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Welcome to the Master of the NEC podcast, the ultimate
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destination for anyone passionate about the electrical trade. Whether you're
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a seasoned electrician, an eager apprentice, or just someone who
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wants to dive deep into the world of electrical work,
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you've come to the right place. Join your host, Paul Abernathy,
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a true authority in the industry with over 38 years
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of trade experience, as he electrifies your mind with in-depth discussions,
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expert tips, and valuable insights that will keep you ahead
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of the curve. each episode paul will illuminate the complexities
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of the trade decode the national electrical code and share
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the latest industry trends all while empowering you to take
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your electrical career to the next level so gear up
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plug in and get ready to supercharge your knowledge because
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with the master the nec podcast the power is in
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your hands Now get ready. Here is your host, Paul Abernathy.
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What up, everybody? Paul Abernathy here.
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Welcome to another episode of Master the NEC, where we
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talk about all things electrical. And look, today's going to
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be a little different. So hear me out. So we're
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going to take a little bit of a break today
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and talk about a new product that we've released that
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is more something that fills a need, a niche that
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I've been working on for a while. And I had
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a personal need for it. And so we developed it
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in-house in order to be able to share it with everybody.
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It is a subscription program.
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It is annual. And it has nothing to do with electrical.
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It has to do with the fact that everybody knows
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I love my Jeep and my Gladiator and my Tesla.
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And I lived in Texas for about 12 years, and
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it was a constant chore. You know, like a lot
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of people, I couldn't get my vehicle in the garage
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because I had a boat in the garage, and then
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I had my wife's car in the garage. And of course,
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my car suffered. It had to stay outside. And so
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I would always get, you know, storms came up all
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the time. And, you know, I was struggling with how,
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you know, how I protect my car. Look, I don't
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care too much about the rain. I don't care too
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much about the snow. I, I care more about things
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like wind and proximity to things and that could fall
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on it or hit it or, or, uh, you know,
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but the biggest risk for me was hail. And, you know,
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I had an F-150 prior to the Jeep and, you know, uh,
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the F-150, uh, I just didn't get noticed enough. You know,
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I said, okay, I'll just time it. And I really
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had no way to protect it. And a hailstorm came
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up and it damaged my truck. Now, people all the
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time say, well, it doesn't matter. You just, you know,
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use your insurance. Well, it's inconvenient because then I have
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to take it in. And if it's the, you know,
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if it's very serious, then, you know, they could total
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your vehicle. It depends on the size of the hail.
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And we used to get some, you know, quite decent hail.
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And it doesn't take much, you know, hail much larger
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than a nickel in certain areas to really do some
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serious damage to your vehicle. And you might say, well,
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I don't care. I care because I just got other
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things to do. I don't want to deal with the hassle.
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So in my mind, if I could find a way
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to solve this issue, it'd only take me, you know,
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five to 10 minutes to be able to do the
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best I can to protect it, then I do that. Now,
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what I did started out with was I actually purchased
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a product called Hail Protector. As babies, it's really just
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a big bubble that blows up and goes over your car.
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The problem with that is you lose power, it leaks.
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It was a real pain in the ass. And they
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sell them online and it basically creates a cocoon around
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your vehicle. It is a pain in the ass to
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put on.
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I don't care what they say.
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And if you wait too long, I was in the
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middle of a storm when I got, you know, decided
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they have an app and it's very delayed. And I
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went out to put it on and the wind had
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caught it and treated it like a parachute. And it
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literally lifted me off the ground and about killed me.
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So I was like, I'm done with that. And, you know,
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and it had to be, had power to it. You
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had to hook it up to a battery, you know,
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in it. If your power went out, then it would
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deflate and make it pointless. Now, could it handle large hail?
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Absolutely. Absolutely. And it has its place for me at
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about it.
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Wind got under it when I was trying to put
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it on because I went out because it's a poor design.
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The cinches around it came loose.
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And as this, this, you know, this tube that the, the,
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you know, the, the, the rope goes up through and it,
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it just is anyway, the wind, it lifted me off
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the ground about six feet and threw me against the wall.
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I was black and blue. I said, I'll never use
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that damn thing again. And so I did it. And
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so I constantly had to, uh, dodge this, this deal
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with the hail. Um, so that was Texas, but you know,
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that's pretty common around Texas, uh, Pretty common to have
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hail issues. I can tell you that out there it was,
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you know, it really did a lot of damage to
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people's vehicles. Not only that, but their roofs. My roof
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had hail damage. Luckily, insurance paid for that. But one
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of the things I said, you know, when I come
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back to Virginia, I said, you know, we get hail
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back here as well. The problem with it is that
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most of the apps that you use or most of
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the weather apps you use are just really generalized and
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they're designed for meteorologists. It's real confusing because you look
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at it.
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Storm, but you don't know which way it's going, which
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way this it's shifting. Uh, how are you getting any
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of the information to show you that? Is it, am
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I in the path or is it just, I'm looking
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at a GPS dot and I'm wondering, okay, well, this
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is a big ass swath.
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Is it going to come over me? Is it going to?
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And I looked at that, you know, and I, and
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I decided, I said, you know what, there's got to
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be a better way. Plus one of the problems is
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when you're like me, like, so I have this cover
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that is made of five millimeters of foam. It's perfectly
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fit for my vehicles. I have one for the Jeep
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and one for the Tesla. And it takes about five
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minutes to put that thing on there and strap it down.
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I've got these little weights that toss under the car
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to get the strap from one side to the other.
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I mean, boom, it's like boom, boom, boom, five minutes.
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But the problem with it is, is I wanted a
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way to know when it's the right time. And I
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did not want to be the cry wolf thing. I
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didn't want to be trying to run out there and
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put this damn thing on every time there was a thunderstorm.
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Because then you get kind of, you're like, I'm not
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going to do that shit.
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And when you don't do it, that one time, the
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storm hits. And like some people say, I'm not going
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to go through that. I'm not going to deal with it.
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That's fine. Everybody's different.
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But for me, I was like, no, you know, there's no,
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I want to put these covers on. because they're nice covers.
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They're not overly expensive. They will protect hail typically up
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to the quarter size or even maybe a little larger,
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but it's better than nothing, right? And leaving your vehicle exposed. So,
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and plus I wanted the ability to know if a
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storm was coming that I could, you know, prepare. Like,
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was I going to, what kind of wind were we expecting?
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I just wanted some early notice. And you may be
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in that same situation and maybe you're good at reading
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a weather map and understanding things. Or maybe you just
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freak out anytime you get a thunderstorm warning.
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You're like, shit, I'm just going to go do whatever.
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I couldn't do that.
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It would literally drive me crazy to do something like that.
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So we created this product in-house and it's called Hail Nerd.
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So you might see it on social media. You might
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see us promoting it.
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We're going to have a big promotion here towards the
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end of the year, um, where we market it and
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advertise it, but it is a really neat, um, it's a,
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it's on a webpage, but it's also available in translates
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into a mobile app with a PWA means that we're
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not going to put anything in your phone.
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You don't go to the app store to get it.
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You know, you only get it from hail nerd.com after
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you subscribe. Um, and that you can, uh, It'll load
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on your phone. It just simply a quick, and it's
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adapted to mobile view. So it's not necessarily a native
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app that sits on your phone. That's good because we
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update it all the time. And so you don't have
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to worry about every time you go back, it's always
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going to be fresh, new features, new content, new stuff.
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That's the way we do.
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That's actually how we do all of our apps, by
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the way, whether we, anything we do here at Electrical
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Code Academy, whether it's for our academy, whether it's, it's the, um,
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the app for our fast track systems or whatever we do,
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or whether it's the NEC chat, which is our chat forum,
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we do PWA.
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Progressive web apps. It just makes it so much easier.
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Now it's tough because you can't put it in the
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app store. You can't put it into Google or the
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iOS Apple store, but that's okay. It's a trade-off not
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to be up there because you get cluttered with all
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these other apps and The reality is Hail Nerd isn't
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a weather app, even though it will tell you the weather,
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certain things about it. It's very focused on hail and wind,
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even though, again, it has a tracking map that you
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can see the rain.
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It has a forecast.
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But the beautiful thing about it is that it's designed
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to focus on the threat. In other words, it also
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has an email system that when you put in your
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zip code and you also can put in your GPS
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from your phone or you can put your physical address
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in there and it'll have a dropdown and you can
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pick it or you can put your zip code.
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Whatever you want.
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I recommend you just use your GPS on your phone option,
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but that's totally up to you.
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And then it gives you so many things that you can.
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Look at, right, in the whole setup of the app.
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It's just amazing. And we're constantly adding to it, right? So,
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When you look at it, it'll tell you right away green, yellow.
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Amber, red.
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That lets you know your threat. And then it'll give
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you advice. It'll say what's expected for today. It'll tell
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you what the risk is. This is all the stuff
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that I wanted, right? So it tells you what confidence
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it is. So it checks the NOAA. It checks the weather, NWS.
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It checks everything and then does an assessment. So that's
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what's different. about Hail Nerd versus any other normal weather
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app because it's so centric around the weather and rain
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and forecast. Ours will give you that, but that's not
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what's focused up front. That's not what we're trying to convey.
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And it also allows you to specifically pick that you
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want your vehicles to be the main focus, whether it's
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your roof, whatever you want. And it also gives you
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and it constantly monitors it. So if it's open, it's
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doing a browser notification. If it's closed, then you'll get
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an email when the threat changes. And that sparks you
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to go to your phone. Now, people ask me or
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they asked us once we launched this and we did
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the pilot program, they said, well, why don't we do
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SMS and have it send a notice to your phone? Well,
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the vast majority of the time, people were annoyed by that.
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was a little icon on the top of the screen,
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but people are always checking their email. So we said, look,
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if you get a notice, it'll send it as an email.
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Then you go in the email and it'll allow you
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to simply click a link and you can go to it.
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app on your phone. Now, you don't have to use
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the app. I mean, you can go on the website
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if you want and log in that way. If you're
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on a browser, you're at your desktop, okay, whatever. Um,
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but it, what it does is it, it gives you, um,
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the ability to instantly look at it and make determinations. Uh,
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like for example, we have property guard, which is built
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into it. So this is so that you can, it'll say,
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I'll be here now. So the storm is coming, but
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say you have to run out and do an errand.
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the time that you'll be back and it will look
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what you may need to do to prep before you go.
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it has the radar threat map, which is basically a
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map box. And it shows you what's going on around it.
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zone at 40 miles out from you. And then you
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have a 20 mile out zone. And then you have
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the red, which is the warning alert affecting your location
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right then. So there's different levels that you'll have from this.
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can go right to the timeline. In the timeline, it
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will show you at intervals the different risks and how
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the risk is changing. So you can see how the
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risk may be adapting, going up or going down. And
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it's a 100 point system. And if it's low, it'll
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tell you. So the biggest thing for me was it
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made me realize that I don't have to run out.
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the weather map or one of my weather apps that
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a storm was close, I was out there putting on
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the damn covers. And by the way, the covers that
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we recommend are on our website. We don't sell them,
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all transparency. We don't sell them. It's just on Amazon,
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but it's the ones that we recommend because we've used
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them during a hailstorm.
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it on the Tesla.
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that this hail would have been large enough to do
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significant damage. Now, the Jeep, a lot of the stuff
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is plastic. On the top, the hood is metal, but
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the top is plastic or fiberglass. So that probably would
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have been okay. But is it worth the risk? Because
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it only took me about five minutes to put the
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thing on and roll it up, roll it out, put
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it on. And it takes you less than that if
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you have somebody that's with you. You know, if somebody
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wants to help you real quickly to do it, it
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takes less time. But it's a no-brainer for me. And
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we're talking under $ 200 for this protective cover, which is
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also a good cover to protect your car, but it
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also has the added benefit of having the foam built
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into it, design it from the hail. Now, am I
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telling you it's going to stop hail the size of softballs?
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Absolutely not. I mean, that's just sheer weight, okay?
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than nothing. And is there a difference between something that
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may be able to be repaired or something that they
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just freaking total? Because they're like, dude, we can't, you know,
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there's no way we're getting all this shit out. For me,
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some people say, you know, I don't worry about it.
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I'll let the insurance cover it.
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That's fine. Then you do you.
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Because when I create products like this, Hail Nerd, it
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wasn't designed for everybody. And it may not be for you.
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And don't get it. That's perfectly fine. Now, the next
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question people ask about it is that, you know, does
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it actually give the National Weather Service data?
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So we broke it down so that gives the hail
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and wind specifically to your location for a quick look.
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But then it also is current and nearby property hazards.
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you know if it picks up any hail anywhere. So
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you kind of got an idea of the footprints. And
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then it looks at your National Weather Service near-term content.
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wind forecast for the day. Is there a thunderstorm within
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the next six hours that you have to be concerned about?
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All those type of things. And it has its own
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system internal monitoring.
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Now, one thing that somebody said to me on something
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that says, why do I pay for an app or
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pay for this app?
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When I can get the weather apps for free. And
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you can. You can go to the weather channel. The
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problem is.
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I wanted something that notified me and sent me emails
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because I'm constantly checking emails. I wanted something that I
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can pop open when I know a storm is coming
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or I look at the news or I hear something
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about a weather in the area, which is usually a
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lot broader than your specific geographical location, maybe GPS, like
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right where you're at. I was like, shit, I want
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something that I can just pop open on my phone
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quickly and look at. And that's the other beautiful thing
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about using PWA type of mobile app scenarios from your
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phone is it works on the Android or it works
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on the iOS, Apple.
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It doesn't matter. It just works. And so that's what
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we wanted to create.
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And it just constantly, you know, it'll refresh. If you
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leave it open, it'll refresh itself every five minutes. If
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you want to do an instant refresh, you just click
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refresh now. What's interesting is you can click the check
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72 hour button and boom, you can see what the
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threat is over the next 72 hours. And the neat
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thing about it is, oh, and it also has something
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that people say, well, I don't understand the threat scale. Well,
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we put in there also a, an explanation of the
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threat scale so you understand what this threat scale means.
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you know, okay, and we're going to give you a
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summary of the forecast and then let you know the
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risk levels and things like that. So I think it's neat. Now, people,
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what is the price of this? Well, it's $ 29. 95.
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And before you freak out and say, why the hell
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would I pay for $ 29. 95? Think of the cost difference.
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It is for your vehicle.
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Think of the cost it is to know whether or
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not you're going to get significant wind that you need
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to tie stuff down or move stuff or whatever. And
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the fact that you don't have to worry about it.
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That once you set it, it will actually send you
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an email letting you know of the threat change. And
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usually that does it in enough. Again, the only bad
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part is that we're reduced to the fact that the
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emails are slow. And It might be a server issue
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or whatever, but I can't control that. But we're not
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going to do the SMS part of it because people
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ignore it, it bogs it down, and then if you
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block it one time in your phone, then you block everything.
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So we're not doing that. We're doing the email notification. Now,
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if we get to a certain point where customers really
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want the SMS and we get it to a certain level,
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then we can upgrade and figure out how we're going
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to add that in there.
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But right now, that is not in our future plan.
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But one of the things that we're... really focused on
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is the ability to immediately assess the risk. And for me,
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I want to know whether or not it's time to
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go out and put the cover on. But I don't
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want to do this or pull in the garage or
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get my car out, you know, under something. And I
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don't want to have to keep doing it and being
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paranoid about it. That's what we created the app for.
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That's what we created the website for. So if you're
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interested in that and you really want to, if you're
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in the Midwest or wherever you're listening to this, if
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there is a chance of hail, and I have people say, well, look,
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I don't get hail but once a year, whatever, then
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if it keeps you from getting a damaged vehicle, it
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pays for itself. Because I can tell you right now,
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most of your deductibles are going to be higher, and
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you just never know when hail is going to pop up.
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I've been in a situation where the weather map says
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that there's nothing here, that it's a little north, and
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we ended up getting hail. And so I wanted something
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that's constantly monitoring and that's why we created hail nerd.
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So if you're interested in that, that's something that you
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have an interest in or thinking about wanting to get,
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do me a favor. You can do, you can try
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it for three days and you can cancel if you want.
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We make it really easy to cancel.
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Okay.
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Um, it just go in, you know, in your, um,
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in your.
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Once you get in, you log in and you have
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an easy ability to cancel your membership if you want. Um,
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But for me, the benefit was awareness and being aware
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of a storm and being aware if it's risk, not
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just a thunderstorm, because I don't want to go rushing
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out there to put something on because of just a
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normal generalized thunderstorm that has no signature of hail. And
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if you go looking at a weather map, it's difficult
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to determine because you'll see little polygons, but you don't
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know the direction that polygon is going. You don't know
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if it's tracking towards your zip code. whether it's going
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to be below you.
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And Hail Nerd takes all that information into consideration.
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And it makes a decision, right? That's the thing that's different.
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What should I do? Sometimes we need something to just
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tell me what the hell should I do? And that's
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what Hail Nerd does. It has a specific area that says,
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what should I do? And right now I'm looking at mine.
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It says no action needed right now. No current hail
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or damaging wind trigger requires property protection. The risk is
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low right now.
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Okay.
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So if you're interested in checking it out, do me
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a favor. Just go over to HailNerd.com. That's HailNerd, H-A-I-L-N-E-R-D.com.
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Sign up. Give it three days.
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You can cancel if you want. Don't be emailing me
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about how to cancel, dude. Once you're in, you'll be
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able to see how you cancel. I'm just saying.
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But at the end of the day.
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The goal is to try to make life as simple
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as possible so you can be notified and you protect
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your property. And you know whether or not you're going
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to go somewhere and run to the store. That's the
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beautiful thing about the one that's planning is that if
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you're going to run to the store, I can put
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the time that I'm going to be back and it'll
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let me know that whole period what to expect while
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I'm gone. That way I can make smart decisions on
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whether I go or not. You know, that's what that
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one was designed for. And we're constantly adding new features.
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The weather map was a recent ad. And we're constantly
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and we'll always take recommendations and suggestions and we can
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work them into the app. But it's yeah, it's pretty cool.
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And I think it's very handy. So check it out, folks,
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at HailNerd.com. Again, HailNerd.com. Again, this created by us here.
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We're electricians. I own electrical contracting.
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I'm excuse me. I don't. I own an electrical education company.
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I used to own contracting.
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But this was something in-house that I just told our folks.
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I said, look, we've got to have it. I need
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it for me, selfishly.
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I want it for me.
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And once it was done, I was like, dude, it
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costs money to develop it, to monitor it, the hosting,
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the map system, the email system. Everything costs money. That's
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why we have a subscription on it.
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But it's basically.
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One time a year, it's less than a coffee, half
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of a Starbucks coffee once a month, and you're protected.
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So check it out. Halenerd.com, folks. Till next time, stay safe.
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God bless.
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We'll catch you on an upcoming episode. Maybe we will
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talk electrical next time.
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Take care. God bless.
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Thanks for tuning in to another electrifying episode of the
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Master the NDC Podcast. We hope you're feeling more powered
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Welcome to the Master of the NEC podcast, the ultimate
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of trade experience, as he electrifies your mind with in-depth discussions,
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of the curve. each episode paul will illuminate the complexities
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What up, everybody? Paul Abernathy here.
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Welcome to another episode of Master the NEC, where we
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talk about all things electrical. And look, today's going to
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be a little different. So hear me out. So we're
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going to take a little bit of a break today
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and talk about a new product that we've released that
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I've been working on for a while. And I had
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a personal need for it. And so we developed it
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in-house in order to be able to share it with everybody.
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It is a subscription program.
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It is annual. And it has nothing to do with electrical.
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It has to do with the fact that everybody knows
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I love my Jeep and my Gladiator and my Tesla.
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And I lived in Texas for about 12 years, and
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it was a constant chore. You know, like a lot
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of people, I couldn't get my vehicle in the garage
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because I had a boat in the garage, and then
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I had my wife's car in the garage. And of course,
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my car suffered. It had to stay outside. And so
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you know, how I protect my car. Look, I don't
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care too much about the rain. I don't care too
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much about the snow. I, I care more about things
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like wind and proximity to things and that could fall
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on it or hit it or, or, uh, you know,
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but the biggest risk for me was hail. And, you know,
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I had an F-150 prior to the Jeep and, you know, uh,
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the F-150, uh, I just didn't get noticed enough. You know,
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had no way to protect it. And a hailstorm came
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up and it damaged my truck. Now, people all the
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time say, well, it doesn't matter. You just, you know,
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to take it in. And if it's the, you know,
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if it's very serious, then, you know, they could total
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serious damage to your vehicle. And you might say, well,
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best I can to protect it, then I do that. Now,
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what I did started out with was I actually purchased
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a product called Hail Protector. As babies, it's really just
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they have an app and it's very delayed. And I
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deflate and make it pointless. Now, could it handle large hail?
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it just is anyway, the wind, it lifted me off
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the ground about six feet and threw me against the wall.
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that damn thing again. And so I did it. And
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with the hail. Um, so that was Texas, but you know,
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hail issues. I can tell you that out there it was,
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people's vehicles. Not only that, but their roofs. My roof
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had hail damage. Luckily, insurance paid for that. But one
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of the things I said, you know, when I come
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back to Virginia, I said, you know, we get hail
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back here as well. The problem with it is that
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most of the apps that you use or most of
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the weather apps you use are just really generalized and
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they're designed for meteorologists. It's real confusing because you look
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way this it's shifting. Uh, how are you getting any
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of the information to show you that? Is it, am
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I in the path or is it just, I'm looking
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at a GPS dot and I'm wondering, okay, well, this
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is a big ass swath.
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I decided, I said, you know what, there's got to
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be a better way. Plus one of the problems is
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when you're like me, like, so I have this cover
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that is made of five millimeters of foam. It's perfectly
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fit for my vehicles. I have one for the Jeep
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and one for the Tesla. And it takes about five
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to get the strap from one side to the other.
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I mean, boom, it's like boom, boom, boom, five minutes.
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way to know when it's the right time. And I
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did not want to be the cry wolf thing. I
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didn't want to be trying to run out there and
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put this damn thing on every time there was a thunderstorm.
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going to do that shit.
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storm hits. And like some people say, I'm not going
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to go through that. I'm not going to deal with it.
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I want to put these covers on. because they're nice covers.
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to the quarter size or even maybe a little larger,
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but it's better than nothing, right? And leaving your vehicle exposed. So,
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and plus I wanted the ability to know if a
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storm was coming that I could, you know, prepare. Like,
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was I going to, what kind of wind were we expecting?
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in that same situation and maybe you're good at reading
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a weather map and understanding things. Or maybe you just
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freak out anytime you get a thunderstorm warning.
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You're like, shit, I'm just going to go do whatever.
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I couldn't do that.
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It would literally drive me crazy to do something like that.
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So we created this product in-house and it's called Hail Nerd.
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see us promoting it.
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We're going to have a big promotion here towards the
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end of the year, um, where we market it and
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advertise it, but it is a really neat, um, it's a,
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it's on a webpage, but it's also available in translates
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into a mobile app with a PWA means that we're
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not going to put anything in your phone.
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You don't go to the app store to get it.
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You know, you only get it from hail nerd.com after
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you subscribe. Um, and that you can, uh, It'll load
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on your phone. It just simply a quick, and it's
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adapted to mobile view. So it's not necessarily a native
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app that sits on your phone. That's good because we
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update it all the time. And so you don't have
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to worry about every time you go back, it's always
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going to be fresh, new features, new content, new stuff.
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That's the way we do.
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That's actually how we do all of our apps, by
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the way, whether we, anything we do here at Electrical
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Code Academy, whether it's for our academy, whether it's, it's the, um,
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the app for our fast track systems or whatever we do,
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or whether it's the NEC chat, which is our chat forum,
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we do PWA.
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Progressive web apps. It just makes it so much easier.
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app store. You can't put it into Google or the
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iOS Apple store, but that's okay. It's a trade-off not
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to be up there because you get cluttered with all
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these other apps and The reality is Hail Nerd isn't
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a weather app, even though it will tell you the weather,
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certain things about it. It's very focused on hail and wind,
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even though, again, it has a tracking map that you
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can see the rain.
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It has a forecast.
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to focus on the threat. In other words, it also
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has an email system that when you put in your
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zip code and you also can put in your GPS
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from your phone or you can put your physical address
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in there and it'll have a dropdown and you can
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but that's totally up to you.
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It's just amazing. And we're constantly adding to it, right? So,
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When you look at it, it'll tell you right away green, yellow.
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Amber, red.
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That lets you know your threat. And then it'll give
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you advice. It'll say what's expected for today. It'll tell
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you what the risk is. This is all the stuff
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that I wanted, right? So it tells you what confidence
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it is. So it checks the NOAA. It checks the weather, NWS.
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what's different. about Hail Nerd versus any other normal weather
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app because it's so centric around the weather and rain
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and forecast. Ours will give you that, but that's not
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what's focused up front. That's not what we're trying to convey.
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want your vehicles to be the main focus, whether it's
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your roof, whatever you want. And it also gives you
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and it constantly monitors it. So if it's open, it's
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doing a browser notification. If it's closed, then you'll get
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an email when the threat changes. And that sparks you
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to go to your phone. Now, people ask me or
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they asked us once we launched this and we did
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the pilot program, they said, well, why don't we do
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if you get a notice, it'll send it as an email.
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the app. I mean, you can go on the website
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on a browser, you're at your desktop, okay, whatever. Um,
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the ability to instantly look at it and make determinations. Uh,
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like for example, we have property guard, which is built
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into it. So this is so that you can, it'll say,
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say you have to run out and do an errand.
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the time that you'll be back and it will look
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what you may need to do to prep before you go.
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it has the radar threat map, which is basically a
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map box. And it shows you what's going on around it.
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zone at 40 miles out from you. And then you
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the red, which is the warning alert affecting your location
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right then. So there's different levels that you'll have from this.
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can go right to the timeline. In the timeline, it
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will show you at intervals the different risks and how
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the risk is changing. So you can see how the
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it's a 100 point system. And if it's low, it'll
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tell you. So the biggest thing for me was it
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made me realize that I don't have to run out.
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the weather map or one of my weather apps that
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a storm was close, I was out there putting on
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the damn covers. And by the way, the covers that
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we recommend are on our website. We don't sell them,
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all transparency. We don't sell them. It's just on Amazon,
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but it's the ones that we recommend because we've used
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them during a hailstorm.
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it on the Tesla.
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that this hail would have been large enough to do
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significant damage. Now, the Jeep, a lot of the stuff
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is plastic. On the top, the hood is metal, but
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the top is plastic or fiberglass. So that probably would
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have been okay. But is it worth the risk? Because
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it only took me about five minutes to put the
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thing on and roll it up, roll it out, put
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it on. And it takes you less than that if
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you have somebody that's with you. You know, if somebody
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wants to help you real quickly to do it, it
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takes less time. But it's a no-brainer for me. And
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we're talking under $ 200 for this protective cover, which is
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also a good cover to protect your car, but it
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also has the added benefit of having the foam built
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into it, design it from the hail. Now, am I
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telling you it's going to stop hail the size of softballs?
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Absolutely not. I mean, that's just sheer weight, okay?
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than nothing. And is there a difference between something that
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may be able to be repaired or something that they
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just freaking total? Because they're like, dude, we can't, you know,
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there's no way we're getting all this shit out. For me,
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some people say, you know, I don't worry about it.
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I'll let the insurance cover it.
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That's fine. Then you do you.
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Because when I create products like this, Hail Nerd, it
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wasn't designed for everybody. And it may not be for you.
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And don't get it. That's perfectly fine. Now, the next
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question people ask about it is that, you know, does
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it actually give the National Weather Service data?
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So we broke it down so that gives the hail
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and wind specifically to your location for a quick look.
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you know if it picks up any hail anywhere. So
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you kind of got an idea of the footprints. And
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then it looks at your National Weather Service near-term content.
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wind forecast for the day. Is there a thunderstorm within
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the next six hours that you have to be concerned about?
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All those type of things. And it has its own
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system internal monitoring.
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Now, one thing that somebody said to me on something
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that says, why do I pay for an app or
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pay for this app?
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When I can get the weather apps for free. And
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you can. You can go to the weather channel. The
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problem is.
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I wanted something that notified me and sent me emails
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because I'm constantly checking emails. I wanted something that I
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can pop open when I know a storm is coming
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or I look at the news or I hear something
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about a weather in the area, which is usually a
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lot broader than your specific geographical location, maybe GPS, like
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right where you're at. I was like, shit, I want
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something that I can just pop open on my phone
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quickly and look at. And that's the other beautiful thing
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about using PWA type of mobile app scenarios from your
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phone is it works on the Android or it works
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on the iOS, Apple.
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It doesn't matter. It just works. And so that's what
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we wanted to create.
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And it just constantly, you know, it'll refresh. If you
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leave it open, it'll refresh itself every five minutes. If
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you want to do an instant refresh, you just click
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refresh now. What's interesting is you can click the check
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72 hour button and boom, you can see what the
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threat is over the next 72 hours. And the neat
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thing about it is, oh, and it also has something
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that people say, well, I don't understand the threat scale. Well,
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we put in there also a, an explanation of the
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threat scale so you understand what this threat scale means.
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you know, okay, and we're going to give you a
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summary of the forecast and then let you know the
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risk levels and things like that. So I think it's neat. Now, people,
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what is the price of this? Well, it's $ 29. 95.
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And before you freak out and say, why the hell
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would I pay for $ 29. 95? Think of the cost difference.
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It is for your vehicle.
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Think of the cost it is to know whether or
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not you're going to get significant wind that you need
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to tie stuff down or move stuff or whatever. And
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the fact that you don't have to worry about it.
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That once you set it, it will actually send you
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an email letting you know of the threat change. And
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usually that does it in enough. Again, the only bad
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part is that we're reduced to the fact that the
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emails are slow. And It might be a server issue
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or whatever, but I can't control that. But we're not
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going to do the SMS part of it because people
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ignore it, it bogs it down, and then if you
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block it one time in your phone, then you block everything.
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So we're not doing that. We're doing the email notification. Now,
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if we get to a certain point where customers really
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want the SMS and we get it to a certain level,
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then we can upgrade and figure out how we're going
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to add that in there.
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But right now, that is not in our future plan.
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But one of the things that we're... really focused on
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is the ability to immediately assess the risk. And for me,
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I want to know whether or not it's time to
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go out and put the cover on. But I don't
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want to do this or pull in the garage or
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get my car out, you know, under something. And I
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don't want to have to keep doing it and being
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paranoid about it. That's what we created the app for.
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That's what we created the website for. So if you're
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interested in that and you really want to, if you're
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in the Midwest or wherever you're listening to this, if
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there is a chance of hail, and I have people say, well, look,
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I don't get hail but once a year, whatever, then
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if it keeps you from getting a damaged vehicle, it
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pays for itself. Because I can tell you right now,
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most of your deductibles are going to be higher, and
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you just never know when hail is going to pop up.
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I've been in a situation where the weather map says
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that there's nothing here, that it's a little north, and
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we ended up getting hail. And so I wanted something
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that's constantly monitoring and that's why we created hail nerd.
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So if you're interested in that, that's something that you
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have an interest in or thinking about wanting to get,
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do me a favor. You can do, you can try
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it for three days and you can cancel if you want.
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We make it really easy to cancel.
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Um, it just go in, you know, in your, um,
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in your.
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Once you get in, you log in and you have
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an easy ability to cancel your membership if you want. Um,
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But for me, the benefit was awareness and being aware
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of a storm and being aware if it's risk, not
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just a thunderstorm, because I don't want to go rushing
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out there to put something on because of just a
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normal generalized thunderstorm that has no signature of hail. And
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if you go looking at a weather map, it's difficult
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to determine because you'll see little polygons, but you don't
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know the direction that polygon is going. You don't know
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if it's tracking towards your zip code. whether it's going
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to be below you.
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And Hail Nerd takes all that information into consideration.
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And it makes a decision, right? That's the thing that's different.
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What should I do? Sometimes we need something to just
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tell me what the hell should I do? And that's
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what Hail Nerd does. It has a specific area that says,
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what should I do? And right now I'm looking at mine.
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It says no action needed right now. No current hail
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or damaging wind trigger requires property protection. The risk is
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low right now.
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Okay.
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So if you're interested in checking it out, do me
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a favor. Just go over to HailNerd.com. That's HailNerd, H-A-I-L-N-E-R-D.com.
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Sign up. Give it three days.
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You can cancel if you want. Don't be emailing me
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about how to cancel, dude. Once you're in, you'll be
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able to see how you cancel. I'm just saying.
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But at the end of the day.
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The goal is to try to make life as simple
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as possible so you can be notified and you protect
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your property. And you know whether or not you're going
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to go somewhere and run to the store. That's the
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beautiful thing about the one that's planning is that if
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you're going to run to the store, I can put
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the time that I'm going to be back and it'll
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let me know that whole period what to expect while
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I'm gone. That way I can make smart decisions on
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whether I go or not. You know, that's what that
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one was designed for. And we're constantly adding new features.
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The weather map was a recent ad. And we're constantly
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and we'll always take recommendations and suggestions and we can
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work them into the app. But it's yeah, it's pretty cool.
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And I think it's very handy. So check it out, folks,
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at HailNerd.com. Again, HailNerd.com. Again, this created by us here.
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We're electricians. I own electrical contracting.
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I'm excuse me. I don't. I own an electrical education company.
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I used to own contracting.
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But this was something in-house that I just told our folks.
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I said, look, we've got to have it. I need
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it for me, selfishly.
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I want it for me.
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And once it was done, I was like, dude, it
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talk electrical next time.
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Take care. God bless.
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Thanks for tuning in to another electrifying episode of the
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Master the NDC Podcast. We hope you're feeling more powered
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