[speaker001:] hello Jim
[speaker002:] uh in Austin Texas
[speaker001:] oh one of my favorite towns I'm I'm in Houston
[speaker002:] in Houston uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so we probably been having relatively similar weather
[speaker001:] yeah probably although I would imagine that I've had uh uh
[speaker002:] yeah uh although recently it's been fairly fairly humid uh
[speaker001:] some warmer weather and and more humidity than I think that's typically a little drier out there has it really
[speaker002:] yeah we
[speaker001:] yeah Austin is a uh actually I have my uh my brother and sister-in-law live in Austin and it is one of my favorite locations it's just I I think it's beautiful
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah it's nice today I I
[speaker001:] how long have you lived there
[speaker002:] uh I guess about a little less than five years now
[speaker001:] yeah practically a native
[speaker002:] we have lots of non native Texans
[speaker001:] yeah uh how hot does it get there in the summer time
[speaker002:] oh it it varies I mean occasionally it it it gets up over a hundred but it's not uh that's not really well I don't know I was going to say it wasn't not typical but I guess there is quite a phase this quite a period this summer that is was a hundred it stayed over a hundred uh it mid to high nineties it's it's fairly typical uh Houston doesn't get quite as hot actually because the humidity
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah that's correct I mean being I think being a little closer to the uh to the gulf we it has a moderating factor but again what we what we lack in the heat we make up for in the humidity I lived in Dallas for six years
[speaker002:] and the ocean the gulf yeah um-hum the humidity  yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] before uh I was transfered down to Houston in uh nineteen ninety and uh Dallas got hotter I mean temperature wise but I you know Houston can get just as uncomfortable
[speaker002:] right yeah well I
[speaker001:] but for some reason and and I guess it's uh not having just the extreme heat I mean we had uh one one year we had in in Dallas uh a week or more where it never got below of that eighty two or eighty three degrees at night and then over a hundred every day and that got to be awfully oppressive
[speaker002:] yeah well I I'm originally from Kansas and and uh south west Kansas which is extremely dry and it's the opposite but but I mean that real serene heat
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh and and and very cold in the winter uh but
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] the last summer that I lived there I guess it was the last summer yeah I believe so the last summer that I lived there it we had a streak of something like thirty eight days in a row over a hundred degrees uh it just absolutely sounds absurd and one day it it it actually hit one hundred and fifteen degrees in the shade
[speaker001:] you know you know it makes you wonder how anyone ever lived before air conditioning
[speaker002:] oh I know I know well well that's uh
[speaker001:] uh how much snow did you get in Kansas
[speaker002:] oh well well that same year that's when that's when I finally left is that that same year we had this incredible cold spell and and I uh I uh oh I mean it was like uh you know thirty degrees below zero
[speaker001:] no
[speaker002:] yeah and and and I you know I had just bought a little MGB that I was going to fix up and you know sand it down and get it all fixed up and I and I had never bothered to check the antifreeze in it
[speaker001:] yeah oh no
[speaker002:] and uh you know here is this freezing day and I got my heaters up full blast trying to stay warm and and the uh uh and all of the sudden it dawns me I mean it's like one O clock in the morning oh I wonder if the car's got any antifreeze in it and of course it didn't uh
[speaker001:] oh no
[speaker002:] you know and so so I you know I tried to jump start it I couldn't get it in it still I mean had some it was slushing and uh I tried to start it I tried to jump start it I couldn't it didn't have a jumper cable ran to the store and by the time I got back it had frozen out
[speaker001:] yeah oh no
[speaker002:] ran back to the store got a can of sterno and you know was doing all kinds of stuff put blankets on the top of it I babied it all night it was fun
[speaker001:] did you did you uh keep it going
[speaker002:] it actually I mean the box froze but it didn't it didn't crack anything and I uh I left it for a couple of days and we called the tow truck and we hauled it over to a friend's garage put heaters on it
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] warmed it up and I didn't keep it much longer after that but but it it did uh
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] and after that I decided I was going to go live some place where it was warm
[speaker001:] well I have never lived anywhere uh well the farthest north I've ever lived is Raleigh North Carolina which is certainly you know not your ice and snow country uh and it got you know reasonably cold up there in the in the winter time but I have never lived anywhere where I really had to battle snow and uh I don't think I want to
[speaker002:] yeah well it's kind you know I I finally decided that snow is kind of a neat thing to visit uh you know when you when you felt some ice cold all white white Christmas and some things like that it's a nice thing to go visit but it's not something that I want to live in day in and day out
[speaker001:] yeah I had some I had some friends who lived in uh New Hampshire for a couple of years and then they moved back south because they said you know it just prospect of every morning having to get out shovel the driveway to get out and then shovel the driveway to get back in the morning and shovel it again the next morning they said it just got to be too much
[speaker002:] well you actually get kind of get used to it after a while I mean and and and in the cold really it doesn't get at you that much because you you of course you learn how to dress well and the houses are well insulated and stuff
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] I actually I I moved from there to New Orleans and and