Comments on: #42 Air Conditioning

By: zumpie

zumpie — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:01:44 +0000

Janine, while we might not be as arid as Arizona (and when I visisted Scottsdale, it seemed plenty hot to me), we aren’t nearly as humid as the East coast and Midwest. Probably because their climate is a Humid Continental Climate and ours is a Pacific Coastal.

Otherwise, except for this summer (with the worst heatwave in 15+ years), I find our summers remarkably tolerable. And the reason most Portlanders (including yours truly) don’t have central air isn’t entirely environmental (and sorry, we’re not rugged, we simply have a very moderate climate), either. It’s because really, with an average high of 81 degrees and lows down to 60, we don’t need it for more than 10 days of summer.

By: Janine

Janine — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:30:59 +0000

I can’t tell if you think Portlanders are lame for complaining, or if you ARE complaining. Same as people who complain about the winters, my advice is to MOVE if you can’t stand it. Stores’ insistence of blasting AC rather than simply keeping a comfortable 65-70 degree temperature only makes the hot seem hotter, and me look like a grade A slut when my 90-degree-appropriate outfit can’t mask what such AC does to my nipples. It is impossible to dress appropriately and comfortably for both 100 degrees and 50 degrees at once.

By: heat lover

heat lover — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:25:18 +0000

Athena,
Dry heat (AZ) is completely different to humid heat (OR / WA)
100 dry heat is more bearable than 90 humid heat.

By: Athena

Athena — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:32:31 +0000

90’s ha! I love 90 degree days…I live in the middle of the friggen desert I can’t wait to move to Oregon or Washington just to get out of this hellhole of a state and everyone has air conditioning. I friggen hate it here! Try not being able to go outside for more than a few minutes without your hands swelling up and your head spinning from the heat…come on bring me the 90 degree days…hell to the yeah! LOL then again I’ll move there and quickly start bitching about it being too hot on a 90 degree day, ah the wonders of acclimating way the hell too fast for my own good LOL. Trees god I can’t wait to see real trees that aren’t the size of my damn thigh, fuck AZ.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:14:04 +0000

Good points Sid!

By: Sid

Sid — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:29:40 +0000

Portlanders don’t exclaim in surprise every year about the heat because they’re rugged. It’s just that if they didn’t have some reasonably controllable factor in their lives to piss and moan about, they’d shrivel up and waste away. So the local Fred Meyer is out of window fans and AC units? Well, had anyone considered possibly buying them out of season, knowing that it’s going to get up into the nineties during the day, instead of whining about their absence?

By: Stretch Mark Mama

Stretch Mark Mama — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:15:24 +0000

Welcome to the Pacific Northwest, where even on the days when we NEED air conditioning, we tough it out because we are RUGGED. And WE CARE about the environment.

I enjoyed my weekend at the mall, my extended visit at Target, and eating out, thankyouverymuch.