It was one of the larger cities - I suspect Phoenix, but don't remember well
enough to be sure.

"jacquie" > wrote in message
m...
> 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
> . ..
>> 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.
>>
>> "jacquie" > wrote in message
>> m...
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Robert Miles wrote:
>>>>> Do you often have enough problems with the a/c that you can't turn it
>>>>> on instead?
>>>>
>>>> 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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