You must have been in Phoenix, Yuma, or the Gila Bend area Tucson usually
stays about 104 to 106...sometimes it will go higher..like 110 or 115.
When someone says ,but it's a dry heat...my son says "so is a blow
torch..what's your point " I grew up in Tucson and all we had was a"Swamp
Box"...which is basically a drum fan that blows through wet filter pads and
the cooled air goes through the venting in the house...these work well in
May and June...but when the monsoons hit and the humidity goes up they don't
work well at all. In our last house we had both AC and Swamp boxes...the
swamp boxes really save on electricity, so we used then during the dry hot
months and used the AC during the monsoons. Here we only have AC.
"Robert Miles" > wrote in message
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> Sound a lot like when my job took me to Arizona for about 2 weeks.
> While I was there, the highest temperature every day was about 115F,
> and there were no comments about it being hotter than usual. It was a
> dry heat, though, so going outside long enough to go to work and back
> or to several local bookstores and restaurants was bearable. I don't
> think I found a building with anyone in it and no air conditioner, though.
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> "jacquie" > wrote in message
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>> We would die without our AC. 106F today...Saturday it was 110F...Most of
>> June will be in the 100's. However we hardly ever use the furnace in the
>> winter... We are all electric here. Sometimes we have cold shrimp on
>> ice and a salad for dinner..or I will make a chicken pasta salad for
>> hubby and chicken salad for me.
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>> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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>>> Robert Miles wrote:
>>>> Do you often have enough problems with the a/c that you can't turn it
>>>> on instead?
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>>> Dunno about krom but even if I did have a/c I wouldn't be able to afford
>>> to run it much. But would be heaven for real stinking hot days.
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