[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] so what do you guys having up there I haven't been up there since oh Lord forty eight I guess well no no it wasn't forty eight it was it was uh
[speaker001:] forty eight that's a long time um
[speaker002:] let's see yeah it was forty eight I was in the Air Force we did an we did an air show out at uh out at uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] Bowling Green no out at um Andrews yeah
[speaker001:] Andrews
[speaker002:] so what's it been like up there
[speaker001:] well for the past week or two it's been cold and wet
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but before that for most of the year it's been hot and dry
[speaker002:] yeah uh like September was hot and drier October
[speaker001:] um September's really was I'm not sure about October I think for about twelve months through September the the average temperature had been higher than normal each month
[speaker002:] really huh
[speaker001:] um lots of ninety degree days during the summer
[speaker002:] it really has been strange here this year I mean this whole year course this whole year has been a different year in more ways than one but uh we had uh you you know all these we have all these uh uh somebody said you know you're either a stranger or a fool if you try to predict Texas weather but we had all these people saying it was gonna be the hottest summer ever you know and we had all this rain and it really is not a bad summer at all really cool but all of a sudden in in um in October
[speaker001:] good
[speaker002:] um September October it got real hot and dry and just stayed that way for a long time then uh then the end of October it started rain almost a week without stopping just pouring down you know and flash floods everywhere and that kind of deal and then uh uh end of November the first like the second week um you know the first week actually we had we had a freeze
[speaker001:] yep
[speaker002:] and the average you know the average uh first frost is like the fifteenth of November here but usually it's not until later it's really strange
[speaker001:] oh if you had it early yeah I think we usually have a frost in October
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um but you know we really need the rain that we've been getting and it has not today but the last few days it's been been pouring most of the day
[speaker002:] is it is it is it flooding anywhere
[speaker001:] is it flooding anywhere I have not heard of it any problems of it flooding anywhere I mean that's occurred certainly at times in the past but uh no I've not heard of any particular problems this time
[speaker002:] it just kind of uh cloud we're supposed to to have a chance to get some rain the next couple of days here uh which will be you know a little bit more typical uh autumn weather but really it's strange we haven't really had an autumn it's like we went into winter without you know the the poor trees said what what's that
[speaker001:] yes yeah yeah yeah we had we had uh summer lasting long and then it then it then it became winter like
[speaker002:] yeah uh uh and
[speaker001:] uh today it's today it's it's sort of change it's warmer to sort of more typical autumn day
[speaker002:] yeah there you you know usually there's uh I have a a farm a hundred miles east of here in East Texas
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] and you know all these huge trees just like the eastern hard wood belt all the way up to Maine you know it's that same trees pines and and hard woods you know hickories and oaks and stuff and um I was up there last weekend and there are trees that that still have their leaves on and they're green but they're dead you know the freeze the freeze just got them they they weren't ready for it at all apparently and and we haven't had a typical fall at all no not much color and you know changes have a color at all
[speaker001:] guess not
[speaker002:] really weird this year I'm not sure what that what that means
[speaker001:] I don't know yeah our leaves are are all on the on the ground now I think it was a especially good winter for fall colors
[speaker002:] so you you all actually had some color huh it kind of crept in and
[speaker001:] the oh yeah yeah oh yeah we we did for a time
[speaker002:] yeah it's usually beautiful up there isn't it
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] oh gorgeous that's yeah I'd I'd say you could drive along in Maryland and and look at the sweet gum trees on each side and the and the pines and what not and and you could you know you could be driving along East Texas and it looks just the same it's almost you know identical identical kind of country
[speaker001:] um-hum but not this year for the trees for the leaves
[speaker002:] beautiful yeah oh really yeah I was up I was up there cutting some firewood this weekend yeah pull little oak tree that was dead and
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] cut it up and split it it was kind of fun
[speaker001:] yeah this is because it it can't tolerate a freeze this early is that right
[speaker002:] well
[speaker001:] if it would came later it'd be all right
[speaker002:] uh it it there's some trees like the oaks like a white oak seem to be pretty hearty that nothing bothers them their leaves are still green and some of the other oaks there are a few oaks that have lost their leaves um what I notice mostly is the red maples the the leaves are just dead the dogwoods look still look you know they got uh bit on the ends of leaf a little bit but they still look pretty good
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] it just depends on the on the uh on the tree