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FILENAME:	3124_1290_1035
TOPIC#:		313
DATE:		910703
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sd          A.1 utt1:  {D Well, } the weather [ has been, + certainly has been  ] hot  /
sd          A.1 utt2: {C and } it's been humid.  /
sd          A.1 utt3:  I don't remember a year in a long time that the humidity has stayed up this high [ for, +  {F uh, } this late into, ] {F uh, } - /
sd          A.1 utt4: {D well, } it's not really late into the summer,  /
sd          A.1 utt5: {C but } [ the, + the  ] humidity has hung around all of June. /  

b          B.2 utt1:  Yeah.  /
qy          B.2 utt2:  Are you native to this area? /  

nn          A.3 utt1:  No,  /
sd^e          A.3 utt2: I grew up in Michigan,  /
%@          A.3 utt3: [ {C so, } +  {F uh, }   *[[slash problem]]

bk          B.4 utt1:  {F Oh, } okay. /  

+          A.5 utt1:  {C But } ] [ I've been, + I've been ] in Texas for fifteen years. /  *[[sd]]

b          B.6 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.7 utt1:  [ {C So, } +  {F uh, } {C but, } ] {D you know, } I know the summers get hot  /
%          A.7 utt2: {C but } --     

b          B.8 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          A.9 utt1:  -- it certainly, {F uh, } - /
sd          A.9 utt2: this humidity has just really hung on there. /  

aa          B.10 utt1:  Yeah.  /
aa          B.10 utt2:  Yeah,  /
sv          B.10 utt3: it seemed like, {D well, } {D you know, } last year was so strange having all those heavy, heavy rains in April  /
sv          B.10 utt4: {C and } this year we really didn't have heavy rains until May.  /
sv          B.10 utt5: Kind of like pushed the season back a little farther  /
sv          B.10 utt6: {C and } now it's kind of lingering with kind of still a bit of humidity  /
sd          B.10 utt7: {C and } it just tried to rain,  /
sd          B.10 utt8: {E I mean, } I was coming in from my car just a few minutes ago  /
sd          B.10 utt9: {C and } it was trying to rain which --   

aa          A.11 utt1:  Yes. /  

+          B.12 utt1:  -- seems strange to have it raining in July.  /
sv          B.12 utt2:  Normally we don't have too much, {F uh, } humidity [ or, + or, ] {F uh, } rainy time when it's past June. /  

aa          A.13 utt1:  {F Oh, } that's right,  /
aa^r          A.13 utt2: that's right.  /
sd          A.13 utt3:  I can remember it not, - /
sd          A.13 utt4: it's really August that it happens.  /
sd          A.13 utt5: You get those great big cracks in the ground where it's been so dry -- /  

b          B.14 utt1:  Right. /  

sd          A.15 utt1:  -- {C and } it just gets so dry  /
sd          A.15 utt2: {C  and, } the earth opens up.  /
sd          A.15 utt3:  I can remember the first year I moved here -- /  

b          B.16 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.17 utt1:  -- {C and } it didn't rain,  /
sd         A.17 utt2: I moved here {D like } in late August  /
sd         A.17 utt3: {C and } it didn't rain from August until December  /
sd         A.17 utt4: {C and, }   

x          B.18 utt1:  <Laughter>.  

+          A.19 utt1:  I went home and told it just doesn't rain in Texas.  /
sd          A.19 utt2:  {E I mean } it was great after growing up in Michigan [ and not, + and  ] [ al-, +  {D you know,  } every ] day was cloudy,  /
sd          A.19 utt3: almost every day was cloudy  /
sd          A.19 utt4: {C and } [ I, +  you ] sort of forget how much it did rain  /
sd          A.19 utt5: {C and } coming here and then it didn't rain,  /
sd          A.19 utt6: it was just wonderful. /  

b          B.20 utt1:  {D Well, } yeah,  /
sd          B.20 utt2: {D see } [ I, + I ] lived in, {F uh, } Ohio mainly.  /
sd          B.20 utt3: I lived in, {F uh, } Pontiac just a little while before I came --   

b          A.21 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah. /  

+          B.22 utt1:  -- down here  /
sv          B.22 utt2: {C and, } {D you know, } so many times when you were trying to schedule outdoor activities, you just never knew if it was going to be a go or not because of the weather.   /
sv          B.22 utt3: It might rain on your little parade. /  

aa          A.23 utt1:  That's right,  /
aa^r          A.23 utt2: that's right. /  

sd          B.24 utt1:  {D You know, } {C and } here it was like, pretty much you could schedule some activity outside anytime  /
sv          B.24 utt2: {C and } you really didn't have too much of a chance of it getting rained out. /  

b          A.25 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sv          B.26 utt1:  You could pretty much do whatever you wanted to do. /  

aa          A.27 utt1:  That's right. /  

qw          B.28 utt1:  What part of Michigan were you living in? /  

sd          A.29 utt1:  {F Oh, } I grew up in Dearborn --   

bk          B.30 utt1:  Okay. /  

+          A.31 utt1:  -- which is a suburb [ of, + of  ] Detroit. /  

b          B.32 utt1:  Yeah,  /
b^r          B.32 utt2: yeah. /  

sv          A.33 utt1:  You probably know where that is because I know where Pontiac is,  /
%@          A.33 utt2: {C so, } {F uh, }    *[[slash error]]

x          B.34 utt1:  <Laughter>. 

+          A.35 utt1:  <Laughter> Anyway, - /
%          A.35 utt2: yeah. /  

qw          B.36 utt1:  What brought you down here? /  

sd          A.37 utt1:  {F Oh, } a teaching job. /  

qy          B.38 utt1:  {C So } you teach in Plano schools? /  

ny          A.39 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd^e          A.39 utt2: [ I did, + I did ] for a while,  /
ny          A.39 utt3: uh-huh.  /
sd          A.39 utt4:  {C So, } I'm [ home with, + home with ] two children,  /
%@          A.39 utt5: [ {C so, } +  {F uh, }    *[[slash error]]

b          B.40 utt1:  Oh. /  

+          A.41 utt1:  {C So, } ] -/  

bk          B.42 utt1:  Okay <<faint>>. /  

sd          A.43 utt1:  [ New career. +    

bk          B.44 utt1:  Okay. /  

+          A.45 utt1:  New career  ]  /
%          A.45 utt2: {C but, } {F uh, } anyway, - /
%          A.45 utt3: {C so } that kind of, {F uh, } - /
sd          A.45 utt4: {D well, } I had been down here to visit  /
sd          A.45 utt5: {C so } I  ((   ))  school and said hey, let's, {D you know, } find a place that has a nice job  /
sd          A.45 utt6: {C and, } {F uh, } that's how it worked out. /  

b          B.46 utt1:  {D Well, } yeah,  /
sv          B.46 utt2: I think a lot of people were, {F uh, } leaving Michigan all about the time I came here in the early eighties  /
sv          B.46 utt3: {C and } it seemed like it was almost a mass exodus. /  

b          A.47 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah. /  

sd          B.48 utt1:  You know, [ the, + the ] little joke about, will the last person leaving Michigan just turn out the light <laughter>. /  

sv          A.49 utt1:  {F Oh, } {D well, } it's a nice place, {D you know, }  /
sv          A.49 utt2: {E I mean }    [ [ it's, +  it's   a nice, ] +  that's a nice ] place, though. /  

sd          B.50 utt1:  {D Well, } {D you know, } [ I, + I ] said I lived in, {F uh, } the Pontiac.  /
sd          B.50 utt2: I didn't live in the city of Pontiac,  /
sd          B.50 utt3: I lived to the west of it.  /
sd          B.50 utt4:  {F Uh, } I forget [ the, + the  ] county,  /
sd          B.50 utt5:  {C but } {D you know } where all the lakes are around there. /  

bk          A.51 utt1:  Okay,  /
h          A.51 utt2: sort of. /  

sd          B.52 utt1:  I lived in an apartment complex on one of the lakes.  /
sd          B.52 utt2: It was real close to where I worked.   /
sd          B.52 utt3: It was only {D like } four miles to work  /
sd          B.52 utt4: {C and } it was wonderful being on the lake like that.  /
sd          B.52 utt5:  {D You know, } in the summer, you feel like you're, {D you know, } on a vacation all the time because you're right on a lake  /
sd          B.52 utt6: {C and }  everybody's,  {D you know, } out enjoying the water and such,  /
sd          B.52 utt7: {C and, } {F uh, } in the winter time the lakes froze over,  /
sd          B.52 utt8: you could still kind of go sledding and such out there  /
sd          B.52 utt9: {C but } I thought it was just really neat to be out there on all those lakes.  /
sd          B.52 utt10: There's lots of really small ones out there. /  

b          A.53 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd          B.54 utt1:  {D You know, } {D like } maybe a mile, two long. /  

sd          A.55 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sv          B.56 utt1:  That's enough to, {F uh, } do some boating -- /  

aa          A.57 utt1:  That's right. /  

sd          B.58 utt1:  -- {C and } it was lots of fun. /  

aa          A.59 utt1:  That's right.  /
sd@          A.59 utt2: [ Lake, + I think Lake  ] Whitmore is the only one I have real memories of.    *[[slash error]]

b          B.60 utt1:  {F Um. } /  

+          A.61 utt1:  Which is, - /
sd          A.61 utt2: {D well, } [ I think it's, + I think it's ] toward Ann Arbor,  /
sd          A.61 utt3: {C so } it's probably out in that direction,  /
sd          A.61 utt4: {C but } that's the only one I probably could name --   

b          B.62 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          A.63 utt1:  -- after all these years <laughter>  /
%          A.63 utt2: [ {C so, } +     

b          B.64 utt1:  Yeah,  /
b^r          B.64 utt2: yeah. /  

+          A.65 utt1:  {C But, } ] {F uh, } -/  

sd          B.66 utt1:  {C But } it was,  {D yeah, }  just lots of little lakes  /
sd          B.66 utt2: {C and, } of course, it was,  {D you know, } a little more expensive to live on the lake,  /
sd          B.66 utt3: {C but } I just thought that was grand.   /
sv          B.66 utt4: {C And } I think a lot of people didn't really know that there were all those lakes out there unless you were from that area and kind of spotted them,  /
sd          B.66 utt5: {C but } there was quite a few lakes all around there.  /
sv          B.66 utt6:  [ It seemed like, +  it was almost like ] you were living on an island  /
sd          B.66 utt7: there was so much water around where I was.  /
sd          B.66 utt8:  (( I said ))  I wasn't close to downtown Pontiac,  /
sd          B.66 utt9:  I was way out to the west maybe four or five miles [ from, + from  ] the city limits  /
sd          B.66 utt10: {C and } it was really nice out there. /  

b          A.67 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd          B.68 utt1:  We had, {F uh, } Pine Knob --   

b          A.69 utt1:  Oh. /  

+          B.70 utt1:  -- {D you know, } to go skiing --   

b          A.71 utt1:  Right. /  

+          B.72 utt1:  -- and stuff. /  

b          A.73 utt1:  Right. /  

sd          B.74 utt1:  {C So } there were things around there.  /
sd          B.74 utt2: Really was pretty nice. /  

ba          A.75 utt1:  Sure,  /
ba^r          A.75 utt2: sure,  /
qy          A.75 utt3: {C and } [ d-, +  isn't ] that where they have a summer music festival  there, too? /  

na          B.76 utt1:   Right,  /
na^r          B.76 utt2: right  /
sd          B.76 utt3: in the summertime they have musicals there  /
sd          B.76 utt4: {C and } in the winter time they make snow and have a ski slope. /  

bk          A.77 utt1:  That's right,  /
bk^r          A.77 utt2: that's right.  /
%          A.77 utt3: I know, we used to, - /
sd          A.77 utt4: [ we, + we  ] didn't do a lot of it,  /
%          A.77 utt5: {C but } [ we did. +   

b          B.78 utt1:  Yeah,  /
b^r          B.78 utt2: yeah. /  

+          A.79 utt1:  We did,  ]  /
sv          A.79 utt2: {C so } those are always fun.  /
sd          A.79 utt3:  {C And }  Alpine, was it Alpine was another ski slope --   

b          B.80 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          A.81 utt1:  -- that we went to,  /
%@          A.81 utt2: {C so, } {F uh, }   *[[slash error]]

b          B.82 utt1:  Uh-huh,  /
b^r          B.82 utt2: uh-huh. /  

+          A.83 utt1:  It was nice.  /
sd          A.83 utt2: I always tell people <laughter> that in the winter  [ we use, + we used  ] to, {F uh, } - /
sd          A.83 utt3: my dad would kind of bank up the snow in the backyard and turn the hose on, {D you know, } make a pond in the backyard for us. /  

b          B.84 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah,  /
b^r          B.84 utt2: yeah. /  

sd          A.85 utt1:  [ {C So } +  {C but, } ] {F uh, } {D you know, } we probably did some ice skating on it,  /
%          A.85 utt2: {C but } then it [ chipped, + chipped ]  /
sd          A.85 utt3: {C and, } {D you know, } it would melt or whatever  and get pretty uneven  /
%          A.85 utt4: {C so, } -/  

b          B.86 utt1:  Yeah,  /
b^r          B.86 utt2: yeah.  /
sd          B.86 utt3:  We used to have a - /
sd          B.86 utt4: Christmas time, {F uh, } some of our relatives would come up from Alabama,  /
sd          B.86 utt5: {C and } I think most times we would have snow around Christmas  /
sd          B.86 utt6: {C and } the kids when they were young would just go nuts. /  

b          A.87 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd          B.88 utt1:  {D You know, } {C because } they were from Alabama where it never snowed -- /  

b          A.89 utt1:  Oh. /  

sd          B.90 utt1:  -- {C and } they just had a grand time watching the snow and getting out there and playing in it, {D you know, } eternally. /  

b          A.91 utt1:  Oh. /  

x          B.92 utt1:  <Laughter>.  

b          A.93 utt1:  {F Oh, } right,  /
b^r          A.93 utt2: right.  /
sv          A.93 utt3: If only it would make nice snow here in Texas, we'd be okay at Christmas time. /  

sd          B.94 utt1:  My first winter here, - /
sd          B.94 utt2: [ I, + I  ] came down in, {F uh, } early eighty-two  /
sd          B.94 utt3: {C and } there was just a freak snowfall early one morning in December [ be-, + couple days before  ] Christmas.   /
sd          B.94 utt4: It lasted only a few hours,  /
sd          B.94 utt5: {D like } --   

b          A.95 utt1:  Yeah. /  

+          B.96 utt1:  -- by noon it was gone. /  

b          A.97 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd          B.98 utt1:  {C And } I remember getting up and somebody telling me, hey, better wait to go to work because the roads are all, {D you know, } snow <laughter>.  /
sd(^q)          B.98 utt2: {C And } I was laughing, going yeah,  right, that's a good practical joke,  /
^q          B.98 utt3: ha ha. /  

x          A.99 utt1:  <Laughter>.  

sd(^q)          B.100 utt1:  They said, no really, there's snow  /
sd          B.100 utt2: {C and } there was, but a very short time  /
sd          B.100 utt3: {C and }  the weather got warm so quick -- /  

b          A.101 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd          B.102 utt1:  -- it just melted it all away. /  

aa          A.103 utt1:  Yeah,  /
aa^r          A.103 utt2: yeah,  /
aa          A.103 utt3: I know. /  

sv          B.104 utt1:  {C Course, } when we get an ice storm, that's not too much fun. /  

aa          A.105 utt1:  No,  /
sv          A.105 utt2: that's not fun either,  /
sv          A.105 utt3: {C so, } {F uh, } [ I, + I  ] just as soon have all the slushy snow on the streets than have the ice on the streets  /
%          A.105 utt4: [ {C so, } +     

x          B.106 utt1:  <Laughter>.  

+          A.107 utt1:  {C But, } ] {F uh, } {D well } we have, - /
sd          A.107 utt2: our house is kind of on a little hill,  /
sd          A.107 utt3: {C so, } {F uh, } we get the sled out  /
sd          A.107 utt4: {C and, } {F uh, } the kids go down [ the hi-, + the hill  ] on the sleds when it's icy,  /
sd          A.107 utt5: {E I mean } they just go down the ice. /  

b          B.108 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd(^q)          A.109 utt1:  <Laughter> {C And } if it's cold, we say, okay, out you go. /  

x          B.110 utt1:  <Laughter> <noise>.  

sd          A.111 utt1:  I think we must be the only people on the block that make use of that cold weather and get out there. /  

aa          B.112 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah.  /
sv          B.112 utt2:  I think it's fun,  /
sd          B.112 utt3: even the couple of ice storms I've gotten out there in my ski pants or something and still just been out and enjoying it a little bit.  /
sv          B.112 utt4: {E I mean, } sometimes the ice is pretty bad,  /
sv          B.112 utt5: {C but } if you get on the, the, {F uh, } grassy kind of part, you get a little bit of traction, {D you know, } not slip and fall.  /
%          B.112 utt6: {E I mean, } first, -/ 
