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mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,211
60,647
It's in the nineties here every day. We're awaiting a new HVUC system to replace a 13-year-old a.c. and a furnace at 26. We're scheduled for July 10, with an option on any cancellations. The "consultant" (salesman) is stopping by for the deposit tomorrow and bringing a window unit for the bedroom on the meantime. I think the lower two levels of this old tri-level house still has some cooling, but my wife can't feel it. She has meds that don't tolerate heat so well. After the last heat wave in the sauna, it took two days to get back to normal to be able to think about new systems. The old timers, pre-a.c., built their homes carefully to catch air flow breezes by placement of windows and screen doors, and survived outdoor work and napped under the shade trees. Subdivision builders had no such ideas. Age doesn't improve your heat resistance. My old dad never air conditioned the house, lived to be 89 (licensed to drive without glasses), so we enjoyed sleeping on the porches. That was in the north.

 

bigpond

Lifer
Oct 14, 2014
2,019
14
Just getting you acclimated to a future in Florida, you ol’ goat :rofl:
Inlaws live not too far from you George, at lake of the Ozarks. We haven’t heard from them in a bit. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

 

rigmedic1

Lifer
May 29, 2011
3,896
76
It’s about 90 in the shade here in South Louisiana. Kind of pleasant as long as there is a breeze.

 

irishearl

Lifer
Aug 2, 2016
2,285
4,127
Kansas
bigpond, we used to live 9 miles from the Lake of the Ozarks. Kansas typically can have some brutally hot temperatures in summer. Seems like at least once each summer 1 or more places in the state will have the nation's highest temperature that day.

 

pappymac

Lifer
Feb 26, 2015
3,592
5,176
Slidell, LA
Here in Slidell - 30 miles northeast of New Orleans - the weather app says it's 94 but feels like 105. Fortunately, according to my digital thermometer and barometer, it's only 92 degrees and 48% humidity. With about a 10 mile wind coming across Lake Pontchartrain and plenty of shade under the trees in the yard, it was comfortable enough to sit outside and have a pipe.
I've always found the weather apps to be slightly off because of where the reporting station is located. If the temperature gages are located near brick buildings or a building covered with siding, the temperature can read 5 - 10 degrees hotter depending on the time of day and direction of the sun.

 
Jul 28, 2016
8,104
43,168
Finland-Scandinavia-EU
If You as me I wholeheartedly second what Mr Weezell said here, to Scandinavian country resident it is a great pleasure to see these numbers here,I been told quite a few retired people in Minnesota State are relocating to State of Florida when winters arrive.Here it is the Spain for the most part.

 

mikethompson

Comissar of Christmas
Jun 26, 2016
11,904
25,964
Near Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I want to complain about the heat, but then I remember the cold.
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kcghost

Lifer
May 6, 2011
15,138
25,717
77
Olathe, Kansas
Today it Rained in KC for 30 minutes but where I live, 10 minutes from KC, we had a few light clouds and no rain at all. This sucks beach balls.

 
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