Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:09:29 -0600
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Air conditioning (in or out?)
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Yeh, anybody living down here in the Deep South without an AC in the
summertime will be parboiled by the time they can drive across town.
Hot....with high humidity. AC makes like so much sweeter. Florida is
worse that the most of the South I think. I liked in the Florida Keys,
and it was so hot in the summer time that the daily thunderstorms
weren't daily - they were nightly. The storms would develop offshore and
then at night as the land cooled the thunder bumpers would drift onshore
and we would get the storms. Weird - and hot - and humid.
Like you said, not much is done in that heat. Miserable camping in
summer without some kind AC. Camping out in the heat, then add the
so-see-ums the Keys have, and it is miserable indeed. And those little
airborne electric drills can get through most screens unless you take
steps to get a smaller mesh.
Yep, AC for me in the Summertime, and not much outdoor activity either.
Spring and Fall are my times of the year, Winter in the south - at least
my part of it - is OK, not wonderful, but OK. But not summer. I try and
go elsewhere - west to the high country - or further east and north into
the Appalachians. More tolerable there. Some parts of it are ar above
6000 feet and the vegetation approaches being Tiaga and Alpine. I'm
really at home there, then. Much like my beloved Alaska.
Don't recommend a southern vacation in the summertime. But if one does,
make dadburn sure the AC works!!!!
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Chelsea, AL
TJ Hannink wrote:
>Don Williams <williams@FIRE.BIOL.WWU.EDU> wrote:
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>>The kind of person that is going to buy a 20 year old
>>van is probably not the kind of person that would worry about air
>>conditioning anyway. If you are worried about interacting with your
>>environment get a Toyota Sienna and stay bottled up 24- 7. Maybe you
>>can find a refrigerated suit that will get you from your
>>air-conditioned vehicle into the motel room!!!
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>Wow, that has to be one of the most geographically ignorant statements I have read recently, and it comes from an .edu address. Please come down an 'interact' with my environment for a year without using A/C in your car or home. Camping in the summer? Forget about it, not in a 'Westy' unless you can hang a window unit on it. An afternoon sales call or customer meeting? Make sure you carry a couple of changes of clothes with you to replace the ones you just sweat-soaked.
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>Why don't we make it even - drive around this winter in your vehicle without using the heat - remember its all about interacting with your environment.
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>TJ Hannink
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>1981 Bluebird Wanderlodge, FC-33
>Winter Park, Florida
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