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In fact, it is on the reestimated what is happening. But we're going to have live coverage all day as much as we can about the roads, about the bridges, about the thoroughfares, about the hospitals and more. Until then, I want to check in with the seven or eight counties that surround Hamilton County. The most important, of course is Butler County and your good friend Richard K. Jones and Sheriff once again, welcome on the snowy Monday afternoon
in the Tri State to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Sheriff, what's the status of Butler County? Other emergencies declared? Is at one, two or three? The highways, the bridges, how we looking? Give me a full report, Sheriff.
Here's what we got. I started yesterday coming in checking the roads out around four pm yesterday as the snow was just sprinkling a little bit. The roads were passable. A few accidents. At six pm Butler County, we added dispatchers, we added our emergency response teams, placed them out throughout the County had them on alert. It can help people you don't know what happens. We also opened our EOC and and we had it operational. We had everybody out.
We declared a Level one snow emergency in the beginning. Level one is just where you can just don't go out unless you have to. A Level two is absolutely don't go out unless you have two. A Level three is it's against the law to go out unless you're a emergency worker. We didn't decare declare level two or a level three. We declared a level two. Right now, it looks like we've got eight to nine inches of snow, which is a lot, and people don't have their snow
legs on. You get snow legs when you have snow. Last year, we never had snow. This year we got snow or snow. People think they can hit the brakes and then they slide and lose control. We've had a few accidents. I just got foam with dispatch. I visited the dispatch last night and our EOC and right now we're maintaining still don't go out unless you have to.
We still have I think maybe three inches of snow depending who you listen to, coming on top of this, and I want to put some caution out to people. If you go out and shovel snow, a lot of people do that. They lose their they don't know how much they're shoveling, they get out of breath, their heart rate gets up, they die, or the life squads have to come out. Happens every year. We have it every time all over the United States. And if you have
dogs or animals outside, take care of them. Remember, and small dogs their legs might only be two inches tumble and if they go outslide, you got to shovel a little spot for him. You got to take care of your animals. And when I shovel snow, I got a shovel snow for a little dog that I got. Legs are about two inches. It's a tough business. But right now everything's going well. It's still we're under a level two.
Don't go out unless you have to, and just be careful with everything you do until when you go outside you slift fall. But in Butler County there will snow emergency level two. I don't see I'm going to lift that anytime soon.
Bill, Well, what about the interstate seventy one seventy five is that I think it's passable. But seventy one cutting the hill and Stewart Road is a semi that's blocking all lanes of the travel. What's the condition of seventy one seventy five in Butler County?
It's drive with caution. Sometimes they'll have the drifting snow, the blowing snow. You might have one lane open, stay in that lane, Go slow, don't go fast, don't get angry, don't try to get around somebody. And if you go out, put some clothes in there. You don't know what's going to happen. Make sure your phone is charged, warm clothes, and so you can get somebody to come get you.
The best thing is to not go out unless you have to, because when you get in an accident and the emergency people have to come out, they risk their lives get out. So right now the roads are passable in Butler County, and Greg Wilkins, the engineer, doing a great job with his trucks getting up ahead of this. And in the cities they've done a great job. Hamilton, Middletown, Fairfield, west Chester, they're all doing a good job. These people have been up twenty four hours hitting the snow, and
it's still coming in most of the time. Like on Raine fourth, there's one lane open just on either side. Just drive the one lane when you turn, be careful. But right now, well, I'm watching the snow. It's still flaking down and again it looks like we've had eight to nine inches someplace, maybe be more some or less, and we've still got more coming.
My friend and sheriff. I'm looking at the forecast. The low overnight's going to be nine degrees. I would imagine everything on the roadway is going to freeze. It's going to be solid ice. And looking forward to Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, the low temperatures are single digits or below, and so the snow and the ice there now are are going to be there. I'm looking ahead ten days next Wednesday of next week, the low temperature is six and the
high temperature is twenty six. So these conditions will be present for the next two weeks anyway. And so what if you're an employer, there are something most employees have shut down, most of them aren't opening up. Would you encourage businesses in Butler County not to open?
That's up to them. But listen, your employees have to make make it to work. I have employees that work at the Sheriff's office, the civilian employees, and we had to pick some of them up to come in. We had a massive swearing in ceremony today where we I swore all of my employees in roughly five hundred employees and they come to work. It's a massive project. You're going to swear them each inn and in groups, and then the paperwork that has to be done anytime there's
a new shaff or a new office holder. So what I would encourage people to do is a use caution and if you can shut down for a little while, it's not going to kill anything. But I'm not I don't run your business in a Level two. They can still come in, but I would recommend that they very very patiently and have caution having people come in. It's really not worth it to make an extra dollar. I understand the American way, but use caution.
And Level three means if you're out on the road, so you'll be arrested. You don't see a level three being declared unless something different occurs.
I don't see a level three at this time. We're still monitoring throughout the county, the traffic, the roads, the weather conditions. I've talked to other I talked to Preble County Sheriff last night and we were in communication. We talked to the road crews. We try to make it safe for everybody as safe as we can. And I want everybody to be assured that your sheriff's office is on this and we're out there. Well, hey, we're out
there at night, we're out there during the day. We're out in the rain, tornadoes, hurricanes, and we're on the road. And my emergency response cans they're actually trained for this, and they're already out anyway. They have several jobs. They're patrolled deputies, they're correction officers, and they're already at work, and when something bad enough happens, we can activate them and send them out to do what they have to do.
They've been deployed all over the country. And then when it comes to you habit something like this here, we're prepared for.
That bill right because of your work in the South and elsewhere, well, you know, we're not used to this. I can recall back in the good old days that really weren't that good anyway, these winter temperatures were kind of normal. This is what happened all the time. And I think the last several years we've had one snowstorm of great significance. I can't recall the last time we had ice and freezing rain and ten inches of twelve
inches of snow and impassable conditions. It's been a long time, and people don't know how to drive in this kind of weather if they've done it in a while. But we'll see what happened. Sheriff, great job. I'm glad you're there, and today was the day that you had to come to work. You will anyway, but today's the day you've got to swear all the new deputies under your leadership in. I know the High Supreme Court's got a big investiture tomorrow,
and I anticipate I'm supposed to be the MC. I'm gonna check which Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy later on from Butler County, whether that thing's going on. But Sheriff, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Stay safe and thanks for checking in. I appreciate it very much.
Hey, I'll be in touch with you. Just everybody just drive cautiously and be careful and again Sheriff's suss got your back.
Man, Sheriff Richard K. Jones, you're the best. Thanks again for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Sheriff. While let's continue with more, we also have weather updates constantly from Channel nine and also Chuck Ingram is here with the traffic and more. It's your home of the Bengals are looking for three or four new coaches on news Radio seven hundred.
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