Snow Storm Uri Weather Conditions Arrive - Very Icy Roads On Winter Cross Country Road Trip Day Two
Winter 2021 Cross Country Road Trip Day Two
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure
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will be an an interesting one i am not
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too terribly thrilled about how the road
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conditions
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will be heading eastward across
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interstate 10
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spent the evening in tucson about i've
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been driving about an hour already i
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have procured a
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piping hot morning beverage the sun
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should be rising
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oh that's hot very soon here at one of
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my favorite roadside attractions
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the thing now the thing is
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sleeping mystery of the desert i have
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seen it with my own eyes
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and let me tell you i have documented it
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properly and have lived to tell the tale
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but that is not
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what i'm going to be you can see my
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breath
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it's cold my hands it's going to get
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very
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freezing
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i'm inviting you to join i have no idea
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how the day will progress
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it might end up who knows
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is if it gets really bad as long as
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there is
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some accommodations a hotel i can stop
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at
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take it slow it is
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kind of frightening what they are
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projecting
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i'm inviting you to join me
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see that challenge i know big the foot
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i'm with you i'm not really into driving
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in
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snow and ice and all that but you know
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we'll make the best of it we'll just see
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what happens
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and that yeah the sun's about to start
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peeking up over the horizon there
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at any moment current time 6 50 a.m
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the rex allen museum which rex allen he
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was born here in wilcox
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is also close a little too early very
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quaint little
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downtown area and over
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next to the tracks here at historic
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railroad park are some little placards
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for rex allen see the
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the brandings down here
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1940 coco
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rex allen's stallion co-starred in 30
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motion pictures
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traveled over half a million miles with
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rex
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here lies belly high
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in the green grass of horse heaven
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is this the this might be the resting
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place
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of coco rex allen's horse
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here's rex you can see the sun starting
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to
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peek up over his head very beautiful
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his here career was launched on mercury
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records
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in 1946 spanned 30 years
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the streets of laredo sold over 3
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million copies
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we think about this weather rex
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yeah i didn't i didn't think this far
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south across i-10
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would be words of blizzard type
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i think i'll be okay i just gotta get a
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tread lightly
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right rex just tread lightly and i don't
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have a trusty steed
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coco like you do i just have my vehicle
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but
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see what happens okay see your ex those
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birds up there might be
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they might be getting the heck out of
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here getting out of dodge
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well not dodge wilcox but
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that are you giving me a sign birds
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to hightail it okay i'll just follow you
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i think they might be going the same
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direction
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as of right now it is relatively
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pleasant i mean it's a little crisp out
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there
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but it's not too bad yet but according
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to the weatherman
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it will be with me
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i hope not though i really hope not
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over there on the horizon a train is
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rolling by
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and i have exited off of i-10
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turned into bowie or is it buoy it's
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like one of those things like
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caribbean and caribbean i always
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pronounce it differently
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but this is the fictional hometown
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of john rambo that's right action
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film star rambo played by sylvester
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stallone
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used to be a gas station right here it's
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been torn down
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rambo i could survive through anything
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he could eat things and make a billy
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goat puke
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a lot of the community is kind of
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abandoned and
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boarded up seeing better days
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not a beehive of activity through here
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that's for sure an old motel there
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you can see the freezer
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classic car alert all tucked away over
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that makeshift junkyard
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says no place like home
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rambo john jay
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that's awesome
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he could eat things that make a billy
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i don't know why i always remember that
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line the first one's the first one's my
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favorite
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buy a long shot
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just about out of arizona you see how
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how brisk it is with the wind whoa look
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at this crow right here
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these drink machines are incarcerated
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wonder what they did
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it's okay you guys will get out you'll
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get out of it you'll get out in no time
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you'll pay your debt to society and once
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again you'll be free
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one of these days okay head to the state
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line
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mile zero over the state line
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into new mexico
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and if that signage isn't enough
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and pull over here oh a little bumpy
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it's just a little bumpy hold on be
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patient
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get a look at the mountain range here
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and
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there it is
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it's a little shadowed out because of
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the
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because of the sun behind it new mexico
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and just like that the clouds are
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starting to formulate
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and all these the signage here off the
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side of the road is not about
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ice or snow it's about dust storms
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it says if there is a dust storm park on
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the side
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off the road stay buckled
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feed off brakes and just ride it out
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i don't a dust storm would not be good
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either
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but yeah look at those clouds look at
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these clouds up here
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okay it begins off in the distance there
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someone has spray-painted the words
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fraggle rock on that boulder
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it is incredible how the conditions have
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changed so drastically
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so quickly
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got some flurries coming down now no
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real
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heavy snow yet but see a little bit of
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ice kind of
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going up the window there 34 degrees is
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what it's stating
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at this specific location and
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windshield wipers seem to be doing
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pretty good i also got an oil change
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before i left oh
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there's a chunk of ice just kind of
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creamed up the window there
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he's going uh not too quick not too fast
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not too slow just moving along
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just drove through that cleared up for a
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moment though
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in the direction i'm heading
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good to see some sunlight over there at
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least might only be for
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for a short while
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take a look at this old automobile
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at the continental divide trading post
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divide
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and there is a gentleman there with
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a basketball for a head
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and oh goodness oh
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wow hello
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it says check this out
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nice
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yeah i got a little rainy over there
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haven't quite hit too much
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snow and ice yet but
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maybe when i get past the clearing and
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keep keep continuing
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i think the closer i get to the texas
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state line is when it's gonna
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really start snowing heavily but i could
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get lucky never know
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obviously from the last evening
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i've got a truck that has rolled over
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here
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gonna move gotta be be very careful
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current fuel price for regular here in
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this vicinity
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2 27 got the
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self pumping nozzle there which comes in
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very handy just
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just kind of put the little clip down
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do its thing
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this is about a dollar cheaper than
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southern california it's just a general
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rule of thumb
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dropped down to 25 degrees
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pulled over to this rest stop and
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there's an overlook here the snow
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is falling there is a road runner that
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is overlooking
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this little valley looking downward over
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the interstate
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very big road runner there
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scenic view rest stop i believe this is
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called
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whoo it is brisk
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brisk brisk out here
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look at that road runner kind of swaying
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in the wind there
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you see when a nice gust comes through
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his tail feathers
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flopping around flapping around
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certainly is a little on the chilly side
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25 degrees and it's going to get colder
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it's going to get colder it's only just
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begun
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as they say all right back at it out
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onto the road
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be good to me road don't be too icy
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get a much better angle of these snow
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drenched trees without the glare of the
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of the passenger window
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but it's cold hey i've rolled the window
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back up kind of slow going through here
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temperature is now at 20 degrees
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i'm going over about 40 miles an hour
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give or take
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personally just passing oh and the
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window down the snow just came in
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the window roll the window up now roll
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them up
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i got a blast of snow veering off the
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freeway for a moment
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that sign says welcome to texas
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look at the mountains snow-capped
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mountains off there in the distance
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as the trucks go by
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trading post over here with uh
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a few dinos up there on those boxes
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i'm almost to el paso oh that's a bit of
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snow
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this neon sign oh this lcd
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sign says i see conditions exist
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travel discouraged just gotta move along
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very slowly
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yeah very i just gotta go slow
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also side note that's mexico right there
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that's the border looking into mexico
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because i drive parallel
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pretty neat how el paso just runs
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parallel us
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and mexico
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just a few feet from each other
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you know when you see snow in movies
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it's so beautiful in real life
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sometimes it's not
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made it out of the city out of the
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greater el paso area
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we've been driving for about another
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hour like there's a water tower up here
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fort hancock texas
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you might recognize that name from
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shawshank redemption
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that was the spot that red crossed over
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to meet up with his friend andy dufresne
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pretty cool there's a snow plow right
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oh dang here's one in action i have the
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windows up for this one
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oh yeah it's like doing some scraping i
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guess you could pass them because
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all these trucks work
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with your wipers are making quite a
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noise yeah scraping
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scraping it up right oh there's another
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one up here
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certainly a very unappreciate well i
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appreciate it
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thank goodness they're doing the lord's
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work right there
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look for them be hard to get down these
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roads
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got a little back up through here i'm
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not complaining though even though it's
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very slow moving
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very beautiful with the mountains the
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icy mountains there in the distance
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okay now here's a truck pulled over with
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the lights
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must be a fender bender accident maybe
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someone else slid off the road
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just kind of been crawling along here
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for the last 10 minutes or so
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as i inch along
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just kind of viewing over there at the
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haze
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between those mountains very beautiful
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this is the situation here i'm seeing a
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boat there because somehow it's on the
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the truck was carrying a boat the boat
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spun around
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these 18 wheelers there are quite a few
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of them
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there's one here in the median
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man a lot of truckers on the road trying
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get where they need to go it's very very
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hard for them
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a car in the eye says one thing but the
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trucks got to be a whole
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whole more complex series of
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maneuvers to keep keep them in the
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between the lines and how do they be oh
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my gosh look at this
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completely flipped over that truck
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wow
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made it to van horn
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ah just documenting this for posterity i
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have my hand
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cupped over the microphone and it is now
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numb
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kept going inside
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that's gonna do it for today it's about
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17 degrees
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i drove 437 miles stopped got a hotel
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it is freezing cold i had to like pretty
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much push
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on my door to open and ice head almost
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sealed it shut
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oh it was tripped vlog is over
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now that i'm up in the room with the
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heater turned on
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i checked the weather it wasn't 17
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degrees when i was just out there
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it's 10 degrees 10 freaking degrees and
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it's windy
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with wind chills probably negative 10.