One: Well, could have been the most successful

RioFr10: Well, back to another episode of Mucha Fiesta by Caston Fritión, cold Today we are more prepared than you can believe. We have technical this is the second take. Well, here we are. We are going to you alone or helpless. Speaking of being alone and helpless, today the episode is... There a where you have to go to a safe in your house, which can be the bathroom. A safe is where there are no windows, because the wind breaks the glass and that glass becomes a short-circuiting when it very fast. So, to protect you in this moment, what you do is you go to the basement, suddenly,

One: more lost ⁓

RioFr10: share the experiences we've had with storms, with climate events during our day here in the United States. I bring you very applicable for this week, since is the week where taxes have to be handed over to the federal If you have you go to the bathroom, close the door and if the bathroom is very, very dirty, then you in the bathroom, you get in the shower and hopefully a mattress on top to protect you from anything that has fallen or anything. So here I have some interesting and I asked Mr. Juan if he his personal So that's what I bring you today from Mr. Juan. Good morning, good afternoon, good night. How you? me everything. You know it.

One: Very interesting. I remember once I was on an alert for a What I was to get into the bathroom tub, cover myself with the pillows, put them on top just case. And I did once least. And happened fortunately, but in those moments you don't know what to mean, those natural are things that...

RioFr10: Bye.

One: Hi, Río Frio. Thinking about the issues, I initially thinking about a about taxes, the famous and I knew you were going ask me that, and that's I in the I'm going to and you up asking me that. I haven't made the taxes. The is working on them, and tonight or he me the thing to sign, that I to pay if I have to pay, hopefully I don't have to pay, please, I don't have to pay. So, see later. Sometimes it's hard, least you can see and you can predict bit. Hurricanes too, but there so hurricanes that sometimes you don't know if it's going to It's a It's much more complicated. Those are the things. But well, I'll tell you hardest story, I think. It with Hurricane Katrina, 2005. I've been busy with and it's been... 2025 was a complicated in different aspects, all the ways, all the things to compile, I don't have a life as straight, straight as Rio Frio's, so it got complicated. It got this year. If every year I can say, no, it's that last year it got because it's harder, this one is even harder. So hopefully this one is the limit and that's

RioFr10: recién llegado.

One: Yes, or less like a year and a half, two years more or less here. And well, you know what expect, a Colombian which is a hurricane, I you know it's a hurricane, but what is the experience, the security, nothing. I remember that curious like what's to happen here, well, just in case I put the mattress in the bed, like in the of the bed, because I had a sliding to live in, sometimes. We things bit and know more or less what to But yes, we are going to about those experiences of climate of storms, curious that we have lived here in the States. Logically, those who do know, we grew up in Colombia, but after school we came here to study and here we have been. So obviously we have lived great part of our lives. So I in bed, I put the mattress in the middle of the bed and the closet was So I was further away from the window. And I there. You could the wind The wind was strong for with rain. I wasn't the hurricane's fortunately, otherwise I wouldn't here, But it was strong. Then I got and there were trees on canes everywhere, branches, there was light. more part of here in the States than in Colombia, which is curious despite the that I feel much more Colombian, I imagine that Rio Frio too. So yes, let's a little, learn about our experiences and see what we have lived, also you some images of those things that we have experienced in a different way.

RioFr10: Cato.

One: There was water. There was either. Basically, we had in the fridge was to eat and spend everything because it going to damaged. It was going to get damaged, there was nothing to do. Especially because it 30 degrees Celsius every day. So with that horrible the next few I with the door open, I clean it all up and put the mattress there. I took it out because the heat was horrible.

RioFr10: Well, I'll you the most extreme that happened to me and I'll show you videos. We lived in a city in the state of Kansas. The main is Wichita. Kansas is of Estopec. But one the main is Wichita. And you... Like... Like 5 minutes outside of Wichita, 10-15 minutes outside of Wichita, there are some outskirts.

One: No worries. And it's that there's a fan, because there's light or anything. And also bathroom is another story, because the bathroom without water, you can't take anything so what does everyone do with that thing? And I lived, I think, with two more in the apartment, two others from the and obviously that horrible We were in those for as hell.

RioFr10: In that city we in Andover. So talking about climate events, there a tornado in 2022 that hit, that fell, well, five miles from my house. And five miles, what does it mean? Well, it was where the children's it was where you go to the gym, well, you don't need to it's not a private or anything, it's a YMCA. Claro tenaz. ¿Tú estabas en que ciudad?

One: It's called Hattiesburg, the city in Mississippi, near New Orleans. New Orleans was about an hour and a half, or 45 minutes, it wasn't too far.

RioFr10: in Mississippi. and hit there and of course and five miles does look so far but you think that it is so far but in reality when you a tornado of that magnitude like that and well I started looking and if people showed the videos so I'm show you the videos of what we saw from the house here And that's an hour and a half and New Orleans is on the Gulf

One: Yes, after that year, at the end of the I went to was Biloxi, the Gold Coast, and it looked incredible. The structure of the houses and the hurricane took everything, only the structure, only columns, and everything was away. All those were near the water, everything was taken away. It's impressive how it is. So here are some photos, curiosity, as we were spending all the food in the fridge, we decided to...

RioFr10: This is the YMCA that I'm you about. Here it's sticking to the YMCA where you go to the pools, you the gym and in the parking lot of this gym a lot of cars because the wind speed lifts them and falls obviously random, yes, wherever and there in the parking lot of the gym a lot

One: I out this chicken, mine, I had it the freezer, I it out and I said, well, all of saw it there, because it was an apartment, I well, let's do barbecue, that thing for everyone and that everyone is comfortable because it will be damaged anyway. So we got together and do that and obviously there is no light, so doing it night we didn't even when that chicken we didn't see anything at all and we had cell phones logically, but we had keep the battery because we couldn't charge it to see when we a signal, it's that we could do than this air

RioFr10: Here is another video like this the security and it seems to that this is the city's if I'm wrong. And one goes there, like in front there is a park, there is a theater where you are going to Salar el Libre Salar el Libre and I don't know if you see that there was a...

One: So, there some photos taken. At that time, if I'm not this photo was taken with traditional well, modern but not cell because I think at that time there was no formal for cell phones.

RioFr10: Pero cámara a cámara o era cámara ese chavli? a building in front of that building they were events. D2, the police or the firefighters were doing their annual and inviting the neighborhood and they were to burgers, they were giving to eat, I don't know, hot dogs, anything. That building was destroyed and had to be a collection to rebuild it. Well, here I was you that

One: No, camera to camera. Digital the digital that are called at the moment, That are not giant and that, yes. So here, here you can go little to left side, well, fallen trees in front and here the left also totally broken. Here also fallen I lived basically there, close, that is, this condominium more or less, there are two apartments. I lived there. Ceilings also totally blown away.

RioFr10: Okay. T okay. Okay. we see. Here we seeing the like the of the tornado. And you see that here in the video you a mule. That mule goes down that street. And that street, three or four miles away, you follow that direction and you to the neighborhood where I lived. And of when you leave the city and you go on trip and you by where you are seeing the images of the tornado. Of course, all that part, the houses.

One: I think it of my assistant's think ended up like a square, further away from where he So he was without roof. And these photos are mine. I took with that camera and all these are mine. From that time, that's historical. From the time of who knows when. And yes, then it rained. After that it rained. I as soon as the hurricane ended, it was but then it started to rain again.

RioFr10: This is Report en Vigo! No, friend, that was left to do them again. So there is next to restaurants and there was Walmart to go to the market. To that side, to the other side of the street, there was Walmart too. So that was like You were flooded? The streets were flooded? ⁓ shh, claro, hasta... the strongest I've had in reality. this seems to very close to where I was. This video. That's how we saw it. You go out to the porch, to the balcony of the house, that's how we it. And you see yourself on of because that cone...

One: Basically my photos are there, destroyed. Interesting is that I a week in that strong, without water, light, cell phone. Nowadays it would be more difficult because I get used to the cell phone. At that time, cell phone had internet, It was internet today, was garbage. So yes, nowadays it would much more difficult, but at that time we had to college to get two bottles.

RioFr10: Mmm. Mmm. You think it's too far, but any moment can change direction and it's on top you. So what they is that you... Well, that happens. So what happens?

One: bottles of water a day. That was all because they had to supply what they had. My family didn't anything me for a week. After that, we managed to get out thanks to part of the tennis team. My coach managed to get out of a sponsor who has a huge like an hour and half, two hours from where we lived. And on the way, when everyone... trying to turn on the phone after a certain period of so as to the battery, but at least to know when there a signal to communicate with I remember we at a McDonald's in the nowhere because we found a signal and everyone was on the to report that we were alive, because nothing was So it was a unique experience, a doubt. A difficult but I still appreciate the experience because it teaches you many positive and helps you many other things, like electricity, simple communication, food, because it's also hard to on the that they you little food, but also to two bottles of water, they are spent quickly, especially with heat, despite the you saved a little, you are a university can you buy? Everyone was exhausted, they didn't have car, how much you not going to buy what you what you have, and you survive with that?

RioFr10: That's called basicas.

One: So it a very interesting apart from that, based on another thing, yes, of course, that at least two or three weeks I think classes Because... No, that week I don't think... Like the two weeks think we did back to practice, if I'm mistaken.

RioFr10: Cancel our own classes, see? And did train? No. You cancelled your

One: But for moment, because we didn't know how serious it was. We were in our moment. Then New Orleans, was relatively close, was worse in that sense. The Gulf Coast, which I also mentioned, also grew in large part. What happened was that New Orleans is the largest city in that area. So obviously it more news from that point of view. So it looks like everything. Impressive, without a doubt.

RioFr10: It's no, very hard, very hard, very hard. Well, we're it went well.

One: Yes, doubt. curious that we were to talk about. let's say earthquakes that I I in California, many earthquakes, It shaken, I have been for more than 10 years, I don't know how many years I have been living here. But it has shaken from time to and happens, generally it is always when one is sleeping that it in California.

RioFr10: ⁓ ¿Aquí dónde? ¿En California? ⁓ okay.

One: So it's always when you're sleeping, night when you're not there, then you wake up sometimes and what do I I don't know what I do. They have also changed the instructions of when to to do. Before it was under the door, now it's like diagonal of a table. are so many, I don't recommend you follow my advice, investigate better, because that changes often. But this last one, in December of this year, November, December of this year. I tremble more than I have in any part of the world that I my life because there were days that I tremble 5 or 10 times for days, lasted several weeks, basically almost every day I was and sometimes it 4, sometimes 3, so felt it. So they a short time each time tremble, it a couple of seconds. Yes, on Richter So was a couple of seconds but you feel so you again, again, again.

RioFr10: In the Richter No, of four already. Fucked Of

One: ⁓ So you don't even when you it because you're already dizzy from that.

RioFr10: And in a 4 scale Richter can it do damage in the buildings, in the structures in California or is everything already properly

One: Yes, think here they are adequate. I didn't hear anything, because sometimes things I mean, dropped some boxes that I but well, little details that don't necessarily look like structures, as such. I think here they already have construction which must be resistant to certain amount of earthquakes or earthquakes, because obviously we are in an area where supposed to shake a lot, near San Francisco.

RioFr10: Okay, I see.

One: So, yes, that was the experience of the tremors. Here in the United States, I was so because I was once, and then again, and again. Well, in the replay, but another replay. And then, well, it this day, the next day again, and again, and again. And you feel right? It's it's any kind of game, sometimes you don't feel anything. But it lasts two or three seconds anyway, so it's like scaring you.

RioFr10: Yeah. Yeah.

One: At least that's how it I hope it doesn't get any stronger or longer because that's scary when you can't prepare much,

RioFr10: Here in Kansas, it's shaking, we don't have earthquakes, don't have tremors. Snow is the only thing we have, so we've many times, and every year less. We've had snow where you leave the house because the roads don't... The city has adequate to clean the streets, for traffic. But sometimes there is so much that the trucks that are suitable do not provide enough. So obviously there the main goal is to clean the main and many times the streets of the neighborhoods are not that main So even in the neighborhood the street is clean. So can't get out of your parking lot. So times cancel the schools and that's That's been the most common But that's very common. In sense that, yes, in winter it will happen. But what people do say is that there were seven ten days of winter when when you didn't go to school. And this past winter that we had, the kids didn't go to school twice. So you can the difference that each year is a little less. You will your own conclusions. There is comment. It's just what it is. What else? Rain. There many times when it rains a lot. Especially in the spring. Where the storms... It doesn't raining And you have stop because you can't see. And the windscreen doesn't give you enough. Like or like that. But that's ¿Cómo lo más, pues?

One: I've had more experiences. In Dallas, shortly before I was a hail hail. But hail was balls. Balls. I balls this big basically. From golf to almost tennis. I was getting to where I and that thing I saw those things I everywhere. It sunk the roof. The roof of the car sunk it the blows.

RioFr10: ⁓

One: The other car I had at the time broke the windshield. I managed to it under the covers, but you could those balls bouncing everywhere, breaking car Even what bounced one day, the doors of the cars and that too. They were gigantic and obviously they on the floor because it was cement. That thing was also a very crazy I only saw it once because you see granite in Colombia, you also see granite.

RioFr10: ⁓

One: Cranesito, haha. No, este si te cae en la cabeza, te la rompe, o sea, en serio, rompió el vidrio del carro. sea, para hundir también el techo, esa vaina tiene que caer bien, fuerte. Entonces fue, afortunadamente, el seguro cubrió el techo y eso. En ese momento, el otro carro ya está para venderse. Estamos vendiendo en el momento y se vendió así igual el carro.

RioFr10: Hahaha El Papa Granizo. See you later.

One: But yes, that's just the moment. Another funny in Dallas, day, which is that is not used to Colombia, the ice cream. I imagine you live the cream. So I went to the car door, all frozen, it's a totally covered and you can't even open First you have to break the car's because it's all frozen, then you that and then open the door, it's all sealed by ice, that thing too.

RioFr10: Yes, that's normal. winter it's very normal.

One: That's hard. I only saw it It Do you have comments on that? The most common is I'm used to it.

RioFr10: No, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

One: Yes, snow, and cleaning that.

RioFr10: of storage, so there is space. So that's the car is to interiors, of course, very safe to and all covered in ice, a layer of

One: See you. And speaking of snow, do you the tires of the car or not? Do you put chain on or not?

RioFr10: No, no tampoco no no porque lo que tengo cuando es así la niega de tenaz no uno sale

One: When I New York, if you get early and have to clean the car full of because that thing was it didn't have garage, could but no, so that thing was and you half-brake and...

RioFr10: And they chains. Nah, that happened to man. Of we with the kids in indoor in a covered and we went out and the ice So it was the ice it started to it a little bit of at 2 in the afternoon and at 4 in the cold, that ice, like that layer, had frozen on the road.

One: super slippery super slippery

RioFr10: The road but freezes part of the road. So where you the road, like you slide or the car or what is the dangerous thing actually, when you get to a traffic light, when you to a wall and you stop, the brakes don't catch you. So you skate and well, if you are the first, ready, no problem.

One: Hmm. to see what you guys say.

RioFr10: But if you're the second, you in front of the other car. If you're the third, you skate in front of the other two cars. So that's where the collisions from. Yes, yes, yes. no, but more good, because the in front. He had realized, so it was a van and the man already, of we to a traffic the man skates.

One: ¿Alguna vez le has pegado un carro? Can see?

RioFr10: and then he already knows that he is going to and I do not, but I do come fast I do come fast because the traffic light is already red, so I come behind him I come behind him and skate and I of give him the cabrilla for no, I'm going to hit him and he not take the cabrilla for me anywhere I do have the brakes, give me anything, of course I hit him but hey, the man already knows what he does instead of being attached to the brake he releases the brake, sends the gear and when I hit him he moves

One: Yes, it's to

RioFr10: So was no damage to any car. I pushed it. If he had stayed still, he had if he had if he had stayed braking, there, of course, the collision exists, but he realized that I was going to hit him, he moved, I I pushed him. So that's like the only thing.

One: interesting, ⁓ wow! I'll him a kiss! Yes, yes, water... Other rain that... Well, there several experiences. There several times where I drove at night, I was driving for hours, it rained, but there was also The rain doesn't let you anything, the fog doesn't you anything, it doesn't go 10 miles per hour and you don't see anything.

RioFr10: Mmm. Mmm.

One: You are basically there, praying, because you try to at the lines at least, you try to guide yourself through the lines. And in one those, I remember, next to there was a lake, think. I a large part it, so that's there was also a fog. So I have to stay on this side, on this line, because if I don't, go to the water. I there is the barrier of those metal but... And at night, I remember, at that point...

RioFr10: Yes, look at the delete, of K ⁓ E O W

One: I remember that I had to stop after driving for while because I was like 9 to 12 hours I think the and I to stop and sleep there because there was really nothing else to see. Also in Yosemite, the here, when my brother was visiting me, I think coming from Las Vegas, we were to stop in Yosemite and there was fog at night too and it was It snowing. And more than anything, we were good mood, we didn't expect to snow. So at night, were only curves, so we were that it would a meter ahead, So we were along the line, as always, with fog. Totally dark because there were no other cars, it was just us, basically. With snow also falling. We were afraid that a bear would because we were in the of nowhere, it we couldn't anything. We but it was very strong I was driving, I had to drive bit, I scared. You have to that thing, It was my hands because of the intensity, because you can't anything, you don't know what to do. Another interesting thing that happened to in Hawaii. I couldn't do a lulu.

RioFr10: See.

One: Wow, le puede dar la vuelta en teoría, pero hay una carretera, o era una carretera que era destapada, que no recomendaban porque no es la más recomendable, porque solo es igual una vía y ahí se encuentran dos carros, entonces no, mejor no tomarlo y genialmente se la cortan para hacerla semi vuelta. En ese momento, como no, hagamos la vuelta completa. Entonces fuimos, pero hicimos lo bueno.

RioFr10: In or a truck? what? ⁓ okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.

One: In a rental So during the day we went around in a and at night we arrived at that point where it was dark because there was nothing, there was nothing. was that the moon lit you up, you could see anything. You turned off the light and you could anything. You car, you could anything in front you. And on the left side was the sea, the sea's

RioFr10: Hahaha

One: So, only one road led to the I remember. And I think that that moment two cars in front us and was like we don't. Fortunately, we were lucky, there was like a little a there, the story to get in. And I think it that I because it was hours, right? So think it was time to stop in the dark quickly and there was no one there logically, but maybe a bug out. It never knows what it's to there in the jungle, I know.

RioFr10: You went to Hawaii and left your mark.

One: the scare, no, and also other people, just when we then he stopped too, because it seems that they him in the bathroom and they didn't want to stop just because of the scare, after a while. Then another person and also that time, I do remember the S3 also of that, you couldn't see it, and also driving, I couldn't see anything.

RioFr10: very different from the Andrés the San Andrés

One: Yes, yes, it was stressful. Well, the other one, also the rain, you can't anything, they clean They don't clean anything, the was so heavy, and they went through, as if they had thrown water bales, like it was straight, and even branches, a branch in front of car, like that, that you could see, like, they were going through. That also happened to in Canada, that thing was very crazy, you can't see anything, what a scare.

RioFr10: Stay nice to me. I'm to you update on day of taxes. April 15 is when have to register your personal and company with the federal that collects taxes. Unless you ask for an extension, yes, which is until October 15.

One: Unless you for You can ask for an extension.

RioFr10: Yes, have April 15. think the societies were on March So, that was But most of the population is pending April 15 to register their taxes. So, the curious is that during World War in 1944,

One: Corporaciones.

RioFr10: the maximum tax rate was 94 % for income higher than $200,000. So that was super, super high compared to current which is more in the 25%, 28%, 27%, 28 % for the maximum wages. If you remember Al Capone, a mafia guy. very famous in the history of United States in Chicago. They never put him in for his illegal you but he went to jail for tax evasion in 1931. So there is the clause that even if you have illegal that produce an income, is due to declaring them so that you the taxes. to agency does not care about the type of business you have but if you have income you have to pay taxes if you not go to jail and well and you mentioned that

One: That's what they taught me the university, that no matter how dirty the business is, that those illegal are have to do, the taxes. Because they care about collecting from that point of view. It's very curious.

RioFr10: From that point of view, yes, totally. Well, and you were saying that you not made your taxes and we are already a little, I have not said a day of yes, well, are the only one who is left last, about 29 % of the population meets the requirements last week. Last week, so there is the.

One: 14, 15 already. Last 10, last 10. muy loco When did you

RioFr10: No, nothing, I have a That... Yes. What I'm you, it has to be convenient, has to be easy, that...

One: You are in life retired, You live on beach, right?

RioFr10: I want to be retired now. Work is for the healthy ones who work for them.

One: See, she's closer.

RioFr10: Bueno, ¿qué le decimos a la gente, señor Juan?

One: Well, last thing, please. Advertising doesn't pay. Advertising doesn't pay for one. The documentary of Nadal will be on Netflix, very interesting, May 29th. So, to a little more about Nadal, which logically, as tennis players, interesting, especially Nadal, who, well, from our time, without any doubt, everything she achieved. So, to a little behind the to know what she has to say. Logically, I seen it, I've seen the trailer. So, it seems very interesting.

RioFr10: ⁓ listo!

One: I saw the special documentary that Federer previously. It was good. I hope to the There is also from Djokovic. Alcaraz also one Netflix, Alcaraz is still a player. He has achieved great things, but obviously doesn't reach the level of Federer or anything like that. I to in a future documentary from Djokovic. It would very interesting. I if more behind the scenes about that, I know how much those things how much money they make with each of those things. But yes, that's the story, that's my additional think it's worth mentioning it because I think it's something very interesting to

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