Aah!
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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People 100 years in the future will wonder ow we ever got along without things that we cannot even imagine.
We have a rooftop swamp cooler and no AC. It works great, keeps the house at around 72 degrees even when it is well over 100 outside. Of course our humidity hovers around 5 to 10% daily in Summer so it works for us.
Wife and I spent a Summer night in an 1890s hotel in East Texas a decade or so ago, no AC just a ceiling fan. Hottest night we ever spent in our lives, it was suffocating.
You don’t even want to THINK about taking away my wife’s air conditioning...
This coming winter; you control-freak bastards in the northeast WON’T NEED HEAT!
WTF?
Where my family live we were 2 miles east and under the take-off flight pattern at MIA. When jets first were used, the unburnt fuel they spewed, would settle in our neighbor hood, no skeeters.
Jet exhaust on washday ticked off our Mother. We hung clothes in the olde days. 50-60s.
I live in Las Vegas. I have been doing a car restoration the last few months, all outside. I start at 6am to miss the heat, and I can now tell I start to go comatose at about 97 degrees at 11:30. And that’s for someone who has lived in Vegas for 35 years. There have been 18 days with temps at 110 or higher (up to 116).
Las Vegas would have to be closed down without AC, ditto Phoenix and much of the southwest. Other parts of the country too.
Philadelphia is not the whole world.
In most of the west/southwest a normal summer day is noticeably above 100 degrees, and that is after the last 80 years of cooling.
WTF?
It’s not a matter of “need.” It’s a matter of “want.”
And until you can convince me my “want” is detrimental, any effort OTHER THAN convincing me is just you believing your wants are more important than mine.
So screw you!
So she lives with a little airconditioning. What a maroon! or is it macaroon?
A macaroon is flaky. Probably macaroon.
“I don’t imagine I’d be interested in Texas or Mississippi without it.”
Trust me, you wouldn’t. Unlike California, where the evening temps dip down enough to open the windows, here in Texas it stays hot all through the night.
Older Texans tell me that when they were kids, their folks would move their beds onto the front porch, and they’d sleep under wet sheets.
That’s hot.
You are correct. Acclimatization does wonders for endurance in various climes and places.
Military bases built in the 40s and 50s were generally built to codes where 50% of the floor area was in fenestration (Windows) for natural lighting purposes and 25% of the floor plan area was open windows for natural ventilation. Anything les by the UPC/UMC/UBC required mechanical ventilation and lighting.
Spaces tended to be constructed with high bays allowing for natural air circulation, (hot air rises) and the soldiers and Marines who were bivouacked in those spaces were more acclimatized for that local than others. 5 para orders were written and Annex As staffed with units from similar climes an places as their mission demanded.
Today’s BEQ is a multistory frat house, with minimal ventilation and HVAC for all. Soldiers and Marines aren’t seen jogging in 120+ deg desert heat, as they go to the air conditioned gym and jog on treadmills in old racketball courts, drinking lattes, and texting on their cell phones as they work out. Go Figure.
I still remember running 30+miles daily in 124+ deg heat for 7 years straight, in the middle of nowhere carrying our own water as we ran. We didn’t even have camel-backs back then,...and that was a great simple invention.
IMHO, we’ll go back to evap cooling and probably more portable computing devices, with heads-up displays, while working out. Never can get away from slaughtering the enemy and driving their womenfolk ahead of you. Infantry and aviators still rule.
I live in Arizona. I’m a middle aged woman with thyroid disease and a gun. I wouldn’t have been alive with my physical condition in the 1920’s.
I need AC and I’ll defend my right to have it.
I bet she thinks prisoners have a right to AC.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20160629-more-than-70-of-texas-prisons-don-t-have-ac-and-why-that-won-t-change-anytime-soon.ece
I love my A/C BIGTIME!!!
Aah!
St. Louisans thought they'd suffered enough in summer 1934, when temperatures reached at least 100 for 29 days and killed 420.
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