[speaker002:] okay well considering you moved here from California I guess the rain for the past few weeks has been different than what you would have down there
[speaker001:] yeah oh yeah we have um in California I'm in central I lived in central California we have rain couple times a year and other than that you know it'd be maybe October and then in the spring and then other than that there wouldn't be any rain
[speaker002:] especially the last few years
[speaker001:] so yeah yeah
[speaker002:] it's kind of has it's kind of been a drought out there hasn't it uh
[speaker001:] yeah there has so here I know that um last year there was some ice storms while I was out of the state and I'm glad to see there haven't been any this year
[speaker002:] that's what I was thinking yet generally if we're gonna get them it's not going to happen uh prior to January one you know you may get a cold snap or two or some rain or something like we've been getting in December but
[speaker001:] yeah yet still could come huh uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] usually the bitterest weather if we're gonna have any comes in January and February then by March things are getting warm again so we really don't have as long a cold season I guess as people up north
[speaker001:] hm yeah yeah it's so hard to predict here
[speaker002:] it's been eighty degrees on Christmas day here before lots of times
[speaker001:] yeah well today it's not bad out there
[speaker002:] no it's nice I just came in from outside and it's it's really pretty it's kind of nice to have it dry all the ground out
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] before it rains again I'm a I'm a scoutmaster and so I wind up going out camping with
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh a bunch of boys at one time and so its better for us if it hasn't been just totally wet before we go
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah so you do that even in January huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] oh yeah yeah we camp year round
[speaker001:] yeah oh that's interesting
[speaker002:] but uh it's uh it's definitely different and then I guess you've been through a couple of summers here too right
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah yep and they're not too pleasant it gets so humid to me it's humid here people that I know that come from um like Georgia or North Carolina yeah they say this isn't humid
[speaker002:] well it is it's not as humid as Houston say or Atlanta but it
[speaker001:] yeah but I find it humid
[speaker002:] its more humid than Arizona and California for the most part
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] were you northern California
[speaker001:] yeah I was central California Central Valley so it's very dry there
[speaker002:] central okay so that was dry but pretty even climate wasn't it year round fairly not wide fluctuations
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well it's pretty hot in the summer it's in the usually you know for a good three four weeks we have over a hundred degrees but it's a dry heat yeah
[speaker002:] but it's a drier hundred when you have a hundred here everybody's dying
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah I know huh well I lived in Africa for a couple years in
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] Cameroon and that's a tropical climate and it really feels similar to this during the summer
[speaker002:] what types of what take what type of business takes you to those climates or was that just vacation or something
[speaker001:] no I was um working with um I still work with Wycliffe Bible Translators
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] it's an organization where we are looking to translate the Bible into languages of the world that aren't yet written
[speaker002:] not so much still trying to translate old texts as just trying to translate modern versions into other languages
[speaker001:] right languages that don't have anything written yet so this is like the first thing that's written down or you know first an alphabet is developed and then um
[speaker002:] oh that's interesting you don't think about that as a career a normal career uh when you're thinking of things that people might be doing
[speaker001:] so yeah yeah well it's based here um the international headquarters for Wycliffe Bible Translators is right here in in Dallas
[speaker002:] oh so you're you're with the home office now
[speaker001:] yeah right now I am so that's what brought me here yeah
[speaker002:] well the uh I think uh all in all there are a lot worse climates than Dallas uh the weather
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know does change fast and things do happen severely a few times a year but there's an awful lot of good weather too in between
[speaker001:] yeah I agree I agree I I thought the fall was really nice
[speaker002:] yeah and usually a lot of the spring months are really nice too after the last freeze and and when it begins to be in the sixties and seventies most of the time uh I like that
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] particularly if I'm gonna be outdoors and doing uh outdoor activity hiking and things and that's nicer yeah I do quite a bit of that
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah and you probably do a lot of that with scouts scouting uh-huh
[speaker002:] think we're going in just a couple of weeks out to the east Texas and it is a little more humid out there than it is here so
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I guess we'll the only thing you have to watch out in this part of the country is during the change type seasons is the really severe storms that occasionally come through out here on the plains there's not much between us and the North Pole and then when you get one of those tornado type
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] systems through or severe hail or thunderstorms and it it doen't seem to be