all right do you have a bunch of factories and stuff out there
um we've got
quite a few actually what we're more concerned with is the inner pollution in the city uh we've actually had some warnings in uh Raleigh uh on air pollution
the uh
oh you mean
for like smog and stuff
uh-huh because of there're so many cars and we have a belt line along around Raleigh where we're trying to divert traffic
hum
and um you know it's it's still it's just surrounding the city and you can actually see it there's a couple of uh tall buildings in Raleigh and and you can actually you know they're blurred they're even dark and what it is is the pollution
uh-huh
huh
what do you think of that uh the
greenhouse effect that's going on
well i guess that's fluorocarbons the fluorocarbons and uh
yeah
that's causing the hole in the ozone
uh-huh
yeah that's very serious i mean we can we're even feeling the effects of the weather from uh uh the shift in the jet stream
uh-huh it it is scary though isn't it
oh yeah i mean uh the last two uh years our winters have been absolutely nothing i mean maybe one snow
right
well all right North Carolina that's up there by Kentucky isn't it
Kentucky uh North Carolina is all the way on the east coast it's further west than Georgia it's uh right below Virginia
uh-huh
okay
okay well Kentucky's next to Virginia i'm pretty sure well i'm from Kentucky i should know but i don't i'm sorry but Kentucky we use to have severe i mean just real cold cold winters and we'd have three and four feet of snow course here in Texas
uh-huh
they don't have snow they don't know what snow is they freak out when there's snow on the ground oh Amarillo well that's close to here how long have you been in Raleigh
uh-huh originally i'm from Texas so i mean Amarillo so uh uh-huh
yeah real close
um i've been out of Texas about ten years
well how old are you
oh twenty uh seven i almost forgot my age oh really
okay well we're the same age yeah i forget my age all the time so that's okay it's i think it's just something that goes with the territory but to me Texas see and Kentucky we had to have ice on the ground for them to close school okay
hum
uh-huh
in Texas i'm serious if it gets cold and it looks like it's going to rain i i swear they close everything down i just laugh i mean i do they get i mean and traffic slows down to nothing
actually they've been doing the same thing here it's you know it's kind of funny they um i guess northerners are different but even uh North Carolinians they don't know how to handle cold weather
oh well no northern i'm from the north that's why i said we in Kentucky we i don't know you just get used to weather and of course the people down in south they don't they're not used to cold weather and stuff and uh
um-hum
it just i don't know i just laugh everytime they have a
everytime they have snow on the ground everything's closed up and you know you can have snow on the ground and not be slick on the road
that's true
but uh
do you all have much pollution there
no not really i mean not to see it now of course there's you know TI is here Oscar Mayer
uh-huh
and there is a few factories but i don't see much pollution going on
well you know what irks me is these cars that are driving down the road and you have that black smoke coming from their tail pipe
um-hum
well see they have that um uh what is it a vet test or something like that they call it
uh-huh
and uh that's supposed to cut down on it
well supposedly that's supposed to catch it but i'll tell you what and even these buses oh lord it's real bad these buses in Raleigh
yeah school buses and the commercial buses yeah
oh yeah
i mean school buses are notorious
well they're burning that diesel fuel is what it is
oh yeah yeah
and uh
it it gets bad
well you know what they've started doing is is instead of the tail pipes being at the bottom of those buses they've started putting them up at the top
uh-huh
and that way it gets above um other cars on the road
well that's a good idea
and uh it really does make a difference although it it settles you know even if it's at the top and it's a lot of black smoke coming out it still settles and
uh-huh
and you know if you're going to be jogging on the side of the road that's that's even more miserable i would i'd have to go out to the country to jog
well uh the you know pregnant women aren't supposed to walk along a highway
no i didn't know that
because of that smoke fumes when i was pregnant with my first little boy i had read it because back then i was walking back and forth to Kentucky from well not back and forth i was walking home from uh
the college i was going to in Kentucky and i was having to walk along the highway it was just one day a week but it was in
uh-huh
i i have no sense of smell so i couldn't smell this but
it would make me sick and i'd be real tired anyway just from walking along the highway
hum
uh-huh
golly that's
but yeah it's yeah it's all the exhaust uh well that was four years ago too it's probably a lot worse now yeah
that's bad
oh i'm sure well they um you can really feel it you know in your breathing even normal people and if you're older um i mean you can really
deplete your oxygen and it'll you know pass out and it's you know it's killed several people
uh-huh
do you uh
smoke
um actually i'm a very i just smoke one in the evening if that so i'm a very very light smoker
well yeah it's kind of like
it was kind of funny they were doing some uh ozone testing and uh the the EPA and they were just screening some candidates
uh-huh
and i don't think i'd ever you know do that but they uh asked me if i was a smoker and i didn't fit into the smoker's category and i didn't fit into the nonsmoker's category um it was you know i was just one of those
yeah because you do smoke one a day
yeah in between people so that kind of threw them off
hum uh
but they're doing a lot of research here uh the EPA
for the air pollution
for ozone and oh yeah all that they're they're real big into it they've got Research Triangle Park here
and they're you know they're just doing a lot of uh lot of stuff
huh
but they i don't hear much about it down here course Texas we don't have a bunch of pollution but too we've got that air coming in off the coast and you know it'd blow it up north
hum-um
oh uh-huh
uh-huh
so maybe that's part of the reason it's not so bad down here
um-hum
but no it'd seem like it would be the same way in on the California coastline wouldn't it
oh gosh i think i would hate to live in California the smog there i mean i can't believe they have warnings here which it it's mainly just when it gets real real hot
um-hum
uh-huh
but they usually have that everywhere because of the humidity especially
really well well that's kind of good to know because i thought Lord i thought i lived in a halfway decent area
i think they do that for most everybody it's especially it's usually for the young children and the older
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the old people
uh-huh
older old people
well you ought to come to North Carolina it's a big change yeah
it is
there's no trees where i was from in Amarillo and here they've got the mountains the beach the trees you know it's they've got streams rivers ponds it's really pretty here
uh-huh
oh
oh well this is pretty wooded area down here so in in a lot of parts yeah i know Texas is supposed to be flat but they've got you know down by the Denison Dam there's a lot of uh
is it
um-hum
Sherman and Denison do you know my grandparents live in Durant
they do they live close then in Durant Oklahoma
yeah
yeah real close i go there yeah
you go where
uh you go to visit them
oh uh-huh
yeah we used to go fishing in Lake Texoma
oh
yeah well down by Lake Texoma there's a bunch of wooded area this but Kentucky's beautiful they've got trees and trees are supposed to you know purify you know what the best indoor purifying plant is for smoke and stuff it's a philodendron
huh huh-uh
oh really
it's supposed to filter the air for you in your home i had one my husband bought it for me when my daughter was born three months ago four months ago yeah i do yeah i do
well i'm going to have to get some
um-hum do you smoke
do you
did you smoke when you when you were pregnant
yeah i did i couldn't make myself quit i did cut down a lot i got i've i've got one vice and smoke is smoking is it i don't i don't drink and i try not to cuss and i don't i do
well i mean i can understand that actually
well
very little and smoking i just i got in the habit of it when i was about thirteen
yeah well one thing i miss is uh is the people from Texas are are you know i miss their morals their values and everything it's uh
yeah we're down here at the Bible belt aren't we uh i wasn't saved until i got down here and people down here are just there's so many Christians and it's so
different from Kentucky but
um-hum how'd you get involved in this research
um i worked at TI for a while but then my brother-in-law works there and he got me into it
oh i see huh
how'd you get into it
um i i was taking a voice IO class
and um and actually doing some research and so they told me about this project
uh-huh
well it's fun i like talking to new people and i
uh-huh
half the time well a couple of times i've been interrupted by my little girl i've had to hang up and stuff but i enjoy it i talked people from well Carolina well Carolina now
uh-huh
um-hum
up in uh Boston and New York well Boston is New York isn't it
um-hum
uh no Boston's above uh-huh
no Boston Massachusetts but i've talked to people in New York but i've talked to a lot of people in Texas
because i guess it's because of TI's down here
yeah i've talked to a lot of people in Texas i had one call from actually from Charlotte North Carolina and Virginia and um
uh-huh
i can't remember where all
um up north like you said i think one was from Boston
well
with Boston i love their accent i do i love a Boston accent accent i met a girl from Boston one time my husband was in the service so we went from
Kentucky to Louisiana down here to Texas
um-hum
and his family's down here we're out of the service now but yeah he got out of it his unit right after Panama we went to Panama he went to Panama when Noriega was doing all that
um-hum
oh i bet you're glad
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oh gosh
and uh he
