[speaker001:] well good afternoon to you Mary first let me ask you what's what's the weather like up there to begin with
[speaker002:] and good well well today uh when I got up it was twenty nine degrees yes and it managed to get up to about fifty this afternoon but it's been cloudy overcast and threatening rain all day
[speaker001:] that sounds more like our winter weather down here
[speaker002:] and we've also had extremely strong winds fifteen to twenty miles an hour for the day
[speaker001:] well you know I bet that's what we that storm we had last night
[speaker002:] is that right
[speaker001:] oh we had a frog strangler go sweeping sweeping through here uh yesterday and last night and we're expecting another one tonight
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] oh I mean it was raining so hard you could swim down the street
[speaker002:] we had one of those two days ago
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but not uh but uh no rain at all yesterday and uh no rain today
[speaker001:] well it's probably on its way up there it was heading north
[speaker002:] thanks a lot could couldn't you send us some nice weather
[speaker001:] well it was nice today
[speaker002:] oh was it
[speaker001:] uh in between the thunder showers yes
[speaker002:] well the one thing's for sure we can always discuss the weather how some ever we can't do very much to change it
[speaker001:] well you know what they say about the weather here in Texas
[speaker002:] what's that
[speaker001:] if you if you don't like it wait five minutes it'll change
[speaker002:] oh yes well that's about the way our weather is here also
[speaker001:] uh-huh what
[speaker002:] and I grew up in Saint Louis and Saint Louis was much the same
[speaker001:] uh-huh well tell me uh is is it normally that cold up there in the in the Spring
[speaker002:] no it's not this is uh about uh ten degrees cooler than usual but about a week ago we were up to eighty and eighty five degrees
[speaker001:] you're kidding
[speaker002:] no no it uh it fluctuates from one extreme to the other it seems
[speaker001:] you are you sure you didn't leave your refrigerator door open
[speaker002:] I'm sure I didn't I was ready to turn on the air conditioning it no it really was extremely warm it only got down to about sixty five in the evening
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] we had about three or four days of that and then all of a sudden a cold front came down and uh temperatures dropped thirty degrees in a very short length of time and uh it has gone down gradually each day this morning it was twenty nine yesterday it was about thirty two uh cars were scraping ice off their cars this morning if they've been sitting out all night it really wasn't too wasn't too pleasant
[speaker001:] oh mother macree no I should say not well I I sincerely hope that you don't have that terrible storm we had
[speaker002:] oh I hope not
[speaker001:] I hope it doesn't reach you up there
[speaker002:] well they are predicting rain and thunderstorms and I wouldn't be a bit surprised by what we would not be getting the same weather you had
[speaker001:] well I let's hope it well it if it's the same as what we had at least it'll be warmer
[speaker002:] uh yeah yes warm rain well of course by the time it gets up here it may run run into a cold front coming down from Canada
[speaker001:] yeah oh boy the the that whew that would be tear disastrous if you had that rain storm and freezing weather
[speaker002:] yes yes
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] we had uh a week ago they had golf ball size hail coming down in one part of the uh of the city of Dayton itself
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh then we just had about an inch and a half or two inches of rain in less than an hour it was just coming down by the bucketfulls and a great deal of lightning it it wasn't uh it wasn't conditions to being out in it and I had just gotten home we had a lot of tornado warnings also
[speaker001:] oh yes
[speaker002:] and I had gotten home shortly before that uh the rain started so uh I felt a little more secure that I was at home rather than having to be out driving in it
[speaker001:] uh-huh well uh I heard on the news this morning that um one of our local schools uh lost the roof of their gymnasium
[speaker002:] is that right
[speaker001:] and they suspected may have been a tornado
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but uh uh thank God for small favors the uh uh what do they call them the the marching band or something
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh uh had just quit rehearsal about a half hour before
[speaker002:] oh they that was very very fortunate for them because that could have really been disastrous
[speaker001:] oh and how
[speaker002:] well of course this is tornado season uh in to uh we have many tornadoes spawned in this area and northern Indiana now we're in the southwestern part of uh Ohio
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] just forty miles north due north of Cincinnati and uh but uh northern Indiana has many tornadoes come roaring across and we get the backlash off of it if not the part of the tornado itself
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so uh we you know we get a lot of bad weather in this area but of course you're supposed to be the sun belt and I do know that you get some freezing weather down there on occasion
[speaker001:] oh yeah well during the winter yes we do uh we've had uh well past four or five years I guess at least one day during the year when just everything would just close down because we'd have freezing rain
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh of course people down here they just don't know how to handle themselves and
[speaker002:] right yes I was going to say that it does make a difference when you're not accustomed
[speaker001:] oh not only that but we're we're either either don't have the equipment to handle it either
[speaker002:] to uh having to drive in it right right and
[speaker001:] uh they go out there and the well all you can do with with uh freezing rain of course is spread sand on the ice
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and but uh you know we don't even have vehicles that will do that they they have to get uh a truck of sand and uh uh four or five laborers up there just spreading it by hand
[speaker002:] um-hum right well uh well here what they do and I I contend that it's certainly not the right thing to do they spread salt and of course the salt does melt the ice but then what melts immediately freezes and becomes uh a perpetual problem
[speaker001:] well and then to make matters worse it destroys your vehicles too
[speaker002:] oh it sure does do that
[speaker001:] yeah they well we they do that down here too they mix the salt in with the sand
[speaker002:] well sand and uh but I have learned to do is uh now that I am alone is uh to carry bags of salt in the trunk of my car um not only in case I need it for that for traction but for additional weight in the back of the car and then of course kitty litter is also excellent for that
[speaker001:] yes uh-huh
[speaker002:] I don't know whether you've ever thought in terms of that but
[speaker001:] I've no I'm a dog lover myself
[speaker002:] yeah  well the dogs don't use litter but kitty litter is excellent for uh getting under the wheels of cars and what have you and giving you traction uh-huh
[speaker001:] yeah I guess it would be
[speaker002:] yeah it uh works out uh really quite well course I have I have a dog also my son brought me a little Lhasa Apso uh for my birthday last Thanksgiving he brought him from Dallas he
[speaker001:] oh oh wasn't that nice of him
[speaker002:] yes that uh he just thought I had been without a dog uh for three years that was long enough
[speaker001:] uh I have uh a a chowperd myself
[speaker002:] he he had oh a what
[speaker001:] a chowperd
[speaker002:] now that one I'm not familiar with
[speaker001:] well she's part Chow and part shepherd
[speaker002:] uh okay okay that makes sense then I believe
[speaker001:] uh-huh but she's the best the best of both breeds
[speaker002:] yes right well I've always had big dogs before never had a little dog before and
[speaker001:] well June is medium sized but she is scared to death of thunder storms
[speaker002:] yes well oh well I had a German short hair that was frightened of storms the minute it would begin to storm he would just panic
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh I had to put him down when he was fourteen and two months later I had to put my yellow Lab down because he had leukemia
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and uh then uh then there was no point in having all my acreage I had four and a half acres with game preserve on three sides
[speaker001:] oh that must be nice
[speaker002:] oh well it was great I loved it but then I didn't need all that anymore so I finally sold that and I'm in a fair size condo and I have a nice size patio
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh so this little dog has plenty of room to run
[speaker001:] well good
[speaker002:] yeah and he is a a cutie and uh but I've never had a dog I had to keep taking to the groomer's to have groomed either and it's
[speaker001:] no well now you know it sounds like you ought to be in a condo down in Miami Beach somewhere or better yet down around Saint Petersburg Florida
[speaker002:] is that right
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's what I call home
[speaker002:] oh is that right
[speaker001:] I lived there for ten years
[speaker002:] oh well I was there once way way back in nineteen sixty I think for just a week's vacation
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but uh I that's about the only time I've been to Florida except passing through on the way to someplace else
[speaker001:] yep well I lived there in the seventies
[speaker002:] but uh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh I I love it I have two sons still living down there
[speaker002:] um-hum well uh uh most of my friends do spend a lot of time down in Florida but uh I have just that's just not been my thing we used to always head west or head north now that I'm alone why uh I uh prefer to travel overseas if I'm going anywhere
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh course there too you never know what the weather's going to be when you start getting over to
[speaker001:] well that's that's why I was suggesting uh that Saint Petersburg is got got to be the finest weather in the world
[speaker002:] oh is that right
[speaker001:] oh I I loved it down there
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] course you could tell always tell which were the the natives natives
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and which ones were the snowbirds
[speaker002:] oh is that right
[speaker001:] yeah the snowbirds were the