Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa urged Los Angeles residents to cut their power usage.
In overheated Woodland Hills, residents scoffed.
"I have to use my air conditioner 24-seven. It's hard to sleep without it on at night," said Al Van Hook, a personal trainer. "Over the hill at City Hall it's automatically 10 to 15 degrees cooler than we are out here, so it's easy for them to say we should conserve…. If you're in 119-degree weather, who's going to turn off their air conditioner?"
I honestly can't fathom how anyone lived in my area (Burbank) before AC installed in the home. My home was built in '49 and had no central air-- and I don't think the window units came into use until the '60's.
The house is really cheesily built with scant insulation and single pane windows.
We have a nice new 12 seer central AC unit installed and so the house remains quite livable even in this heat-- but how was this possible when the house was built. What the hell were they thinking?