On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:14:46 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Gary" > wrote in message ...
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> We hit 100 here today. We never see that number this early on. Once in
>>> a
>>> blue moon it might get close to that in Aug. but never now. My mom said
>>> she
>>> heard someone saying that we are going to wind up with weather like San
>>> Diego. If that is true, something has to change.
>>
>> Yes. You will buy an air conditioner (or two) and figure out a way to
>> install it. You have many health issues and are often homebound. No
>> need for you to sit home suffering with broken swamp coolers all
>> summer long and living uncomfortably. It will only get worse as you
>> get older.
>
>One AC wouldn't do much. Neither would two. If our weather does continue
>to stay like this, I will look into something. I don't know what. Right
>now my priority is getting the house painted and then getting a new deck.
>The dry weather has dried the wood out so much that the nails are popping
>out right and left and boards are falling off. I knew that it needed to be
>replaced but now it's getting to be a hazard.
>
>I also know that I'm not the only one in this situation. I know three
>people who have AC here. A friend, my mom and my bro. Bro rarely uses his.
>Mom has no choice. She's in an apartment and it comes with. Friend got a
>super good deal on a portable unit where her husband works. She doesn't use
>it often. AC is still not common here.
>
>>> Got my hair cut the other day. Hairdresser has a shop at the side of her
>>> unACed home. It's a newer home and quite fancy looking. She does have
>>> AC
>>> in the shop and she has used it. But not that day. Client before her
>>> was
>>> practically begging her to turn it on and she would not. Had my hair not
>>> seriously needed a bang trim, I would have just left. It was miserable.
>>
>> A business that has AC and refuses to turn it on when it's so hot? The
>> only reason to buy an
>> AC if for the very hot days like that. Time to find a new hairdresser.
>
>You just don't get it Gary. My prior hairdresser and the one prior to that
>had *no* AC. It is just not that common here. Anywhere.

On TV last week: Statistically, 30% of homes in the Northwest do not
have A/C
Janet US