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FILENAME:	3936_1497_1213
TOPIC#:		313
DATE:		920207
TRANSCRIBER:	glp
UTT_CODER:	tc
DIFFICULTY:	5
TOPICALITY:	1
NATURALNESS:	3
ECHO_FROM_B:	1
ECHO_FROM_A:	1
STATIC_ON_A:	3
STATIC_ON_B:	3
BACKGROUND_A:	1
BACKGROUND_B:	1
REMARKS:        Speaker A was barely audible and his speaking
mannerisms were extremely difficult to transcribe.

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qy          B.1 utt1:  Have you s-, had any snow up your way?   /  

nn          A.2 utt1:  No,  /
sd^e          A.2 utt2: we haven't had any since, uh, oh, just before Christmas  /
sd          A.2 utt3: and, uh --   

b          B.3 utt1:  Um.   /  

+          A.4 utt1:  -- we had a lot before Christmas.  /
sd          A.4 utt2:  The ski resorts were really - /
%          A.4 utt3: and, uh, - /
sd          A.4 utt4: but, now we have, we've had fog, for about forty days in a row and temperature inversion,  /
%          A.4 utt5: so, - /
nn^e          A.4 utt6: but no, uh, no snow. /  

b^r          B.5 utt1:  Um.   /  

sd          A.6 utt1:  The snows all melted off ((mount)), uh, -/  

sd          B.7 utt1:  Well, I talked to a woman who lived up in the hills, uh,   

x          A.8 utt1:  <Cough>.    

+          B.9 utt1:  mountains in, uh, Utah, I guess this last weekend  /
sd          B.9 utt2: and she had, uh, quite a bit of snow on the ground her way. /  

b          A.10 utt1:  Uh-huh,  /
sv          A.10 utt2: I guess there's different parts of the state of Utah that, that, does have some,  /
%          A.10 utt3: but not, - /
sd          A.10 utt4: usually we have up to a hundred and fifty inches up at the ski resorts  /
sd          A.10 utt5: and they're down between thirty-eight and, uh, forty inches. /  

b          B.11 utt1:  Um <throat_clearing>.   /  

sd          A.12 utt1:  At this time of the year, - /
sd          A.12 utt2: and we've been in a drought for the last five years  /
sd          A.12 utt3: and this is the sixth year  /
sv          A.12 utt4: and it's getting quite serious, as far as water next summer. /  

b          B.13 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          B.13 utt2: well, the weather, uh, here, is always a topic of conversation <laughter> in Texas. /  

b          A.14 utt1:  Right.   /  

sd          B.15 utt1:  But, uh, we have wide variations and have warm weather when most people have cold weather,  /
sd          B.15 utt2: but we have our share of cold weather as well.  /
sd          B.15 utt3:  The, uh, temperature this morning was right at freezing.  /
sd          B.15 utt4:  It didn't stay there,  /
sd          B.15 utt5: but it was right at, -/  

qy^g          A.16 utt1:  Oh, that's, that's different, isn't it? /  

x          B.17 utt1:  <Throat_clearing>. /  

b          A.18 utt1:  Um. /  

sd          B.19 utt1:  We usually have some of our coldest weather toward the, uh, end of January,  /
sv          B.19 utt2: but this year it wasn't bad at all.  /
sv          B.19 utt3:  I guess that's because we had so much rain. /  

sd          A.20 utt1:  I know my son was telling me about the rain down there.  /
sd          A.20 utt2:  He said it was just, - /
sd          A.20 utt3: and we read in the newspaper, southern part of Texas I ((guess)) --   

b          B.21 utt1:  Oh, yeah.   /  

+          A.22 utt1:  -- flooded out,  /
%          A.22 utt2: and, uh, -/  

sd          B.23 utt1:  Well, my, uh, my sister lives in Houston  /
sd          B.23 utt2: and they, uh,    

x          A.24 utt1:  <Cough>.    

+          B.25 utt1:  the river there was, uh, in the flooding stage near where her son lives,  /
sd          B.25 utt2: and that, uh, caused some, uh, concern, of course. /  

ba          A.26 utt1:  Oh, boy. /  

sd          B.27 utt1:  They have a, uh, lake cabin  /
sd          B.27 utt2: and, uh, their dock was completely under water --   

ba          A.28 utt1:  Oh, my gosh.   /  

+          B.29 utt1:  -- <Laughter> on the lake.  /
sd          B.29 utt2:  So we really had a lot of rain.   /  

sd          A.30 utt1:  Yeah my son in Plano, he lives fairly close to, - /
sd          A.30 utt2: there's quite a wash that goes down, uh, through Plano -- /  

b          B.31 utt1:  Right.   /  

sd          A.32 utt1:  -- and, uh, there's walking trails on both sides, a walking path,  /
sd          A.32 utt2: and, uh, when I've gone down to visit him I've gone on that,  /
sd          A.32 utt3: but, uh, that was clear full and up to, up to some of the streets, I guess.  /
%          A.32 utt4:  It just k-, -/  

b          B.33 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          B.33 utt2: we had a lot of flash floods in the area.  /
sd          B.33 utt3:  We had a few people who ran into, uh, water and a few fatalities, uh, just a few. /  

b          A.34 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          B.35 utt1:  Not more than ten  /
%          B.35 utt2: but, -/  

sv          A.36 utt1:  That's funny that, uh, we can't have it in moderation instead of having either a drought or having too much. /  

sd          B.37 utt1:  Well, the, uh,   

x          A.38 utt1:  <Cough>.  /  

+          B.39 utt1:  there's an old profane expression about Texas weather,  /
^q          B.39 utt2: it's always too damn cold, too damn hot, too damn windy <laughter>. /  

b          A.40 utt1:  <Laughter> Yeah,  /
sv          A.40 utt2: well, it's, uh, interesting,  /
%          A.40 utt3: uh, -/  

x          B.41 utt1:  <Throat_clearing>.   /  

sd          A.42 utt1:  I'm going down to El Paso next week  /
sd          A.42 utt2: and, uh, I was wondering what the weather was,  /
sv          A.42 utt3: but I imagine if it's that cold in Dallas it, -/  

ar          B.43 utt1:  Well, El Paso won't be cold.  /  

qy^g          A.44 utt1:  It's not a, doesn't get that cold, I guess, huh? /  

nn          B.45 utt1:  No,  /
sd^e          B.45 utt2: it's, it's, quite southern  /
sd          B.45 utt3: and it's, it's rare to get real cold in, in El Paso. /  

b          A.46 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

qy^d          B.47 utt1:  The, uh, you'll be flying in there?   /  

ny          A.48 utt1:  Yes.   /  

sv          B.49 utt1:  Well, uh, take off is, uh, fun from El Paso because you normally, - /
sd          B.49 utt2: the way the winds are you take off right toward the mountain, the Rockies -- /  

b          A.50 utt1:  Yes.   /  

sd          B.51 utt1:  -- and they're towering above you  /
sd          B.51 utt2: and so you circle back over the air and then make a circle around and come back <laughter> over again. /  

b          A.52 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          A.52 utt2: we're kind of used to that here in Utah,  /
sd          A.52 utt3: course, there are mountains,  /
sd          A.52 utt4: and I fly into Montana a lot  /
%          A.52 utt5: and we have a, -/  

x          B.53 utt1:  <Throat_clearing>.  /  

sd          A.54 utt1:  the mountains are, are really, uh, high  /
sd          A.54 utt2: and a lot of places we go in to, you just kind of, uh, - /
sd          A.54 utt3: it's in the little valley,  /
sd          A.54 utt4: but, I, uh, sure hope we, - /
sv          A.54 utt5: we really need the moisture.  /
sd          A.54 utt6:  I hope we can get, uh, get some. /  

b          B.55 utt1:  ((Oh)), -/  

sd          A.56 utt1:  There's supposed to be a storm,  /
sd          A.56 utt2: but it split, went down through, uh, northern Arizona and southern Utah  /
sd          A.56 utt3: and they're not predicting any for the next, uh, week anyway up here  /
%          A.56 utt4: so, -/  

sd          B.57 utt1:  Well, I noticed on the weather map on, uh, cable network that there was supposed to be a storm front moving into California and on down your way,  /
qy^g          B.57 utt2: but I guess it didn't pan out, huh? /  

b          A.58 utt1:  Yeah,  /
%          A.58 utt2: well, that's, that's what the, -/  

x*          B.59 utt1:  <Noise> <<dropped phone>>  / *[[listen; dropped phone is probably comment not utterance, should be in << >> fixed 7-14-97 NC ]] 

%          A.60 utt1:  (( )) above, uh, - /
sd          A.60 utt2: some of it went to the south and some to the north up into Montana,  /
sd          A.60 utt3: so that just left us,  /
sd          A.60 utt4: we got a high pressure --   

b          B.61 utt1:  Huh.   /  

+          A.62 utt1:  -- system which ((has been sitting in the air))  /
sd          A.62 utt2: and, uh, we broke the record for the amount of fog that we've had, uh, you know -- /  

ba          B.63 utt1:  Oh, boy.   /  

sd          A.64 utt1:  -- airport's been shut down, uh, till about noon every day  /
sd          A.64 utt2: and then they seed the clouds, or seed the fog to try to --   

b          B.65 utt1:  Uh-huh.   /  

+          A.66 utt1:  -- to get the airplanes in and out.   /  

b          B.67 utt1:  Huh.  /
sd          B.67 utt2:  Well,   

x          A.68 utt1:  <Cough>. /  

+          B.69 utt1:  we, uh, had a bad siege last, uh, Christmas a year ago.  /
sd          B.69 utt2:  We went up to visit my wife's, uh, sister who lives in, uh, Calgary, Alberta, Can, -/ 
