Posted on 07/24/2019 11:38:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
But, like you mentioned, evaporative coolers only work in drier conditions. I live in Florida now and people around here never heard of them. That's because water coolers are worthless in high humidity areas or the muggy month or two in Arizona in mid-summer.
I still prefer the Arizona climate over the Florida climate. The hot is much easier to tolerate and is more comfortable in the West than it is in the East.
Our troop in the Middle East often deal with 110 degree heat, in tents, while dodging bombs.
This snowflake doesn’t know how to deal with 90 degree heat?
Can’t tell you the number of July/August nights spent feeling the beads of sweat tracing a line down my chest.
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And that was after a day at work, right?
You don’t talk about the day - that is just a day at work.
evaporative cooler with 14” pads.
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14” thick, or 14” square?
I had a '66 Ford Galaxie that had a busted under-dash A/C unit. Not as toasty as a Beetle, for sure, but barely tolerable with all the cowl and wing window vents open. Today, I'd probably resort to something like this... if I couldn't afford to fix it properly:
we went into the shower buck naked, went into the bed completely wet
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So, just who all is this ‘we’?
You college students!
Air forced through those wet pads cooled the house down to a very comfortable temperature.
“And that was after a day at work, right?
You don’t talk about the day - that is just a day at work.”
Oh, God. As a teenager bailing hay in 95 temp with 90% humidity in the sun. Worse yet stacking that hay in a roasting barn. At least you had every excuse in the book to shower off after work, including Mom telling you to do so. All these decades later I’m glad I went through that. You know what hard work is. Now I sit behind a computer and sometimes think I’m gaming the system.
A veritable millennial crisis! The world, as we know it, is doomed.
Yeah...that buildings electrical system would fry with one or two those things plugged in on a circuit.
I’ve lived in both Phoenix and north central Florida.
Summer humidity is high in Fla, but the winters are cool with low humidity and quiet (not having to listen to every neighbor’s lawn getting mowed in the mornings helps, too).
I went to a laundry-mat in Phoenix and was surprised to see that washing clothes was expensive but drying them was free.
Then it dawned on me that they wanted the money up front because it’s so dry in Phoenix, people were skipping commercial dryers, opting to take their clothes home damp, but not damp for long. By doubling up on the washer price, they got the money regardless.
As for which is better, I prefer Florida because, if nothing else, it is so green. Arizona, not so much. If pressed, I could live in Flagstaff, though.
“Yeah...that buildings electrical system would fry with one or two those things plugged in on a circuit.”
Fuses....lots of them.
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I had a ‘71 Pontiac with those cool little triangular tip-out vent windows. Wish they hadn’t stopped making those.
Dry heat is a blessing. Here in the SE if your clothes get wet in the summer they stay that way for most of the day.
I recall going swimming in jean cut-offs in the Colorado river in Needles Ca on summer. 1/2 hour after getting out of the water my shorts were bone dry.
Two thumbs enthusiastically up!
I grew up in a brick 2 family flat in inner city St. Louis. In the heat wave of 1954, the temperature hit 115 degrees...that is Fahrenheit not heat index. We had only a window fan, so we took some quilts to lay on and slept in a city park.
dear students, in compliance with The Green New Deal, there will no longer be evil capitalist a/c in dorms or classrooms. Please direct all complaints to AOC, America’s latest air conditioning czar.
Hannah's Town, a re-created pioneer settlement north of Greensburg is also worth a visit.
Just spent last week in Flagstaff. That city sure is thick with traffic. Homeless on every intersection with room to stand. Weather was nicer than metro Albuquerque, though, even though it was only about 7 degrees cooler on average.
When I do get out of the house, it isn’t
to drive more than a few miles. And the
closest major center to me is Orlando. So
I’m probably way behind the curve of America’s
grim urban decay. Sigh.
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