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I've mentioned that before. During this show, along with answer automotive questions and sharing automotive tips, we are answering questions and sharing tips on ways to stay safe during a natural disaster such as a hurricane or some other type weather event or some other event period. And very important. And these are tips that could help someone a huge amount. So to share those tips and answer the tips related to the disasters, we have Jim Griffith from the American Red Cross. Jim, once again, welcome to the show. Aaron, thank you for having me on.
We really appreciate you being here. So if you have questions having to do with cars or natural disaster events, you give us a call. Number 800-224-9090.
Or you can watch us on Facebook. Also dial 867-06-8635-800 or watch us at ccautoshow.com. And we were talking to Jim during the last hour and we will go back to Jim. Jim, you had answered our or answered our tech tip quiz. And our judges have been waiting all during the break or been weighing it out all during the break on whether you did win the tech tip quiz or you did not.
So are you there? I think I know which button Mason is going to press. Well, I want to read the question again. Susan was on her first week in the 10th grade. She borrowed five people cell phone in less than 30 minutes without them knowing it. How did she do it? And you mentioned that it was some case of she was, I guess, hotspot each one or something like that. Was that part of it or that she might be a teacher and was collecting them and then used it somehow.
Oh, I see what you're saying. She said everybody has to turn their cell phones into the class and she had them in a box and then she took the box to the back room and used them all real quick. Something like that.
Wherever they may be, that she could access it from a wireless perspective or otherwise. That was, that was sort of a thought pattern that my brother and I, brother-in-law and I had. Oh, wow. Oh, Jim, you don't miss many. That's what is terrible.
That's what the judges felt so bad about. And I do appreciate you mentioned in that part. Yes, sir. And he wanted to ask a question to the person. Exactly. He was going to ask a question and I wanted to make sure that we went to that part next because we really appreciate that. And Jim, you had a question. Yes. I thought that being an automotive-related show that we are, perhaps your guests might be able to comment on some standard practices or protocols that might relate to people with their cars having some level of preparedness at all times for the various emergencies that your listening audience throughout the US might have in their different environments, whether they're hurricanes, storms of ice and snow or tornadoes. Absolutely.
That's a great question. So previously I mentioned putting together a kit, having a go kit. And we do recommend you keep a kit in your car and that should include any type of seasonal items. For example, if you live in an area that's prone to winter storms, you would want to have maybe a hat and gloves and boots and a spare jacket. If you're in a very hot climate, you'd want to have things that are appropriate to that. And no matter where you are, you would definitely want to have some water and some non-perishable food of some sort in your go kit. But yeah, definitely anything that's appropriate to the weather situation that you're in.
Yeah, definitely advisable. And I might throw a couple of things out there also having to do with cars that I was just it's as Jim was mentioning those items that I thought about mainly because this has happened to me. I would I've had the I've had my cell phone of cell phones, very important to make sure that you have it with you in case it's needed. And I have had my cell phone plug and charger, but I'm in the car, and it's an AC charger. And so my car does not have an AC plug. And it does not let's say I have a car without a USB port to plug it into.
And then even though you have most everything you need, you don't have all that you need. So I think it's a good idea to have some of the little power supply plugs that will make it to where it will adapt to your cell phone cord, and just maybe put an extra one in there and maybe put an extra cord in there. That way, you will have a charged up cell phone, because that's, that's a lot more important. And of course, the little kit that you have in back that you may be able to keep in your trunk area, something like that with the items that Jim mentioned, things to do with water and food, and maybe even some, some type of marking device in case you have to leave your car on the side of the road. So you can have the reflective triangles or different things to mark where your vehicle are at. So that's a that's a great question, Jim. Did you have anything that you wanted to add to it?
Because you're real good about having some being prepared for a lot of stuff. Like, I don't think I have it in one of my cars. I was thinking about it as you were speaking, I've got a small, low wattage inverter that I keep in the car.
I think it's in one of the yes, in one of them, I gotta go look. But also something that we've talked about in the past is just in general sense, whether it's taking a road trip or preparing for an emergency, I think having one of those jump boxes charged up and on. Oh, yeah. You can go out the door with it.
Uh huh. Yeah, that is that is a wonderful idea. Because that way, you may be able to help someone else with that. Also, let's say that someone else has a vehicle.
Oh, and and Jim, you just made a great idea come to mind or another something that I wanted to mention. And that is that having your car ready for an emergency type situation. Let's say that you have everything all packed up, you plan to evacuate, you go outside, you hit your key, your battery's dead. And so you're that can be a major problem.
Now, of course, you could take your junk box if you have one. And that may help. But having the car ready and making sure that it's safe and dependable, always good cooling system checks out good tires are safe. If you're driving like that, you will have in bad weather, you want your wiper blades to be in good condition and all of your lights working like they should.
So I guess keeping your car in good mechanical condition is part of being prepared for something like that. Yeah, that's always good. Yeah, you always bring out some great ideas. Yeah. All right, good. Well, enjoying the show so far.
Look forward to the rest of it. Well, Jim, I am so sorry about the button. And before we go ahead and give that tech tip quiz out one more time. Susan was on her first week in the 10th grade. She borrowed five people's cell phones in less than 30 minutes without them knowing it.
How did she do it? If someone knows the answer to that, they can give us a call. And we I want to mention something that to me is a very important thing to mention. And Jim, I know that helping people through one of their most challenging times of their whole life can be very expensive. You need a lot of equipment, a lot of supplies, food, volunteers, and a lot more. How can a person help the American Red Cross physically or financially and and be able to help in some way? Yeah, that's a really good question.
Yeah. 90% of the work done at the Red Cross is done by volunteers. And we're always looking for more volunteers.
And and obviously, we need money to do what we do. The easiest way to accomplish both is to go to redcross.org and then follow the appropriate links. There's a there's a link for donating, there's a link for volunteering your time. Another option is to dial 1-800-RED-CROSS and a person will will prompt you to get you where you want to go.
But the absolute easiest way is to go to redcross.org. Well we appreciate that. We'll be right back after these messages. Let's head back down to the car care studio with Aaron Clements and John Ryan Mooney. The CNC Auto Show is brought to you in part by Lakewood-Maui, featuring the world's widest, cheapest range of motor and gear oils, fuel and oil additives and chemical problem solvers and service products. Learn more at liquid-maui.com. We are back with you give us a call 800-224-9090.
That's any Saturday morning, 805 to 10 Eastern Time or you can watch us or listen on Facebook. We were talking with Jim just before we went to the last break and Jim, we had mentioned about some of the things that's involved in helping someone through a very challenging time in their life and that would be either a fire or a flood or an ice storm or something. Someone that's gone through something like that can usually remember it even if it was 10 years ago, a traumatic event like that. And they do so much to help those people whether to do that, it takes a lot of equipment, it takes a lot of people and we were talking before we went to the break about ways that people can either volunteer their time or help financially because it's such an important thing to help people through this really tough time. And tell us one more time what the website was that you'd mentioned that someone can go to to help with that. Yes, that's redcross.org.
Redcross.org. Okay and so if someone wants to either help in some way, volunteer because if I'm not mistaken you depend very heavily on volunteers. Yes sir, 90% of our workforce is volunteer.
And to me that helps people in so many ways to be able to volunteer because they're actually able to see people that they're helping and it can be a very, very good rewarding experience for someone. So consider helping either physically or financially, consider strongly helping the Red Cross. I definitely urge you to help in some way. Jim, you think we should go to the cause? Yes sir.
I think that would be a great idea. Let's do it. We'll go over to Mike. Mike, welcome to the CNC Auto Show and what can we help you with?
Yeah, I have a, I can take a shot at that. Oh, hold on. We're going to need to put you on stage real quick before we do. And Mike, I'm going to read the question real quick. Susan was on her first week in the 10th grade. She borrowed five people's cell phone in less than 30 minutes without them knowing it. How did she do it? And Mike, everyone's looking at you to answer our tech tip quiz. What is it?
All right. Well, Susan is sitting in the, in the classroom and within Bluetooth frames, she's got five people who on their own cell phones, they don't have their Bluetooth locked down on the easiest settings to join a network. So she uses her smartwatch to connect to those phones and borrow their phones without them even knowing.
So she tried in with them electronically and used their cell phone to be able to use their hotspot to be able to do what, uh, do different things. And Mike, that is a very good shot at it. No, no, no, no. No, Mike, Mike, that was a mistake.
That was a mistake. The judges went crazy. There we go. Mike, the judges just wanted to see it.
The judges just wanted to see your reaction to winning. Oh, that's funny. But no, that is not it, but that was a very good try. All right. Fantastic. Thanks for doing it. Hey, thank you very much.
We enjoyed it a lot. Okay. The number to call is 706-863-5800.
Or you can call 800-224-9090. And some of the things we were talking about is things that you can do to stay safe either before, during or after a natural disaster of some kind. And that can be anything from a fire to a storm. Now, we lean in a little bit more toward the storm because that ties in with the car side of it the most, because we do want to mention a lot of things that has to do with the cars. But one of the things I think is very important on this is to stay calm.
Sometimes it's very difficult to do that when you're going through something like this. I mean, you're here on the radio, boom, we have to evacuate, storms come in, this is coming or that's coming. So you automatically let's say you have some flood waters, you automatically jump in your car.
And the next thing you know, you're driving very fast, faster than you probably should be, heavy rain on the ground and boom, you can have an accident of some kind. So stay in calm. And Jim, correct me, but I think that one of the best ways that someone can stay calm is to be prepared for something like this. Oh, absolutely.
Yeah. And a big part of preparedness is the planning, right? So if an event happens and you have already planned for and you've already practiced your plan, you're going to be much more calm. You're going to be much more confident. You're going to know what you need to do versus just being reactive and waiting until something happens and then trying to decide what you do. So part of the disaster planning, if your plan includes an evacuation, come up with a couple of different routes and then practice those routes and know where the gas stops are along the way, know where any low, you know, any kind of hazards could be like low elevations that could be potentially, you know, flood prone, but be very familiar with your plan.
Practice it a couple of times a year. That will give you the confidence. So you won't have to be in panic mode when something happens. And you had mentioned something before, and of course I've just imagined something like this happening. You have to evacuate and you are running a little bit behind evacuating. You get everyone in the vehicle, you're getting the heavy traffic and then you look down and your gas gauge is very low. And you know that there's no way that you're going to make it to a gas station because some may be closed along the way.
So you run into a problem there. So I think it's important to always keep a certain amount of fuel in your tank. To start with, it does make an electric fuel pump last longer if you keep a certain amount in your tank. But also having it set up to where if something does happen, and it might be in the winter time, this is outside the rim of what we're talking about, but in the winter time somebody gets stuck in the mud, wouldn't it be nice to be able to run your engine while you're sitting there stuck waiting for help to come. So a lot of things like that will be right back after these messages.
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And just because you're watching live on Facebook does not mean you cannot give us a call because you can also give us a call while watching on the Facebook page. Okay, we are back with you. And some of the things that we were talking about had to do with natural disasters, such as a storm or hurricane. Jim, what actions should be taken after a hurricane? So after a hurricane, you want to, when you go back to your home, throw out any food or canned items that you don't think were, you know, were properly maintained or made through the storm. Anything that wasn't maintained at the correct temperature, for example, if you're in any doubt at all, just throw it out. Avoid drinking tap water until the authorities tell you that it's safe to drink. Avoid or clean and disinfect anything that got wet. Wear appropriate protective equipment, you know, gloves, eye shields, things like that. Avoid heat related illness. Oh, wow.
Yes. Heart attacks are the leading cause of death after a hurricane because people over exert themselves. So monitor your own health while you're while you're doing that cleanup work and make sure you stay properly hydrated. Wow, that's one that I really didn't think about that much as people getting overly excited and in an effort to try to get everything done to get back to normal, they over exert themselves.
They don't stay hydrated and boom, they could have a major health issue. And one of the things that we didn't talk about that much and so far that would probably be important to cover is many times during a storm, you lose electricity. And whereas let's say that some places might be in the middle of an area that's very highly populated and they may go in and do everything they can to get electricity up and running in that area as quickly as possible.
They may be some other areas that may not have that the dense population. So they may go much longer without having electrical system or electricity restored. And so in doing that, I think it's like you mentioned, you have your your your refrigerator, your freezer, your just so many other things. Some people depend on certain pieces of equipment to help them medically. And you got to figure that you may be without those items for a period of time, have some, let's say, oxygen.
Everyone needs oxygen. And many times if that goes out, they should have a tank available to be able to help them if the electricity goes out for whatever number of days that it may be possible for it to go out and likely to go out. So being prepared to not have electricity. Now, of course, we talked about gas. We got to figure the gas pump front on electricity.
So if the electricity is out, the gas is out there because they can't pump it up there to your car. So being prepared and just knowing what things could happen could be very important. So that's another reason to keep plenty of fuel. And like I mentioned, backup for those that may need oxygen and a lot of other things. And also, I mean, anytime there's a hurricane coming or there's evacuations, the Red Cross is going to have shelter set up. And sometimes we have folks that come to the shelter just because they have medical equipment that needs to be powered up. So that's an important consideration. And a good way to know where those things are is to download the free Red Cross emergency app that'll tell you where our shelters are. And also your local TV and radio stations can provide that information as well.
Yes. And and I would I would recommend that someone have just a document or either have this on, well, probably a document and on their phone, a way an address of where the shelter is. That way, if something does come up, they're able to say, well, this is where I need to go or this is what I need to do. If I evacuate, this is the route that I need to take. And because if something does happen to your cell phone during that time, then you have a backup document to go.
And of course, we're talking about V. I've been mentioning some things to do with vehicles. Have all of this information in your car, anything to do with the like medicine that you should be taking, anything to do with your doctors, anything to do with your relatives, anything to do with with things that you might require during a storm. Have that in your glove box. Also, have it in your cell phone. But you got to be prepared if something happens to your cell phone, you want to be able to get to it. So maybe make several copies of these type items and have them in strategic places to where you can get to them or tell someone where they are. And that will make things go much smoother. And I've heard it said that a plan that's not written down is just an idea. So when you talk about disaster planning, then then absolutely, it's a great idea to have it written down. Make sure everybody in your household has a copy of that plan. Oh, yeah.
And every one of your vehicles. Yeah, certainly. Very nice. Let's go to a phone call. Let's go over to Steve. Steve, welcome to the CNC Auto Show.
Well, thank you. I have a 20 some year old pickup that has vinyl lettering on it advertising the name of a business. And I want to pull that lettering off and I won't have lettering on it anymore. But I've done that before on other vehicles. And when I pull the vinyl off, you still see kind of a shadow or a ghost of the letter you pulled off. Wondering how to get that out of the paint.
So it's a completely blank screen again, so to speak. Well, I would I would say some a wax, no doubt, a cleaner type wax and a lot of rubbing. And I wouldn't try to do it all at once. I would gradually do that. We had a you may be actually listen to a show that has to do with detailing a car.
A gentleman, Jim Pate, was on the show with us and he was answering questions to do with doing things just like that. And that may very well be the be what what you're listening to. And with that, with the with the compound type stuff, you can just keep rubbing. And over a period of time, you you put one coat on and then maybe a period of time later do another one and it'll gradually get better and better. It may not ever get perfect because you may still be able to see some of the area there.
But just just continuing to work with it on a regular basis and it will get better. Is the show where you had the detailer and fellow on is that archived somewhere on the net so I could pull it up and listen to it? Oh, yeah. Yeah. You can go to the CNC Auto Show on Facebook and it's the show with Jim Pate on there. And he he that was we we did that last week. Wonderful job.
And I had a lot of great comments about the detailing show. So, yes, you can. I'll do it. Hey, thank you very much. Hey, I really appreciate you calling. Thank you. OK, the number to call 706-863-5800. We will go over to Jeff.
Jeff, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. Thank you. How are you doing?
Very well. Appreciate the call. Hey, I got to tell you, I enjoy the show today and I miss last week's show. You had the fella Jim on there talking about car detailing. I think it was. Yeah, I watched it.
I watched it after the fact. And he's pretty knowledgeable guy. I'd like to see him on there again.
You have any idea of maybe putting them on again? I absolutely we do. I've talked to him about that before. I mentioned to him we got a lot of great comments about him being on the show. I had even a couple of calls yesterday and mentioned that they enjoyed him being there. And we we definitely will have Jim coming back. Well, that's great. I watch every week, but last week I got tied up with something.
I watched it afterwards. And I look forward to seeing him again. And I really enjoy every one of your shows. Thank you for doing what you do. We thank you. What's your location? Well, I'm in Nashville, Nashville.
Fantastic. We really do appreciate you listening to us in Nashville. Wonderful city, too. I've I go there fairly often. Really enjoy it. It's getting a little built up over here.
It is big time. I went to, I think, a place it's called Tim's River. I was there recently.
It's outside. Well, it's actually near Franklin. But, yeah, Franklin. OK, I'm more near Hendersonville, Gallatin.
That's a little bit away from there. Well, we think it's wonderful. Yeah, we appreciate you listening. We appreciate the call. OK. Remember to call 706-863-5800.
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Case Seal it. If you have an automotive question, give the call the number 800-224-9090. That's on Saturday mornings at 5 to 10 Eastern Time. We will go straight over to Betty. Betty, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. And what can we help you with? Well, good morning and thank you. And that's what I call to say is thank you.
I don't have an automotive question, but I so appreciate the program you're having today. Both you and your guests are given such valuable information. I happen to be an American Red Cross volunteer with the Augusta, Georgia chapter where Jim Griffith is from.
He's our disaster program manager and such wonderful information. And I hope everybody heeds every single bit of the information that's being provided today. Thanks, Betty.
Thank you and have a very good holiday weekend. Oh, thank you, Betty. We appreciate that. And I will mention to me, that's one of my favorite parts of the show is hopefully each week we can give some type of information that will help somebody somewhere.
And that's very rewarding to me. And the people who come on the show feel the same way. And one that has been on the show before that has helped many with a lot of different things, not only when he was on the show, but also at other times is Jim. Jim Pate, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. Hey, good morning. And I heard that man called about his door a couple of calls back with the delivery or signage that he took off. I love it.
Give us a tip. Well, the thing that needs to be looked at is does he have a surface degradation because of the removal of the signage? In other words, did the finish become more abraded because it came off?
Did it leave any residue from glue that might've been there? And I mentioned that first, even though I doubt that's what it is, because I bought a car one time that had decals on it. And when the decals were taken off before I got it, it just so happened that that was the best paint on this case on a pickup truck because it had not been out in the elements. So I think you were on the right track about you got to try to make the rest of the body of the car catch up to that. And the first thing I would do is on a day just like today, man, I'm outside detailing the car of mine right now, that Monte Carlo Aaron.
And it's just the right temperature. It's in the shade where you can really put an aggressive soap on a soft pad and just try to really get any aged soil that's on that and see if you can't make it match. But the first thing is, why is it looking different? Is it a textural difference or is it just that that's the there's a car have a farmer's tan on it.
In other words, they're really good up under the t shirt where the decal was in the sun has done something where you got to bring the surrounding paint up to the decal area. I suspect that's what he's got. Jim, you are always wonderful calling in and I got a confession to make the answer that I gave him having to do with putting just continuing to rub on it not trying to do it all at once was on was you mentioned it during the show when you were on the show. And so I get tips from you very often.
And each time I talk to you and I want to go ahead and confess to another one. When I mentioned a part about some people in larger, more dense populations make it electricity faster than someone that is not in a dense population. You had mentioned that to me when we were discussing things to do with this. So you got some great tips and I appreciate that very much. Our job in life is to lift each other up with our shared experiences.
And these are things I've experienced with the power coming back and cleaning cars. But you've obviously got a ton of shared experiences every week, you dump it out here comes like a horn of plenty. So that's why you got so many people listening from so many different places every week.
I'm one of them. Well, thank you. Thank you very much. And we appreciate that. You bet. Thank you, James, for your contribution today as well. Thank you, sir. Appreciate that. All right. Yeah.
Jim does a lot of great things for the show. And it's not uncommon for me to call him and run something past him on different different subjects. Very knowledgeable. A lot of stuff.
Okay. One of the things we're talking about had to do with the natural disasters such as a hurricane, a flood, something like that. What can people do to avoid floodwaters? Well, to avoid floodwaters, obviously, be informed.
No, no, you know, pay attention to local media and and apps like the Red Cross emergency app to be informed. Water is the greatest threat to safety, flooding or post hurricane when there's floodwaters. You never want to walk or swim or drive through floodwaters. We talked a little bit before about floodwater, you know, driving through and the road might have been washed out and you can't see it.
But trying to walk or swim through floodwaters can be dangerous because there could be all kinds of hazards in there. And, you know, if there's a downed power line anywhere near there, there's always risk of electrocution, too. And we always tell people, you know, even without the presence of water, just avoid downed power lines.
Let the professionals come in and restore those. Don't mess with them. Yeah, that is that is a great tip because sometimes you may it may be a line that may not be live, but of course it could be live and you could get close to it. So being very careful with that and avoiding those type situations. I want to mention again to me, this is a very important part of some of the things that we're talking about. And that's the tips that we're giving the different things that we do.
It's easy to sit here in a nice comfortable room and talk about all this stuff that we do. But in reality, there's volunteers and people that are going out there and dealing with this stuff. I mean, walking into someone whose house is just burned down, talking to someone who is stranded in their house, can't get out, needs equipment or needs this or needs that. And there's a lot of work involved in that. And there's also a huge amount of equipment involved in that. And there's a lot of people that as there's a lot of people involved.
And of course, it would be very difficult for that many people to be able to come in and just have that many people on staff. So the American Red Cross depends very heavily on volunteers. And I can tell you that just like doing the show, doing the show is very rewarding because you feel like you helped in some way. Volunteering for the Red Cross can be the same way. It can be very rewarding for you, make you feel really good. It is work. You don't go and sit on the beach somewhere and realize it's work involved, but it can help. It can help others a huge amount.
And also financially, there's a there's a lot of money involved in in keeping the equipment going, the vans, the trucks, the these vehicles that carry water to different places and just probably equipment that I don't even know about is involved. So helping financially can be very helpful also. And tell us one more time where someone can go to volunteer time or volunteer money.
The easiest way is just to go to the Internet to Red Cross dot org and then follow the links for whichever thing you want to do. And and I'll mention again that 90 percent of the work done by the Red Cross is done by volunteers. And volunteering is a very, very rewarding experience. I have one volunteer named Danny who recently spent two weeks out in the West Coast helping people with wildfires, came back for a couple of days and then went down to the Gulf Coast to help with the hurricane.
Wow. I mean, we have some really dedicated volunteers. We have the best people. Everyone I ever met from the Red Cross has been wonderful.
Well, time clocks only. I need to pull over for now, but we will be back on the road in no time. I'm your host, Aaron Clements. Thank you, Jim Griffith, for sharing your safety tips and your knowledge. And we look forward to seeing you again in the future. And thank you for all that you and the Red Cross team does. And we'll be back with more of the CNC Auto Show next week, same time.
