Right now our outdoor temperature probe says: 98.4\u00b0\u00a0 F. + 50% humidity … this morning it wasn’t nearly that hot, don’t know what the humidity was, but it was “sub-tropical MUCK”! I used to live in South Florida, and it was that bad, horrid. I couldn’t hardly breathe, it felt. It felt like thick soup heating up on the stove, not yet boiling, but almost, just nearly steaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UGH!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thanks be to God that we were able to get our A\/C replaced in June 2011. It was miserable enough for over a month before that, but nothing like it has been since then, as summer has come in more full, plus some days really hot, but THIS amount of heat and humidity together is totally insane and I’d be dead, no doubt, without our decent A\/C in the house. It might not work how I want overall, it doesn’t, but it’s at least life … for me heat is an enemy of massive enmity. My point of tolerance is very, very low, has been for years. It wasn’t when I was young, but we moved to Florida when I was 13, and thing that happened with outdoor PE in the next year coupled with whatever changes were occurring normally in teenage me … it was the death of exercise of any sort without ice cold air around me, or else I’d get fairly miserable or worse, depending on severity of conditions, I’d be retching and wishing I’d die, when everyone else was laughing and just fine and dandy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Back then nobody, but me, cared about it. It was detrimental for me to be in PE in Florida, unless it was gymnasium stuff. Anyhow, it’s just something that has haunted me for so long now. I continue to do just not do so well if I’m just walking in my house and the temperature is at 70\u00b0 F. or higher. I lose energy, feel icky, I can feel my thermostat rising. I have to get into cooler air, or lie down, or sit down, or something. I can push through for a little bit, but if the temperature is higher than 72\u00b0 F. that time is limited. I actually put ice in a freezer bag and put that straight on the back of my neck for relief, which is more than comfort, it’s keeping me from totally getting sick, and that could get to the point of, you-know-what. Not something to mess around with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, we had our new A\/C installed, the install guys said, “What do you want the thermostats set at? 78\u00b0?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ha! Ha! HA! No way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
68\u00b0 is my preference. We all live with it. It’s easier to get warm if it’s too cold for you. It’s nigh impossible for the reverse. I know. Trust me. I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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