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    Posted: 06-Jul-2010 at 10:42
it's 101 F  with an index of 106F real feel. Tonights low is listed at 89F.  This is just to darn hot, too darn fast.
 
 
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Here the weather is also too hot, I wonder how people could live without modern Air Conditioners in the previous centuries!
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Cyrus, since I am amongst the eldest responders on this site, I can tell you I did! I actually lived during the 1953-54 hot spell here in the USA, where temps stayed at 100F+ for days on end! And that was before there was a "comfort index!"

The body does adapt!

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Arizona is typically hot but our monsoon rains are arriving late. It cools down a bit during the rains but then it turns hot and humid when they are over.
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as long as it isint 451 F, all should be ok
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Dear, irritating, blood sucking insect! I agree, I hate it when my books burn! But, I loved the book and the movie!

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Originally posted by opuslola

Dear, irritating, blood sucking insect! I agree, I hate it when my books burn! But, I loved the book and the movie!

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so did I ;)

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Actually, seeing as how yesterday hit 108 F. 101F  seems acceptable.  I have a set up in the yard with a mister.  This is mainly for the dog.  The Collie is smarter than I am, she won't go out.  But I turned it on anyway.  I had 4 cats, 5-6 squirrels and a mess of birds all clustered in the yard around the misting heads.  It has been brutal.
At 8:am this am, it was 86 F already.Tongue  


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Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri

Here the weather is also too hot, I wonder how people could live without modern Air Conditioners in the previous centuries!
 
 
To quote Opuslola, The body adapts.  However it helps when you don't have any means of a comparison.  I don't recall any private family that I knew having AC.  We didn't have AC until about 1968.  The main method of coping at that time and earlier, was the Movie theater.  All the Movie houses had central air.  So when you couldn't take it any more, you went to the movies.  "Come on in. It's 20 degrees cooler inside".

A close ancestor to the modern air conditioner units was first made in 1902 by an American engineer by the name of Willis Carrier. The machine at that time was called "Apparatus for Treating Air" and was built for the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing and Publishing Co. in Brooklyn, New York. Chilled coils were used in the machine to cool air and lower humidity to 55%, although the apparatus was made with enough precision that the humidity level desired was adjustable.

After the invention by Carrier, air conditioners began to bloom. They first hit the industrial buildings such as printing plants, textile mills, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and a few hospitals. The first air-conditioned home was that of Charles Gates, son of gambler John "Bet a Million" Gates, in Minneapolis in 1914. However, during the first wave of their installation, Carrier's air conditioner units were large, expensive, and dangerous due to the toxic ammonia that was used as coolant.

In 1922, Carrier had two breakthroughs - he replaced the ammonia with the benign coolant dielene and added a central compressor to reduce the size of the unit. The next advance was when Carrier sold his invention to movie-theater operators, with a notable debut in 1925 at the Rivoli on Broadway in New York City. In a short amount of time, air conditioners were installed in office buildings, department stores and railroad cars. The United States House of Representatives had air conditioners installed in 1928, with the Senate, White House and Supreme Court following suit in the years after. After World War II, window units air conditioners appeared, with sales escalating from 74,000 in 1948 to 1,045,000 in 1953.

Today, air conditioners have been said to be a partial cause for the changes in the South, and for most of us who have experienced its cooling benefits in times of searing heat waves, it is an invention that is hard to live without.



Edited by red clay - 25-Jul-2010 at 07:20
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Yet, there I was, deep within the lower middle class apartment buildings near the "African American" sector! Actually, only a street seperated the two!

Note the above was in Memphis, TN in about 1952-54!

But, even then we had TV, and just a little later, AC!

But, we were the lowly backwards Southerners!

If you ever look at old temp extreems in areas you might well find out that 1953-55 set a lot of records?

As a matter of fact, now that I am about age 64, and the outside temp. is 98d F, and the temp index is 110F, then it reminds my of my early days@!

Hot, HOt! Hotter!

Actually refridgeration is very old in the South, see;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apalachicola,_Florida

All of you should go there and bow!

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I do show my respects, every year.  Aamof, planning the annual pilgrimage now.Big smile  John Gorrie would be pleased anyone remembered him, wiki or no.  He invented  AC yes, but his main thing was refridgeration.  The Gibson House, a magnificent hotel and resturaumt built in the 1900's reportedly was the first establishment of it's kind to have manufactured ice in it's bar.  All kinds of things grew out of that.  But he didn't make a dime.
 
Thinking on it, the Gorrie house and museum does have a shrine like quality about it.Wink
And no, I didn't have to Google him,  The house we rent is on Gorrie drive, St. George Island, which helps to make Apalach Bay.
 
BTW, I believe the first fully air conditioned theater was in Birmingham Al.  
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Some hotels are built specifically to create a captive trade, example at casinos and holiday resorts. Though of course hotels have always been built in popular desinations, the defining characteristic of a resort hotel is that it exists purely to serve another attraction, the two having the same owners.

In Las Vegas there is a tradition of one-upmanship with luxurious and extravagant hotels in a concentrated area known as the Las Vegas Strip. This trend now has extended to other resorts worldwide, but the concentration in Las Vegas is still the world's highest: nineteen of the world's twenty-five largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over 67,000 rooms.
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Dear, irritating, blood sucking insect! I agree, I hate it when my books burn! But, I loved the book and the movie!

Regards, as always!


Oh my God, that is just too funny to ignore- so hot our books are burning.   Tears are screaming down my cheeks from laughing so hard.  Now that has to be hell.  We are all going to burn in Hell. Our Statue of Liberty holds a torch for enlightenment and a book for the literacy that enlightens us and makes our democracy possible.   When it is so hot our books burn, for sure that is Hell.

Joking aside, we are dealing with floods because the heat is melting the snow and this is added to rain fall.   I bought an electric blanket at 50% off but it is already too warm to us it, and the bugs are obviously doing well.   There was a lady bug on windshield wiper yesterday.Shocked.   Come on, this is normally our coldest month,.  You know the month when freezing makes our apple trees produce good apples, and kills the bugs.  But already we have melting snow and lady bugs?   That is scary.  We count on the snow for our year round water supply.   The lady bug is good, but if you garden, you know you want your plants to be mature enough to produce their own bug toxin, before bugs start swarming in.  If we face a water shortage and early swarms of bugs, this could become a food shortage  problem.  

Ouch  I hear the US the price of gas may jump to over $5 a gallon and that will drive up the price of food, plus the water problem and the bug problem.  I have heard a Chinese curse is "may you live in interesting times".  
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Remember that President Obama promised if his plans concerning "cap and trade" were implemented, then the cost of electricity would SKY-ROCKET!"

Gee, the President and his ilk are likely to get an early and to them, welcome surprise, if oil prices continue to rise! They would like average Americans have to move or ride bicycles, and take trains (which do not exist) to work, etc.! No more "freedom of the road", except for the "wealthy", which they also intend to "tax to death!"

Weather, just what can we do about it? NOTHING!

You and your friends have to live with it warm and buggie, whilst those in the North and N. East, have to live with almost record snow falls, etc.!

You see, the only "cycles" that progressives like Obama know are "motor cycles" and "bi-cycles!"

So, I am afraid Athena, that you and your friends may actually have to live in weather conditions that are most probably "cyclic?" That is the same events have happened in the past and will probably happen in the future!

But here, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, the weather is great!

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