"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 5/26/2016 3:13 PM, Je�us wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 May 2016 18:46:38 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2016-05-25 4:55 PM, Je?us wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I go nuts if I can't have the windows open for long stretches.
>>>>> I open my windows even in the dead of winter, if only a crack.
>>>>
>>>> Same. I can't handle central air or heating, it's so stuffy and
>>>> stifling. It's not at all like fresh air.
>>>
>>> I agree. I do not like to use AC unless it is really, really hot. I am
>>> lucky to live on a large property with big maple trees around the house
>>> that keep it well shaded. We use passive cooling methods, opening the
>>> windows at night to let in the cool air and then closing them and the
>>> sun facing windows and shades during the day.
>>
>> Much like what I do here when I know a hot one is coming - keep the
>> house closed up during the day and open everything up late afternoon.
>>
> Here in the DC area that doesn't work. It is just as humid at night, if
> not more so. Once the AC is on for the season, it is rarely shut off until
> Fall.

We were in DC for several days some years ago. Seemed every day as soon as
the museums closed, the skies opened up and we got soaked. We never did find
a way to wait out the storm that seemed to last as long as it took for us to
walk back to the hotel and get up to our room. Then it stopped. We would
have to change out of our soaked clothes before we could go out to dinner.
Wasn't fun.