Posted on 11/08/2015 6:20:09 AM PST by george76
I live in Tampa, Florida so no matter what materials, design specs that home I live in is constructed with, having no AC is brutal from April to October...
One of the main reasons Florida was lightly populated before the advent of AC and became a winter vacation state is the summers are simply too hot and humid....
The great untold technology story of the 20th century is air conditioning. It's responsible for the great southern migration of the last 60 years.
Strange that it never receives any attention.
One of the main reasons Florida was lightly populated before the advent of AC and became a winter vacation state is the summers are simply too hot and humid.... Read an interesting article that it was NOT Sam Colt that tamed the West, but the Carrier brothers. Very enlightening.
“If nobody’s following, you are not leading. You just wandered off.”
THE CLINTON MO Few months back, a teary-eyed Chelsea talked about the dwindling elephant herds. BOOM elephants became a fund-raiser for the Clinton Foundation. Have some fun---peruse the Clintons phony fund-raising projects.
CLINTON FOUNDATION---GLOBAL INITIATIVE web site
276 useless web PAGES of obscure "mini-charities"---
the MO to keep the Clinton wealth rolling in.
1271 Avenue of the Americas 42nd Floor
New York, NY 10020
212-348-8882
WEB SITE http://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative
NOTE The do-gooder Clintons calculatedly morphed into the tear-jerking "The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Family Foundation" for even more fund-raising capabilities w/ a friendly "family" aura. Chelsea cashed-in bigtime and is now being primed for holding govt office---the power-mad Clintons eternal govt grab.
"Smile everybody. Another $100 million came in today."
Yeah, Eastern South Carolina is not that different from Florida and you can’t build anything that totally solves the problem for sure but there are ways to build that make it far less miserable than a modern home is when the a/c breaks down. People knew these things thousands of years ago but once a/c came around it didn’t seem worth the bother. Even the old wood frame houses that used to be built on many farms made it far more bearable than today’s houses are without a/c. They had high ceilings, a “breezeway” oriented East to West which was a hallway with a door on each end, in the summer the screen door was closed to keep out insects and the main door left open. Other rooms opened off the breezeway and windows were left open in hot weather with screens over them. The roof overhang was sufficient to shade the windows from direct sun and the layout allowed any breeze that blew to pass down the breezeway and pull air in through the windows. There were porches on the East and North side and maybe the South side as well. The kitchen was often in a separate building to keep the heat away from the rest of the house and to prevent kitchen fires from burning the entire house down.
A house with eight foot ceilings, insulated walls, little or no roof overhang, no porches and no shade trees that are large enough to really help is a death trap without a/c, you are much better off on the ground outside under a shade tree if you can keep the bugs off. Modern conveniences are great until a disaster happens and then, until they are restored, people may be vastly worse off than if they had never had them. People sometimes comment on how no one uses a front porch the way that they used to, the real reason people used to sit on the porch so much was that it was cooler than being in the house, especially when there was a sudden rain, you could go out on the porch and it was like going from a sauna into a refrigerator when a downpour started.
Good point. :-)
Note all the "Solar Energy" companies sucking on the tax payers tit are all Left Wing Democrat companies?
It's not just the Clintons, it' all of them.
From what I have read about Chelsea, she is as evil as her parents
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