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Title: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: Andy on June 26, 2008, 08:39:54 PM
fuck.

at least it's only 92 degrees at 7:40PM
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: Gilly on June 26, 2008, 08:44:39 PM
Oh man. I totally sympathize. Our apartments have these old, crappy AC units and last summer ours broke and the management didn't believe us that it was broken and not just dirty. They had people come up and clean it and we continued to sweat. Finally, after a couple nights of 100 degree heat and humidity I went down to the office and screamed at them to have somebody up there within an hour. I hate doing that, but sometimes you gotta and it got the job done.
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on June 26, 2008, 10:12:53 PM
I actually switched to a bunch of turbo fans set up throughout the apartment because my one air conditioner was super-pricey and not doing dick.  It's actually better now.  Though I also don't live in Oklahoma, obviously.
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: Andy on June 26, 2008, 11:15:50 PM
$291 dollars later and it's fixed.

I'm not even going to tell you what happened, because it'll make me sound like a dink.
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: <<<<< on June 27, 2008, 12:19:54 AM
Puget Sound = Mother Nature's air conditioner

Sorry to hear about the heat ~ I don't like 92 much.
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: Sarah on June 27, 2008, 08:43:34 AM
Johnson's Bay = another of Mother Nature's air conditioners

Fog, too, helps.  It's fifty-four degrees here.
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: masterofsparks on June 27, 2008, 08:50:10 AM
High of 88 with 85% humidity today - hello Ohio summer!

Sigh.
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: Sarah on June 27, 2008, 08:52:33 AM
Thank god I was only born there.
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: erika on June 27, 2008, 08:57:15 AM
Blah. Yeah it's already 85 here. Thank goodness they decided to equip my office with air conditioning last week. A few weeks ago we all almost melted. (No, really.)
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: buffcoat on June 27, 2008, 02:06:33 PM
People, it's 97 degrees here today, and we've already had three 100+ days this year.  We broke the record for 100+ days last year and broke all kinds of daily temp records.  Unofficial recordings of 107 and the like.  And the nearest desert is 2000 miles away.

North Carolina - we have three of the best seasons imaginable.
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: erika on June 27, 2008, 02:10:59 PM
You should find yerself a swimmin hole.
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: Spoony on June 27, 2008, 02:13:13 PM
No AC at my place either... I'm sweating through my shoes. Brooklyn is a kiln.
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: Laurie on June 27, 2008, 02:15:49 PM
I would melt without AC.
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: Emerson on June 27, 2008, 02:21:08 PM
You'll need:
1. Big bowl
2. Big fan

Directions:
1. Fill bowl with water and let it freeze overnight
2. Place bowl of solid ice behind fan
3. Blast fan
4. Ice will have a slight cooling effect as it melts

I had to blast my shitty old window unit during the West Coast heatwave, but this trick has gotten me through a few rough nights.
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on June 27, 2008, 02:22:45 PM
this summer=dry oven heat in phoenix, az
next summer=merciless humidity back home

people ask me if its better here since its a dry heat.  listen, stick your face in an oven, then stand in a sauna, and tell me which you "prefer".



You'll need:
1. Big bowl
2. Big fan

Directions:
1. Fill bowl with water and let it freeze overnight
2. Place bowl of solid ice behind fan
3. Blast fan
4. Ice will have a slight cooling effect as it melts

I had to blast my shitty old window unit during the West Coast heatwave, but this trick has gotten me through a few rough nights.


p.s. this works...
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: <<<<< on June 27, 2008, 02:25:41 PM
Unofficial recordings of 107 and the like.  And the nearest desert is 2000 miles away.

Wow, that sounds like southern Nevada, not North Carolina. 

Half of Washington State and Oregon is desert.  I suspect a lot of people don't even know that.  The Cascades cast a rain shadow over the eastern side.

Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: Fido on June 27, 2008, 04:35:47 PM
Blah. Yeah it's already 85 here. Thank goodness they decided to equip my office with air conditioning last week. A few weeks ago we all almost melted. (No, really.)

That was probably the effect of one of the Goshen kids trying to melt you. I've heard that he has tried this with other prominent FOTs. I'm glad to see he didn't succeed. 
Title: Re: my air conditioner is broken
Post by: Julie on June 27, 2008, 05:56:52 PM
High of 88 with 85% humidity today - hello Ohio summer!

Sigh.

It feels like a swamp in Ohio. I finally have central air and a porch, though, so it isn't as bad as it was when I lived in an attic and had a window unit.