Posted on 07/23/2015 7:23:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I grew up in Houston without a/ c. We had no idea how miserable we were.
Easy for them to say
Few places in Europe even on the Med rival the American South or Southwest for heat
Anywhere an hour north of the Med coast you can easily live without AC
Yup —Washington DC was built on a drained swamp. Reason congress always recessed in August was to escape the ravages of Yellow Fever.
Swamp.....seems apropos.....
You’re right. It was the invention of A/C that led to the massive development of the deep south.
All Hail Willis
Let me think. Euros and AC??? Let’s see, I spent 20+ years in the US Army. TEN of those years was stationed in West Germany. I lived both in local German housing and in military housing areas. Let me think. No, none of them had AC. Was it hot at times. Mummmmmm, yes, by cracky, yes it was. So, YES SIR. I KNOW about Europe and AC. Well AWARE of it. Well AWARE of the LACK OF IT!
DC and St. Louis are tied in my book for the worst combination of cold winters and hot/humid summers.
During that `hot’ summer of 1983 they installed screens (”Fliegerketten”) on the windows of our quarters. The German workers installing them thought these uniquely American since their homes had lace curtains for that purpose.
Like the lace curtain window in “Blazing Saddles” as Lili von Schtupp was moaning, “It’s twue...it’s twue...it’s twue!”
Around Naples in the late 60’s we called the roadside prostitutes (all of whom were white) “Campfire Girls” since in the winter months they would gather around a 55 gal. drum with a fire in it.
fer sure
If you take a look at a globe and follow the latitudinal lines, you will find that Spain, the southernmost country in Europe, is about at the same latitude as Maine.
germany is not all of europe.
like i said, ac’s are in every bus,hotel,house and supermarket in spain,portugal,italy and greece and i just came form denmark and they have ac’s in the hotels,supermarkets,the train stations,the trains, basically everywhere.
Good! Glad you got the AC!
I didn’t stay in Germany all the time. I visited many, many countries while I was there. Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Spain, Berlin (when it was east-west), etc. I actually cannot remember if every one of them had AC, but I know for sure that all did not. I visited in summers in these countries, accept for Italy, Austria, Spain, Switzerland. I went to those in winter also. The military had great travel experiences through the American Express Travel. AE was the bank we had over there except for my last tour in the late 80s when a bank called Merchants out of Indiana I think it was had beaten out AE for the contract they had had forever for being the military bank.
Yer-up is the same latitude as Canada.
They can stuff it.
I’m kinda late to this, but, Dave, your comment about Oregon being cool seems funny in light of the fact that we’ve had a string of 100 degree+ days for a week, and today it was 108!
See ya’,
Ed
Ed, compared to Florida, Oregon is “relatively” cool. Here in the Tampa Bay area you need a/c from May to November. It’s not uncommon for the temps to hit 100 with 95% humidity from June through September. Without air conditioning Florida would be an almost unpopulated swamp full of cabbage palms and alligators.
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