[speaker002:] do you live in Plano or work in Plano or both both are you a TIer
[speaker001:] both yes
[speaker002:] are you at work right now
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so am I in building which building are you
[speaker001:] well are you Summit or are you uh uh Spring Creek
[speaker002:] I'm I'm Spring I'm Spring Creek
[speaker001:] oh this is fun what building are you in
[speaker002:] I'm building uh one
[speaker001:] oh I'm building two at least we found something different that's I've never had a call
[speaker002:] who've that like that neither have I
[speaker001:] no isn't that funny I usually get some place I got a woman in New Jersey the last time I called I think
[speaker002:] right that's funny
[speaker001:] that is funny so the weather
[speaker002:] so how's the building how's the weather in building two
[speaker001:] the weather in building two is cold it's been cold in the building outside the building's not bad not bad typical TI Spring or TI listen I got me doing it typical Texas Spring are you a native to Texas
[speaker002:] ugh oh yeah no no I'm I'm a transplant from California
[speaker001:] from so what do you think of the Texas weather
[speaker002:] not as nice as California
[speaker001:] how long have you been here
[speaker002:] oh five years now I've been here long enough pretty long so
[speaker001:] oh okay you you you you know about August then
[speaker002:] yes oh I've been through five of those
[speaker001:] okay there's no surprises left
[speaker002:] right right a lot of people try to leave the state for a couple weeks in August for you know if they're going to go out of state for vacation that's the time to go
[speaker001:] um-hum good idea real good idea
[speaker002:] yeah we went up to Wyoming this last uh Summer during that time and it was like you know eighty degrees up there it was beautiful it was nice to get out of Texas for a while
[speaker001:] we went to Alaska
[speaker002:] well that's that's the even even farther away
[speaker001:] that is really nice it is so cool you wear a jacket you know or or
[speaker002:] even in the Summer time huh
[speaker001:] yeah or keep one handy
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] because it's it rains a lot in Alaska
[speaker002:] is that right
[speaker001:] uh it they call it their liquid gold
[speaker002:] is that right um
[speaker001:] but it you know you get sunshine and it's lovely and then it rains just enough to keep everything nice and moist and very green and blooming oh my goodness it's pretty well Texas isn't bad
[speaker002:] green um right no no
[speaker001:] not in the Spring
[speaker002:] right I I I have to think every year to try to remember what it was what's it supposed to like this time of year
[speaker001:] Spring is nice
[speaker002:] yeah because March we usually get a lot of rain in March you you know it'll seem the the news the Harold Taft you know on the local news he's says oh March we typically get a lot of rain and we've had this many inches and you know we're right on target you know and
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and just seem like we were getting a lot of rain in March but I you have to it's hard to remember twelve months ago what it was like but I guess yeah I wish I just wish it wouldn't come all at once and it and
[speaker001:] oh we always we we always do though uh it that's right and then we get all that heat
[speaker002:] right well it's just that you know when it rains it rains you know in California you get these nice lovely rains you know nothing really downpours you know like downpours like you have here you know
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] the other day we had some hail the biggest hail I've ever seen in Texas yeah when I live in Garland
[speaker001:] oh really oh you got into that bad stuff
[speaker002:] yeah we got hail the size of marbles I mean just just so noisy hitting the house and the glass on the windows it didn't break anything but we went out there afterwards and there's ice balls the size of marbles all over our lawn
[speaker001:] isn't that strange
[speaker002:] I know I just you pick them up you know and they're they're perfectly round you know and I go gee how did they form you know and have so perfect like that
[speaker001:] isn't I
[speaker002:] and
[speaker001:] I think that's one of the strange strange things and you very seldom see it though
[speaker002:] right right you I've I've seen hail you know but they're usually the size you know of a tiny tiny pebbles you know really small you know but this was uh really large
[speaker001:] so it had come it's a drop of water that had come through quite a few rain clouds apparently is that correct
[speaker002:] uh uh I don't know how hail's formed tell you the truth you don't think it's cold enough you know to
[speaker001:] I think I think that's
[speaker002:] to
[speaker001:] it's not on the ground but in in the clouds it is
[speaker002:] right must be I guess and it doesn't I think you know all that falling would warm it up and melt it but it maybe that's what rounds it I don't know but tumbling
[speaker001:] I was dumb I was in uh Florida for a week
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] on business and uh I had called back to the house I stayed the weekend and I called back to the house my housekeeper was babysitting my cats and dogs said something to the effect of now we've made the national news don't get upset and don't worry it's in Garland where all the bad weather is I said okay you know and I watched the news and I thought ha ha that's Garland that's not Plano I don't have anything to worry about I was on the plane heading back to Dallas before it dawned on me stupid you own property in Garland
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] felt so dumb finally I got home found out my property was okay there was no problem with it but I guess you just tend to think of of where your house is you know and nothing else
[speaker002:] um yeah right right and close to that what's it's called Duck Creek that runs through part of Garland that's the part that always seems to to get hardest hit when there's there's the hard rain the the creek overflows and
[speaker001:] oh oh I see
[speaker002:] a lot of houses a lot of houses around that creek seem to to get flooded the streets and stuff around that area get a lot of flooding
[speaker001:] oh okay the house that house that I bought is close to a Firewheel Firewheel Firewheel golf course
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] it's just going to be blocks off of that new highway one ninety that's going through
[speaker002:] right that's where I live close to that
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] yeah uh uh not quite uh I don't live in that Firewheel division but I live close by there in north far north Garland yeah they're supposed to it it's getting built up you know with more new new shopping centers and and things you know it's a fairly new area
[speaker001:] is that a nice area
[speaker002:] yeah and uh and they're supposed to be building a mall somewhere close by by the next by ninety three or ninety four or something a brand new mall
[speaker001:] well
[speaker002:] not too far away from that area so it should be nice
[speaker001:] the house that the house that I bought was really really nice
[speaker002:] uh-huh in the Firewheel Estates there whatever uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh yes yes really really nice home very pretty uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh but you're not living there right now
[speaker001:] no I'm going to lease it it's it's investment property
[speaker002:] oh I see I see
[speaker001:] but it is really it's a very nice place uh I I would cheerfully live there at you know of course it's not my home and and I've lived in my home in well almost ten years and you know I've got everything just exactly like I want it but if I were to live some place else it certainly meets my standards it's a nice house I like it
[speaker002:] right it should yeah that's a nice area is it on the golf course or
[speaker001:] no it's not it's off the golf course and I'll be honest with you I have I'm going to have to get a map to figure out exactly where is the golf course versus where my house is
[speaker002:] uh-huh is that right
[speaker001:] it's but it's in the estates that adjoin it
[speaker002:] yeah right right well that's a nice area
[speaker001:] yes it is
[speaker002:] that really is a nice area when they get that highway finished finished you can hop on that and get anywhere you need to go fairly quick
[speaker001:] yeah that one ninety that one ninety is just going to be the most outermost outermost loop around
[speaker002:] yeah right another belt line just uh farther out go
[speaker001:] right just continue to do that
[speaker002:] right right right
[speaker001:] where are you from in California
[speaker002:] southern California uh
[speaker001:] San Diego
[speaker002:] I've lived in San Diego for six years when I was a kid younger and and LA area and my parents live in Anaheim right now lived up in in north of Los Angeles in Thousand Oaks area where the Cowboys have their training camp or used to anyways
[speaker001:] I've been through all of that uh there is an area beyond Thousand Oaks north of Los Angeles that's really an eerie strange looking area with boulders uh I wonder they're not really hills they're more like just
[speaker002:] yeah was it
[speaker001:] huge boulders with very little vegetation
[speaker002:] huh I'm not familiar with what is it along the coast or or more inland
[speaker001:] uh very well you know it may be a little bit more inland that is one of the strangest areas I have ever seen
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] uh I had to go up TI on business a couple of years ago
[speaker002:] out there huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and we went up that coastline and I was just amazed how unusual that looks
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] here hang on just a second I've got a Los Angeles map let me just quick
[speaker002:] yeah they have some pretty nice weather out there in Los Angeles
[speaker001:] uh Simi Valley
[speaker002:] Simi Valley okay I know where that is
[speaker001:] yes beyond Thousand Oaks
[speaker002:] I know where Simi Valley is I've been out there before sure
[speaker001:] you don't think that's strange looking
[speaker002:] I didn't notice anything strange I guess
[speaker001:] oh okay maybe I'm maybe I'm used to Texas
[speaker002:] about it maybe Texas the way
[speaker001:] the elevation is extremely high
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] it's got curving roads on it but but the it's just a strange landscape there's very little vegetation
[speaker002:] huh I didn't I don't remember seeing that part of it I know Simi Valley yeah it's just a suburb of LA and they've built some new highways out to that area and things lately
[speaker001:] right it's a far
[speaker002:] people can get in and out of LA faster easier
[speaker001:] maybe it's a place I went to it was uh far extreme thought we'd never find the place
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] it was interesting
[speaker002:] yeah that sounds interesting
[speaker001:] because we went out the Ventura highway to Thousand Oaks and on up through that way
[speaker002:] right right right I I know exactly I I I lived that area it's a nice area out there I love Thousand Oaks uh Texas I don't know things things you just have a less a variety I guess it's I think I don't think it's quite as green you know it it's green with all the trees and things out here but it's just
[speaker001:] oh it's green sometime
[speaker002:] yeah but it's just you know I don't know
[speaker001:] well it doesn't stay green you know the really and and in all honesty I I know this sounds like a Texas story all honesty you haven't seen the hottest of summers if you've only been here five years we haven't had a really bad one
[speaker002:] right yeah I I I missed that one of eighty or eighty two or eighty one that had the heat wave
[speaker001:] uh it was maybe eighty two because we bought our house in eighty one and we built a pool in eighty two
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] no