and how's your weather been
well my weather right now is rainy uh this is the most rain i think we've ever seen uh over a twelve month period of time since i moved to to uh to the Texas area
um i was uh i've seen climates both rather arid and and and complete and total uh tropical so i've seen kind of the gamut but this is starting to lean towards the uh the tropical end how about you
well this is getting to be uh similar to the reason i moved away from Saint Louis all these gray gloomy rainy days you know
oh my uh-huh
but uh i've been here for about uh well it's going on five years now and this is definitely the rainiest January February
uh-huh oh this is this is a neat year you missed the nineteen eighty eighty one uh uh mess
the nineteen eighty summer that about roasted everybody and then the eighty one spring that uh where practically every lake in uh North North Texas overflowed
well i thought it was bad enough about four years ago when we had the was it three or four years ago when we had the big ice storm
i mean we
oh yes ma'am well that was that was pretty good uh however the one in seventy nine and uh and uh seventy eight and seventy nine uh dwarfed that one
yeah
you've been here a while then
yes ma'am since uh you know i have been well the firm i am with uh i've been with them them for twenty three years so and they are in the North Texas area
oh okay
so uh
yeah i have seen quite a bit of of weather uh patterns of course like i say uh when i was in the service i got to see plenty of um
different uh locals as far as wet and dry uh climates and uh
uh i was kind of like you i'm i didn't want to go back to Colorado because of the different because of the tremendous weather we had
gosh i think you're the first person from Colorado i have ever heard that didn't say oh it's wonderful it's so dry here
um no no no
well this actually isn't far enough south for me
oh okay
i would like to get down to oh Tampa some place like that where
Tampa Florida
at least yes
uh-huh well let's see my in-laws uh winter in uh the Leesburg area
is that down the coast of Florida
well it's uh in the Orlando area
okay
and Tampa Saint Petersburg is not that super far away
no i think it's a couple hours drive if i
yeah something like that i think we made to from their house to uh Bush Gardens in ninety minutes that day
uh you may have been speeding a little bit though
no no no no no no no not not at that not down that uh uh tollway they've got
i see
they're they're smokies you think our smokies are bad with with uh uh our uh little Mustangs that are hot rods they got them there too oh yeah
is that right
i know we uh were uh
over run by one in uh we went down for Christmas and we were cruising cruising along in our little rental car and uh this this this car comes over the hill and pass me and it was one of those
puppies and he was flat moving
do they arrest people there uh unlike Dallas
yeah yeah he's he he pulled one he pulled one over and was uh steady having a little chat about something other than the weather that's for sure
because i mean he didn't look happy when we went by
so i don't know maybe it was uh
who knows but anyway this weather here is is certainly evolved from a from a dryer hotter uh nineteen eighty
to uh the present the the last summer we had i think we barely what cleared a hundred
maybe
i think that was stretching it
well uh i'll tell you i will definitely take the hot summers
oh well believe you me i'm not not advocating cold summers no no no no no no no wrong wrong wrong but uh
uh the summer of nineteen eighty we saw one hundred fifteen and one hundred sixteen and i was running a little heating and air-conditioning business at the time
no kidding
i'll bet you just did all kinds of business
well uh
what happened there was that most of our customer everybody's customers uh down here about April start to call call everybody you know call their their local guys
um-hum
and we go out and tune up the systems
um-hum
and we are normally expecting some a hundred hundred degree days so we tune for that
um-hum
so we had everybody nice in tune when the hundred and fifteen degree weather hit
yes
and so what the only thing that got replaced were the weak systems
you know that would barely make it at one hundred but when the hundred and fifteen degree days hit well it just couldn't couldn't handle the load and they then they then the compressors blew like popcorn
oh i'll bet
i mean just this pop pop bang bang
