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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Amen. I can remember life without ac and it was no fun. I can remember pouring water on the roof of the porch to help cool things off. I can remember going to small country churches and using funeral home fans. She is nuts. When I was in married student housing at State we had a double fan in the window. Very few of the building at State had ac and people tried to get in one of those buildings for classes. Driving without ac wasn’t very good either. Houses were built different back then. My first dorm had huge fans and those helped. We are all spoiled but isn’t it nice?
All this electricity, running water, and air conditioning thing is just a passing fad anyway.
You will note she states her house was built in 1920. At the time air conditioning was not widely used if at all. Houses designed before AC were designed for a cross breeze in every room and sometimes a stack effect where the heat would rise out the top floor to be replaced with lower cooler air. I live in an older house and until it hits 90 or above it is comfortable. Try that in a newer house designed for AC and you will sweat.
Grew up in Dallas with window units so I know what its like to have “cool zones” in a house and not-so-cool zones.
But I would not go without central A/C today unless we lived somewhere like Washington State.
Humidity is a big factor too in the summer.
This woman is an idiot!!
Geez... She could play Snape in Harry Potter now that Alan Rickman has died.
Just as I suspected, another well-to-do White liberal trying to save the planet.
Typical liberal. They project their own circumstances to everyone else, and then presume to make decisions on everyone else’s behalf based on those circumstances.
This is the reason behind gun control. Most libs know they couldn’t exercise self-control if they owned a gun, so they assume everyone else is the same way.
Or, more generally, libs know they’re unable to exercise self-control in *most* circumstances, and they assume everyone else must be the same way, so it makes perfect sense to them to create a parental “nanny” government that makes all the “hard decisions” and assumes all the responsibility for said decisions, and that can dole out favors and treats “fairly” (mom! Billy’s cake is bigger than mine!).
What the is the difference from a Bull Elephant?
10 pounds and a flannel shirt.
There’s an awful lot of electoral votes out there specifically because of air conditions. Another libtard loon got away from the locked ward.
Ask how many of the Compost editors/mediots live in the DC area in homes without AC.
Then, ask why the Compost doesn’t remove all ac’s from its offices/publishing/printing areas?
“What a moron writer. She thinks sweating because of no AC is sexy.”
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I grew up with no AC, but I agree this woman is daft!
I used to say that until I moved to Florida. Without A/C I would move in a heartbeat.
meanwhile liberal judges are demanding prisons have AC in them!
Perhaps someone will enlighten the author and let her know how many people, without ac, die during heat waves as far north as chicongo..
“I don’t need air conditioning,”
Personal choice.
” and neither do you”
Eco-naziism. Leave me out of it.
When I grew up in New Mexico we did not have central air. We had a Hayshaker on the roof that was a miracle.
Toilet paper is next. Just a bowl of water on the left side of the squat stop...
That pix is a larval Helen Thomas just waiting to get out.
Have a sibling living on Nantucket. (been there 30 years). She has 2 houses on her property - a big house (un-airconditioned) and a smaller cottage (her main residence - AIR CONDITIONED.)
It has been so hot there this summer that she spends all her time in the cottage/air conditioning. But the big house, the main house, is older and was built to be tolerable without air conditioning. But this summer even that provision hasn’t worked. The people on Nantucket are very liberal - but I know they would not give up their air conditioning this summer for anything. Neither would I.
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