Do you have AC?

[anna_66]

Originally posted by Uabassoon
I know I'm not Amy, but I know the answer! The are also known as an evaporative cooler. It is pretty much a fan with wet pads on it so it's blowing moist air. In dry climates the water evaporates so quickly that it creates a cooling effect. The dryer the weather the better your swamp cooler will work. If it's raining or high humidity your swamp cooler does nothing! They are fairly popular here in Az because it is a cheap form of a/c. They are very economical which is the biggest selling point, it costs very little money to run it.

Thanks Laura for the explaniation

[MariaM]

No, we don't. My sister and I have a fan in our room which is nice.

[petslover]

We have AC In our house, but none of our cars do. Roll down the windows for us. haha

[popcornbird]

Yep, we have Central AC, thank God. It is such a blessing. Though we don't NEED AC very often here, and our house tends to stay very cool even on hot days, there are days when it really gets hard to feel comfortable without it. We've only used it 4 or 5 times this summer so far...didn't need it until these past few days. We had it on 74 all afternoon today, but now its off and the house is still cool. I love having central AC. It is definitely a blessing because so many people who live in much hotter areas than we do, don't have this luxury in their homes.

[LoudLou]

Originally posted by 4 Dog Mother
... Until I hit menapause, I didn't like using air conditioning. Now it's a MUST!!!!

We live in the Pacific NW... The land of rain and cool weather... We ran our AC even in the winter. I can not stand to be HOT... anything over 65 degrees is WAY to hot for me...

Hot flashes? I would be extremely happy if I could live in a walk in freezer, right about now!

[G535]

No AC here either although it's winter now and we don't need it. Summer can be pretty hot but so far I've managed to survive for over 50 years. I expect people could live without it, after all no one had it before electricity was invented.

[jenluckenbach]

nO CENTRAL AIR, BUT A WINDOW UNIT ON EACH OF THE 3 FLOORS. (oops, darn caps lock)

I guess a swamp coller (which I did not know about until now) would not work here......way to humid!)

[Maresche]

Central AC put in last May/June. For our first 3 summers in our house, we had nothing and it would get to 110 upstairs easily. Hubby wanted to start a family and I said not without AC, we won't. I'm not going through a summer pregnant without it.

As it turns out we didn't need it much last year, but this year we've already had 15 days over 90 degrees which is crazy for NE Ohio!

[slleipnir]

No...well, my dad does for his room...

[lv4dogs]

I have a/c window units, one of which is broke at the moment.
I have to have at least one a/c unit so the ferrets can stay cool. They do VERY poorly when it gets about 75-80.

Both of my vehicles have air BUT both need to be recharged.

[boscibo]

Central a/c here - althoguh it doesn't get terribly hot here, it gets humid. I turn the a/c on when I notice the dogs panting a lot.

I have a/c in my car, but I usually always drive with the sunroof open and windows down unless I am going somewhere my hair needs to look nice, or for long stretches on the freeway where road noise becomes annoying.

[Samantha Puppy]

Oh goodness. I cannot imagine being pregnant and not having AC. Even though I'm only 4 months along, the heat is still hitting me hard - especially since Maryland summers mean extreme heat and horrible HORRIBLE humidity.

My husband's car's AC broke and I refuse to go anywhere in it until it cools down. I used to love driving around in my car with the windows down but ever since Nug came into existence and it's above 80, I HAVE to have the AC on.

[caseysmom]

We have it and everytime its on I feel the money flying out the window, last year our bill was close to $400 on one of the hot months.

But...i couldn't live without it.

[Cataholic]

I would perish without a/c (but, oddly enough, I can live without a dishwasher-something most people 'need'.).


I will answer the question that people ask about why on perfectly nice days do people still run the a/c- for efficiency and to keep out the noise of the neighbor's barking dogs!

[kuhio98]

No, we don't have AC at our house. But, we live in Anchorage, Alaska. It might get up to 80 a day or 2 out of the summer. (It get's in the 90's in Fairbanks). We keep the ceiling fans going in the summer and turn off all the heat. That usually gets us through. But, I have driven by some houses lately that have window units.

Silly me, I figured most people in the "Lower 48" states (as we call the contiguous US) had air conditioning.