Posted on 08/19/2016 11:15:32 AM PDT by PROCON
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.
Which would be this summer. Which, so far, is the fourth-hottest summer on record in the Washington area. Emphasis on so far. NASA reports that July was the Earth’s hottest in recorded history. Cheer up, people say to those of us without air conditioning, September’s coming. Except people forget that most of September is still summer.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
No matter what the weather does, as sure as September follows August, I am confident that the gubmint will declare this August the hottest August evah.
I could not live in Florida without air conditioning. We have three seasons, each four months long. They are called the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s.
By the way, I don’t buy the claim that July was the hottest month on record. The global warming group has cried wolf so many times and subsequently been caught doctoring or using false information that I don’t trust anything they say.
Karen go to Arizona, Texas or Death Valley w/o AC and shove it up where the sun don’t shine.
Hey Karen, "Up your nose with a rubber hose."
More trash from humanity-hating libs. The enormous boon air-conditioning has been on human achievement can never be ignored. From longer work hours, less vacation time, healthier minds and bodies...
Who can forget the elderly French who died so horrifically in their non-air-conditioned homes a few years ago when their kids were on holiday?
Bet she conditions the air with heat in the winter.
In the common law of crime in England and Wales, a common scold was a species of public nuisance—a troublesome and angry woman who broke the public peace by habitually arguing and quarrelling with her neighbours.The Latin name for the offender, communis rixatrix, appears in the feminine gender, and makes it clear that only women could commit this crime. The offense, which was exported to North America with the colonists, was punishable by dunking: being placed in a chair and submerged in a river or pond.
“Our house in Philadelphia was built in the 1920s, when people were tough and resourceful. “
Moron doesn’t understand that those very people would have opted for air conditioning if it would have been available.
Author is an idiot. It claims going backwards while claiming to be a progressive. Maybe that idiot progressive should go live in a cave where the temps are even more comfortable.
I grew up in Orlando and lived without air conditioning until the late 60s. Obviously, I survived, but I remember having trouble sleeping due to heat and humidity on summer nights. Air conditioning makes it possible to sleep better and to be more productive during the days. Arguments to the contrary are just plain foolish.
Another self-proclaimed liberal “expert” eager to tell me what I do and don’t “need”. She’ll be in my gun safe and my refrigerator next, if she hasn’t already been.
Does that lady live without heat in the winter, too?
The WaPo was never great but have you noticed that they have gone bat sh*t crazy since Bezos bought them?
Ok, turnabout is fair play.
I don’t need heating, and neither do you.
I’m assuming his office at the Washington Post, or the whole building for that matter, has shut off their A/C before they lecture us...
Liberals always think they, and they, alone, make the rules.
You’re not supposed to live in Arizona - that’s Indian land which you, in your nasty white man ways, usurped from the gentle red man. Or at least I think that’s what anti-air-cooling libs think...
That 1920s house was built for the climate — pre-air conditioning. It was constructed much differently than houses of today.
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About 25 years ago, my sis and I went into a store in a small down in NE Oklahoma. The outside temp was over 100 degrees. Inside the store, it was pleasant. Cool, but not cold, but certainly tolerable. The only cooling feature in the building was a small 6-inch fan clerk/cashier had blowing on the check-out desk.
The building was probably 80 to 100 years old. The walls were thick — 18 to 24 inches and the ceiling was 15 feet or higher.
That is how buildings were built then.
It a bigger threat than terrorism. </s>
But just think. If you didn’t have AC in Arizona, Californicators would stop moving there.
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