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I'm Clyde Lewis and this is Ground Zero.

The numbers to call tonight

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We're back, yes, after a week of playing old shows and feeling sad, no internet, no power, nothing really.

We're glad to be back and we hope you're safe and warm and hope you're listening to this program.

We got a lot to talk about tonight, especially after an entire week of trying to keep up the date with things.

Just without internet, without data on your phone,

without all these things, it was a pretty bizarre experience.

After a week away, I am, you don't know how happy I am to be you

know here I'm happy to be back with Ron and Wes and I'm sure there are many people

who have endured some pretty awful things with this deep

freeze that the majority of the country was in.

And a lot of people are still in the deep freeze.

In fact, it's moved even further south. I know the Florida is now feeling it.

And many regions of the United States were not prepared for severe weather, the winter weather, how severe it was, especially here where I live.

I've been here for 22 years and never in my whole 22 year existence in Portland Oregon have I experienced

temperatures in the lower teens even below 12 degrees. I remember one of the

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