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re: No power, no generator, no fans and its 83 degrees in my bedroom
Posted on 9/2/21 at 7:07 am to LSUfan20005
Posted on 9/2/21 at 7:07 am to LSUfan20005
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We had 12 days without power for Gustav. At one point I think we covered ourselves in Noxema.
Same.
I'd get off at 11 pm. Go to a buddy's house that also didn't have power. Drink ice cold natty for a few hours.
Strip down to my boxers and drive home with the AC on full blast eating ice.
Walk inside and pass out.
Rinse. Repeat.
After a few days, the cold showers couldn't get the smell of natty off.
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Posted on 9/2/21 at 7:10 am to X123F45
Houses were built differently and people were more durable pre air conditioning. Your world would be se up differently if this was for the long haul.
Posted on 9/2/21 at 7:26 am to DWIGHT
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We are not tough anymore. We put too much stock in comfort, but that comes with technological advances.
He said as he posted to the internet on his PC. More fortune cookie philosophy being delivered by someone who enjoys all the modern conveniences he thinks make one “not tough”.
When your power is restored, leave your AC off. Then get back to us.
Posted on 9/2/21 at 7:33 am to Ping Pong
You got this champ.
I went 18 years of life without it. You'll be fine.
I went 18 years of life without it. You'll be fine.
Posted on 9/2/21 at 7:41 am to Ping Pong
Living in Terrebonne parish the schools I attended did not have A/C until I got to high school. We grew up without A/C but we had the attic fan and it would pull the sheet up off your bed, it worked pretty good. In Louisiana pre- 1900 folks would build their homes to deal with the heat, high ceilings in the wealthy homes and the regular folks living in what were called dog- trot style homes.
Posted on 9/2/21 at 7:44 am to Ping Pong
Homes were built very differently. The house I'm staying in is over 100 years old and after Laura last year if you left the two primary doors open there was a nice breeze through the house and it was very tolerable inside, All things considered. Your modern home, which I presume you're living in, is built to optimize modern cooling. Also you're used to AC and I'm used to AC and we're all used to AC. It's a different life when you grow up without it.
Posted on 9/2/21 at 7:45 am to Ping Pong
My first three semesters at LSU were in dorms with no AC.
Posted on 9/2/21 at 7:47 am to Ping Pong
Well our ancestors never knew what AC felt like so they had to live with the heat. That’s all they knew
This post was edited on 9/2/21 at 7:57 am
Posted on 9/2/21 at 8:02 am to BRgetthenet
It sometimes gets down to 83 in here during the summer. I’ve gotten kind of used to it.
Posted on 9/2/21 at 8:12 am to Flashback
That's why the old windows were so much taller and went from floor to ceiling damn near, and had screen doors, better air circulation. If there's only one or two little bitty windows per room, and you live in a concrete jungle with houses 5' apart, it's gonna take a while for things to cool down. They did it back in the day a little differently was all. I bet they would look at us all stacked in like chordwood now and laugh at how crazy we look.
This post was edited on 9/2/21 at 8:15 am
Posted on 9/2/21 at 8:46 am to Tempratt
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There will be a day where we are no longer allowed to have A/C.
Election fraud+indifference= Biden types getting elected.
Now add to that voting makes no difference. This means more Biden types and thus stupid laws that will result in things being done to us that include making A/C being unobtainable due to fees and regulation.
You sound like a fricking moron
Posted on 9/2/21 at 8:55 am to The Third Leg
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Fat people can’t hack it above 73 though.
I resemble that statement
Posted on 9/2/21 at 8:57 am to Ping Pong
Drive north. Pop a tent. Come back next week when it is cooler.
Posted on 9/2/21 at 9:02 am to Ping Pong
Our AC unit in our house growing up crapped out a couple of times. My mother scooped up the remaining kids left in the house and off to the motel we went. My father had died and she had no one to tinker with the AC. So we stayed there until the AC was fixed. Temp home with pool, hell yea.
Posted on 9/2/21 at 1:48 pm to Ed Osteen
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You sound like a fricking moron
Think so, huh?
Posted on 9/2/21 at 1:51 pm to Ping Pong
Trashy as it may be, I am LOVING the above ground pool we have right now. It’s been the only cool spot not requiring gasoline.
Posted on 9/2/21 at 1:56 pm to LSUJML
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I’d sleep in my car, no way I could sleep if it were that warm
Windows up, A/C running?
Posted on 9/2/21 at 1:59 pm to WinnaSez
quote:Then you are a woman, correct?
My SO insists the AC be kept in the 60’s at night; I sleep with an extra blanket
Posted on 9/2/21 at 2:00 pm to tigergirl10
Thread has been derailed for several pages now.
Quoting to get things back on track.
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You can come sleep at my house. It’s 67 in here.
Quoting to get things back on track.
Posted on 9/2/21 at 2:01 pm to fr33manator
The spot where I could put a nice in-ground pool has now flooded with 2 feet of water twice in 16 months. I've had a friend who has had to have his cleaned out twice in that time because of flooding. Above ground might be the only way I could have a pool.
This post was edited on 9/2/21 at 2:20 pm
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