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It's hot here
Topic Started: Jul 20 2009, 08:14 PM (602 Views)
kenny
HOLY CARP!!!
This is one of those 10 or so days a year I wish we had AC.
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dolmansaxlil
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HOLY CARP!!!
Bet you're missing the Great White North (TM) now, eh?
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kenny
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Well actually the humidity there is probably worse than here.
But I do miss Canada; it's a beautiful place.
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dolmansaxlil
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not this summer. It's been cool and lovely.
And you saw the most boring part of Canada, IMO. I certainly haven't seen all of it, but it's very, very flat and farmy here. Out east is gorgeous, as is the west. Here it's just flat punctuated by the horizontal.
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kenny
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dolmansaxlil
Jul 20 2009, 09:31 PM
Here it's just flat punctuated by the horizontal.
:shifty:
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CrashTest
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Why don't you have AC? It's hot over there as you say it, and it's not even that expensive!
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kenny
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Not really worth it.
If we had it I'd probably use it for months.
I really only want it a few days a year.
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Mikhailoh
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In California coastal areas you really don't need it. There's usually a very nice breeze even in the summer.

But I find Crash's incredulity that you don't have it very telling. I'd venture to say that many, if not most, of us grew up without AC, certainly without central air. I think I liked it better. We always had an attic exhaust fan that cooled the house at night. We had more fresh air and the sound of outside. I suspect we breathed better.
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Mikhailoh
Jul 21 2009, 06:08 AM
In California coastal areas you really don't need it. There's usually a very nice breeze even in the summer.

But I find Crash's incredulity that you don't have it very telling. I'd venture to say that many, if not most, of us grew up without AC, certainly without central air. I think I liked it better. We always had an attic exhaust fan that cooled the house at night. We had more fresh air and the sound of outside. I suspect we breathed better.
I grew up without AC. It sucked.

I had by far the hottest room in the house. It didn't matter which open/closed window combination I used or how many fans I had going, it was always the hottest. Pillow cooling rotations were a horrible PITA.

I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Mikhailoh
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Poor babboo. You had to face nature with only fans, indoor plumbing and electricity.

In other words, in far better shape than almost any human being that ever lived. :lol:
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Mikhailoh
Jul 21 2009, 06:17 AM
Poor babboo. You had to face nature with only fans, indoor plumbing and electricity.

In other words, in far better shape than almost any human being that ever lived. :lol:
That's true but knowing that didn't make my pools of sweat any less annoying. <_<
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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DivaDeb
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yeah...try growing up in Houston or even Tulsa (where i grew up) without AC. Your head can explode in that kind of heat, no amount of air circulation makes any difference when the air reaches a certain temperature. Turning on the attic fan just makes you brown more evenly...like living in a convection oven. When we finally got a window unit in my parent's bedroom, we still didn't have it in the cars for years and years.
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DivaDeb
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oh...I would MUCH rather "face nature" in nature than live with the heat indoors during a hot city summer. It's always 20 degrees cooler, breezier and infinitely more manageable under trees near a creek where there is grass around to cool the ground. Un-air-conditioned houses, or worse yet, apartment buildings, are a special kind of hell, much more brutal than camping in the wilderness in August.
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DivaDeb
Jul 21 2009, 06:28 AM
oh...I would MUCH rather "face nature" in nature than live with the heat indoors during a hot city summer. It's always 20 degrees cooler, breezier and infinitely more manageable under trees near a creek where there is grass around to cool the ground. Un-air-conditioned houses, or worse yet, apartment buildings, are a special kind of hell, much more brutal than camping in the wilderness in August.
True dat.

Urban Heat Blanket FTL. Posted Image

Always hotter, always more humid, breezes few and far between.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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kenny
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We have an indoor/outdoor thermometer. Posted Image


In the morning when it is cooler outside I open all doors/windows
About 10 AM when the temps match I close up the house.
When the heat peaks it can be as much as 20 degrees cooler in the house.
I'm glad we have an old house with thick solid walls.

At about 7 PM the temps match again and I open everything up.
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Aqua Letifer
Jul 21 2009, 06:30 AM
DivaDeb
Jul 21 2009, 06:28 AM
oh...I would MUCH rather "face nature" in nature than live with the heat indoors during a hot city summer. It's always 20 degrees cooler, breezier and infinitely more manageable under trees near a creek where there is grass around to cool the ground. Un-air-conditioned houses, or worse yet, apartment buildings, are a special kind of hell, much more brutal than camping in the wilderness in August.
True dat.

Urban Heat Blanket FTL. Posted Image

Always hotter, always more humid, breezes few and far between.
Auqa, you just have to incorporate that into your avatar. I think we're going to be seeing a lot of ol' Joaquin.
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sue
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hot up here too, Kenny. Hovering in the mid 20's (low 80's ?, headed to mid 80's by the weekend), with no prediction of rain in the near future. Hot hot hot.

I've been doing the Aqua Letifer special cool down the car routine before getting in. It helps, but this is one of those few times I wish I did have AC in the car.

The house is ok, because we get cool breezes off the ocean in the evening.

Forest fires elsewhere in the province are very scary. We need some rain here.
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Window unit. Korean made. $100 at Home Depot. $50 on Craigslist. Installs in 5 minutes. No brainer.

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kenny
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I feel guilty using electricity this way.
It's not that bad, really.

Plus if I had an AC I guarantee I'd have it on for three months solid.
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Jolly
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Steve Miller
Jul 21 2009, 08:15 AM
Window unit. Korean made. $100 at Home Depot. $50 on Craigslist. Installs in 5 minutes. No brainer.

Or maybe Chinese.

Also works great post-hurricane, run on generator and cool off one room, so you can sleep.

Don't know what kenny's complaining about, though...yesterday it was 92 down here and I though we were in the middle of a cold front...
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Mikhailoh
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Hot in LA and hot in La. are two completely different things.
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kenny
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I agree.
We do not have their humidity.
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kenny
Jul 21 2009, 08:27 AM
I feel guilty using electricity this way.
It's not that bad, really.

Plus if I had an AC I guarantee I'd have it on for three months solid.
I wish you felt more guilty about complaining about things that you can easily control and when presented with reasonably options you decide its really not that bad. :whome:
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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kenny
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It's not bad enough to justify buying an AC.

But it is bad enough to make you listen to my whiny-ass bitching. :)
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