"Janet B" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:14:46 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>"Gary" > wrote in message
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>>> 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

That would not be true for this area.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/seatt...ow-common.html

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...1225620AAOJgOu

http://seattlebubble.com/blog/2014/0...ing-heat-pump/

Keep in mind that the Northwest also includes places like Eastern Washington
where it does get hot and AC is very much needed. If you don't live here,
you have no idea how it is.