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Ali Reid was in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where blizzard conditions brought powerful winds and heavy snow, with power outages reported across the area. Visibility is decreasing and travel conditions are worsening as the morning progresses.
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00:00Allie, I heard you have the goggles on.
00:01Yeah.
00:05Yeah, how could you not have the goggles on on a day like today?
00:08And talk about those blizzard conditions.
00:10I mean, guys, this is just wild.
00:12Okay, there's no doubt very unsafe for you to be on those roadways.
00:16In fact, visibility is near zero out on those roads.
00:20You can take a look in the distance behind me here.
00:22It is pure darkness.
00:23The only thing that we're seeing at the moment is going to be the light
00:27that's going to be somewhat peeking through up above
00:30now that we're getting into the morning hours here.
00:33But transmissions blew hours ago at this point.
00:36We haven't seen power in town here in a number of hours.
00:40Well, I got a break for one second here.
00:42I do have an anemometer with me.
00:44Basically, what this is going to do is read some of those wind gusts for us,
00:48although I do know that we've seen at least, at the very minimum,
00:5250-mile-an-hour wind gusts here in town.
00:55Right now, anemometer, if I can even look at it.
00:58One second, guys.
01:0246-mile-an-hour wind gusts.
01:04And I wouldn't even call that a wind gust.
01:06That is straight wind blowing right towards me.
01:09I mean, it really is just wild.
01:10I am going to turn my back just for a second here.
01:14I'm not being overdramatic.
01:15I want to explain to you the conditions that we are seeing right now.
01:20I mean, it's to the point where if I were to lean back like this, look at this.
01:25That is the wind holding my body up.
01:28I mean, that's sick.
01:29That is sick conditions, guys, what we're dealing with at the moment here.
01:33Now, we're talking about just the snow accumulation
01:37and how quickly this is going to come in here.
01:40One to three inches of snow accumulation per hour here.
01:43And we're still looking on track, like Bernie, Ari, you've been mentioning the last couple of days.
01:4718 to 24 inches of snowfall here in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
01:53And while I think that it's going to be some time before we see numbers like that,
01:58certainly this is just ongoing at this point.
02:01I mean, it really, really is wild what we are seeing here.
02:05I mean, I can't get over this.
02:07Now, in terms of the type of snow, I mean, Bernie, Ari, you guys have been absolutely spot on.
02:12We were talking about this is certainly not going to be that picture-perfect, picturesque type of snow
02:19where it was going to be fluffy.
02:20Oh, no.
02:21Oh, no.
02:22We are talking in conditions like this more so that wet, heavy snow that when it hits your face,
02:29it's just going to hurt.
02:30And let me tell you, guys, it hurts right now.
02:34One second.
02:35Let me get my footing.
02:38Wild here.
02:39You know, I had Bernie send me a text talking about these blizzard conditions.
02:44Again, I just want to show you how legitimate this is.
02:47If I were to literally push my body this way, the wind literally is just pummeling onto my body here.
02:54Again, you're talking about the harbor just beyond my shoulder here.
02:58I mean, conditions really are just incredibly rough.
03:02I think that's all I got for you.
03:04I think I need to send it back to you, Bernie and Ari, right now.
03:06I need a few seconds to kind of get back into the car and warm up.
03:10We've got a long couple of hours ahead because we have to think of it really in between 9 o
03:15'clock
03:15and then about 3 o'clock later on this afternoon.
03:18So we've got a long way to go before this thing is over.
03:21Woo, yeah, it looks like hurricane coverage out there, but then you add the slippery conditions
03:24and she said it was sick.
03:26I think wicked is the word she needs to use in that part of the country, right?
03:30Yeah, wicked, yeah.
03:31By the way, at the airport, just so you know, 55 mile per hour wind gusts at the airport right
03:37now.
03:37Allie, get safe here.
03:38Oh my goodness.
03:39Yes.
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