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[kodalai]

IT'S HOT

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[titlecharacter.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[brinylon.livejournal.com]

That's what you wanted, right? So yay!?

[beccaabbott.livejournal.com]

Gah! Yes! I thought I was in the Pacific Northwest, damn it! It's supposed to be cool!

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Where do you live, again? ^^

[diatomacearth.livejournal.com]

Eat things with ice. Gazpacho soup. Iced coffee. Granitas.

[aging-parents.livejournal.com]

It is?

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

YES IT REALLY IS OKAY IT BREAKS 100 TOMORROW

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

It's down to 102 right now.

It's 92 degrees in the house.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

ooch.

I take it you're in the same no-AC boat that I am?

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

Nope. I left the house soon after that, took the kids to McDonalds (air conditioning) for icecream and an indoor playstructure and scored free socks for both of them (I think the McDonalds people were taking pity on people, not wanting to kick them out in the heat but health code and all). Then Dave met us and we all went to the mall and hid out. It got up to 95 degrees in the house during the breif interval between McDonalds and the Mall. Now it's back down to 93. Sadly it still says it's 96 degrees outside so it's not going to cool down too fast here.

[aging-parents.livejournal.com]

It may be time to recognize that, with climate change and all, there is no place in the US that can dispense with air conditioning. I remember summers in Ithaca, New York, in the 1960s. The summers were mostly warm and humid, with frequent (roughly once a fortnight) Canadian fronts coming through; but when it did get hot, there was almost no way to get relief — all the houses were built to capture heat in the ferocious winters, and almost nothing was air conditioned. Austin may be hotter (well not right now, but usually) and for longer times, but it is built to deal with it. On the other hand, don't expect Austinites to be able to deal with ice on the roads.