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Ophelia wrote:
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>>30% humidity sounds like heaven. When we lived in Saudi Arabia we had
>>humidity about 20-30% and loved it. Humidity here on the Gulf Coast is
>>more likely to be 90 to 96% and only drops lower than that when it rains.
>>We hide in the air conditioned house when it gets that hot and wet. Nearly
>>everyone here has air conditioned cars and air conditioned houses. when I
>>was a kid we had an attic fan and you finally cooled off about 2 am only
>>to get heated up again by 9 am. My folks were one of the first families
>>where we lived to get ac and they got it after I went in the Navy in 1957,
>>along with central heat, a television, etc. Dad said it was because the
>>grocery bill dropped $80 a month after I left home. I didn't believe him
>>until my kids left home. Stay out of the hot and wet Edrena.

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> You have been in UK haven't you George??
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> Have you seen all the flooding in England just now. Places it has never
> been before
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Haven't really been paying attention Ophelia. We are in an era when our
Little Ice Age seems to be warming up but that's cyclic. Should change
again in another 300 years. <VBG>

George