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[WayAbvPar]

It has been in between 90 and 100 in Seattle for several days now. My apartment doesn't have air conditioning, so it has been brutal. especially trying to sleep. Forecast today is for high 80s. I just got to work, and our A/C has been out all weekend. It is 85+ in here right now, and it isn't even 9 am yet. FUCK ME TO TEARS. Except I won't have any moisture left in my body to create tears.

[Ironwood]

You and the rest of the world.

It's the same in Scotland, for Christs Sake.  Scotland.  Home of the hobbit that the new ice age kills first !

[Oban]

Problem solved.

[WayAbvPar]

I wish. I would have had one of those years ago if I had a window I could use for a vent. I DID see a small ice maker at Costco- makes 35 pounds of ice a day. It is only $160. I think I am gonna have to buy one so I can have a ready supply of ice on hand in my computer room.

[stray]

Averages at least 85-90 here in Texas. Even during Christmas. Can easily get over 100 as well.

Think the high was 96 yesterday. Fortunately I spent the entire time tubing at the river.

[WayAbvPar]

Averages at least 85-90 here in Texas. Even during Christmas. Can easily get over 100 as well.

Think the high was 96 yesterday. Fortunately I spent the entire time tubing at the river.

Texas is the 3rd circle of Hell. We aren't used to this crap up here in civilization.

[stray]

Yeah, I've got family and friends up there. Always makes me laugh when they start panting and bitching.....When it hits 80.

[HaemishM]

Dude, it was 100 here last week, with somewhere between 60-80% humidity. IN JULY. Eevn I who have lived in Mississppi all my life, was fucking dying and that's with AC. Now you feel my pain.

[Sauced]

It's been in the 100s here in Portland.  We had to help friends move on Saturday.  It was not awesome.  Other than that, we hooked up an old TV and the spare Cube in the relatively-cool basement and I played RE4 all weekend.  Unfortunately, the smell of catass rules out sleeping down there.

But, yeah, at least we don't have the humidity.

[Ironwood]

Climate change, tho, that Global Warming thing :  It's a Myth.

 

[Stormwaltz]

The weather's the same in Edmonton, believe it or not. The temperature in our house hasn't gone below 80 for two of the last four weeks (including the weekend we moved in), and most of the time it's above 90. The high yesterday was 96.

[Llava]

Mon

H: 112
L: 90

Phoenix.

That "dry heat" they talk about?  Yeah, guess what- it's still fucking HOT.  Only difference is you don't feel exhausted when you step outside.  You just feel like you're in a massive oven with its own atmosphere.

[sigil]

That's right Ironwood. You ready for the next ice age?

The weather pattern of hot and dry for the past five months has been broken this week with rain coming in from the gulf. Of course that just means the Hurricanes will probably start landing soon. Drought followed by two and a half feet of rain makes for some interesting times.

[bhodi]

Interesting mudslides and flash floods.

It's only going to get worse. Sell that beachfront property and get out of FL.

[Engels]

It has been in between 90 and 100 in Seattle for several days now. My apartment doesn't have air conditioning, so it has been brutal. especially trying to sleep. Forecast today is for high 80s. I just got to work, and our A/C has been out all weekend. It is 85+ in here right now, and it isn't even 9 am yet. FUCK ME TO TEARS. Except I won't have any moisture left in my body to create tears.

See, WAP, if you actually lived in Seattle, instead of that treasonous yuppy suburb of Bellevue, you'd be bitching a lot less! Accept the judgement of the almighty and his heated fist of vengeance for your wayward living! I'm at the top of Capitol Hill, middle of Seattle, highest point in the area. Windows open with a breeze coming in the windows!

You have my sympathy about work though. I'd be developing a sudden rare strain of the flu that requires lots of time spent at an air conditioned movie complex if I were you.

[Oban]

Seriously, why are people still allowed to live in areas of Florida/GulfSouth that are hit by hurricanes on a regular basis?

What about flood prone areas like Edmonton/SouthernAlberta?

I am not up to speed on hurricane or flood insurance, but I can not see how this can be a viable business.

[Ironwood]

Hurricanes, I'm hoping, are not going to be one of my concerns.

[Oban]

Hurricanes, I'm hoping, are not going to be one of my concerns.

[Ironwood]

OMG, It's about to attack the Enterprise !!!

[sigil]

Seriously, why are people still allowed to live in areas of Florida/GulfSouth that are hit by hurricanes on a regular basis?

What about flood prone areas like Edmonton/SouthernAlberta?

I am not up to speed on hurricane or flood insurance, but I can not see how this can be a viable business.

Because the rest of the time it's quite nice?

Not living on the coastline helps a lot. The worst we get are downed trees. Windbreaks lessen the storms impact, and the elevation for where I live puts me above the 100 year floodline, and only a few inches below the 500 year line. If that one happens in my life, I'll live with it.

But living on the beach in this area is stupidity writ large. That's also the area where the highest value construction is concentrated.

So yes, there's a lot of concentrated stupid around here. That comes as no shock to me.

[Oban]

Oh, even better one:



Sorry to bounce back, but how is it possible that you live in an apartment/dwelling that does not have air conditioning nor windows that open WayAbvPar?

[WayAbvPar]

The windows (some of them) open, but they slide left to right, not up and down. They also have screens. In order to install an air conditioner I would have to do all sorts of modifications/destruction that would make me unpopular with the management. The good news is I will have a new house by next summer. The bad news is that will probably make me too poor to buy an A/C. Goddamned global warming. I think it is all the hot air coming from Limbaugh, Moore, Hannity, Coulter, and the like.

[Roac]

Dude, it was 100 here last week, with somewhere between 60-80% humidity. IN JULY. Eevn I who have lived in Mississppi all my life, was fucking dying and that's with AC. Now you feel my pain.

Close:  It hit 99 here last week, same humidity, but has been dropping thanks to the front that's moving through.  It's low 80s and cloudy/drizzly today, but the sun is returning tomorrow.  Similar weather actually caused a door decoration to melt the first year my wife and I lived in our house.  I pray for days that the temp doesn't rise above 95.

Whoever is doing this, please remove the magnifying glass from my state.  There's far too much humidity for anything to burn - it just boils.

[Lantyssa]

The good news is I will have a new house by next summer. The bad news is that will probably make me too poor to buy an A/C. Goddamned global warming. I think it is all the hot air coming from Limbaugh, Moore, Hannity, Coulter, and the like.

Include its installation in the price of your loan, along with any other wanted improvements.

[Oban]

<Bored while waiting for WoW to install on my work computer...>

[Strazos]

It's hot everywhere, waah.

[WayAbvPar]

The good news is I will have a new house by next summer. The bad news is that will probably make me too poor to buy an A/C. Goddamned global warming. I think it is all the hot air coming from Limbaugh, Moore, Hannity, Coulter, and the like.

Include its installation in the price of your loan, along with any other wanted improvements.

Now THAT is a damned fine idea. I will check into it.

[Nija]

It was 116 here in the east bay area, near SF, California. Most people here have A/C, but mine sucks so I was at the pool.

It was over 90 in SF proper, though, and nobody has A/C in SF.

[Margalis]

I have an AC but I don't put it in because it doesn't fit the window very well and I don't want bugs coming in.

I'll take 100 degrees over bugs any day.

[Merusk]

I have an AC but I don't put it in because it doesn't fit the window very well and I don't want bugs coming in.

I'll take 100 degrees over bugs any day.

The solution to your and WAP's problem is the same.  Get a piece of plywood, cut it to fit the window.  Then cut a hole to fit the unit and attach the unit to it instead of the window frame.  Use duct or blue painter's tape (painter's tape won't leave residue on wood/ plaster/ drywall)   to seal any cracks if bugs are still a problem.

[Flood]

I feel for you but currently in sunny central California where I live:

Current temp. - 106
Humidity - 33%

It will probably break 110 later today.  Also just for spice, my county is rated the worst air quality per capita in the United States.  So of course we have AC all over.  If we didn't we would die. 

Get a portable water cooler.  They stand about 3 feet tall, plug into the wall, and hold enough water to run all night long.  Put it about a foot away from you as you sleep. 

[Bunk]

I'll jump in on the whining. Average Summer highs in Vancouver are usually in the low 80s. It was 95+ all weekend here.

No AC, my appartment with it's lovely western exposure, was still over 90 degrees at 2:30am Saturday night.

We had one town in the interior of the Province hit 105 on Saturday. This is fucking Canada people.

[schild]

Had no AC the first 2 weeks of AZ summer. It hadn't hit the 110-120s yet. But it's not my fault Seattle is a damp hell.

[Margalis]

The solution to your and WAP's problem is the same.  Get a piece of plywood, cut it to fit the window.  Then cut a hole to fit the unit and attach the unit to it instead of the window frame.  Use duct or blue painter's tape (painter's tape won't leave residue on wood/ plaster/ drywall)   to seal any cracks if bugs are still a problem.

Are you offering to come over and do it for me?

Otherwise I'll just gut it out like I did last summer.

[Merusk]

Sure.  You buy the plane ticket, I'll bring the tools and supplies.