Record-breaking snow in Ohio led to even a fire truck getting stuck, as storm chaser Aaron Rigsby explains.
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00:00For a closer look at the storms impacts were joined now by Aaron Rigsby storm chaser at Rigsby
00:04in Columbus Ohio. Aaron thank you so much for joining us. You were in Cincinnati earlier.
00:10How bad were the conditions there?
00:15Yeah good evening guys. Well we certainly got a lot to talk about since I was on this morning.
00:19You know we had a brief break in that snow really early this morning and I think a lot of people
00:25off guard and they kind of put their guards down. We had another round of really heavy
00:29snow drop around nine o'clock this morning and it just caused total chaos across the
00:34metro of Cincinnati. Almost so much so to the point where even a fire truck got stuck in
00:39responding to one of the calls that they had gotten earlier this morning. And it was the
00:45same story pretty much along all those major interstates I-71, I-471. Multiple times were
00:51shut down due to stuck semis, stuck cars. I even found myself at one point having to navigate
00:56through a lot of that mess because everyone that was getting stopped from the semis up ahead,
01:00it wasn't allowing plows to come through and clear away a lot of that snow and then they
01:03themselves were getting stuck. So the last thing I wanted to be as part of that problem,
01:07thankfully I was able to shimmy my way out of there. But a lot of those folks were going to
01:11be sitting there for quite some time and it just goes to show how things can change so rapidly with
01:16these very dynamic systems. At one point we were getting about an inch or two an hour on top of
01:20what they had already gotten and it was a record-setting day in Cincinnati. Their previous
01:24record of 6.9 inch daily snowfall total was shattered and I believe as it stands now is
01:30that 10.5 inches of snow is what they picked up from the storm. That's pretty impressive stuff
01:35and hey I know that you're back in familiar real estate here in central Ohio. You've seen a lot of
01:41things over the past three days here with this storm beginning much farther southwest and moving
01:47now into central Ohio. What are you going to remember the most from this particular storm?
01:51Yeah well I'll tell you what Jeff. Growing up around this area it's been quite some time since
01:55I've seen such a high impacting snow event for the state of Ohio. A lot of times we get those
02:02quick Alberta Clipper systems that move through get one or two maybe three inches of snow. It
02:07causes some headaches for a couple hours and then it kind of moves on. Everyone goes about their
02:10lives. I'm certainly going to remember the impacts that this particular storm had for quite some
02:15time especially across the metro of Cincinnati because even in all my time here in central Ohio
02:20even in all my years of storm chasing I can't I see stuff new every single storm. I can't honestly
02:25say I've ever seen a stuck fire truck before during an event so this one's going to stick
02:29with me for a long time especially being on my home turf in the state of Ohio and you know it
02:34tells me it's not going to be here very long because we got another one on the heels of this
02:37storm so we're not going to be quiet for very long. All right a lot of great storm chasers from
02:41the Buckeye State, you Tony Laubach and others. Thanks again Aaron Rigsby for all that you have
02:46been doing with this storm here and I agree when we brought that earth cam up in Cincinnati
02:50yesterday it was nasty low visibility there Covington, Cincinnati and beyond.