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Termyn8or -> Global warming my ass (12/21/2008 8:06:54 PM)
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It is three degrees here. For those outside the paper curtain that's -16.1 Celsius. Speaking of Celsius, whatever happened to Centigrade ? This is not the record cold for here, but dammit I am cold. My furnace is running almost constantly, and I feel a draft even though the place is insulated for the most part.
How can one live in a place like this, where it gets this cold and then up in the nineties (32-37C) in the summer ? This has got to be among the worst locations in the nation. They say Ohio is among the poorest states in the union, I think I know why now, the electric and gas companies have all the money. They don't even have to gouge us, we pay gladly. But then if you have a 10,000 sq ft factory with thirty foot cielings, then you have a problem. No wonder businesses don't like it here. You couldn't give them enough tax rebates to offset this cost.
Personally I think the extremes are getting more extreme. Normally we don't get temperatures this low until January. I am aware that global climate, while involved with local weather, cannot be equated with local weather. It could be too cold here because it is warmer somewhere else. Now I hear the wind whipping up.
Yes that local breeze I enjoy in the summer it now a nail in my wallet for the gas bill. I live almost at the edge of a cliff, give it about fifty years and this house will be at the edge, after about five others fall down. Talk about a dead end street.
How does my ass come into it ? It is cold. I am cold. I want to know why when it is seventy degrees in the house in July it is not cool enough, but in the winter it is not warm enough. Is it something like getting old ? Geez, they don't have to send me to hell, all they have to do is to send me somewhere it is outside of a narrow temperature range, which seems to close up more and more each year, and has in fact inverted.
Don't get me wrong, in the summer I avoid using the AC like the plague, but when I do I turn it on, I mean I really turn it on. I ask that 17,500 BTU/hr bring this place down to 65F when it is 90F outside. Why ? And then right now my thermometer says 70F (21 C) and I am cold. In the summer it would not be cool enough.
Just about a scant decade ago I ran a business out of the house and would carry heavy things out to people's cars in my bare feet, trudging through snow and walking on ice. some were amazed, others had no idea what to say. Back then I had ambition and I also worked a bit of construction labor out in the ninety degree weather and as long as I had my sweatband it did not bother me.
What happened ?
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