[speaker001:] Well, I'm talking to you from Dallas. What part of the country are you in?
[speaker002:] [Talking] Oh, boy, this is going to be tough, I'm in Plano [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] Well, we can, uh, complain together or swear we can complain together about the humidity [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Exactly. I guess the weather hasn't been too different between us.
[speaker001:] No, I don't think so, I wouldn't think, yeah. I,
[speaker002:] W-, what part of Dallas are you from?
[speaker001:] Far north Dallas [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Oh, north Dallas.
[speaker001:] Yeah, about a half a mile from Plano [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Well, jeez.
[speaker001:] So we're in the,
[speaker002:] Well then you've been getting quite a bit of rain also.
[speaker001:] Yeah, it's been very, very rainy, I know. Oh
[speaker002:] How about that. How does it compare to the years past?
[speaker001:] um, I don't know, I haven't lived here, let's see, we m-, lived out of state in Wisconsin and we just c-, we lived here ten years ago, and when we first lived here, we l-, we were in Garland, East Richardson,
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and, um, doesn't seem like it was quite as humid.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] And, I don't know, then we went, we lived in, uh, Madison, Wisconsin for five years, um, for my husband's schooling, a-, graduate schooling, and it just, it's a lot cleaner up there, but, um, it's a lot colder too.
[speaker002:] Huh. Well, what brought you guys down to Texas then?
[speaker001:] Uh, his job, he came back to start work again for a different company, so, said,
[speaker002:] How about that.
[speaker001:] Here, here's a g-, here we are again.
[speaker002:] That's great.
[speaker001:] It just seems a little more humid than it, I don't ever remember, of course, you know, you only remember the good stuff, but, um, I just don't remember the humidity.
[speaker002:] Right. Well
[speaker001:] This much rain, and this much humidity.
[speaker002:] definitely, I'm sure, the winters are more mild here.
[speaker001:] Uh, yeah, they are. Actually, though, it was a lot rainier here in the winter, uh, we came back last August.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] It's just a lot rainier than I remember it, all th-, through the seasons, you know.
[speaker002:] Sure.
[speaker001:] Um,
[speaker002:] It seems that progressive, I've, been down here five years, just over five years now, that, every spring and summer seems to get more and more rainy.
[speaker001:] Yeah, and I think it's because it's just getting more crowded and more polluted. I really do think that's part of it.
[speaker002:] Huh.
[speaker001:] Um, uh, in, in Wisconsin and Minnesota, when they get winters it's, um, th-, the winters are bad, but not what you hear about. It's just like down here, when you hear, when people here think it's a hundred and six, people up north think it's a hundred and sixty down here.
[speaker002:] A hundred and sixty.
[speaker001:] Hundre-, I'm making that up.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, right.
[speaker001:] You know, when it's only like ninety-five.
[speaker002:] Sure.
[speaker001:] Um, it's just like up there, when you hear it's forty below, it's probably really only five below.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] Um, and it's so dry, that it's, it's like going to Ar-, well, probably what y-, Arizona used to be like, you know,
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] it's just dry and cool, so it's not, it's not what you think it is.
[speaker002:] True.
[speaker001:] Um, no, there have been times, though, when it gets so frigid that you [LAUGHTER],
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] you can't stand it. Where did you move here from?
[speaker002:] Colorado.
[speaker001:] Well, there, you could talk about that, that's,
[speaker002:] Oh sure, I, I'm uh,
[speaker001:] that's a strange state for,
[speaker002:] I'm very familiar, my grandparents and all my relatives are from Wisconsin.
[speaker001:] Oh, there you go, okay.
[speaker002:] So, I'm, uh, quite familiar with how it is up there, and if you, kind of interesting, uh, the people down here typically don't think it gets above, you know, fifty degrees [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] This is very true.
[speaker002:] And it's always snow, you know, but, uh,
[speaker001:] Yeah, right, well actually, the summers up there, we thought, were the most beautiful time of the year.
[speaker002:] Oh yes.
[speaker001:] Um, in terms of Colorado, I know my husband likes to camp and backpack and all the stuff I don't like, um,
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] but I'd, used to go on, I worked for a mortgage company in Wisconsin and I did a lot of business in, uh, um, Colo-, well, Denver, and that's, that's probably one of the stranger things, when you see the air inversions,
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and then you go into the mountains and it's snowy and col-, uh, it just was a very mixed bag in terms of Colorado.
[speaker002:] Oh sure. My parents just live, uh, thirty miles south of Denver and it can be sunny and, and no problem in Denver and they'll be having snow [throat clearing].
[speaker001:] Isn't that strange?
[speaker002:] So it's pretty amazing, it can be that drastic in just a short distance [throat clearing].
[speaker001:] Yeah, and then things like torn-, are there tornadoes in Colorado, yes or n-, I don't,
[speaker002:] Uh, it's getting to be more and more of a possibility.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] It used to be no problem, just because it was such a, a rugged terrain and with trees everywhere, but now,
[speaker001:] The mountains, yeah.
[speaker002:] as they start to clear more things out.
[speaker001:] Even, I mean, I'm originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I can tell you that, um, they've even had, in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, they've even had, I'm going to say, mini tornadoes for lack of a better word.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And, and that's just a part of the country that it's rolling hillside. That was unheard of, you know, twenty years ago.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] Um, so I don't know what's happening, if it's, you know, we are, the greenhouse, I don't really know.
[speaker002:] Yeah, me neither.
[speaker001:] It's just, you know.
[speaker002:] But,
[speaker001:] It's definitely not as, um, I know I associate the pollution with weather in general, so I guess one thing we do miss, is that's a smaller town, and it w-, it was, it just seemed a little bit more pleasant in terms of the atmosphere, you know.
[speaker002:] Sure, sure. Well, it's been good talking to you.
[speaker001:] You too.
[speaker002:] Good-bye [talking].
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] Good-bye.
[speaker001:] Bye-bye.