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To: Timber Rattler

Air conditioning has ruined the south.


46 posted on 06/22/2012 4:47:28 PM PDT by Iron Munro (John Adams: 'Two ways to enslave a country. One is by the sword, the other is by debt')
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To: Iron Munro

Why is that, cause Yanks came down?


54 posted on 06/22/2012 4:50:43 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Iron Munro
Air conditioning has ruined the south.

Air conditioning has ruined the nation. They used to come and go from D.C. There were no career politicians before air conditioning.

66 posted on 06/22/2012 4:56:51 PM PDT by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Iron Munro
Years ago while building a new house, the owner hit a cavern while drilling a well. He noticed that the air coming out the drill hole was a constant temp between 72 and 74 degrees. He installed duct-work and a blower to drive the air into his home and the small electric bill is less than $20 per month.

Here is what is getting popular in Texas now:

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107 posted on 06/22/2012 6:10:22 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It's time to take out the trash in DC.)
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To: Iron Munro

In Wilmingtgon, NC, there is a nicely restored mansion built on the eve of the War of Southern Independence built by a doctor and merchant by the name of Bellamy.

It is now a museum.

The top of the mansion features a “belvedere,” a sort of large cupola or small upper room with windows on all four sides, from which you get a nice view of the surrounding city. It also serves as an upper terminus for vents coming up from the lower floors, and thus cools the house with a chimney effect if you open the windows.

When I visited it in the early summer, the windows on the belvedere were closed. And it was toasty to say the least, a testament to the venting effect I would say.

[The mansion has an interesting history. Completed in 1861, the Bellamys lived in it a little under 4 years, finally removing to one of their distant properties before Wilmington fell to the Union, at which time the Northern Army used it as a regional headquarters for a while.
A few months later, in the Fall of 1865, the Bellamys moved back in. The last surviving Bellamy daughter, born in the mansion after the war, died there in 1946.]


141 posted on 06/22/2012 11:14:59 PM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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To: Iron Munro
Air conditioning has ruined the south.

I suppose that's true, in a way. It made it possible for us Yankees to immigrate there.

142 posted on 06/22/2012 11:16:50 PM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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To: Iron Munro

Yep

The single greatest reason we have been overrun by non southerners


147 posted on 06/23/2012 12:23:06 AM PDT by wardaddy (i eat more chicken than any man ever seen....)
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