Watts up with E Bikes

**Doug Pike** (0:01)
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**Doug Pike** (0:17)
Hey John, how's it going today?

**Doug Pike** (0:20)
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**Justin** (0:55)
All right.

**Doug Pike** (0:56)
Wednesday it is. Last week, I got the day wrong once. That was horrifying. I know I'm getting old. I acknowledge my seniority. But when you miss it, you just skip a day.
I did that last week. It was crazy. Anyway, Justin's in here, by the way. He's going to help out today.

**Justin** (1:15)
How are you doing?

**Doug Pike** (1:16)
Don't say hi to me. Say hi to everybody else. That's who's listening to you.

**Justin** (1:18)
Hey, ladies and gentlemen. How are we doing today? How are we doing? We're doing fine.

**Doug Pike** (1:21)
Good to have you aboard, man. So we're going to be all right in here. Don't you worry. He's been here, what, a few weeks now?

**Justin** (1:27)
Yes, sir.

**Doug Pike** (1:28)
You're in good shape. I feel very confident that we're going to get through this, and we'll figure out what's going on after that. Anyway, welcome to Wednesday. Looking a lot better than what we were told to expect as we crawled under the covers last night.
The forecast, even as late as last night, at 10 o'clock, the forecast were that we could just see street flooding everywhere, you needed to go build an ark and gather animals, make sure you got medicines, hoard some water and toilet paper, as if a baby tropical storm, which is all this thing amounted to for us, it's already kind of come and gone around here. But it truly is. By tonight, they were telling us, well actually I'm telling you, by tonight, whatever's left of what finally became tropical storm Arthur should be well east of the Sabine River and not too much more than a memory north of I-10. And just kind of a sloppy, wet memory, we had a couple of days of sporadic rain, some of which was pretty heavy, but most of which was not. After being told, it was going to be a potential.
I talk about this more than I should probably, and certainly more than I could, but it bothers me that television forecasts tend to lean toward the hypothetical cataclysmic, monstrous, horrible storm, rather than, okay, it might rain a lot, but mostly, it's not going to rain a lot. Why don't they just tell us that one time? Have you noticed that, Justin?

**Justin** (3:13)
Yeah, I heard that on the radio. They were talking about, in fact, one of the days before I came in, they were talking about, oh, life-threatening flooding. And I look around my drive here, it was dry as a bone, and there was barely any showers.
I was like, what's going on?

**Doug Pike** (3:30)
It happens. It happens far more on television than on the radio. At least I trust our guys, and I trust our forecasts. There's a couple of online forecasts that I watch, especially when something does boil up in the Atlantic or in the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America, excuse me. The bottom line is, just find more than one source from which to get your weather news. Same as more than one source from which to get your news news, and you'll just be a whole lot better off for it. We still might see a little bit of rain along the coast, but that big disorganized blob that came through here and caused all this has pretty much fizzled out as far as we're concerned anyway. And the big disorganized surf that we had this morning, I was looking, the old surfer in me couldn't help but check the surf cams, and it was just sloppy. One of the Galveston cameras looking outward, I was looking at probably, I don't know, it was breaking 600, 700 yards offshore, maybe a full half mile somewhere in there. And nothing that would have been rideable and fun, it would have just been drop in, bounce off the bottom and then sit back on your board and wait for the next one, which would be there in about five seconds.