On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 23:02:52 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 10/4/2018 10:41 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Thu 04 Oct 2018 05:15:27p, Ed Pawlowski told us...
>>
>>> On 10/4/2018 11:22 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>> On 10/2/2018 1:50 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I spend most of January/February here hiding from the snow and
>>>>> cold. Down there I expect to hide in the house with the AC for
>>>>> July/August. At least there will be sunshine.
>>>>
>>>> Ed, unless you're comfortable with 80°F temps, you should expect
>>>> to spend time inside with AC from late May until some time in
>>>> October.
>>>>
>>>> It's still 88-90°F in the afternoons here in southern SC.Â* It's
>>>> not yet cool enough (for me) to not use the AC.Â* Then again, I
>>>> prefer 71F.
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>
>>> I'm ok to at least 90. I can take brief periods higher. When I
>>> was working, our plant used steam in the process so it was always
>>> 15+ degrees hotter than outside. I spent half my day out there
>>> and the boiler room to do testing, even hotter. Of course, my
>>> wife likes it cooler.
>>>
>>
>> For as long as I can remember until I was out of college my dad was a
>> VP in the HVAC division of York Corp. As a consequence I can't remember
>> a time when we didn't have central air conditioning and forced air
>> heating in every house we lived in. My dad believed in maintaining 72F
>> throughout the year. I was spoiled by this, and I never wanted to go
>> to anyone's home that didn't have A/C. :-)
>> AC is one of the great inventions of modern times. My parents bought
>one that did the entire downstairs of our house. That was in the 1950s.
>We slept in the living room on hot nights. Since that time, I spent
>maybe one summer without AC in at least the bedroom.
>
>I don't know how people survived years ago in the cities.

They slept on the fire escape.