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Post by starwalker on May 25, 2024 22:17:02 GMT -8
This time, it was a tornado warning for the county north of us with damage reported in the Claremore, Oklahoma area.
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Post by reuben on Jun 22, 2024 6:10:22 GMT -8
My inner frugal and environmental self is finally succumbing to the heat today, and I've turned on the AC. The solar panels are installed but haven't passed all of the inspections and stuff yet, so I'll see how the geothermal system does on its own.
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Post by Travis on Jun 22, 2024 7:29:22 GMT -8
Just curious, but did you yourself have that installed, or did it come with the property? From what I've read, that is probably the most efficient and environmentally-friendly HVAC system available.
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Post by reuben on Jun 22, 2024 7:53:31 GMT -8
Geothermal was already here. It was one of the selling points (for me).
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Post by desert dweller on Jun 25, 2024 9:49:41 GMT -8
Monsoon time in southern Arizona. Here is the river that is usually the street in front of my house.
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Post by reuben on Jun 25, 2024 10:21:00 GMT -8
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Post by swiftdream on Jun 25, 2024 10:45:14 GMT -8
Monsoon time in southern Arizona. Here is the river that is usually the street in front of my house. I I heard one person was killed in the normally dry Rillito River that flashed after the storm. Our backyard was a four inch standing pool that almost breached the patio doors. Even our backyard desert shrew got flooded out but seems to have his hole cleaned out and back to eating the scorpions and insects once more. Glad we had a new roof done late last year.
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Post by va3pinner on Jun 25, 2024 11:32:47 GMT -8
I don't think that was the heat Reuben although it was really hot around here. I think he was just listening to the news.
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Post by rebeccad on Jun 26, 2024 7:20:05 GMT -8
I’m having trouble wrapping my head around this heat dome, as we here in “The Other Washington” are kinda still waiting for summer to start.
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Post by cweston on Jun 26, 2024 8:07:11 GMT -8
It was over 100, with a 75 dewpoint, on Monday when I got home from a recent Colorado BP and had to clean and put away gear. It's always a bit of a shock to the system to return to muggy eastern Kansas, but man--I don't think I've sweat that much in one day since I gave up soccer.
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Post by va3pinner on Jun 26, 2024 9:11:39 GMT -8
rebeccad - can you do Ruben and I a favor? If you have an electric fan, please take it outside and hold it over your head pointing East. If it moves enough PC cool air out here, I'll ask Reuben to send you a bushel of Md crabs seasoned with Old Bay, and I'll send a bushel of Va peaches. Do we have a deal???
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Post by va3pinner on Jun 26, 2024 9:14:17 GMT -8
I found it interesting that when we were a Brit colony, the soldiers stationed in this area requested tropic conditions pay because of the high humididty during the summer. I still work in this stuff, and it is difficult. But I keep a positive attitude. Right now it's only 179 days until ski season starts for us. Progress. I always look for progress.....
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Post by reuben on Jun 26, 2024 10:00:15 GMT -8
rebeccad - can you do Ruben and I a favor? If you have an electric fan, please take it outside and hold it over your head pointing East. If it moves enough PC cool air out here, I'll ask Reuben to send you a bushel of Md crabs seasoned with Old Bay, and I'll send a bushel of Va peaches. Do we have a deal??? The poster formerly known as orygawn is now somewhere around here as well. DC-ish, I think. Fortunately, I live in a semi-rural area with lots of greenery and not a lot of asphalt and brick, so it's been cooler here than in a city. Of course, it was colder in the winter as well, but... I got a late start to building and starting a new garden here, but I have some homegrown lettuce I can throw in to sweeten the offer.
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Post by rebeccad on Jun 26, 2024 10:05:17 GMT -8
rebeccad - can you do Ruben and I a favor? If you have an electric fan, please take it outside and hold it over your head pointing East. If it moves enough PC cool air out here, I'll ask Reuben to send you a bushel of Md crabs seasoned with Old Bay, and I'll send a bushel of Va peaches. Do we have a deal??? It's a deal! Let's see... might do more good if I point it SE, since due east would send our cool air to northern New Brunswick. We'll break 70 this weekend, between rainstorms (okay, now I'm just taunting you).
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 6, 2024 7:06:55 GMT -8
Summer has finally reached Seattle. Temps will crawl up to 90 by Tuesday, then drop back down. Living where I do, breezes off the water keep it reasonable most of the time, and temps drop enough at night to cool the house back off. But “natural cooling” is getting to be less and less a viable option here. (Which very nearly led me off on a TPA rant).
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