Posted on 08/19/2016 1:15:56 PM PDT by C19fan
It’s time to come out of the closet. Or, more precisely, the sweat lodge.
My family lives without air conditioning, except for one antique, semi-comatose window unit that “cools” the bedroom to approximately the same temperature as Dallas at dusk.
Our house in Philadelphia was built in the 1920s, when people were tough and resourceful. For most of the year, the house is cool and pleasant, as long as there isn’t a mash-up of continuously scorching days and epic humidity, when the air is putrid, stagnant and, if it were a color, would definitely be mustard.
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Especially with Zika mosquitoes all over the damn place!.................
My grandparents lived about 25 miles south of Birmingham, AL. They never had air conditioning, but their house was configured to live without it. They had many shade trees. All of their windows worked and had screens in good condition. Their bedroom was on the east side of the house, opposite the hot afternoon sun. It was still hot sleeping on a steamy summer night for those of us not accustomed to it.
Homes today, while better insulated, typically do not have tree cover. Most apartments and subdivision homes are built right out in the broiling hot sun. It would be tough for most of us to make it. I would not want to try.
the woman is poor and lacking the $$$ for A/C
she is a damn yankee to boot
Having visited Florida in October and several areas on,or very near,the equator (Singapore,coastal Kenya...both feel like sauna baths) it astounds me that people can live in such places without A/C.Washington DC in July ain’t no picnic either...maybe that’s why the city’s obscenely rich,and breathtakingly overpaid,Rats spend the summer on Martha’s Vineyard where it seldom hits 80.
The family home has no A/C, it was built in the 19th Century in such a way as to allow cross ventilation. Homes I’ve lived in the last few decades weren’t that way, no cross ventilation.
Perhaps if this _itch spent two years living above Boiler Number Two on a Belknap Class Cruiser she’d think differently.
I live in a place so hot in the summer, the devil sometimes wonders “How the HOME dod they get it so hot there?”...but we are nice and cool because we run our AC all summer long. And guess what...we have fricken solar panels generating all the electricity we need for it. There is no point to living like a caveman when modern engineering can offer a solution.
I remember the hot summers in Utah and New Mexico without AC or even a water cooler. We could still get out and run and play. In the middle of the night we were grabbing for quilts as it was COLD!
Then dad got a wild hair and decided to move to the Ozarks.
In the summer it got so hot and humid we would go upstairs, lay on the bed and let the sweat just roll off us. It was miserable! In the middle of the night we kicked off everything except a sheetto absorb sweat it was so hot! Some people even took their beds out and slept in the yard in summer.
We had some men come from Montana to work at our plant. They lasted about a year as it was beyond miserable!
I left Farmington NM one day and it was 98 degrees, 12 % humidity. I stopped at a store and then went out and drove on. No AC.
Two days later I am in Clinton Arkansas, and it was 98 degrees. I went in a store, came out and it felt like 100 fists hit me! I almost went down! The humidity was about 75% which made it feel like 134 degrees!
Well, you don’t need heat, ovens, coffee makers, a car, socks, underwear, sunglasses, or computers.
Anyone wanna take a bet she’s in an air conditioned office typing on a computer, she doesn’t need?
Anyone?
> But she tells the world “You Don’t Need Air Conditioning!”
If only! Let her peddle her dirt-ism in China or Bahrain and see how long she’s permitted to blather.
These rats don’t want the world to give up comforts; they only want the US to do so. Further, they don’t mean to live by these unholy pronouncements, they only want the plabes to do so.
Yup, that’s a rooftop swamp cooler alright. Thanks.
I could sit underneath the oaks trees behind my house until 1:00 am for a few months, then come in and go to sleep. Man, I’m a wimp.
They work! In dry climates.
“They work! In dry climates.”
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First time I saw one was in eastern Washington. Here in the Frostbite Falls state we don’t need much coolin’ most the year!
My dad was quartered there when he was in the 82nd. He asked me on he phone when I was at Jump School in 1980 if they were still there. They were and in use!
PHILIDELPHIA! LOL!
Try Atlanta, toots.
Beyond stupid!
True. I didn’t read the article.
I burned a couple old truck tires in her “honor”.
114 here in AZ.. HEH HEH and there is no mash-up of continuously scorching days and epic humidity, when the air is putrid, stagnant and, if it were a color, would definitely be mustard.
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