Like a heatwave

Wow! I've seen a few threads get out of hand here, but would never have thought a thread about the weather would get locked!!!

If you want to escape a heatwave, come to the UK - and enjoy a cold a wet British summer !!

As a kid growing up in NJ, where it does get pretty hot....we did not have AC. It was a case of play outside in the woods, or set up the sprinkler (no pools either) . At home, we had fans in the windows, and if it was really too hot, we went down in the basement to play with a fan running.....that was our AC back then..... and ....

not one of the cars my folks had came with AC in them.  Now let me tell you about hot. You haven't experienced hot until you set on a vinyl seat cover that's been in the sun for a few hours...wearing shorts. You kinda just stick to that hot plastic. And the dashboard in those old cars were metal....hot enough to fry an egg. Air conditioning was roll the window down.... however, my mom being who she was...and still is.... would only let us roll the window down about 2 inches no matter how hot it was.... the cars had wing windows and we could open those too, but only a little.

My mom.... in the car, never used defrosters...open the wing window even on the coldest days....in the rain.....just a few weeks ago, I visited her, and took her out to lunch in my F-150. She rolls the window down..."for some air"... I promptly rolled it up and locked it off (love those child locks!) and cranked the AC and said... " Now there's some air for you!"

At home...we actually did have an air conditioner...a big window unit. We carried it with us when we moved, and the house we moved into in Burlington, NJ did not have large enough windows to actually use it...... so, my mom..... had my dad set it in the corner of the living room on a small bench he made, and from time to time, she would actually turn it on..... It was blowing cool air out the front and more warm... no....hot air out the back, so by using it, we actually heated the room up rather than cool it down. My mom...gotta love her.... dad, to his credit, finally moved it somewhere else, or sold it...I don't recall.... one day it was gone.

How did we ever live before AC? Somehow we did.... and life was good.

malls???  we didn't have no stinkin' malls to hang out in!  I grew up in a rural town, the nearest mall was an hour away.

my paternal grandparents didn't ever have an A/C.  my maternal grandparents had a window unit as long as I can remember.  and we had a window unit in our little house, then when dad had the additional 2 rooms added to the house we got another window unit.  2 units for the house!  all of our heating was done from a gas floor unit.  we kids burned ourselves MANY times falling on the grate of that floor unit!

anyway - hot again today with more hot to come!

dlogan

Beagle


 the nearest mall was an hour away.

Up hill both ways?

Dang STRAIGHT!  In the snow, too!!!

Dave, I think it's supposed to get cool tomorrow.  Can't wait.  It rained last night too.   On the weather report, they mentioned 'stray thunderstorms.'  I guess one of them found its way here.  lol

My grandma only ever had a window A/C but at night she turned it off and turned on a ceiling fan and closed the doors to the rest of the house so the fan would pull air in from the windows.  I'll never forget sleeping by that window with the cool summer air blowing in my face.  Wonderful!

I was just thinking that this morning, Herb. 

Dave, I hope you went outside this morning.  At 6:30 it was only 76...felt like a beautiful spring day.  I was able to get my fall crop of spinach and lettuce planted and some other gardening done before it got too hot. Actually, by 8:00 it still wasn't too bad.  Nice weather's coming. :-)

I'd like to experience low humidity for once.  I'm not sure I ever have.

A couple summers ago I spent most of the summer helping my son do construction.  It was amazing the heat we stood.  We just got used to being soaked all the time I guess.  He had a job after work too, so we'd work from 7-3, go jump in the lake to cool off (even though it was pretty hot), then work from 4-8.  Now just thinking about it about kills me.  lol  I do remember one day, though, standing there cutting soffit and I think the heat index was about 115 and I thought 'you know what...this is just too darn hot.'  And I went home. 

I was out in Orange County Ca earlier this week. It was much cooler than here in Pa. Just got back from Toronto as well. It was very nice up there.