up on it
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oh that's bad i also want to point out
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this very unique looking exxon gas
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station convenience store
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and my place in celebration florida
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there's a 711 that has a hollywood type
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vibe that whole area has
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very unique architecture it's a 7-11 it
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looks like it belongs in hollywood and i
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can see this almost having that art deco
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hollywood style vibes here in south
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carolina had an exxon that's different i
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didn't expect to see something like that
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pretty cool looking
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over that bridge in that river and to
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the next little community
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across the river is case
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c-a-y-c-e case
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if i'm pronouncing it right
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suburb of columbia if you will
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right off this road in the
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lot next to the distillery
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well same property but fenced off
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just so happens to be a iron
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shell of an adapt
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now i know you know my generation
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usually calls it an ad at most do
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my age
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but atat as well
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star wars franchise
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empire strikes
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back traversing around right here
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under the elements starting to show a
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little bit of
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wear and tear from the elements and rust
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but an at-80 and adapt
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right here in this
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in this yard it stopped raining for the
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moment
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so i'm able to walk around it's just
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kind of sprinkling just a little bit but
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nothing too
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intense
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that's pretty neat
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oh look at this
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a tie fighter
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i didn't even notice that at first
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and x-wing wow a couple x-wings
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that's cool
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i think about seven years ago eight
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years ago i passed through this area for
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a brief moment
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i kind of recall this being
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in the yard
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but i've slept since then so
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oh it's nodding its head the wind is
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blowing it
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see it's shifting
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yeah it is it is chilly out here it is
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really cold
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luckily the wind's not blowing too
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terribly bad
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there it is
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yeah dad outside of columbia south
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in a distillery
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side yard
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who knew
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looks as if out here the next lot over
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is another piece by the same artist
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some of the wrought iron metal creating
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something can't really figure out
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exactly what that is but
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it's obviously the same material that
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that adapts made out of
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this is just in the next lot over next
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across the road
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and passing me is one of these salt
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trucks
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that dump salt on the ground to keep the
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ice from formulating
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i believe that's what that was to
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bye-bye i've seen a few of them today
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that's going to do it for today
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a little shorter episode i didn't stay
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out as long as
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i usually would when i'm exploring a
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community or a town or city
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however with the elements
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kind of just makes sense to go back to
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my hotel and
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stay out of
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stay out of what i probably should not
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have been driving around in
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to begin with but i'm glad i went out
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honestly i'm glad i did because
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turned out to be a pretty decent day in
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the road conditions
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at first when i started off the morning
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did not think they were going to be they
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were going to lighten up and it's now 34
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degrees so there's no ice on the roads
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at all
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there was a lot of ice this morning but
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it's got it's gotten way better
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i will be staying in my hotel tonight
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checking out in the morning and then
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leaving
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this area i will not be leaving the
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state but i will be going to a totally
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separate distant area
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than where i have been the last couple
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days
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here in columbia south carolina
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checked out a lot of small towns and
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then today checked out columbia proper
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if you will
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just some of the more roads more kind of
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well-known roadside attractions
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other than just you know back road type
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stuff
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didn't really want to hit the back roads
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for obvious reasons
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ice storm izzy is in full effect
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and i'm going to wait out the rest of
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the day
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if my hotel room has power might not
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have power
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but nonetheless i'll be out of the
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elements i'll see in the next video
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the vlog
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is over
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by the way thanks for watching
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i really appreciate it