Air Conditioning - Who Has It, Who Is Sweating?

[matcom]

Mrs Matcom thought I was CRAZY to turn it on yesterday morning. Little did she know, I had SEEN the weather report and decided on a pre-emptive STRIKE by turning it on early. Been on all day yesterday and all day today.

looks like we will be able to shut it off for most of the rest of the week but we really needed it this weekend!

so, you sitting in comfort or cursing the fires of hell today?

[Rick Myers]

1. Installed my AC about two hours a ago!

[RockaFowler]

2. FLORIDA - ALWAYS ON

Sorry for the CAPS, but it is freekin hot down here in SoFla

[El Fuego]

13. Yes indeedy.

You cannot live in S. Fla without AIR.

[SOteric]

3. Phurphoo.

It gets over 75º maybe 7 days out of the year here. Most of us don't waste our buckages on air conditioning.

[Left Is Write]

4. We haven't turned the air on yet.

Last week, we had a string of 80s and a couple 90s, but we held the misery at bay with strategic use of open windows, doors, and fans. It was cool enough overnight that it was comfortable for sleeping, and the mornings were still cool.

I avoid turning on the air conditioner for as long as possible. This is the latest we've been able to go yet since moving here, and it doesn't look like we'll need it all week either (temps in the 70s).

[SarahB]

5. Have it, but I avoid it.

It's loud and annoying and I tend to be a person who's cold easily. It's got to be over 90 before I crank the AC.

[Nite Owl]

6. Just turning on the fan

part seems to be working. House is staying pretty cool downstairs anyway. No ac yet. Hot as hell out there, just came in from doing some gardening and didn't even finish.

[ewagner]

7. In Wisconsin.....

having Central Air Conditioning is just showing off.....

[warrens]

8. I live in a basement apartment

A drag during the winter, but as long as I keep the doors closed during the day, it stays cool most of the summer. I have gone two years without turning on the AC.

[xmas74]

9. Central air.

A must for Missouri weather!

[Bunny]

10. I have two window units that I have to drag out of the basement,

up to the second floor, and install. By myself. :(

It's not nearly hot enough for that yet, although I think it will be by the end of this week.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Has been on for a month.

Except on the first floor, because my sweet FIL gets cold, so I had to turn the gas logs on for him. I am sweating my butt off in the office and he has the logs on! :wtf:

[bicentennial_baby]

12. Bah! Who needs it?

Out here in Western MA, where it is well over 80 today, I don't bother with AC. Windows open all over the house, lights and unneccessary appliances off, a couple of fans seem to keep it quite comfortable.

[China_cat]

35. I need it.

The AC here helps keep the humidity down and allows me to breathe without the oxygen.

[nickgutierrez]

14. Today was the first time since I left Florida that I've thought about AC

It's getting warm...

[woofless]

15. No AC, no sweat.

Gatta love the Pacific NW!

Woof

[YellowRubberDuckie]

37. I'm so jealous!!

I live in Oklahoma. It's muggy as hell, and it's in the 80s. No wind. We were out walking around on the car lots in town today just browsing. I was sweating in places I didn't know had glands. I was so glad to get home!
Duckie

[maveric]

16. And its 65 and cloudy in San Diego today.

People are wearing jackets and sweaters.

[bertha katzenengel]

20. Maveric

:cry: I miss home.

Out here where it actually gets COLD, I have begun to chuckle w/ the locals at the behavior of Southern Californians during the rare cold snap back home. Jackets at 65F is strange to me now.

[maveric]

25. I grew up in Boston and find that strange too.

But 25 years out here, I tend to do the same things.

[Zuni]

17. I have AC

it is like a sauna outdoors today

[bertha katzenengel]

18. We're lucky. Left if off yesterday, but when it was 88 at 10:30 this AM

we shut the windows in a hurry.

[vogonjiltz]

19. Chicago-

don't have it

[mike_c]

21. currently 65 F and sunny here....

I use the Pacific Ocean as an air conditioner-- it's always on, and I can leave the windows open without feeling guilty! My hottest August days probably won't rise beyond 80 F, if they even get that hot.

[lapfog_1]

22. A/C? What's A/C? - Bay Area, CA - n/t

[Lady Effingbroke]

23. AC on at the beginning of May.

Will stay on continuously until November.

[fortyfeetunder]

24. Seattle: don't have it, don't need it

Most older homes in Seattle don't have a/c, because we don't get all that heat, and in the evening it cools off like crazy.

We welcome the heat so we can thaw out anyway....

[NYdemocrat089]

26. My parents do in their room.

I get a crappy fan and a window.

[medeak]

27. have AC dept of mechanical company

always laugh as everyone waits until the day it hits high 80's to call for installation. two week waiting list.

[Reverend_Smitty]

28. It's hot as fucking balls here

the thermostat reads 84 in this room and my dad is being a major league asshole and won't let me turn the fucking air on. I wish he would go the fuck out cause now I'm getting pissed!

[evlbstrd]

30. 84 is hot?

I'm a dad, and therefore an asshole, too. I don't hit the AC til it's in the nineties.

[Reverend_Smitty]

31. 84 in the house

It's 90 outside humid and there are no fans which means no breeze. The back of my neck is soaked just sitting here

[evlbstrd]

32. Same here yesterday.

[Dan-W]

29. I'll turn on a fan, or two.

Owned this So. NH house for over 26 years w/o air conditioning.

[Blue Diadem]

33. 90+ outside here.

We have a large unit for downstairs and individual ones for each bedroom. Finally broke down and turned them on today. That electric meter sure is rolling.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. We are in SoCal, and for many years did not have A/C....

However, when we built our home 3 years ago, we decided to have it installed centrally. It gets warm upstairs even though the house is extremely well insulated; plus we like it downstairs a little bit since our parlor grand piano needs consistent humidity. Also, the A/C keeps us from hearing our neighbors who can be noisy at times. It also helps keep the house cleaner since the windows are closed. As soon as our evening breeze comes up, we shut it off and let the breezes do the rest of the cooling...Works for us!

[sbj405]

36. I have it, but I'm trying to hold out. .

It's in the upper 80s and humid, though. My bf is gone for the week or else he'd have it cranked up already.

Very strange, it's June and I haven't had it on at all yet. Pretty unusual for DC.

[Kat45]

38. I didn't get mine put in yet; I'm sweating.

But it will be cool again tomorrow, maybe even tonight.

[blondeatlast]

39. 102 outside--you are damn right I have A/C!

I did once go through an entire summer in Arizona without it, and in a desert town.

Never again.