[speaker001:] and how's your weather been
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh my uh-huh
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah you've been here a while then
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um no no no
[speaker001:] well this actually isn't far enough south for me
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] I would like to get down to oh Tampa some place like that where
[speaker002:] Tampa Florida
[speaker001:] at least yes
[speaker002:] uh-huh well let's see my in-laws uh winter in uh the Leesburg area
[speaker001:] is that down the coast of Florida
[speaker002:] well it's uh in the Orlando area
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] and Tampa Saint Petersburg is not that super far away
[speaker001:] no I think it's a couple hours drive if I
[speaker002:] yeah something like that I think we made to from their house to uh Bush Gardens in ninety minutes that day
[speaker001:] uh you may have been speeding a little bit though
[speaker002:] no no no no no no no not not at that not down that uh uh tollway they've got
[speaker001:] I see
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] is that right
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] do they arrest people there uh unlike Dallas
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] maybe
[speaker002:] I think that was stretching it
[speaker001:] well uh I'll tell you I will definitely take the hot summers
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] no kidding I'll bet you just did all kinds of business
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and we go out and tune up the systems
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and we are normally expecting some a hundred hundred degree days so we tune for that
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so we had everybody nice in tune when the hundred and fifteen degree weather hit
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh I'll bet
[speaker002:] I mean just this pop pop bang bang